Aristeidis Karydis-Fuchs(1929-1998)

Karydis-Fuchs was a Greek-German cinematographer and editor, who mainly worked in Greek cinema, but also in international productions that were shot in Greece. He was also credited as an actor, assistant director and director. His father was Greek and his mother German. He studied cinema in Vienna. At the age of 14, he came to Greece, where he settled permanently. The first company he worked for was Finos Film, where he initially worked as a cameraman and photographer. In the film Those Not Allowed to Love (1951), he was the director of photography, a position he kept at Finos Film for 17 more films, including several box office hits. In the 1950s and 1960s, he was a director of photography for the Anzervos and Damaskinos-Mihailidis film companies. In the latter, he even associated his name with great commercial successes, such as Murder Backstage (1960), with which he won the Best Cinematography award at the Thessaloniki Film Festival in 1960. He has participated in over 100 films.