Biography in: John Wakeman, editor. "World Film Directors, Volume Two, 1945-1985". Pages 176-180. New York: The H.W. Wilson Company, 1988.
Founded the Michael Cacoyannis Foundation in 2003; an institution for the performing arts.
His father, Panayotis, was a lawyer and member of the Cyrpus legislative and executive councils who was knighted by the British in 1936.
Member of the jury at the Cannes Film Festival in 1959
Was one of four children.