Dionysis Papagiannopoulos
Birthday: 1912-01-01
Place of Birth: Diakopto, Achaia, Greece
Biography: Dionysis Papagiannopoulos (Greek: Διονύσης Παπαγιαννόπουλος; 12 July 1912 – 13 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.
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Για την καρδιά της ωραίας Ελένης
Louisa's father does not approve her young painter lover because he is poor....
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Voyage to Cythera
An old communist returning to Greece after 32 years in the Soviet Union is disillusioned with the st...
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Miss Manager
The strict and formal director Lila Vassiliou has under her orders all the staff of the technical of...
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We Have Only One Life
A bank teller discovers an accounting error, becomes rich and lives his life like he's never lived i...
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The Robber Cries Thief!
An extremelly honest man, Timoleon Lambrou (Dinos Iliopoulos), who has lost his job many times due t...
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To Win the Lottery
A poor and oppressed employee wins the football bet lottery and decides to live the life he dreamed ...
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1821 at the Cinema
In 1821, in Cinema, he records the cinematic representations of the Revolution from the first decade...
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Lysistrata
Based on Aristophanes's play, Athenian women band together to encourage their men to stop fighting t...
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The Young Lady's Fool
Julia, the daughter of Telis, general manager of the steel company, is a rich girl who likes the goo...
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A Matter of Earnestness
Minister Andreas Mavrogialouros (Labros Konstadaras) visits the village of his electoral district, P...
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o kyr giorgis ekpaideyetai
A tavern in Piraeus, Kyr Giorgis Adhesive (Dionysis Papagiannopoulos) has sent his son John in Europ...
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Jenny Jenny
Jenny Skoutari, a student and the daughter of a party local commander Kosmas Skoutaris, gets use to ...
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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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A Crazy Crazy Family
Mika is a young woman living in a crazy ... family. Her mother, Pasta Flora, is alienated, her littl...
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Maiden's Cheek
Young teacher Floras arrives to teach a class at a girls’ high school in Athens. His students, daugh...
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The Orgies Villa
A parliamentary candidate and his mistress will spend the night at the police station. After all, no...
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The Island of Love
A crook meets a young man, in prison. Assisted by his girlfriend he tries to sell the tiny rock-isla...
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Mermaids for Love
Petros, a race car driver and son of a construction mogul, hears about an island with promising busi...
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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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A Knight for Vasoula
Vasoula is a poor girl who works as a secretary for a cranky older lady, Ms Kleio who loves novels w...
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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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Lola
Aris, Nikos Kourkoulos, is released from prison after three years, and he turns up at Troumpa, a slu...
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Some tired boys
Dinos Diamantidis, a good-looking, 50 years old, man who lives with his sister, is running behind an...
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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 Liar
Infatuated with a handsome sculptor, an overindulged daddy's girl will make use of every trick in th...
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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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Ο Γιάννος κι η Παγώνα
Pagona loves Yiannos, her father's sheeper, who wants to marry her with Dimos, the son of other shee...
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Five Thousand Lies
A professor asks two poor students of law to steal, for a fee, a rare figurine from the house of a c...
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Thieves out!
When the general manager who possesses 70% of the shares of a steelworks learns that he is sick and ...
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Groom from London
Betty has become engaged, for her father’s sake, with a hard working and kind young man, Kostas, who...
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My son-in-low, the fortune hunter
A clerk, choked by debts, accidentally knows a rich girl and for the sake of wanting to leave the Tr...
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Ladies of the Courtyard
The Pippi a genuine artist, painting with touches of everyday life of ordinary people, who live and ...
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Carefree... Nut
In this color comedy Thanasis trying for years to leave illegally for America to make his life becau...
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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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Two Grapes
After finding out about the affair between young farmer and his spoiled daughter, the landlord perse...
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Throbs at the Desk
Lisa is a student, pretending the sick not to go to school. Her parents are worried about her health...
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The Tough Guy With the Tricycle
Tonia, the director of an advertising company will visit along with the employee, Kostas tavern. The...
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For Whom the Bell Rings
The industrialist Apostolos Lampirikos is drowning in debt. All were asking borrowed, but none of th...
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Mikes Is Getting Married
A naive young man, Mikes tries to solve its economic problems by marriage with a wealthy bride. Afte...
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The Teacher was One Hell of a Man
The teacher of a primary school in a mountainous village, arrives in Athens to force a rich business...
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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 Playful Girl
The Mikes family is wealthy son is in love with a poor girl, Katy. The Mikes afraid that his father ...
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The Ladykiller
Lished a quarrel with his friend Aristos and a nonexistent uncle from America will become an opportu...
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The Man Who Returned from the Plates
A Greek-American started from low washing dishes, became a landlord dozens restaurants in America. O...
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An Unbelievable Sucker
Thanasis and he will become barber, continuing the tradition of Chatzipapageorgakopoulokonstantinogi...
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Poor Millionaire
Peter is a scion of a wealthy family who sees a girl who is the model of a showroom and falls in lov...
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Each With Their Own Madness...
Three stories everyday madness. A retired headmaster angers me when I see the marks of his granddaug...
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Crazy Blood
The adventures of a very beautiful young Cretan, who because of the beauty of the suffering of all w...
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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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Great Brides, Gullible Grooms
Gina, daughter of businessman Archelaou, runs away from home to not marry the groom she chose her fa...
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Rough Seas
The message of the return of Captain Nikoli sfakianes Andros, after four years of absence, will brin...
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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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The Barefoot Prince
Run out of options and in desperate need of cash, a down-and-out young man accepts his rich hotelier...
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Καυτά... ψυχρά κι' ανάποδα
A rich construction contractor wants to marry his naive son to an extremely smart girl, but she is i...
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Stella
The story of a young, wild woman who doesn't want to compromise and settle down. Stella is a restles...
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Bouzouki Strumming
One day, while Grigoris is working and singing at a construction site, a conductor, Vangelis, and tw...
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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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Thieves Rejoice Only Once
A lawyer goes to Paros to meet his mistress. But trying to get away from her husband, who returns un...
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Stournara 288
Through the narration of a tenant of a block of flats on 288 Stournara street, we watch the everyday...
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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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My Wife's Husband
By closing his pharmacy, Panagiotis Panagiotidis falls on a provocative stranger, Lulu, who leads hi...
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Doctor Z-Vengos
A blunderer barber ends after a misunderstanding to pretend doctor. However the patients problems ar...
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The Revolutionary
Set in the 1880's, a rich young man from the middle class falls in love with the daughter of a local...
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Groom with tassels
Kitsos lives a quiet life in Gastouni, grabbing his sheep. But the pressure of his father and his be...
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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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You Came Too Late
The bond between a young painter and a girl who accidentally encounters a beach finds obstacles beca...
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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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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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Η Ζωή Μου Αρχίζει Με Σένα
An arrogant lieutenant of the Royal Hellenic Navy who finds out that his ex-lover has deeper feeling...
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Confession of a Mother
Having found, after many years, the man she loved and their daughter, a woman hesitates to reveal he...
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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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The Charlatan
An immigrant in Germany works hard to support his father and sister, who live in Greece. When he is ...
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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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The Policeman of the 16th Precinct
Ilias dresses himself in a police uniform as part of a complex burglary plot. Unfortunately for him,...
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The Woman Driver
Mary and Nikos are a happily married couple whose life turns upside down when Mary’s friend, Lilly, ...
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The Incredible
Thomas, the owner of an electrical appliances store, is having business problems due to his short-fu...
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Crime in Kolonaki
When the painter Nasos Karnezis is found dead and the police arrests Floras, the stockbroker Dimitri...
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Giakoumis, A Roman Heart
Giakoumis is a poor man with no family, working at the docks. One day he finds out that he has a ver...
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Ali Pasas and Lady Frosyni
The forbidden love between legendary Mrs Frosini with the son of Ali Pasa, Mouhtar and her tragic de...
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Vacation to Our Cyprus
The heirs of two Cypriot winemakers and sworn rivals visit incognito the city of Paphos to flee from...
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Ο Μπαμπάς Μου Ο Τεντυμπόυς
Two girlfriends are having a car accident with two boyfriends......
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Mr. Wing Commander
Sotiris, the president of Ano Latini, goes to Athens to get information about the project of expropr...
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Wake up, you sucker...
The Tasia chasing the impostor Lepoura Vangelis arrives with hitchhiking in Athens. Gaining confiden...
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A Thief with Philotimo
Reluctantly, an otherwise honest paterfamilias accepts his shady friend's proposition to start a car...
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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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A Law-Abiding Citizen
A young man who grew up beneath the heavy shade of autocratic and avaricious mother, son Gregory, ha...
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Scandals on the Island of Love
Mina is a poor girl who arrives on Corfu for vacation. There, she meets Darzento, a rich man pretend...
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Horafa family
The consistency of a family with 13 children tested when a childless couple asks Americans to adopt ...
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The Cannon and the Nightingale
A quartet of short stories about Greece during the various occupations during World War 2...
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The Liar
Indebted to the ocean liner's doctor, a stowaway impersonates him in a romantic rendez-vous with his...
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If I Were Rich
Michalis and Filippos work in a garage and dream of the good life. One day, they decide to take the ...
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Bouboulina
The life and action of Laskarina Bouboulina. Captain Lascarina decides to organize the revolution in...
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Pure And Dishonored
As indicated by the title, this is an obvious melodrama, where a beautiful rich girl (Miranda), depa...
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Lisa, Tosca of Athens
Lisa (Xenia Kalogeropoulou) runs away from her father at the Athens airport because she does not wan...
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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 tree children from Volo
In love with the village's belle, a passionate nineteen-year-old suitor from Volos and his two frien...
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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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Sinful Youth
A ruthlessly ambitious heir and his family's black sheep accepts the dangerous proposition of a crim...
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What the Night Hides
A poor couple struggles to survive, and the young man, wanting to make a lot of money easily, is lur...
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To nyfopazaro
Three friends, on a cruise in the Ionian Sea, throw erotic messages in bottles into the sea and fant...
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Grooms Wanted with Dowry
Zizi is a poor young woman who wants to get married to a wealthy man. When she finds out that her fo...
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Crazier Than the Crazy
A widower and father of three children loses his peace with the coming of the daughter of an old fri...
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My Only Son, My Good Boy
A harmless simpleton with a heart of gold arrives in Athens and falls in love. Can he prove his wort...
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Uncompromising in Life
Akis abandons Mary, the poor girl he loves, without knowing that she is expecting his child. When he...
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If My Past Could Speak
Liza, a beautiful young woman and daughter of businessman Leonidas Stergiou, is in love with Christo...
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Atonement
The son of a rich industrialist is in love with a poor girl, but his father wants to marry him to th...
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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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Crazy Girls Awesome Boys
Two detergent entrepreneurs decide to marry their children, each believing that their rival holds th...
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Παγίδα
In the Turkish-occupied Greece of the 18th century, Menousis when the Turks would kill his wife, dec...
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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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The Girl of the Battalion
Nineteen-year-old Kakia, the only daughter of a strict colonel and commander of a mountain commando ...
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Behind the Curtain: Dionysis Papagiannopoulos
The beloved theater and film actor, Dionysis Papagiannopoulos, talks about his life in Diakopto, rem...
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