Anecdotes

Father of Beyond the Black Rainbow (2010) and Mandy (2018) director, Panos Cosmatos.

Collected rare books, mostly 19th and 20th Century English literature.

Greek director born in Italy who made international blockbusters. He had a well-known knack for complex action shoots and aerial photography and for saving troubled projects. A student of the London Film School, he began as an assistant to Otto Preminger on Exodus (1960).

Spoke Greek fluently

George P. Cosmatos met his future wife, Swedish Birgitta Ljungberg, already as teenagers in London in 1958. They married in 1960, and together they had a son, future director Panos Cosmatos, born in Rome 1 Feb. 1974. Birgitta Ljungberg Cosmatos (b. in Haverö, Ånge Municipality, Medelpad, d. 6 July 1997, and is buried where she was born) has been described as an avantgarde sculptor with an open and experimental mind that borders on the surreal. In interviews with Panos Cosmatos in connection with his film Beyond the Black Rainbow (2010), he talks about his mother; "My mother is a huge inspiration to me... She always encouraged me creatively. No matter what crazy music I played for her, she always listened attentively and commented thoughtfully on it. My mother and father are in every box in this movie.".