Mimis Fotopoulos
Birthday: 1913-04-20
Place of Birth: Zatouna, Arkadia, Greece
Biography: Dimitris "Mimis" Fotopoulos (Greek: Δημήτρης (Μίμης) Φωτόπουλος; 8 April 1913 – 29 October 1986) was a Greek actor, writer, poet, and artist. He was born in Zatouna, Gortynia, Arcadia. He studied at the Dramatic School of National Theatre (Δραματική Σχολή του Εθνικού Θεάτρου). He also studied at the Philosophical School at the University of Athens until his second year in 1933. He headed a theatrical company from 1952 and an actor from 1960. He died on 29 October 1986 in Athens, from a heart attack, aged 73.
Movies
The Counterfeit Coin
Four stories, humorous, romantic or dramatic, are linked by a counterfeit gold sovereign. It is made...
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One Hundred Thousand Pounds
The daughter of a Greek expatriate from Australia, Pagona a.k.a. Peggy (Ketty Panou), after the deat...
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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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Theodore and the gun
An anachronistic and paleolithic father tries to find a good, honest husband for his daughter....
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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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The Hurdy-Gurdy
Two poor portable barrel piano players ramble through Greek countryside and play in fairs. They meet...
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The Beauty of Athens
A streetwise guy, according to a will, has to marry an extremely ugly old lady to get the money of t...
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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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A Hippie With Slippers
Kitsos leaves behind his village to create a better future in Athens, Greece. He rescues Helen but s...
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The Coffee Reader (Kafetzou)
In a poor neighborhood of Athens, next to the coffee shop of Spyros (Mimis Fotopoulos) is a coffee s...
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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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The Unwilling Nanny
After returning from a masquerade, much to his surprise, a wandering textile salesman stumbles upon ...
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Vacation in Kolopetinitsa
All the village society, but especially the President Thimios Tambourlas and the policeman Miltiadis...
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Stamatis and Grigoris
Opposite as black and white, the successful lawyers and business partners, tardy Stamatis and hasty ...
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Laterna, Poverty and Carnation
Pavlaras and Petrakis have spent the money that Kaiti's father gave them two years ago and continue ...
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Wanted honest
A sometimes blind and sometimes mute homeless panhandler becomes the pivotal point in a modular stor...
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Marriage Lads
Fotis and Kosmas are partners in a country resort. They are not so concerned with their work as they...
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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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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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The Unknown
Madame X (Greek title: I Agnostos) is a 1954 Greek drama film directed by Orestis Laskos. It is base...
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Grousouzis
Agatocles, a grumpy and gruesome caffector, finds out a baby's out of his cafe and, to the surprise ...
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Golfo-Girl of the Mountains
Spiridon Peresiadis (1864 - 1918) was one of the best writers of the dramatic idylls and mountain ad...
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Taste from Greece
Anthology film with a number of sketches that satirize modern Greece....
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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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Madame Sousou
Sousou is a poor Greek woman who behaves like an aristocrat causing trouble to her honest husband an...
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The Miserable
A bachelor by conviction not watch the girl who works at the shop cashier is in love with him, despi...
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No Harm's Done
Lalakis is married with Poppe. He goes on a trip to Salonique by train, with his mistress, pretendin...
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Two Crazy and crafty, clever and cunning person
Philemon and Pausanias are two wretches, friends and roommates in the same chamber, which are consta...
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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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The Big Shark
Vangelis is a lazy guy who's trying to earn some money to marry his beloved, but he is captured by t...
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Gold and Tin
A super market owner opposes the affair of his daughter with a new employee at his business....
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Snow White and the 7 Old Boys
Alexia is a young woman who comes from the countryside and is in love with a rich man, Paris, who is...
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Descended from Heaven
The late Pericles gets permission from God to return to earth and help his family, who has gone astr...
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Bad, Cold, and Cantankerous
Financially hard-pressed, a good-hearted coffee-shop owner asks his twin brother and famous actor fo...
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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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Apaches of Athens
Costas is known as the "Prince". Now that he has learned of the arrival of the Greek-American Parali...
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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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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 Magic City
A look at poverty in post-war Athens. Kosmas, a young man living in the slums, constantly tries to m...
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Kolonaki Conduct Zero
When an open-hearted folk man, a butcher of the profession, buys an apartment to stay with his famil...
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The Daywork of Happiness
Two young people are trying to make their common life although have to face the obstacle of an autho...
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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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Bloody Christmas
Returning to Athens after the end of the World War II, Captain Nikolas finds out what happened to hi...
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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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Long live the poor children
A wealthy man, Tonis , in love with a poor girl, wants to marry her despite the objections of his fa...
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Heartbreak in the Slums
An entire social microcosm lies hidden in plain sight in a decrepit Athenian courtyard of a humble m...
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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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Ο Εμίρης και ο κακομοίρης
An Arab monarch arrives in Athens accompanied by his wife and his beautiful daughter, who falls in l...
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Kitsos Mini and Souvlaki
Kitsos from Gastouni comes to Athens and gets a job at the souvlaki restaurant owned by Dimos from R...
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Fanouris and His Kin
A good-natured paterfamilias who is struggling to make ends meet rests his hopes on his successful e...
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The Godson
During the Balkan Wars, Vivika Zaharouli, sick and tired of the goings-on of her womanizer husband, ...
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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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Ο χαζομπαμπάς
A married couple is having a son and they do everything to raise it right....
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An Italian in Greece
Charming, affluent--with his father's money--and self-assured, a frivolous son who can have any woma...
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Come to Uncle
Antonis is the nephew of the good-hearted grocer Harilaos Toukouras. He is slothful and lazy but he ...
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On Course
A young man, Kostas, together with two friends, sets for a journey on a sailboat, looking for someth...
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What Does Man Do To Live
Leandros is a night club owner who is trying to avoid imprisonment by searching for money to pay the...
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The Germans Strike Again
4 years after the Nazi occupation in Greece, the Greeks are involved in a Civil War and they are kil...
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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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And the First Matakias
An unruly voyeurism, Simos, works in a hotel as a bourgeois. A gang of burglars has put in the eye o...
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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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Agent Kitsos calls Gastounis
As he slips into something more pastoral chic to boost sales in an Athenian travel agency, a poor co...
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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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The 4 Stairs
Surrounded by wealth, an impecunious young lady leaves home and the suave man of her dreams to sprea...
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Aristotelis the Lightweight
A pasta-factory owner, Aristotelis Kolokythas, after two unsuccessful marriages in the past, is now ...
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Greedy for Everything
The avaricious Athenian, Fanouris Karababas, forbids his daughter to marry her beloved and behaves c...
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Don't All Knock Together
Sprogitis, a clumsy goofball with a good heart, constantly finds himself embroiled in the most unlik...
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One Night in Heaven
Ms. Byzantiou is a passionate writer who stays at the hotel “Paradise” together with other eccentric...
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Έμπαινε Μανωλιό
Manolios decides to quit working on a ship and return to Crete so he can marry his beloved one, Leni...
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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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The Misogynist
A recently fired cook poses as a misogynist to get a job in the mansion of an unrepentant woman-hate...
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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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A Nanny and a Maid, Everyone
A kind-hearted man from the Greek province falls deeply in love with the beautiful daughter of his s...
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Αλλαγή... και το λουρί της μάνας
An ex-criminal wants to change his life but the Mafia wants him back....
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A Thousand Cubic Meters of Madness
A frivolous husband who longs for a fast 1000cc sports bike decides to sell the family business. How...
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The Tower of Knights
A down-to-earth grocer yields to pressure and decides to follow his wife's advice to put to good use...
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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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Cloudy horizons
To settle her affairs, a kind woman arrives in Athens, only to realise that the administrator of her...
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Nancy bought it!
Like a true diva, an aspiring painter renounces her mundane given name, and instead of it, she prefe...
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Massage gia ola ta gousta
Inspector Charilaos and Detective Mitsos, the brains of the vice squad, undertake to solve a murky c...
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A Ship Full of Papadopoulos
A couple of rich Greek-Americans travels from New York to Piraeus with their five nephews, who are u...
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Two Clever Fools
Two jobless bosom buddies have a chance encounter with an Arab billionaire and his sad daughter who ...
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For a Lousy Drachma
To convince his wealthy uncle to keep sending his monthly cheques, a poor man lies about his marital...
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Commando and Manoulias
A 35-year-old reservist is called up for retraining in new weapons. He has been engaged for nine yea...
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The Wastrels
Exarhos is persuaded by his two lazy brothers to sell their shipyard, and they buy a factory in whic...
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Storm at the Lighthouse
Lighthouse keeper Captain Bochalis, whose wife abandoned him years ago, lives in a remote lighthouse...
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Wandering
A lawyer, offspring of a bourgeois family of Greek-Egyptians, tries to find the traces of a relative...
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Ο Καου-Μπόυς του Μεταξουργείου!!
Kitsos, a charming countryman from Gastouni, visits Athens to secure a dowry for his sister. Instead...
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Behind the Curtain: Dinos Iliopoulos
The episode of the documentary series Paraskinio, produced in 1979, dedicates its first part to two ...
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Behind the Curtain: Mimis Fotopoulos
Episode from the documentary series Paraskinio, dedicated to Mimis Fotopoulos, who speaks about his ...
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