- Parents are from Greece.
- After fighting against the fascist Italians in Ethiopia, he lived in Libanon, Greece and finally emigrated to Paris in 1939.
- In 1957, he went to New York for political reasons, where he got to know John Cassavetes and became co-producer of his movie Shadows (1958).
- Father of Manuella Papatakis.
- In the 1950s, Papatakis presided over a popular club in the arty Saint-Germain-Des-Pres neighborhood of Paris called The Red Rose, which was frequented by foreign celebrities and often turned away patrons because it was so crowded.
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