Vagelis Protopapas
Acting
Biography
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Born: January 1, 1917
Place of Birth: Tinos, Greece
Known For
The Tough Guy
Iraklis (Hercules) Leontopoulos is a low-paid employee with a heart of gold, who inherits a building together with its tenants. His easy disposition is his biggest problem because he can not collect any rents. In addition, he can not make any evictions nor can he demand any increase in the rents. Everything is about to change when his lawyer Aleka Palli makes him play the tough guy in order to collect the unpaid rents. The consequences of this transformation will be hilarious.
The Counterfeit Coin
Four stories, humorous, romantic or dramatic, are linked by a counterfeit gold sovereign. It is made by the honest engraver in the first story, seduced by the charms of a young widow, and it subsequently passes into the hands of a beggar and a prostitute, a wealthy miser and a newly married couple where the husband is a poor artist.
The Big Nostril
Sotiris Moustakas is Thiseas Doxapatris, a detective with a twin brother.
A Madhouse Named "Hellas"
Thanasis lives in today's conditions, where Greece is a madhouse. A police sergeant after many years of impeccable service, he anxiously awaits his long-awaited promotion. At the new police station where he has been assigned, somewhere in the center of Athens, he faces incidents of daily madness, lawlessness, and corruption, while also dealing with his own personal anxieties about his unfortunate family, especially his son, who is an anarchist. There is no shortage of conflict between them, as each tries to impose his ideas and beliefs on the other. But who are the people behind the illegal networks, and how can Thanasis find a way out of his predicament?
Jealous like a Cat
The wife of an industrialist who doesn't care about her creates a plot with her cousin to make him jealous.
The Germans Strike Again
4 years after the Nazi occupation in Greece, the Greeks are involved in a Civil War and they are killing each other. Theodoros, a quiet and modest man, disgusted and disappointed, falls asleep and has a nightmare. Hitler is alive and the Nazis strike back with new, more powerful weapons.
Monday's Theater
Greek television series
A Hero in His Slippers
A veteran general, living poorly but honestly with his wife and his daughter, is visited by his future son-in-law who informs him that he is going to immigrate to Australia. On the same day, his cousin Apostolos pays him a visit as well and tells him that the government intending to honor him has decided to construct his statue and place it at the small square in front of his house.
The Wise Guy
Alekos (Dinos Iliopoulos) is in love with Voula (Maria Voulgari) whose brother threatens to kill him if he doesn't marry her soon. Alekos' father (Pantelis Zervos) on the other hand insists that Alekos' sister (Zoe Laskari) has to get married before him. His sister Annoula (Zoe Laskari) is in love with Antonis (Stephanos Stratigos) and pressures him to ask for her hand in marriage from her family. Antonis meets Alekos by accident at a cafe in Panorama - they don't know each other - and advises him to use the infalible method of "escaping through an engagement" to calm down Voula's brother. This is after all what he intends to do himself... And God help them...
Santa Chikita
A poor man accepts the money someone offers him to marry a foreign woman so that she can stay in Greece.
Filmography
as Χρόνης
as President
as Haralambos
as Evripidis Daponte
as Stathis Froutakis Sr.
as Ντίνος
as Παρασκευάς
as Nectarios
as Father
as Θέμος
as Grigoris
as Defence attorney
as Strovilis
as Kalogirou
as Sotiris Lymberiadis
as Μικές
as Markos Manolopoulos
as Dinos
as Vangelis
as Kriton Stefanis
as Karameletis
as Michalis
as Giorgos
as Margaras
as Zisis
as Waiter