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Among his nine cinema feature films and supporting cinema features, he has been awarded Golden Globe and Hollywood Oscar nominations, won the British Critics Circle and 1st prize at Oberhausen and San Francisco Film Festivals, and won Diplomas at Taoromina, London, Belgrade, Cannes, and San Diego Festivals. He has also made 10 TV Specials, and over 100 commercials.
Books have been based on two of the films he directed, both of which he helped devise the story outline. Since making the first film on how Lord Elgin managed to purloin the sculptures from the Parthenon in Athens and ship them to England, he has been one of the founding committee members of "Marbles Reunited" to promote their return to Greece.
He is also a committee member of the D.H.Lawrence Society, and recently, as the Patron of the Christopher Marlowe Society, he helped raise money for a memorial window in Westminster Abbey for the great Elizabethan poet and playwright.
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