 He expanded his talents by directing ancient Greek tragedies such as "Hecuba", "Antigone", "The Phoenissae", "Prometheus Bound", "Oedipus at Colonus", as well as Seán O'Casey's "Juno and the Paycock", August Strindberg's "The Father" and Brecht`s "Mother Courage".In 1940, he married the actress Katina Paxinou, and together they appeared in many productions at the National Theatre of Greece in Athens, which was founded in 1930 by Minister of Education Georgios Papandreou.In 1946, he went to Hollywood to appear in Alfred Hitchcock's "Notorious" with Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman and Claude Rains.