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Stournara 288
''Stournara 288'' (Στουρνάρα 288) (filmed in 1959) was a drama by Dinos Dimopoulos with Orestis Makris, Smaroula Giouli, Sofia Vembo, Dionysis Papagiannopoulos, Dinos Iliopoulos. It was bitter and nostalgic eyes on its alienation on Athens' neighbourhoods. Cast * Sofia Vembo ..... ''Mrs. Evgenia / Jenny Blanche / Sofia Vembo'' *Dinos Iliopoulos ..... ''Platon'' *Orestis Makris ..... ''Babis'' *Smaroula Giouli ..... ''Doudou Vraila'' *Dionysis Papagiannopoulos ..... ''Agisilaos Papafronimopoulos'' *Giorgos Gavriilidis ..... ''Thomas Asimomytis'' *Marika Krevata ..... ''Kleio Asimomyti'' * Beata Asimakopoulou ..... ''Foula Papafronimopoulou'' *Apostolos Avdis ..... ''Kalohairetas'' *Dimitris Kallivokas ..... ''Antoine Kokos'' *Dina Trianti ..... ''Fofo Asimomyti'' *Mary Chronopoulou Mary Chronopoulou ( el, Μαίρη Χρονοπούλου; 16 July 1933) is a Greek actress. She was one of the most popular actresses of the 1960s. She starred in many films, 16 of which wer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dinos Dimopoulos
Dinos Dimopoulos ( el, Ντίνος Δημόπουλος; 22 August 1921 – 28 February 2003) was a Greek actor, film director, screenwriter and theatre director. He directed more than 40 films between 1953 and 1993. His 1959 film ''Astero'' was entered into the 9th Berlin International Film Festival. His 1960 film ''Madalena'' was entered into the 1961 Cannes Film Festival. He wrote also some theatrical plays. He has won the best director award in Thessaloniki Film Festival for the film '' The Asphalt Fever''. Selected filmography * '' Heaven Is Ours'' (1953) * '' The Big Streets'' (1953) * '' Happy Beginning'' (1954) * ''Astero'' (1959) * ''Stournara 288'' (1959) * ''Madalena'' (1960) * ''Oi kyries tis avlis'' (1966) * '' The Asphalt Fever'' (1967) * '' A Teacher with Blonde Hair'' (1969) * ''Agapisa mia polythrona ''I Loved an Armchair'' ( el, Αγάπησα μια πολυθρόνα, translit=Agapisa Mia Polythrona, italic=yes) is a 1971 Greek film directed by Dinos ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sofia Vembo
Sofia Vembo ( el, Σοφία Βέμπο; 10 February 1910, in Gallipoli, East Thrace, Turkey – 10 March 1978, in Athens, Greece) was a leading Greek singer and actress active from the interwar period to the early postwar years and the 1950s. She became best known for her performance of patriotic songs during the Greco-Italian War, when she was dubbed the "Songstress of Victory". Biography Vembo's real name was Efi Bembou (Έφη Μπέμποu). She was born in Gallipoli ( tr, Gelibolu; gr, Καλλίπολη, i.e. "beautiful city"), Eastern Thrace - Turkey, in 1910, but after the Asia Minor Catastrophe, her family moved to Tsaritsani of Larissa in Greece, where her father became a tobacco worker, and later to Volos in Greece. She began her career in Thessaloniki in the early 1930s. In the winter of 1933, she was hired by the theater operator Fotis Samartzis of the ''Kentrikon'' theater for the revue "Parrot 1933". She then began to record romantic songs for the Columbia c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dinos Iliopoulos
Dinos Iliopoulos (Greek: '; 12 June 1913 – 4 June 2001) was a Greek actor. He was one of the most prevalent film/theater actors in Greece. Biography He was born in Alexandria, Egypt in 1915. A few years later his family moved to Marseille and there he finished high school. He permanently relocated to Greece in 1935 at the age of 22 started styding at the Berkshire High Commercial School in Athens and also studied acting at the Drama School of Giannoulis Sarantidis. In 1944, he made his stage debut at the Katerina Andreadi Theatre with the play of Leo Lenz's ''Lady I Love You'', and in cinema he debuted in 1948 in the film '' 100,000 Pounds''. In 1963, he became theatrical entrepreneur founded his own theatre ''Gloria'' () at Ippokratous Street in Athens. He played in more than 70 films, usually as leading actor. In 1956 he starred in the film ''O Drakos'' (The Ogre of Athens) that is considered as one of the ten best Greek films of all times by Greek Film Critics Associatio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Orestis Makris
Orestis Makris ( el, Ορέστης Μακρής; 30 September 1898 – 29 January 1975) was a Greek actor and tenor. Biography Makris graduated from the Athens Conservatoire and first entered the scene as a tenor in the troupe of Rosalia Nika in 1925. He later joined the Papaioannou troupe, before moving to more comedic roles. Makris excelled in the portrayal of folk characters, especially the stock role of the "drunkard". Makris also participated in about forty movies, mostly as an over-strict father. He is considered one of the most significant modern Greek actors. He was decorated with the Order of the Phoenix. He died on 29 January 1975 in Athens Athens ( ; el, Αθήνα, Athína ; grc, Ἀθῆναι, Athênai (pl.) ) is both the capital and largest city of Greece. With a population close to four million, it is also the seventh largest city in the European Union. Athens dominates ... and is buried at the First Cemetery in a family grave. Filmography On sta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dionysis Papagiannopoulos
Dionysis Papagiannopoulos ( el, Διονύσης Παπαγιαννόπουλος; 12 July 1912 – 17 April 1984) was a Greek actor. He was born in Diakopto in the northeastern part of Achaea in 1912. He studied at the Drama School of the National Theatre of Greece (Ethniko Theatro) in Athens and made his stage debut in 1938, appearing as the Knight in William Shakespeare's ''King Lear''. He excelled in Shakespeare's ''Hamlet'' as the Grave Digger and in Dimitris Psathas’ ''Fonazei o Kleftis'' as General Solon Karaleon. Stage and screen Dionysis Papagiannopoulos acted in all types of plays and appeared in more than 120 films in supporting and leading roles. One of his leading roles in cinema was ''O Kyr Giorgis Ekpaidevetai'' (Mr. Giorgis is being educated) (1977) which was the last film made by Finos Film and marked the end of an era. He also worked for television. One of his biggest successes was his role once again as Mr Giorgis for the television show ''Louna Park''. He was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1959 In Film
The year 1959 in film involved some significant events, with '' Ben-Hur'' winning a record 11 Academy Awards. Top-grossing films (U.S.) The top ten 1959 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows: Events * January 23 – Republic Pictures releases its last production, ''Plunderers of Painted Flats''. *January 29 – Walt Disney's ''Sleeping Beauty'' premieres, their most expensive film to date and the first animated film to be shot in Super Technirama 70. It initially ends up losing money for the studio due to its high production costs. However, it would eventually gain a cult following and is now considered one of Disney's great classics. *April 30 – François Truffaut's ''The 400 Blows'' opens the 1959 Cannes Film Festival bringing international attention to the French New Wave. * June 4 – The Three Stooges release their 190th and last short film, ''Sappy Bull Fighters''. * June 7 – A contract between Paramount and Jerry Lewis Productions ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Athens
Athens ( ; el, Αθήνα, Athína ; grc, Ἀθῆναι, Athênai (pl.) ) is both the capital and largest city of Greece. With a population close to four million, it is also the seventh largest city in the European Union. Athens dominates and is the capital of the Attica region and is one of the world's oldest cities, with its recorded history spanning over 3,400 years and its earliest human presence beginning somewhere between the 11th and 7th millennia BC. Classical Athens was a powerful city-state. It was a centre for the arts, learning and philosophy, and the home of Plato's Academy and Aristotle's Lyceum. It is widely referred to as the cradle of Western civilization and the birthplace of democracy, largely because of its cultural and political influence on the European continent—particularly Ancient Rome. In modern times, Athens is a large cosmopolitan metropolis and central to economic, financial, industrial, maritime, political and cultural life in Gre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giorgos Gavriilidis
Giorgos Gavriilidis (Greek: Γιώργος Γαβριηλίδης; 1908 – 23 July 1982) was a Greek actor. He was the husband of Marika Krevata (1910 - 14 September 1994). He was marked out from the theatre and played roles in many comedies in the cinema and later on television. He died on 23 July 1982 from pneumonic edema and was buried at the Third Cemetery in Nikaia north of Piraeus and west of Athens Athens ( ; el, Αθήνα, Athína ; grc, Ἀθῆναι, Athênai (pl.) ) is both the capital and largest city of Greece. With a population close to four million, it is also the seventh largest city in the European Union. Athens dominates .... Filmography External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Gavriilidis Giorgos 1906 births 1982 deaths Greek male film actors Deaths from pulmonary edema 20th-century Greek male actors Actors from Piraeus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marika Krevata
Marika Krevata (Greek: Μαρίκα Κρεβατά; 12 June 1910 – 14 September 1994) was a Greek actress of theatre and film. Biography Marika Krevata was the daughter of Stamatis Krevatas (musician) and his wife, Sofia. She was born in Athens in 1910. When she was a child, her father and younger sister, Thaleia, both died. She first appeared in theatre at an early age. In the beginning she toured Greece with children's acts including ''Daskalitsa'' (''Δασκαλίτσα''). She later appeared in operettas by Georgios Xydis. She also spent time with Manos Filippidis's theatre company. Personal life Her first husband was Angelos Mavropoulos Angelos Mavropoulos ( el, Άγγελος Μαυρόπουλος, 1901 in Asia Minor (now Turkey Turkey ( tr, Türkiye ), officially the Republic of Türkiye ( tr, Türkiye Cumhuriyeti, links=no ), is a transcontinental country located m ...; the couple had one child, Gelly. She married, secondly, to Giorgos Gavriilidis (di ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beata Asimakopoulou
Beata Asimakopoulou ( el, Μπεάτα Ασημακοπούλου; June 28, 1932 – April 20, 2009) was a Greek actress. Family She was married to Greek film director Orestis Laskos Orestis Laskos ( el, Ορέστης Λάσκος; 11 November 1907 – 17 October 1992) was a Greek film director, screenwriter and actor. He directed 55 films between 1931 and 1971. He also wrote scripts for 24 films between 1929 and 1971. ...; they had at least one child, a son, Vassilis Laskos. She died of cancer. Career She appeared in the following: * (2007) * (2003) TV series * (2002) (TV) * (1997) TV series * (1995) * (1985) * (1985) * (1974) * (1973) * (1968) * (1967) * (1967) * (1967) * (1966) * (1965) * (1965) * (1965) * (1964) * (1964) * (1964) * (1963) * (1963) * (1962) * (1962) * (1962) * (1962) * (1962) * (1961) * (1961) * (1960) * (1960) * (1959) * (1959) * (1959) * (1958) * (1958) * (1958) * (1958) * (1958) * (1956) References Extern ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dimitris Kallivokas
Dimitris Kallivokas ( el, Δημήτρης Καλλιβωκάς; born 30 July 1930) is a Greek actor. He appeared in more than seventy films since 1958. Selected filmography References External links * 1930 births Living people Greek male film actors Male actors from Athens {{Greece-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Chronopoulou
Mary Chronopoulou ( el, Μαίρη Χρονοπούλου; 16 July 1933) is a Greek actress. She was one of the most popular actresses of the 1960s. She starred in many films, 16 of which were produced by Finos Film. She is one of the main protagonists of Greek theatre. Films *'' The Red Lanterns'' (1963) ..... Mary Pana *'' The Fear'' The film was entered into the 16th Berlin International Film Festival and the 1966 Cannes Film Festival as the official Greek entry. (1966) ..... Mrs. Kanali *''Without Identity'' *'' Visibility Zero'' (1970) ..... Christina Richter *''Too Late For Tears'' (1968) ..... Eirini Katakouzinou *''The Naked Brigade'' (1965) ..... Katina *''Voyage to Cythera'' (1984) ..... Voula *''A Lady at the Bouzoukia'' (1968) ..... Elena Apergi *'' Gorgones ke Manges'' (Mermaids and Lads) (1968) ..... Flora *''Tears for Electra'' (1966) Lina Petridi *''Royal Romance'' *''Blood on the Land ''Blood on the Land'' ( el, Το χώμα βάφτηκε κόκκινο, To ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
