He was born in Athens in 1940 and studied at the Stavrakou Film School. He worked initially as an assistant director and made his first short in 1965. Since then his films have won international acclaim and numerous awards establishing his reputation as one of the foremost Greek film directors of his generation. Pantelis Vouglaris has also directed several documentaries for Greek television and the hour-long documentary on the poet Yannis Ritsos for German Television. He has also directed for the stage.

In 1995 Pantelis Voulgaris was honoured by the Museum of Modern Art in New York with a mid-career retrospective. 

Ο Παντελής Βούλγαρης (23 Οκτωβρίου 1940) είναι Έλληνας σκηνοθέτης και σεναριογράφος.

Γεννήθηκε στην Αθήνα, το 1940, και σπούδασε στη Σχολή Σταυράκου. Αρχικά εργάστηκε ως βοηθός σκηνοθέτης και γύρισε την πρώτη μικρού μήκους ταινία του το 1965. Έκτοτε οι ταινίες του έχουν αποσπάσει διεθνείς διακρίσεις και βραβεία, καθιερώνοντάς τον ως έναν από τους κορυφαίους έλληνες σκηνοθέτες της γενιάς του.