Giannis Argyris
Birthday: 1918-01-01
Place of Birth: Schimatari, Viotia, Greece
Biography: Yannis Argyris (Schimatari, Boeotia, 1918 − 23 July 1993) was a Greek actor with a fifty-year career, one of the best known of his generation. He studied acting at the Drama School of the National Theatre and made his first appearance with the Carousos troupe in 1937, in William Shakespeare's Othello, at the age of just 19. Since then, he has performed hundreds of roles, both in theatre and cinema, and on television. He was the father of conductor Spyros Argyris.
Movies
The Ogre of Athens
On New Year’s Eve, a timid bank clerk is mistaken for a notorious criminal mastermind who rules the ...
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Provocation
Angelos holds nothing in Greece. His sweetheart married his former friend, the woman who once was hi...
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The Dressmaker
The son of a shipowner is in love with a poor seamstress. When his father reacts to their love, he a...
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Two Grapes
After finding out about the affair between young farmer and his spoiled daughter, the landlord perse...
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The Big Streets
An only child of poor farmers goes to Athens to study medicine. He meets and falls in love with an o...
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I Neraida Kai to Palikari
Fourtounakis’ daughter, Katerinio, is forced to get engaged with a brutal Cretan, Skandalakis. But t...
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Thanos and Despina
Katina, an impoverished Greek woman, tries to arrange the marriage of her shepherd son, Thanos, to D...
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O Ippolytos kai to violi tou
A poor violinist gets involved in a bizarre adventure, when a drunken customer at the night club whe...
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The Child of the Street
A girl, Vassula, learns shortly before marrying her lover, Richard, that the alleged father is actua...
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The Drawer of Sin
Greek melodrama about a woman shunned by her family after being raped by her sister's husband....
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Love on a Horse
A son and his stepmother, without noticing their father/husband peeping at them, make love on a hors...
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The Harbor Bum
Accused of stabbing his nightclub singer mistress to death, unscrupulous dockhand Christos is on the...
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Dating Agency
An elderly man, Kosmas, gets involved in a fight and, trying to escape from the police, runs into Ma...
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Crazy, Nuts and Vengos
Thanasis, the waiter of country tavern "The seven brothers", is preparing to marry the Anthoula. Sho...
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The Constellation of Virgin
3 different story's that a prostitute says to her patrons whe she is asked about her story life...
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Dead City
A young painter returns to his hometown, Mystras, where he falls in love with the daughter of a fami...
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Love and Blood
The abysmal hatred which exists between two landowners is transferred to their natural environment a...
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Abuse of authority
A police officer tries to discover the murderer of his brother, who was a pianist and a morphine. As...
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Astrapogiannos
The battle-scarred hero of the Greek Revolution, Giannos "Astrapogiannos", returns home after the en...
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Joe, the Amazing
Joe, and Gardelis his friend, plan to rob a safe, a Russian émigré, Lavrentis Shack. By opening, how...
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Pavlos Melas
The military action of a Greek officer, Pavlos Melas, for the liberation of Macedonia from the Turks...
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In the name of the law
A traumatised Korean War veteran is accused of arson and murder. Now, the deceased's criminal attorn...
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To Our Teacher, with Love
A young teacher arrives in a village that has been almost completely deserted by emigration and trie...
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Poverty
Kaiti's father decides to end Nikos' family and evicts them. Nikos and his mother rent a room in Ann...
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Η μάνα της φόνισσας
Fanny, young daskalitsa, is in love with Lambros, student of Chemistry. Transferred to the Greek sch...
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The She-Wolf
Wanting to have nothing to do with the feud that has decimated not only his own family but also that...
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Antigone
In Thebes in ancient Greece, King Oedipus kills his father and marries his mother Jocasta, having tw...
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Triantafyllo ki agathi
A dramatic story, as true as life itself, as shocking as the harshest fate and as inhuman as the wor...
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Rose and Thorn: Part II
A dramatic story, as true as life itself, as shocking as the harshest fate and as inhuman as the wor...
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O orkos tou misous
Maria Valfi is the daughter of wealthy merchant Valfi, who is unjustly accused in a trial for some u...
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Attik's Street Organ
The poor and orphaned Manto tries in every way to care for her sick father. An equally poor musician...
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For the Love of my Child
Antonis is a tough and heartless guy who, after several years in prison, is released and returns hom...
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Sinful Women of the Night
A poor and uneducated girl is forced into prostitution by a corrupt individual....
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Those who forgot God
The son of a ruthless moneylender loves a girl whose mother was his father's first love. When he ref...
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Ματωμένη γη
The daughter of a powerful husband in a mountainous village in Greece is being forced to marry a wea...
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