Despo Diamantidou

Despo Diamantidou

Born: July 13, 1916
Died: February 18, 2004
in Piraeus, Greece
Despoina "Despo" Diamantidou (Greek: Δέσπω Διαμαντίδου; 13 July 1916 – 18 February 2004) was a Greek actress. She appeared in more than seventy films from 1949 to 2003. She played Tatiana in Alan King's summer replacement sitcom, Ivan the Terrible starring Lou Jacobi, which aired on ABC from 21 August to 18 September 1976.

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Ο Χάρος Βγήκε Παγανιά
Title: Ο Χάρος Βγήκε Παγανιά
Released: November 22, 2003
Type: Movie
Anna is the Jewish daughter of a Spanish mother and a Greek father. She has returned to her family's house in Greece
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Skipper Straad
Title: Skipper Straad
Released: September 14, 2003
Type: Movie
A seaman finds himself out of work and stranded in a distant port. He shares a cheap room. They take turns sleeping, some in the morning, some at night. Grief! When he will go back to sea? And there! The scent of woman drifts up to seduce him! He realizes he had shared his bed with a lady of the night.
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Hard Goodbyes: My Father
Title: Hard Goodbyes: My Father
Character: Grandmother
Released: December 27, 2002
Type: Movie
Elias is a 10 year old boy living in Athens with his family in 1969 and has an interest in Jules Verne's stories and in astronomy. His father, with whom Elias has a strong relationship, is a travelling salesman and his absence affects the whole family. On the eve of his departure for a long business trip he promises his son that he'll be back in time to watch the moon landing on TV together, but he is killed in a car accident. While Elias' mother and his elder brother deal with the loss in their own way, Elias refuses to accept his father's death. He creates an imaginary world, in which his father is alive. He shares fictitious stories with his friends, he sends letters to his grandmother on behalf of his father and he dreams of places like he did with him. Elias' mother and his godfather, who do everything to bring him back to reality, take him to a summer house. On the night of the moon landing Elias meets his father in his own way and comes to terms with his loss.
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Anna's Summer
Title: Anna's Summer
Character: María
Released: August 30, 2001
Type: Movie
A widow reminisces on her life after returning to her family home in Greece.
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Acropol
Title: Acropol
Character: Antoni's Mother
Released: January 12, 1996
Type: Movie
1950s Athens. Prince, a self-made impresario and the owner of the "Acropole" review theater, fires one of his leading ladies when she shows up drunk on opening night. In order to replace her, he turns to Lakis Loizos, an expert at comic female roles and an ex-wonder-child of movies, who now runs an agency for extras. At first, Lakis is surprised by the prince's proposal, but finally decides to try his luck on the stage of the legendary theater.
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Varieté
Title: Varieté
Character: House Owner
Released: January 18, 1985
Type: Movie
An actor's troupe puts up a variety show.
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Title: Οι απόμαχοι
Released: September 18, 1982
Type: TV
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Title: The Notary
Character: Νικολίνα
Released: October 5, 1979
Type: TV
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The Cabaret Girl
Title: The Cabaret Girl
Released: January 1, 1979
Type: Movie
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A Dream of Passion
Title: A Dream of Passion
Character: Maria
Released: May 21, 1978
Type: Movie
Melina Mercouri plays Maya, a jet-setting Greek actress who returns to her homeland to undertake the role of Medea. Searching for inspiration and clues as to how a mother could kill the children she loves, Maya discovers Brenda (Ellen Burstyn), a bible-spouting American woman serving time in an Athens prison for that very crime.
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Love and Death
Title: Love and Death
Character: Mother
Released: June 10, 1975
Type: Movie
In czarist Russia, a neurotic soldier and his distant cousin formulate a plot to assassinate Napoleon.
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Nicky's World
Title: Nicky's World
Character: Electra
Released: April 19, 1974
Type: Movie
A close-knit Greek-American family, jeopardized when its Manhattan bakery goes up in flames, looks desperately for ways to solve the financial dilemma of repossession and property without destroying its heritage.
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The Werewolf of Washington
Title: The Werewolf of Washington
Character: Gypsy Woman
Released: October 1, 1973
Type: Movie
After being unknowingly inflicted with the bite of a werewolf while on a visit to Europe, White House press secretary Jack Whittier begins to turn into a deadly beast by night, terrorizing Washington D.C. and presenting a very deadly threat to the President.
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The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight
Title: The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight
Character: Mourner
Released: December 22, 1971
Type: Movie
A Brooklyn mobster and his gang try to rub out their rivals.
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Made For Each Other
Title: Made For Each Other
Character: Group Member
Released: December 12, 1971
Type: Movie
An eccentric woman meets an equally odd man at a group therapy session and they begin a relationship.
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The Horsemen
Title: The Horsemen
Character: Uljan (uncredited)
Released: August 16, 1971
Type: Movie
In Afghanistan, the ruthless sport of buzkashi is a game of great pride. When Uraz breaks his leg and loses a spirited match, he brings shame to his village, especially his father. After losing his leg below the knee, Uraz, to regain his honor, must learn to ride again and win with a special, one-of-a-kind horse.
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Promise at Dawn
Title: Promise at Dawn
Character: Aniela
Released: November 25, 1970
Type: Movie
A single mother raises her son in impossible circumstances first in Leningrad, then Krakow, and then France, and is over-ambitious about him but never gives in.
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Something For Everyone
Title: Something For Everyone
Character: Bobby
Released: July 22, 1970
Type: Movie
An opportunistic young man working as a servant to a European countess uses his sexual talents to better his station in life.
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Queen of Clubs
Title: Queen of Clubs
Character: Marianthi
Released: June 12, 1966
Type: Movie
A model (Elena Nathanail) is on vacation with her sailor husband (Thodoros Roumpanis), and she falls in love with an employee (Spyros Fokas) who works in the hotel where they are staying. She confesses her feelings to her husband, and he abandons her. The young woman hooks up with with the employee, who goes with her to Athens. There, their passion – and her crisis - will reach their peak.
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Stefania
Title: Stefania
Character: Woman Guard
Released: March 20, 1966
Type: Movie
18 year old Stefania is brought to a juvenile reformatory for young prostitutes. The institution is actually a prison, and one of the worst and most squalid of its kind. It's a real hell. Two dozens of ragged girls are crammed into a dormitory, locked by a thick iron door, two in each bed. Meals and work is carried out in other sections of the building, separated by iron bars. A young doctor shall investigate the newcomer. When they meet, they immediately recognize each other. It is Giorgos, the doctor that treated Stefania's mother a couple of years ago, and then had a little flirt with Stefania. He has been thinking of her ever since. He immediately falls in love with her, and wants to help her. Stefania is thinking about any possibility to get out from the prison. She flirts with the ugly yard guard Armandos, and with the truck driver coming with foodstuff, but in vain...
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Όχι κύριε Τζόνσον
Title: Όχι κύριε Τζόνσον
Character: Mrs. President
Released: September 1, 1965
Type: Movie
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Make Me A Woman
Title: Make Me A Woman
Character: The Lady
Released: July 31, 1965
Type: Movie
A proud sponge-diver revolts against a cruel noblewoman, who exploits the islanders. When she finds out that her daughter is in love with him, she marries her off to his friend, and now, the knives have the final say. Can reason prevail?
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And the Woman Shall Fear Her Husband
Title: And the Woman Shall Fear Her Husband
Character: Bebeka
Released: June 28, 1965
Type: Movie
When a man decides to marry the woman he's been living with, she stops being the silent patient person she was and claims to be the boss in the house. Her behaviour changes so much after the marriage that the husband gets so irritated as to ask for a divorce even a few hours later..
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The Ruthless
Title: The Ruthless
Character: Roza
Released: June 12, 1965
Type: Movie
After his release from prison, Stathis visits a private investigator, Othonas, whom he had assigned many years ago to find his mother, who has been missing from the time of the German Occupation. When he meets Othonas, however, they quarrel because the detective hadn’t worked seriously enough on the case. Afterwards, Stathis takes control of his old gang again and sets up a few new scams, selling dreams and hopes to simple people. He soon realizes that he has lost his old love, Vana, who, while he was in prison, had become involved with his second-in- command, Michalis. Nevertheless, his bitterness is softened by Stella, Vana’s sister, who works at the Red Cross. He falls for her, and she responds in kind.
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The Punk Of Fokionos Negri
Title: The Punk Of Fokionos Negri
Character: Dora
Released: January 1, 1965
Type: Movie
A ruthless young man puts on eye the estate of a girl and after he is presented as in love with her, he is trying to convince her to give him all the money she has
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Οι καταφρονεμένοι
Title: Οι καταφρονεμένοι
Released: January 1, 1965
Type: Movie
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Wedding like... Greek
Title: Wedding like... Greek
Character: Mina's mother
Released: December 7, 1964
Type: Movie
Mina is dreaming of becoming a painter and Petros works in a company. They meet and fall in love during the carnival, but later lose contact. They meet again without recognizing each other and eventually get married. However they have no idea how hard marriage is.
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The Sunday girl
Title: The Sunday girl
Released: October 24, 1964
Type: Movie
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Topkapi
Title: Topkapi
Character: Voula
Released: September 2, 1964
Type: Movie
Arthur Simon Simpson is a small-time crook biding his time in Greece. One of his potential victims turns out to be a gentleman thief planning to steal the emerald-encrusted dagger of the Mehmed II from Istanbul's Topkapi Museum.
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The Red Lanterns
Title: The Red Lanterns
Character: Madam Pari
Released: December 2, 1963
Type: Movie
The inextricably intertwined stories of five sex workers who live in a brothel at Pireas harbor.
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Lazy like a dog
Title: Lazy like a dog
Character: Despoina
Released: February 12, 1963
Type: Movie
A lazy and wasteful slacker who enjoys living off his hard-working brother reluctantly accepts to work as a debt collector. Now, he is in love, and for once in his life, he is good at something. Can the boss' daughter straighten him out?
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my father and i
Title: my father and i
Character: Mrs. Papas
Released: January 1, 1963
Type: Movie
A bankrupt cosmopolitan arrives with his daughter in Lagonisi, with the aim of finding a rich groom to guarantee financially.
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Betrayed love
Title: Betrayed love
Character: Vicky
Released: June 6, 1962
Type: Movie
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Loustrakos
Title: Loustrakos
Character: Maria's mother
Released: January 1, 1962
Type: Movie
The small loustrakos Vasilis Maras alongside the school of fine on the streets of Athens to make money. The mother finds injustice in prison for the murder of Demetrias. With the persistence of the king, however, and the help of a lawyer, the Karelia, the mother of leaving prison.
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Don't Fall in Love on a Saturday
Title: Don't Fall in Love on a Saturday
Character: woman at hospital
Released: January 1, 1962
Type: Movie
A streetwise investment broker, who has been tricked into accepting a counterfeit $100 bill by a statuesque con woman, falls in love with her. Against all logic, he refuses to turn her in to the police. Is there a future between them?
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Ποτέ Δε Σε Ξέχασα
Title: Ποτέ Δε Σε Ξέχασα
Character: Head Seamstress
Released: January 1, 1962
Type: Movie
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Death Will Return
Title: Death Will Return
Character: Liza
Released: June 12, 1961
Type: Movie
Adapted from Nikos Foskolos’ theatrical play. On a terribly stormy night, in a secluded hotel, the owner, Brigadier Norton, is murdered. Prime suspects: his daughter Elena, his second wife Liza, Liza’s niece and her fiancé, Norton’s physician, and the hotel staff. Inspector Fox and his assistant, policeman Petridis, are assigned the investigation of the crime. While the suspects’ questioning is under way, some more people arrive at the hotel: detective Tilemachos Christofis with his assistant Aliki, and lieutenant Karalis, a sworn enemy of the victim, complicating things even more.
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Alice in the Navy
Title: Alice in the Navy
Character: Aliki's mother
Released: February 20, 1961
Type: Movie
Aliki is in love with someone who serves his duty in the greek navy. Wanting to see him, she disguises as a navy soldier and gets aboard her lover's ship. Things get more complicated when she comes accross the ship's captain; her father!
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Snow White and the 7 Old Boys
Title: Snow White and the 7 Old Boys
Character: Aglaia
Released: December 26, 1960
Type: Movie
Alexia is a young woman who comes from the countryside and is in love with a rich man, Paris, who is studying abroad. Her stepmother treats her cruelly and forces her to escape from home. Alexia finds herself in an isolated area by chance, where she is discovered by seven brothers who live together in a nearby house. The seven bachelors put her up and treat her like a member of their own family.
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Madalena
Title: Madalena
Character: Giokari
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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For You My Love
Title: For You My Love
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: Afroditi
Released: July 9, 1960
Type: Movie
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Never on Sunday
Title: Never on Sunday
Character: Despo
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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Title: Discorama
Character: Self
Released: February 4, 1959
Type: TV
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Amaryllis
Title: Amaryllis
Released: January 1, 1959
Type: Movie
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A Matter of Dignity
Title: A Matter of Dignity
Character: Katy
Released: February 10, 1958
Type: Movie
A daughter discovers her wealthy family is actually on the verge of bankruptcy and decides to charm a millionaire for his money in marriage. Soon she is torn between living a lie and keeping up appearances.
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The Fairy Tale Girl
Title: The Fairy Tale Girl
Character: Lida's mother
Released: January 12, 1956
Type: Movie
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The Duchess of Plakendia
Title: The Duchess of Plakendia
Character: Narrator
Released: January 1, 1956
Type: Movie
After leaving Nafplio, the first capital of the newly founded Greek Nation, the affluent French Duchess of Plaisance and ardent philhellene, Sophie de Marbois-Lebrun, moves to Athens with her young daughter, Eliza, circa 1834.
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The Girl of the Neighbourhood
Title: The Girl of the Neighbourhood
Character: Kakia
Released: March 18, 1954
Type: Movie
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Thanasakis, the Politician
Title: Thanasakis, the Politician
Character: Sofia
Released: January 1, 1954
Type: Movie
The young daughter (Anna Synodinou) of a well-off family comes back from Switzerland after completing her studies, married to a young scientist, Thanasakis (Byron Pallis), who comes back to Greece determined to serve his country as a politician. With the financial support of his brother-in-law (Dinos Iliopoulos) he enters the election with no results. Soon though, another election is announced and he decides to run for a second time, again asking support from his brother-in-law who insists that a new campaign would be financial suicide for the family.
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Youth of Athens
Title: Youth of Athens
Character: Eleni
Released: October 29, 1949
Type: Movie
A rich widower impregnates a poor young woman and dumps her. Her brother, member of a resistance group during the Occupation, tries to mend things up.