Giannis Gionakis
Birthday: 1922-09-18
Place of Birth: Athens, Greece
Biography: Giannis Gionakis was a Greek actor in film and theater. Gionakis was born in Athens in 1922. He began his studies at the medical school, but was won over by acting and proceeded to study theatre at the Karolos Koun Dramatic School and the Greek Odeon. He became particularly well known for his comedic roles in movies, where he was associated with portrayals of kind but dim-witted people.
Movies
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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Alice in the Navy
Aliki is in love with someone who serves his duty in the greek navy. Wanting to see him, she disguis...
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The Crooked Wood
Nikos, a grumpy and clumsy man, is the manager at a shoe factory and he's living with his wife and h...
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Marriage Adventures
Helena (Xenia Kalogeropoulou) returns to Greece after studying in Paris and on the ship home she mee...
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The Big Fool
Businessman Telis Birkas (Periklis Hristoforidis) decides to marry his daughter Antzela (Sasa Kastou...
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Anakatosouras
Thomas Karatoulpanis (Dinos Iliopoulos) is a naive employee at a car show in the Thessaloniki Intern...
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I'm a man and... I'll have fun!
A young girl, in an attempt to avoid the aspirations of her bosses, gets a job disguised as a man....
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A Fool And A Hater
Thomas is a good but low intelligence man. He is in love with Urania, a widow, whose stingy husband ...
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10 Days in Paris
Two men intend to make a "secret" trip to Paris alone and live it up in order to escape the strangle...
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Dimos from Trikala
Claiming that he and his brother, Dimos, are like two peas in a pod, a womanising husband puts the b...
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Mousitsa
Alice is a girl who can't hold down a job. When she hears about a typist position at a newspaper, sh...
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2,000 Sailors and One Girl
Head over heels in love with a handsome seaman, a charming dancer plucks up the courage to sneak int...
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The Uncle from Canada
Waiting to get their lucky break, three penniless musicians, who are already five months behind in t...
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The Grouch
A fastidious family man torments his wife and his niece with his nagging. He opposes his niece's dou...
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Poverty can be bearable while living well
Two unfortunate friends are desperately looking for a job to survive and eventually marry their love...
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Poor Bums
Intent on marrying into money, two antagonists will stop at nothing to seduce a young heiress, renou...
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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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Deluxe Crazy
Faidon is rich but lazy and ungrateful, complaining all day long. Everything in his life will change...
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Tuesday the 13th
A chain of bizarrely perfect and utterly extraordinary coincidences will convince a superstitious ci...
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Another One for the Million
The honest and meticulous cashier, Savvas, works in a business and is often pressured by his wife’s ...
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World and Kosmakis
Yearning to make a fast buck, a suave swindler and his statuesque fiancée approach a factory owner a...
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Aristides and his Girls
Aristides, a widowed professor, lives with his housekeeper Eudokia and his three daughters, whom he ...
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Giannis Messed Up
A retired General sends his nephew, Giannis, to Athens so to settle into a job. One day, Giannis dis...
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Everything the People Wants
Thanasis (Giannis Gionakis) succumbs to the pressure of his wife (Kati Lambropoulou) and buys an old...
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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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The Barber's Beauty
A barber tries to find husbands for his four sisters so that he can marry his fiancee....
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The Four Aces
An adaptation of "Romeo and Juliette" where the children of two rival shopkeepers fall in love and t...
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A Bird in the Hand Is Worth Two in the Bush
The daughter of a miser grocer react to their father's effort to marry with the man he approves. Whe...
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Athens by Night
Wandering Athens by night. A grand parade with actors, singers, composers, orchestras, attractions a...
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Better the Devil You Know
After the end of WWII, a beautiful woman falls for a British soldier who abandons her when she becom...
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My Luck Went Crazy
An employee can not marry the girl, because of financial problems and stalked by her brother. So dec...
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The Greedy
The daughter of a factory owner beats with her car, the unemployed and hungry Chris, and her father ...
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The madness of the square celibacy
An unmarried lawyer (John Gionakis), sworn enemy of marriage, resides where else? In celibacy Square...
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My Brother, the Lord
A car electrician, Charis, spends all his money on tailors in order to give the appearance of a "lor...
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Koutroulis` Wedding
A tailor mistakenly considered an ambassador of a foreign country, which exploits the future father ...
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Τρελλές διακοπές του θηριοτροφείου
Peter, a lively and wacky young, along with the equally crazy friends, erecting tents on a beach nex...
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To ploio tis haras
A large group of people with different temperaments, traveling from Piraeus to New York, with the oc...
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Sharp as a Needle
Tonis and Rena are loved, but their uncles have objections, as they are deadly competitors in the fi...
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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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O agathiáris kai i atsída
A self-made owner of a soft-drink factory decides to give the entire plant to his naive nephew as a ...
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Agents 005 Against Goldenfoot
Two James Bond fans, Kosmas and Damianos Bouralas, own a wine bar and hold a 5% stake in an industry...
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The Wedding Dance
Isaiah and Anargyros are partners and keep together a wedding bureaux office. Things are not going w...
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Jobs with Tassels
A provincial arrives in Athens, where he is approached by two mini-patrons in order to eat his money...
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Sucker Groom
Two fanciful friends earn a half-apartment in a lottery and are forced to cohabit, while they like t...
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My Wife's Husband
By closing his pharmacy, Panagiotis Panagiotidis falls on a provocative stranger, Lulu, who leads hi...
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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 Man Who Broke the Ice
Lambros Konstantaras performs a wealthy gossip that has never worked, and all he has to do is make f...
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Taste from Greece
Anthology film with a number of sketches that satirize modern Greece....
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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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A Rich Without Money
A poor accountant, in order to raise money for his marriage, finds a second job in a luxury hotel wh...
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Love Games
A father is desperately trying to tame his young daughter, while she falls for a young man during th...
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Those Not Allowed to Love
Pavlos, a conservatory student dreaming of becoming a great artist of quality music, lives with his ...
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The Fairy Tale Girl
A young girl, who lives in a poor neighborhood with her little brother, falls in love with a rich yo...
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Unmarried Groom
A kind-hearted teacher saves a girl from suicide and takes her into his home. However, he is newly m...
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And All 14 Were Wonderful!
Four cousins inherit a rich uncle. In order to do this, however, they must first fulfill the terms t...
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Four Brides and a Groom
father of four girls of marriageable age brings home a prospective suitor. One daughter agrees to se...
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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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Above all... Coolness
Two lazy friends (Mimis Fotopoulos and Ntinos Iliopoulos) find a job as ice-cream vendors to pay the...
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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 yellow gloves
When it comes to his wife, Orestis is suspicious of everything, be it a moustachioed chauffeur or a ...
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She's a Lunatic
Jenny is a real crazy girl. Latest feat is an ad that asks for work, convenient to young and unmarri...
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The Harefoot
Petros Pelekis is shaken when he receives a letter from America informing him that the feud between ...
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Mini Skirt and Karate
A tenant who wants to write an armed forces officer's biography falls head over heels with his beaut...
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Traffic Cop Varvara
Much to his surprise and not a moment too soon, the young long-term unemployed, Achilleas Taleporos,...
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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 Devil and His Tail
A charming woman who feels that her husband has grown tired of her and is no longer as interested in...
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My Groom, the Lawyer!
A barber wants to marry his daughter to a scientist. He believes that he has found the proper candid...
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Eva Has Not Sinned
A pretty and chubby woman, Eva, Fontas ex- wife, is now married to the neighborhood’s tavern owner, ...
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The Bedroom
Lawyer Savvas Tsiviklis receives a gift from an old girlfriend, Kiki Petachtidou, who has just retur...
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The Father-in-Law
Xristos is married to the rich Rena. In fact the rich is his mother-in-law, who has big business abr...
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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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All Men Are the Same
Polyxeni becomes enraged when she finds her husband flirting with their maid. After dismissing the g...
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Beethoven and Bouzouki
A dedicated classical music tutor who keeps burning bridges with everyone in the name of art is unwi...
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Rokakias tin imera... to vrady kamariera
Babis, who is crazy about rock music, gives a performance with his band "Jelings Band" to his fellow...
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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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Of the Poor Woman
Complications in life are common. But when they occur in different eras, the situation spirals out o...
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As Long as There Are Women
Three friends are searching for the woman of their dreams. Three different women approach love, marr...
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The Tomboy
Refusing to realise that she has become a lovely sixteen-year-old woman, a gawky tomboy taunts her b...
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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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Our Good Angel
After saving the beautiful but frivolous daughter of an austere businessman from an embarrassing sit...
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Hero Bunker
Following the torpedoing of the destroyer Elli on August 15, 1940 on Tinos by an Italian submarine, ...
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Elsewhere the Cackling
The revolution of an oppressed husband, whose wife locked him in the coop....
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Exotic Vitamins
A middle-aged womaniser takes in his distant cousin, who has fled from an arranged marriage, and she...
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Don't Fall in Love on a Saturday
A streetwise investment broker, who has been tricked into accepting a counterfeit $100 bill by a sta...
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Ράκυ Νο 0, το Νούμερο!
Young boxer tries to imitate Rocky Balboa as played by Sylvester Stallone....
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A Pitiful Don Juan
A wealthy man is responsible for his friend’s daughter, who has come to Athens to study. The girl me...
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Ο αυτάκιας
A penniless swindler loses an ear during a fight with an angry, cheated husband and receives a bioni...
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Tarnanas enantion Tsitsiolinas
Three detectives, Tryfon Psachidis, Tarnanas, and Lalakis, undertake to catch Theodoros' wife, Lili,...
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Antzela, o peirasmos
Two high-end jewelry designers in a deadly feud. A wealthy shipowner who wants to secure his social ...
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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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A Papadia in Bouzouki No. 2
Returning from a trip, Father Akakios sees that his neighborhood has been filled with discos and soc...
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Mia papadia sta bouzoukia!
Akakios, a local priest, embarks on a challenging mission to motivate youth. But his neglected wife ...
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A Tramp's Christmas
A man from Thessaloniki travels to Athens to punish the swindler who cheated his kind-hearted father...
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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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Ena agori... alloiotiko ap' t' alla
Marina, a poor, hard-working girl, works as an accountant at a fashion house to support not only her...
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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 Mischief-Makers
Two unemployed men are linked by friendship and go through many adventures together....
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Koroido Romie
Potis and Fotis are partners in a supermarket. One cares about the company, while the other prefers ...
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Our Tears Have Dried Up
Dimitris and Maria postpone their wedding, as the declaration of war will separate them. Dimitris wi...
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Κορίτσια της Αθήνας
A romantic saleswoman nurtures the sweet fantasy of marrying a rich lad who will turn her life aroun...
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