Giannis Argyris

DOB: 1918-01-01

DOD: 1993-07-22

Yannis Argyris (Schimatari, Boeotia, 1918 − 23 July 1993) was a Greek actor with a fifty-year career, one of the best known of his generation. He studied acting at the Drama School of the National Theatre and made his first appearance with the Carousos troupe in 1937, in William Shakespeare's Othello, at the age of just 19. Since then, he has performed hundreds of roles, both in theatre and cinema, and on television. He was the father of conductor Spyros Argyris.

Starred In

1956
Movie

The Ogre of Athens

1971
Movie

Provocation

1964
Movie

The Dressmaker

1955
Movie

Two Grapes

1953
Movie

The Big Streets

1967
Movie

Thanos and Despina

1966
Movie

The Drawer of Sin

1973
Movie

Love on a Horse

1961
Movie

The Harbor Bum

1956
Movie

Dating Agency

1951
Movie

Dead City

1968
Movie

Love and Blood

1971
Movie

Abuse of authority

1958
Movie

Love In The Dunes

1970
Movie

Astrapogiannos

1955
Movie

Joe, the Amazing

1973
Movie

Pavlos Melas

1965
Movie

Poverty

1951
Movie

The She-Wolf

1961
Movie

Antigone

1960
Movie

I am innocent

1988
Movie

O orkos tou misous

1966
Movie

Λουίζα

1962
Movie

Δέσπω

1980
Tv

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