- The Greek Tycoon
Infobox Film | name = The Greek Tycoon
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director =J. Lee Thompson
producer =Allen Klein Ely Landau Nico Mastorakis,Laurence Myers
writer =Nico Mastorakis, Winn Wells, Morton Fine
starring =Anthony Quinn Jacqueline Bisset Charles Durning Raf Vallone James Franciscus Luciana Paluzzi
music =Stanley Myers
cinematography =Anthony Richmond
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distributor =Universal Pictures
released = 1978
runtime = 107 minutes
language = English
budget = $6.4 mill
imdb_id = 0077636"The Greek Tycoon" is a 1978 film directed by
J. Lee Thompson and starringAnthony Quinn ,Jacqueline Bisset ,James Franciscus andCharles Durning .The film is loosely based on the life of the Greek
mogul Aristotle Onassis (Quinn) and his wife and former U.S.first lady Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis (Bissett), widow of PresidentJohn F. Kennedy , murdered in 1963. Film was initially developed as a biopic with original research and script by Nico Mastorakis. Allen Klein's (ABKCO) involvement dictated that names and characters be fictionalized to avoid legal complexities at the time. Mastorakis, who had signed Anthony Quinn and Jacqueline Bisset, acted as co-producer, securing the on location glossy look of the movie.
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