Nikos Rizos
Birthday: 1924-09-30
Place of Birth: Πέτα Άρτας
Biography: Nikos Rizos (Greek: Νίκος Ρίζος; 30 September 1924 – 20 April 1999, in Athens) was a Greek actor. He took part in many Greek comedies in cinema. Rizos began his career with Anthropoi, anthropoi in 1948 at the Metropolitan Theatre. He founded his own company in 1959 which he co-ran from 1961 with Vasilis Avlonitis and Georgia Vasileiadou. He appeared in various comedies in Greece and Germany, performing for the immigrant Greeks abroad. In 1986, he appeared at the Astor Theatre on Stadiou Street which he ran from the artistic performance until 1990. Rizos changed and he was a theatrical entrepreneur for 27 years. He starred in around 300 comedy films including To soferaki (with Giorgos Tzavellas), O thisavros tou makariti (with Nikos Tsiforos), O Klearchos, i Marina kai o kontos, Simoria eraston, and others. On television, he starred alongside Martha Karagianni in O dromos (The Road). In 1999, he appeared in the television series of Tassos Athanassiadis's I aithousa tou thronou. It was his last appearance on television.
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Arpa Colla
"Arpa-colla" in Greek literally means "Grab and stick", a phrase used to show something that has bee...
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Wheel Bag and Kopana
A major hit in the Greek cinemas at the time, this comedy by Omiros Efstratiadis is about a bunch of...
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Klearhos, Marina and the short one
The Clearchos order to escape the unbearable and domineering wife Marina and found a lively geitonis...
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Lily of the Harbor
Captain Giakoumis makes the big decision to forsake the sea and live peacefully close to his wife an...
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World Gone Mad
This classic Greek comedy revolves around the constant fights between Zikos who works as a clerk at ...
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Party, Money and Love
Angelos, a law student in Athens, is expecting Lavrentis, his rich uncle from the village, hoping th...
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The Little Mouse
Loukis, after a successful break-in, manages to escape the police chase thanks to a younf flower sel...
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The Cicada and the Ant
Two friends and co-owners of a flower shop, Eudaimon and Loulis, live by completely opposite princip...
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Runaway Bride
In her delicate bridal gown and bent on finding her beloved, a determined would-be wife flees from a...
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Michalios of the 14th Regiment
A guileless peasant with a heart of gold enlists in the prestigious Hellenic Special Forces and find...
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Three Ladies and me
As the lithe accountant of an haute couture house on the brink of bankruptcy takes three beautiful m...
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The Treasure of the Beatitude
Theoni finds a strange way to gain some money, in order to pay her bills , by renting rooms in her r...
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Jealous like a Cat
The wife of an industrialist who doesn't care about her creates a plot with her cousin to make him j...
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Seven Days of Lying
Lukas and Sotiris hate the work but are forced to make ends meet working as salesman of books. In on...
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A Father by Accident
The discovery of an abandoned infant disrupts the lives of residents in a poor neighborhood of Athen...
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The Bridegrooms of Eftyhia
The film focuses on the Tarniatis brothers, with the brother trying to marry his sister (Georgia Vas...
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If Luck Favors You
A poor but very decent teacher, Telis, who has resigned from his job, finds a winning lottery ticket...
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Fortune Hunters
Two friends, street vendors, pretend to be tourists, hoping to find a wealthy bride. They end up, al...
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Μας φάγανε οι τρέλες στις Σεϋχέλλες
Vagos is a folk singer and works at Specula's shop. His dream is a trip to Seychelles. So he decides...
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A Very Clever Guy
Two naughty men, Iordanis and Potis, are partners in a drug- industry. Potis is a great womanizer, g...
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Aliki the Dictator
A young woman arrives in Athens with her dog after the death of her father, the head of a bouzouki b...
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Thymios in the Land of Striptease
Staple of music-dance with acrobatics and theatrical skits mainly foreign artists metaklithikan in G...
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Bedlam My Love
An old couple reviews their lives together, from the first time they met and got married since the p...
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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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The virgin and the pin
Vassos and Aleka are a newlywed couple. When Aleka's parents come to their house, they decide to spe...
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My Boss Was a Fool
Melpomene is working as economies of wealthy bachelors Charalambous many years. At some point they r...
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The Countess of Fabrica
A beautiful young woman is arrested by a wonderful policeman, due to her effort to steal letters fro...
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The Heirs of Karampoumpounas
A notary calls in the office three brothers: Theophrastus, Telis and Kokkovio Karampoumpouna and ann...
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The Giant of Kypseli
Nikos is a short hairpin chandler, which has very high opinion of himself. Flirts shamelessly with t...
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Stratis Has Strayed
Poor and unappreciated writer besieged by producer of cinema to give consent for turning a book into...
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Viva Rena
Rena, a decadent folk singer from Corfu, lives in Athens with her bouzouki musician brother Stratos,...
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They ere all... Fools!
The whole male population of Katochori is in love with the niece of former president Katsikaris. The...
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A Short Man Will Save Us
The Fontas Tsakiris is a truck driver and avid viewer. His dream is to have his taxi, but loses his ...
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Ο Τρελοξενύχτης
The dream Julia is to become movie stars.The sucker of this throws in comic entanglements and the pe...
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O tetraperatos
A vibrant cafe owner struggles to attract the girl of his dreams. Who knows, with a bit of luck and ...
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Ένας τρελλός τρελλός αεροπειρατής
Two apartments of an apartment building with common balcony, living two same-sex couples. At one res...
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The Luna Park Girl
Under the guise of a false identity, a cardiothoracic surgeon finds happiness again in the shape of ...
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Anyone Else for Heaven?
The honorable Ieremias Ayioklimas has a car accident and is driven to Heaven, where he asks God to a...
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The Drunkard
After losing his son in WW2, a poor cobbler has become a drunkard and laughing stock of the whole ne...
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Oh, If I Only Were a Man
Frustrated and unemployed after being sexually harassed repeatedly, Stella decides to play the role ...
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Happy Bums
Two jobbers meet an actor, when the sneak in a theater. The actor is homeless and they invite him to...
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Μήτσος ο Ρεζίλης
Mitsos, the son of a coffee shop owner and matchmaker, runs a marriage bureau and earns his living b...
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To gelio vgike ap' ton Paradeiso
An industrialist has decided to marry his daughter with his partner and, for that reason, will try t...
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Wheel, Bag and Truants 3
Aris, Billias, and the rest of the students decide to return to school with the excuse of earning th...
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The Parliamentarian Lady
Rena Varlamou (Rena Vlahopoulou), a female queen and a captain, takes up the election campaign of he...
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The Grouch
A nephew of three strange uncles loves a girl, but his uncles are against the marriage. A resourcefu...
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The Bus Conductor
The daily life of a debt collector and the little adventures he encounters in his life....
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Mantepse ti kano... ta vradya
Kosmas (Stathis Psaltis) grew up in the gypsy camp and the only thing he does well is to beg. This o...
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My Sister Deserves a Beating
A mad man, Spyros, wants to marry Marianna, his lively sister. He wants to give her a dowry apartmen...
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The Driver
A poor taxi driver works hard in order to pay off his car and to marry his fiancee....
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Volunteer in Eros
A kind accountant meets the statuesque owner of a boutique who comes up with a double proposal: apar...
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The optimist
A minor fender-bender triggers a string of unexpected events when a young optimist and car sales rep...
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A Patented Stupid Man
As Pelopidas is going around hungry, trying to find something to eat, a misunderstanding makes him s...
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O boufos
An engineer is working hard without any substantial effect and he is not taking seriously the persis...
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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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The Watermelon
Bursting with excitement before meeting a blonde hottie and her equally good-looking companion, a la...
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The Dwarf and the 7 Snow Whites
Thanasis (Nikos Rizos) arrives in Athens and gets a job at the shop where the "The 7 Snowmen" band a...
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The Swindlers
Three friends living day by day on the streets of Athens by put-up jobs....
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Agries plakes sta thrania
The teachers at a high school are unable to control their students, until a literature teacher arriv...
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Γύφτικη Κομπανία
When Tamtakos' house is brought down by the bulldozer a record company makes him a proposition for a...
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The End of the Two-Cent Coin
Agisilaos is in need of some money because he's facing an eviction....
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My Nephew Manolis
Aristides Papakatsikas welcomes two nephews to his home, the wealthy Manolis from America and the po...
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At Night The Entanglements
The funny things that happen through the walking by the neighborhood night shift of a kind policeman...
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The Happy Beginning
Three young musicians and three female singers strive for success, competing each other. But love ge...
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Taxi Driver
Thanasis is a good-looking taxi driver whose girlfriend is pushing him to marry. When an uncle from ...
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Three Detectives
The three blunders unspeakable detective thalassonoun all their affairs....
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A Leopard Never Changes Its Spots
Antonis, who is in love with Roula, must find a way to convince her brother to allow him to marry he...
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Jeep, Pavilion and Love
Tassos is a kiosk owner who is in love with Foula. He has a constant fear of vehicles speeding past ...
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The Lady and the Tramp
Rena’s father insists on marrying her off to the son of a shipowner. Rena, however, doesn’t even wan...
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The Taxi Driver
A taxi driver, Despina, falls in love with her colleague Anastasis, but he does not reciprocate her ...
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The Man from Karpazia
Anestis is a nice guy but he doesn't have the courage to react when others bother him. When one of h...
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The Hunk
Alexis, a charming little man, has taken on the task of looking after his nephews Kostas and Tolis, ...
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Roda, tsanta & kopana 2
A rich kid comes to Havale High School with his servant for the new school year and, of course, beco...
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My Bitter Love
A poor young man (Thanos Livaditis) is working in a car cage and buying a car, mortgaging his mother...
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Right... On!
Stathis, an honest and hardworking young man who lives with his uncles, angry with everyone and ever...
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The Street Smarts
Babis (Nikos Rizos), after his release, finds it difficult to balance between the groups with the gu...
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When the Cat is Missing!
A wealthy family is on a cruise. A rich young man falls in love with the family's maid and mistakes ...
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Lovers Without a Dime
Three poor men who have lost their jobs decide to swindle a wealthy Greek-American who returns to hi...
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The Greek woman and love
Revolving around the modern Greek woman and her perspective on love in general, not one, but twenty-...
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O thymios tahei 400
A brief altercation in a railroad car will lead to a golden opportunity, as the famous actor, Kostas...
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Goal in Love
A barber owes a lot of money to his landlady, who shows great patience and understanding, hoping tha...
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Κάνε Με Πρωθυπουργό
An authoritarian businessman does not allow his young son to have any involvement in his activities,...
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The Lucky One
A countryman arrives in Athens to make it big and becomes a millionaire overnight. However, a duo of...
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Ethniki papadon
Papa-Malachias, Papa-Haros and Papa-Bilias have founded the Priestly Band and make appearances at th...
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Ena koritsi kai... poly antraki
Eleni returns from London, where she studied automotive engineering and earned a black belt in karat...
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The Hunters of Athens
Two professional musicians manage to open their own club and become revelers and women hunters....
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Epangelma: Antres
A film production company, which has only made flops, decides to start a film that it believes will ...
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Papasouzas
A priest, wanting to attract young people to the church, is determined to do everything he can to wi...
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Stay Cool, Napoleon!
Two friends decide to settle down after a chance encounter with two beautiful sisters. Now, they hav...
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Ένας Πρωτάρης Στο Κολλέγιο!
A country kid enters a physical education college that prepares future champions. Rookie as he is, h...
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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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O Rambo, o Kontos kai i Tapa!
Rambo, on orders from Stathis the Short, a wealthy but illegal guy, undertakes to blow up a tourist ...
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Papadistik Company
Kavouras is the owner of the popular nightclub "Xerokomata," which has begun to lose its patrons. Wh...
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Capital adventures
Set in Athens, this Greek film concerns the trials and tribulations of two girls from the village of...
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From the Stable to the Salon
The amateur singer, Magdalo, plucks up the courage to leave her small village in search of a well-pa...
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Doste tin tsonta sto lao!..
Two police officers are desperately trying to track down the leaders of an illegal pornographic film...
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Fortunately Unemployed
A poor man, Angelis Katsavidis, and his hard-of-hearing friend Stratos leave their village and come ...
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The Wretched and the Rich
Thessaloniki industrialist Vranas plans to marry his son Alexis to Anna, the daughter of an Athenian...
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Mia nyfi gia olous!
The explosive Yula, a very dynamic girl, leaves her parents when they insist on marrying her off to ...
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No, Mr. Johnson.
A tomato juice seller of a major American company arrives in Greece to promote his company's product...
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Of Fortune The Written
Accompanied by his feathery associate, a wandering fortune-teller predicts the fates of passers-by t...
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Fallen Angels
To help her sick mother, a girl is hired for what she believes to be a simple delivery service. That...
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Ο μάγκας από το Γιουσουρούμ
Vangos and Thomas, two twin brothers, live together and have the misfortune of looking like two drop...
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Right...on!
Stathis, an honest and hard-working young man who lives with his uncles, is angry with everyone and ...
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Ματάκιας και βρωμόστομος
A rich sheikh, don't imagine oil, he is a scumbag. Where everyone was digging for oil, he hit spring...
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