Thanasis Vengos

Thanasis Vengos

Born: May 29, 1927
Died: May 3, 2011
in Piraeus, Greece
Thanasis Veggos (29 May 1926 – 3 May 2011) was a Greek actor and director born in Neo Faliro, Piraeus. He performed in around 130 films, predominantly comedies in the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s, starring in more than 50 among them. He is considered one of the best Greek comedy actors of all time. His famous comedic catchphrase was "Καλέ µου άνθρωπε" ("My good man").

Veggos' first appearance in a film was in Windfall in Athens, produced by Mihalis Kakogiannis, which premiered in Athens as Kiriakatiko Xsipnima on 11 January 1954. Nikos Koundouros gave him a role in Magiki polis in 1955. His first major role was in Psila ta heria Hitler ("Hands Up, Hitler"), 1962 and continued many more films. For his acting in What did you do in the war, Thanasi? (1971), the public of Thessaloniki °apotheosized° him and the movie won three awards at the Thessaloniki International Film Festival. He often played everyman characters struggling to get by, but he has also played anti-heroes, he has acted in pure dramas, and on stage in the comedies of Aristophanes. His characters were often self-named "Thanasis". He often worked with directors Panos Glykofridis and Giorgos Lazaridis. In 1995, Theo Angelopoulos cast Veggos and American actor Harvey Keitel in "Ulysses Gaze". In 1997, in the role of Dikaiopoli he appeared in a live performance at the ancient Epidaurus theater.

In 2000, he survived a car accident involving a collision with a train. He later participated in advertisements promoting road safety.

A documentary of his life, whose title translates as A Man for All Seasons, was made in 2004. He always did his own stunts including the most dangerous ones, like hanging from a rope tied to a balcony fifty feet above a pavement without anything to break his fall, walking through a glass door, or falling down a stone staircase head first. During the "Golden Sixties" of the Greek film industry he made his most popular comedy films such as the sequel of Secret Agent 000, Papatrehas, Enas trellos Vengos and many others, also with surrealist humor, most of them by his own company Θ-Β Comedies (Θ-Β Tainies Geliou) which founded in 1964.

In 2008, Veggos was appointed Commander of the Order of the Phoenix by the President of Greece, Karolos Papoulias.

On 3 May 2011, he died at 7:10 a.m. He had been hospitalized at the Red Cross hospital, in Athens, since 18 December 2010.

He is survived by his wife Asimina and two sons. He will always be remembered in the more than 120 films and more recent documentaries that he starred in. The phrase "τρέχει σαν το Βέγγο" (English translation: "runs like Veggos") has been adopted into common usage in the Greek language since nobody has run more or faster than Veggos in his many slapstick comedies.

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The Flight of the Swan
Title: The Flight of the Swan
Released: January 20, 2011
Type: Movie
Alexis is an explosive personality, passionate about life, humanity, nature, love and beauty. That is until the breakneck rhythm, intensity, stress and convolutions of career and economic success shatter him, alienating him from everyone and everything he loves: even his children and his soul mate Maria. Alexis is jolted back to reality when the unbridled greed of the multinational conglomerate his company is involved in causes an unprecedented ecological catastrophe costing many human lives. The multinational's Golden Boy suddenly realizes that he is nothing more than a cog in the machine he had fought so passionately against in his youth. He is determined to rediscover himself, to reclaim his soul, to rebuild the dream with Maria - but he is completely trapped. He is caught in a web of intrigue that tightens like a vice driving him to an inevitably lethal conflict with the conglomerate.
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With Heart & Soul
Title: With Heart & Soul
Character: a Father
Released: October 22, 2009
Type: Movie
Two brothers are fighting on opposite sides during the Greek Civil War.
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Title: Η Θεσσαλονίκη Της Νοσταλγίας Μας
Released: January 1, 2009
Type: TV
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Title: Έχω ένα μυστικό...
Character: Κυρ-Κυριάκος
Released: October 6, 2008
Type: TV
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A Man for Εverything
Title: A Man for Εverything
Character: Self
Released: December 3, 2004
Type: Movie
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Title: Έρωτας όπως έρημος
Released: October 7, 2003
Type: TV
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Title: Περί Ανέμων Και Υδάτων
Character: Λύσσανδρος
Released: October 5, 2000
Type: TV
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The Enigma
Title: The Enigma
Character: Linos
Released: November 16, 1998
Type: Movie
A successful young Athenian lawyer, Theodora, who is the daughter of a general, takes on the case of Mantzavinos who is a grocer in Kolonos. Trying to avoid the usual hum-drum approach, she becomes involved with a strange gang with a blind beggar for a leader, Linos, a former teacher, and current idol, of hers, who seems to Theodora like a modern Oedipus. Linos' companion and right-hand man is the former caretaker of the school. The group is completed by two sister-hookers, Anta and Mina, who work in a brothel housed in the school building and who sometimes force Linos to beg for money. The gang is planning a "big score", the theft of the antiquities of Plato's Academy, but Theodora's reluctance, combined with the timely intervention of the police, cancel the plan.
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It's a Long Road
Title: It's a Long Road
Character: Antonis
Released: February 18, 1998
Type: Movie
Three stories dealing with three men and their stance towards life, given their personal background. All stories are held in Northern Greece (Macedonia and Thrace), covering all the spectrum from urban to rural settings.
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Ulysses' Gaze
Title: Ulysses' Gaze
Character: Taxi Driver
Released: October 12, 1995
Type: Movie
An exiled filmmaker finally returns to his home country where former mysteries and afflictions of his early life come back to haunt him once more.
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Quiet Days in August
Title: Quiet Days in August
Released: September 23, 1991
Type: Movie
The stories of three lonely people surviving a sweltering summertime in Athens are interwoven in this gentle romantic drama. Nikos used to be a merchant seaman, traveling around the globe to exotic places and testing his wits and his mettle in different situations. Now he is retired, living in Athens with his wife whom he no longer loves. While at the train station, he encounters a woman who faints more or less into his arms. From her, he learns that this day has already been special to her for two reasons: her husband just died, and it is her birthday. Curiously, this meeting sparks new life in him. Another man suffering through the hot Athens summer is a bank employee who gets calls every day at four p.m. from a woman who seeks to arouse him. What she succeeds in doing is rousing his curiosity, which he is likely to regret giving in to.
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Title: Αστυνόμος Θανάσης Παπαθανάσης
Released: October 6, 1990
Type: TV
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Θανάσης ο Βομβιστής
Title: Θανάσης ο Βομβιστής
Character: Thanasis
Released: January 1, 1990
Type: Movie
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Το Δίδυμο της Συμφοράς
Title: Το Δίδυμο της Συμφοράς
Character: Thanasis
Released: May 31, 1989
Type: Movie
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Deputy police officer named Thanasis
Title: Deputy police officer named Thanasis
Released: January 6, 1989
Type: Movie
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Thanasis the Optimist
Title: Thanasis the Optimist
Character: Thanasis Rodinos / Mother
Released: January 1, 1989
Type: Movie
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Champion
Title: Champion
Character: Thanasis Manaris / Sakis
Released: January 1, 1989
Type: Movie
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Bed for five
Title: Bed for five
Released: January 1, 1989
Type: Movie
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Title: Βεγγαλικά
Released: October 10, 1988
Type: TV
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Thanasis in the country of Will
Title: Thanasis in the country of Will
Character: Thanasis Pitas
Released: January 1, 1988
Type: Movie
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Crazy of all Greece
Title: Crazy of all Greece
Character: Thanasis Koukouras
Released: May 31, 1983
Type: Movie
Thanasis works in the café he inherited from his father and hopes that his children will manage to complete their studies. This desire is based on his own dream of becoming a judge, which never happened due to his father's objections.
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Thanasis and the Cursed Serpent
Title: Thanasis and the Cursed Serpent
Character: Thanasis
Released: June 10, 1982
Type: Movie
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The Big Cannon
Title: The Big Cannon
Character: Thanasis Apaloheris
Released: December 14, 1981
Type: Movie
A masseur whose son is a student in Germany learns that he has become a member of the Neo-Nazi party.
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Vengos the Crazy Kamikaze
Title: Vengos the Crazy Kamikaze
Character: Thanasis Trampas
Released: December 8, 1980
Type: Movie
A breadwinner, Thanasis Trampas, decides to open a shop renting motorbikes. When the local bikers begin to bother him, he turns into a kamikaze to deal with them.
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Thanasi tightened your belt even more
Title: Thanasi tightened your belt even more
Character: Thanasis Maganas
Released: October 22, 1980
Type: Movie
Thanasis an honest tax official in the tax office. He can not cope and has trouble providing the family of the necessities. So the wife is forced to go to work in a factory as a result not seen at all. !!!
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The Wicked World of Thanasis
Title: The Wicked World of Thanasis
Character: Thanasis Mpesagiampesas
Released: March 19, 1979
Type: Movie
Seven short stories of everyday madness starring Thanasis Vengos.
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The Bald Student
Title: The Bald Student
Character: Thanasis Chatziathanasopoulos
Released: January 1, 1979
Type: Movie
Thanasis, a family breadwinner who has been working for 17 years at the Ministry of Measure and Station without any promotion, is trying to cover his expenses by doing a second job. When he learns that he can not be promoted because he does not own a high school diploma, he decides to go back to school.
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Which Way to the Septic Tank?
Title: Which Way to the Septic Tank?
Character: Thanasis Papathanasis
Released: January 1, 1978
Type: Movie
A conscientious tanker driver, Thanasis Papathanasis, works hard to help his sister Afroditi study medicine. He believes that in this way he will be able to marry her off so that then he can finally marry Eleni, whom he has loved for years. His efforts, however, are all in vain, as he is constantly confronted with a corrupt establishment and political situation that generate all the prevailing misfortunes: personal, social and national.
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Thanasis in the land of the cuff
Title: Thanasis in the land of the cuff
Character: Thanasis
Released: July 25, 1976
Type: Movie
The movie is about dictatorships in Greece – first, the Metaxas regime (1936-1940), and then the Colonels’ Junta (1967-74). In Part One, the Metaxas regime is depicted as a circus, where Thanasis (Thanasis Vengos) is a clown trying to conceal a young colleague’s subversive action. In Part Two, we see Thanasis suffer because of his honesty and kindness, in a country where the system’s irrationality is clearly evident.
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Title: Παρασκήνιο
Character: Thanasis Vengos
Released: February 24, 1976
Type: TV
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The Charlatan
Title: The Charlatan
Character: Thanasis / Athanasia / Lefteris
Released: December 24, 1973
Type: Movie
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Dictator calls Thanasis
Title: Dictator calls Thanasis
Character: Thanasis Delithanasis
Released: November 12, 1973
Type: Movie
The adventures of a photographer, who undertook to take a photographs of exiled dictator from South America and eventually found chased without knowing why.
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The Man Who Ran a Lot
Title: The Man Who Ran a Lot
Character: Thanasis Zevedaios
Released: January 1, 1973
Type: Movie
Thanasis Zevedaios (Thanasis Vengos) has a shop with watches and running but not enough! Time and the clocks have become obsessed after running nonstop in an effort to nourish their relatives. The 'philosopher' brother dies and leaves another four mouths under his protection. The day is divided between the shop, his sister and his niece to marry, and his beloved, who works in a supermarket, while the economic situation and their obligations do not allow them to marry.
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Thanasis, Take Your Gun
Title: Thanasis, Take Your Gun
Character: Thanasis
Released: September 28, 1972
Type: Movie
A wretch jobber tries to find the money to build the house promised to groom, to repay the truck he drives and help a poor girl, who has been eviction, find somewhere to stay.
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Carefree... Nut
Title: Carefree... Nut
Character: Thanasis
Released: November 22, 1971
Type: Movie
In this color comedy Thanasis trying for years to leave illegally for America to make his life because due to financial can not pay fares, but always something was wrong and left behind. His friend, Nikiforos, advises him to stay in Greece, to work and to look to find the namesake of Thanasis, who helps around the world.
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What Did You Do in the War, Thanassi?
Title: What Did You Do in the War, Thanassi?
Character: Thanasis Karathanasis
Released: September 23, 1971
Type: Movie
A wild tale of mistaken identity set during the Nazi occupation of Greece and starring the great Thanasis Vengos. Thanasis is called upon, during the Occupation, to testify at the trial of a tavern owner accused of serving cat meat to his customers. He too is accused of perjury and imprisoned with some resistance fighters. The resistance fighters escape, but Thanasis remains in his cell. He is accused of being Ivan, the notorious ringleader of certain revolutionaries.
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Holidays in Vietnam
Title: Holidays in Vietnam
Character: Thanasis Hatzifapas
Released: February 22, 1971
Type: Movie
Returning from a 3 year captivity in Vietnam, a kind chemist finds his wife married to his boss who has become rich due to his invention.
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Thanasis, Juliet and the sausages
Title: Thanasis, Juliet and the sausages
Character: Thanasis Karathanasis
Released: July 12, 1970
Type: Movie
Thanasis (Thanasis Vengos) is an honest working man who has to support his sister’s family as well, as Maria’s husband is only interested in football. Thanasis is in love with Juliet (Aimilia Ypsilanti), daughter of a rough butcher from Mani, who wants to have her marry a sausage-tycoon.
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One Vengos for All Jobs
Title: One Vengos for All Jobs
Character: Thanasis Hatzikarathanasis
Released: January 1, 1970
Type: Movie
An honest man is trying to find a job, but finds it difficult just because of the honesty. The need becomes more urgent when falls in love for a young girl who lives near him.
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Thou-Vou Bald Agent, Operation:  Havoc
Title: Thou-Vou Bald Agent, Operation: Havoc
Character: Thou-Vou
Released: April 11, 1969
Type: Movie
Thou-Vou and his new partner, MAP31, accept three imaginary tasks from a cunning director who is only interested in filming the unsuspecting duo for his upcoming movie feature. Will the agents manage to squeeze success out of failure?
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Who Thanasis!
Title: Who Thanasis!
Character: Thanasis Trikorfos
Released: January 1, 1969
Type: Movie
A kindhearted owner of a shop falls in love with the girl he hires and, eventually, he finds out who tricks him and who really loves him.
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An Unbelievable Sucker
Title: An Unbelievable Sucker
Character: Thanasis Hatzipapageorgakopoulokonstadinogiannopoulos
Released: January 1, 1969
Type: Movie
Thanasis and he will become barber, continuing the tradition of Chatzipapageorgakopoulokonstantinogiannopoulon in traditional shop in the neighborhood, without knowing that the court of the occupation, the German commander, Von Tzifren, has hidden a treasure. Thanasis is in love with Lisa's daughter Charoupoglou, rich neighborhood that made money held. Germany Von Tzifren is released ...
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Doctor Z-Vengos
Title: Doctor Z-Vengos
Character: Thanasis
Released: January 1, 1968
Type: Movie
A blunderer barber ends after a misunderstanding to pretend doctor. However the patients problems aren't medical nature but personally so he helps them.
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Come on People
Title: Come on People
Character: Agathoklis
Released: May 16, 1967
Type: Movie
Thanasis tries to reunite with his wife.He is having for obstacle her mother, which did not want him because he helps anyone in need with any way he can.
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Help! Vengos Visible Agent '000'
Title: Help! Vengos Visible Agent '000'
Character: Thou Vou (Athanasios Bobas)
Released: January 30, 1967
Type: Movie
Vengos studies in a secret agents' academy, dreaming of becoming a great spy like 007. Unfortunately, he can't do anything right, so he wreaks havoc during his final exams.
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Crazy, Nuts and Vengos
Title: Crazy, Nuts and Vengos
Character: Thanasis
Released: January 1, 1967
Type: Movie
Thanasis, the waiter of country tavern "The seven brothers", is preparing to marry the Anthoula. Shortly before going to church but has an accident and suffers amnesia. While Anthoula, siblings and friends are waiting for him in the church, he wanders the streets unnecessarily.
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Ο Παπατρέχας
Title: Ο Παπατρέχας
Character: Polydoros Lagos
Released: February 28, 1966
Type: Movie
Polydoros Lagos is a janitor in an ordinary Athens' block in the 1960s who's struggling to serve as many of the building's residents as possible in order to save some money to help his six sisters (and his aunt) get married, since this is the only way he can finally get married too.
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He's a Mad Mad Veggos
Title: He's a Mad Mad Veggos
Character: Thanasis
Released: December 31, 1965
Type: Movie
When Thanassis leaves the orphanage tries to do various jobs but with no consolidates. A private detective manages to find his father who is rich. Thanasis will move into his luxurious house but there will come other problems.
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Ο Καταφερτζής
Title: Ο Καταφερτζής
Character: Kanellos Karabatsas
Released: November 21, 1964
Type: Movie
Thanasis is part of a mistaken identity featuring an angry brother concerned about his sister's troubled marriage.
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Out Poverty and Good Heart
Title: Out Poverty and Good Heart
Character: Thanasis Koutras
Released: November 11, 1964
Type: Movie
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I'll Make You Queen
Title: I'll Make You Queen
Character: Antonis Tsilivikis
Released: October 12, 1964
Type: Movie
Antonis Tsilivikis, a stingy construction contractor, neglects his home and wife Eleni and forces her to lie to her rich uncle in America, Peter, in order to continue to send a monthly financial aid. But when the uncle notices that he comes to Greece, and in order not to reveal the truth, Antonis disguises himself as a retired named Beizanis, who supposedly rents a room at their home...
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The Poor Demons
Title: The Poor Demons
Character: Frixos
Released: January 1, 1964
Type: Movie
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With Many Children
Title: With Many Children
Character: Polykarpos Kolovos
Released: January 1, 1964
Type: Movie
A poor waiter struggles to provide for his family, while his wife keeps giving birth to twins, triplets - and always girls.
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The Twins
Title: The Twins
Character: Thanasis Soukouroglou / Stamatis Soukouroglou / Boulis Hatzifrydis
Released: January 1, 1964
Type: Movie
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School for Sofferines
Title: School for Sofferines
Character: Babis
Released: January 1, 1964
Type: Movie
Babis and Dinos have a driving school in partnership with several customers. And while fetching Dinos manages to combine a joy of life with his conquests, the Wretch Babis, left the thicker, the poor and elderly clients faculty ..
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Τύφλα Νάχη ο Μάρλον Μπράντο
Title: Τύφλα Νάχη ο Μάρλον Μπράντο
Character: Stefanos Avgerinos
Released: November 28, 1963
Type: Movie
An ordinary clerk decides to spend a few days vacationing in a hotel, but when he goes there, his life takes an unexpected turn. Everyone mistakes him for a famous poet, one known for his success with women. Soon, every girl in the area gets close to him, but what happens when the real poet arrives at the same hotel?
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Jack of All Trades, Master of None
Title: Jack of All Trades, Master of None
Character: Thanasis Birbilis
Released: September 30, 1963
Type: Movie
Thanasis Vengos plays a poor young man that comes to Athens looking for a job. We watch as he tries many different jobs; druggist, photographer, even wrestling referee. The result is always hilarious and explosive!
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Restless youth
Title: Restless youth
Released: May 25, 1963
Type: Movie
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The lucky pants
Title: The lucky pants
Character: Thanasis Foukaras
Released: March 12, 1963
Type: Movie
A police officer arrests pitiable Thanasis, who admits to having stolen the trousers of a happy man in the hope of becoming happy himself, after being advised to do so by a Gypsy. He confesses that, in order to marry his girlfriend, he asked to borrow a pair of trousers, but no one would lend them to him, so he went ahead and stole a pair of trousers, but no one was willing to lend him. So he decided to steal one. The policeman assists him and finds the trouser holder and also works for Thanasis. So the latter can now marry his girlfriend and make a family.
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O Ippolytos kai to violi tou
Title: O Ippolytos kai to violi tou
Character: Ιππόλυτος
Released: January 1, 1963
Type: Movie
A poor violinist gets involved in a bizarre adventure, when a drunken customer at the night club where is working, asks to help him to go home and sleep at the living room.
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The Madman
Title: The Madman
Character: Errikos Delaportas
Released: January 1, 1963
Type: Movie
An avid fan of football and fan of Panathinaikos falls for the daughter a fan of Olympiakos. The effort to reconcile with the father of the girl, and perennial football rival, will be full of misunderstandings and humorous.
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Min eidate ton Panai?
Title: Min eidate ton Panai?
Character: Panagis Papapanagopoulos
Released: November 19, 1962
Type: Movie
Erotic tangles forced Fani and Panai to leave from Athens to Chalkida, there they await new adventures with women, which will result in marriage, but Panai will escape the wedding night.
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Runaway Bride
Title: Runaway Bride
Character: Harilaos
Released: November 19, 1962
Type: Movie
In her delicate bridal gown and bent on finding her beloved, a determined would-be wife flees from a dreadful marriage of convenience and enlists the help of a kind wandering salesman. Can anyone stand in the way of a woman in love?
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Hands Up, Hitler
Title: Hands Up, Hitler
Character: Panagis
Released: October 31, 1962
Type: Movie
Two friends (Thanasis Vengos and Vasilis Diamantopoulos) meet after many years and recollect the tragi-comic events they went through during the German occupation.
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Astronauts
Title: Astronauts
Character: Thanasis
Released: October 15, 1962
Type: Movie
An eccentric and little crazy professor of astrophysics, helped by his assistant and by a naive admirer of science fiction, working for the launch of the first manned rocket into space.
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Δουλειές του ποδαριού
Title: Δουλειές του ποδαριού
Character: Mitros
Released: February 20, 1962
Type: Movie
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The King of Gaffes
Title: The King of Gaffes
Character: Frixos
Released: February 8, 1962
Type: Movie
A very clever detective is on a mission to find a shipowner's daughter, having as a sole research element a mole on the girl's buttock.
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The Wise Guy
Title: The Wise Guy
Character: Thrasyvoulos
Released: January 15, 1962
Type: Movie
Alekos (Dinos Iliopoulos) is in love with Voula (Maria Voulgari) whose brother threatens to kill him if he doesn't marry her soon. Alekos' father (Pantelis Zervos) on the other hand insists that Alekos' sister (Zoe Laskari) has to get married before him. His sister Annoula (Zoe Laskari) is in love with Antonis (Stephanos Stratigos) and pressures him to ask for her hand in marriage from her family. Antonis meets Alekos by accident at a cafe in Panorama - they don't know each other - and advises him to use the infalible method of "escaping through an engagement" to calm down Voula's brother. This is after all what he intends to do himself... And God help them...
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Hooray for Madness
Title: Hooray for Madness
Character: Romeos
Released: January 8, 1962
Type: Movie
A good-hearted guy, Romeos, who thinks he's a big "Kazanova", comes out of the madhouse. At the suggestion of his cousin Leon Karfis, he goes on holiday to an island where he is continuously under the watchful eye of a nurse of the madhouse, Telemachus.
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The jar
Title: The jar
Character: Andreas
Released: January 1, 1962
Type: Movie
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Γαμπρός για Κλάματα
Title: Γαμπρός για Κλάματα
Character: Loukas
Released: January 1, 1962
Type: Movie
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The Proud
Title: The Proud
Character: Priest
Released: January 1, 1962
Type: Movie
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Lisa and the Other Woman
Title: Lisa and the Other Woman
Character: Petros Valdis
Released: November 13, 1961
Type: Movie
A rich girl leaves her family to avoid marrying the person her father has chosen for her. Her father offers a reward in order to find her and an other girl that looks exactly like her is brought to him.
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Eftyhos... trellathika!
Title: Eftyhos... trellathika!
Character: Manolis
Released: October 23, 1961
Type: Movie
Charilaos Maraziotis owns a store and owes so much money both to his lenders and to the state, that he is in danger of going to jail. He decides to pretend to be a psychopath and is sent to an asylum. His lenders, upon hearing the news about his mental health, change their attitude towards him and release him from his debts.
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A mistake in love
Title: A mistake in love
Character: Thymios
Released: August 1, 1961
Type: Movie
A simple typewriter is familiar with a garage-facing young man, who is recommended to be a big business man. The same is done by her, presenting the daughter of his boss industrialist. In the end, however, all is corrected, misunderstandings are overlooked and the poor typist marries the poor garage.
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Liar Wanted
Title: Liar Wanted
Character: Vrasidas
Released: April 17, 1961
Type: Movie
A sharp altercation will pave the way for a brilliant career when a shameless liar meets his future employer: a resourceful parliamentarian. But, what happens when he tells one lie too many? Is his flair for fiction always beneficial?
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Lost dreams
Title: Lost dreams
Character: Vangelis
Released: March 11, 1961
Type: Movie
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Oi 900 tis Marinas
Title: Oi 900 tis Marinas
Character: Partsaklis
Released: January 9, 1961
Type: Movie
In a countryside village, a veteran politician, Damalas, and a young attorney, Ntinos, son of the village doctor, are rivals in the upcoming elections. Main controller of the political dispute is the all-powerful president of the village, Spyros Dalengos, who affects 900 of the inhabitants. The power acquired by those 900 people is the only dowry of his daughter Marina, who is in love with Ntinos. He has fallen for her to, but his conscience doesn't allow him to accept the unrighteous deal offered by Dalengios, who, after that, decides to support Damalas. However, Marina secretly changes the ballots handed out by her father's men, granting victory to her beloved, who goes straight to ask her to marry him, certain that he won thanks to his own abilities and effort.
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Sharp as a Needle
Title: Sharp as a Needle
Character: Detective Van Gray
Released: January 1, 1961
Type: Movie
Tonis and Rena are loved, but their uncles have objections, as they are deadly competitors in the field of swimwear marketing. Rena's uncle promotes a modern swimsuit, while Toni's uncle is a fan of the classic line. The two young men decide to steal ..
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The mother's curse
Title: The mother's curse
Released: January 1, 1961
Type: Movie
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Διαμάντω
Title: Διαμάντω
Character: Karderinas
Released: January 1, 1961
Type: Movie
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Οι χαραμοφάηδες
Title: Οι χαραμοφάηδες
Released: January 1, 1961
Type: Movie
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Who Is Margarita?
Title: Who Is Margarita?
Character: Grigoris Ladias
Released: January 1, 1961
Type: Movie
A girl from the province, who works in a fashion house in Athens, goes to Kos to promote her clothes. Residents believe that the daughter of a Greek-American tycoon and she plays the role will lead it to embrace the real son of the alleged father.
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Love Games
Title: Love Games
Character: hotel owner
Released: November 28, 1960
Type: Movie
A father is desperately trying to tame his young daughter, while she falls for a young man during their vacation In the island of Aegina, near Athens. But young love ignores fatherly threats and takes its course.
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The Dawn of Triumph
Title: The Dawn of Triumph
Character: Περιπτεράς
Released: November 14, 1960
Type: Movie
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Πόθοι στα Στάχυα
Title: Πόθοι στα Στάχυα
Released: October 31, 1960
Type: Movie
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Madalena
Title: Madalena
Character: Policeman
Released: October 24, 1960
Type: Movie
Madalena is a tough seventeen-year-old who is forced to take on her father's ferry business after he dies. She has her many brothers and sisters to support, and there is no one else to do the job. So she rallies her defenses and sets out to give her rival in the ferry business a run for his money. But at the same time, the rival's handsome son is starting to look better and better. Madalena refuses to acknowledge her feelings for him -- though how long she can sustain that denial is the question.
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Three Ladies and me
Title: Three Ladies and me
Character: receptionist
Released: October 10, 1960
Type: Movie
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Μια Του Κλέφτη...
Title: Μια Του Κλέφτη...
Character: Salesman
Released: September 1, 1960
Type: Movie
A lawyer goes to Paros to meet his mistress. But trying to get away from her husband, who returns unannounced, he enters the room of a good-hearted girl who tries to help him, thinking he is a thief. When he learns the truth, he gets angry and avoids him, and he sets a trick to bring her near.
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For You My Love
Title: For You My Love
Character: Manetas
Released: August 9, 1960
Type: Movie
Maroula comes from Syros, established in Athens, to work as a servant in a wealthy home, but the hostess takes her off. So he is forced to seek refuge in the house of three poor musicians whom he met on board: Flax, Tramp and Maneta. She thinks to return to her island, but they persuade her to stay with them and become a singer. Maroula falls in love with Lino, but at the same time her heart is beating for Mars (the son of the family who drove her, whom he has met by chance on the street). A little exaggeration makes her feel that Linus does not love her as much as he wants, so he recruits to Mars, but his mother does everything to separate them. Eventually he does. Linos comforts Maroula and even follows her in Syros, while Aris, who then decides to marry her, loses the ship.
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Sunday's Date
Title: Sunday's Date
Character: Car Workshoper
Released: July 9, 1960
Type: Movie
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Never on Sunday
Title: Never on Sunday
Character: Thanasis
Released: May 24, 1960
Type: Movie
An American scholar in Greece sets about improving the prostitute with whom he is infatuated.
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Το Κλωτσοσκούφι
Title: Το Κλωτσοσκούφι
Character: Janitor
Released: March 21, 1960
Type: Movie
A young woman asks from a ship magnate to help her immigrate to Australia but he falls in love with her.
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Blind Angel
Title: Blind Angel
Character: Kotsos
Released: February 2, 1960
Type: Movie
Two young people (Christina Silva and Takis Varlamos), living in a provincial town, fall in love with each other and are stolen. After a wild chase, the girl returns pregnant to her father (Theodoros Moridis), who removes the newborn, saying that she died in childbirth. The girl leaves for Athens where she marries a businessman (Lambros Konstantaras), but loses her eyesight in an accident. Her father, remorseful, investigates and discovers the child (Takis Vidos) and the woman, because of unspeakable joy, regains her sight.
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Τα ντερβισόπαιδα
Title: Τα ντερβισόπαιδα
Character: Polydoros
Released: January 1, 1960
Type: Movie
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Papadopoulou family
Title: Papadopoulou family
Character: Spyros
Released: January 1, 1960
Type: Movie
Young Alexis Vranas (Stefanos Linaios) returns to Athens form studying abroad and starts working for a major company. There, he will meet and fall in love with a secretary, Varvara Papadopoulos (Kakia Analyti).
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Μήτρος και Μητρούσης στην Αθήνα
Title: Μήτρος και Μητρούσης στην Αθήνα
Character: Mitros
Released: January 1, 1960
Type: Movie
Two friends from the province dream of going to Athens. On board the train, however, two smugglers are being asked and offered to hire them as waiters in the nightclub as a showcase.
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Οι Δοσατζήδες
Title: Οι Δοσατζήδες
Character: Thomas Kalafatis
Released: October 30, 1959
Type: Movie
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Mousitsa
Title: Mousitsa
Character: Foivos
Released: October 9, 1959
Type: Movie
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The Policeman of the 16th Precinct
Title: The Policeman of the 16th Precinct
Character: Thomas
Released: May 30, 1959
Type: Movie
Ilias dresses himself in a police uniform as part of a complex burglary plot. Unfortunately for him, the impostor officer is called to assist in the investigation of a real crime. The other officers involved in this case treat him as a colleague, and he is forced to play along in hopes that his cover is not blown.
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The Uncle from Canada
Title: The Uncle from Canada
Released: May 2, 1959
Type: Movie
Waiting to get their lucky break, three penniless musicians, who are already five months behind in the rent, resort to a reckless fabrication to escape the landlady's wrath. But, what happens if she realises that everything is a cruel lie?
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Erotic Stories
Title: Erotic Stories
Character: Vangelis
Released: March 9, 1959
Type: Movie
A modest film of three independent parts showing sad couple stories.
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Marriage Adventures
Title: Marriage Adventures
Character: Ice Seller
Released: January 1, 1959
Type: Movie
Helena (Xenia Kalogeropoulou) returns to Greece after studying in Paris and on the ship home she meets Dinos (Dinos Iliopoulos). An attraction develops between them and after a while Dinos asks for her hand in marriage. Helena though cannot accept his proposal because she is pregnant.
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Το Αγοροκόριτσο
Title: Το Αγοροκόριτσο
Character: waiter
Released: January 1, 1959
Type: Movie
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A Water Mrs. Baggelio
Title: A Water Mrs. Baggelio
Released: January 1, 1959
Type: Movie
At the end of 19th century a landlord meets a young woman at a water spring and she wants to marry her because she is so beautiful.
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Blossoming Almond Tree
Title: Blossoming Almond Tree
Character: Doctor
Released: January 1, 1959
Type: Movie
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Karagiozis, the Wronged One of Life
Title: Karagiozis, the Wronged One of Life
Released: January 1, 1959
Type: Movie
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Every Cloud Has a Silver Lining
Title: Every Cloud Has a Silver Lining
Character: Dr. Giannis Papadopoulos
Released: November 10, 1958
Type: Movie
Kostas (Dinos Iliopoulos), a small-time lawyer is tasked with accompanying Smaro (Smaroula Giouli), a young rich heiress, from the country to Athens where she wants to sell her estate. Kostas though starts a day late and Smaro goes to Athens by herself. In the end after much wandering and misunderstandings Kostas will meet Smaro who will fall in love with him.
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Χαρούμενοι αλήτες
Title: Χαρούμενοι αλήτες
Character: Waiter
Released: October 14, 1958
Type: Movie
Two jobbers meet an actor, when the sneak in a theater. The actor is homeless and they invite him to stay with them He will know and love their neighbor, who is studying classical dance.
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Mimikos and Mary
Title: Mimikos and Mary
Character: Harilaos
Released: October 10, 1958
Type: Movie
The tragic story of a couple that upset Athenian society at the end of the 19th century. Michail Mimikos (Andreas Barkoulis) is a doctor in the Greek army, and Mary Weber (Aliki Vougiouklaki) is an upper-class girl. The two want to get married, but Mary’s parents want her to marry a rich man. When Mimikos leaves abruptly for Nauplion for professional reasons, he writes her a letter which she never gets, leading to tragic consequences...
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Holidays in Aegina
Title: Holidays in Aegina
Character: Thodoros' assistant
Released: March 10, 1958
Type: Movie
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Poverty can be bearable while living well
Title: Poverty can be bearable while living well
Character: husband
Released: February 2, 1958
Type: Movie
Two unfortunate friends are desperately looking for a job to survive and eventually marry their loved ones.
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Just for One Night
Title: Just for One Night
Character: Sirios's assistant
Released: January 1, 1958
Type: Movie
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Το Εισπρακτοράκι
Title: Το Εισπρακτοράκι
Released: January 1, 1958
Type: Movie
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Maria Pentagiotissa
Title: Maria Pentagiotissa
Character: Papalaris
Released: December 29, 1957
Type: Movie
The hopeless love between Maria Pentagiotissa and a man belonging to a different social class.
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The Girl Has Got an Uncle
Title: The Girl Has Got an Uncle
Character: Taxi Driver
Released: February 1, 1957
Type: Movie
A young and pretty girl, Violeta, is in love with a kind young artist, Alekos. The feelings are mutual, but the two young people have to face a severe old maid, aunt Pinelopi.
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A Girl in Black
Title: A Girl in Black
Character: Policeman
Released: June 8, 1956
Type: Movie
Against the backdrop of a cloudless summer, love's unforeseen complications will entwine an Athenian writer, a morosely beautiful daughter, and a scorned local suitor. And then, calamity strikes. Can love redeem the sad girl in black?
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Experts on the Football Field
Title: Experts on the Football Field
Character: Sailor
Released: March 12, 1956
Type: Movie
The everyday lives of some international football players before and after a big game.
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The Ogre of Athens
Title: The Ogre of Athens
Character: Spathis
Released: March 5, 1956
Type: Movie
A peaceful, frightened little man is mistakenly identified as "The Dragon", a notorious criminal at large. He briefly and reluctantly rules the underworld until they realize their mistake.
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The Fairy Tale Girl
Title: The Fairy Tale Girl
Released: January 12, 1956
Type: Movie
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The Magic City
Title: The Magic City
Character: Thanasis
Released: July 18, 1955
Type: Movie
A look at poverty in post-war Athens. Kosmas, a young man living in the slums, constantly tries to make ends meet, hoping for a better day. Because of debts, he gets tangled up in smuggling. His morals are tested and he tries to find a way out.