Kostas Voutsas

Infobox actor


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name = Kostas Voutsas
birthname = Kostas Voutsas
birthdate = birth date and age|1931|12|31
birthplace = flagicon|Greece|old Thessaloniki, Greece
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spouse = Erika Broyer (1958)
awards = Lifetime Achievement Award International Thessaloniki Film Festival 1984

Kostas Voutsas (born 1931) is a famous Greek comic actor and singer.

Biography

Voutsas was born in Thessaloniki, in 1931. He studied drama at the Drama School of the Macedonian Conservatory of Thessaloniki and made his stage and screen debut in 1953. In 1961 his breakthrough came when Giannis Dalianidis a Greek film director gave him a leading role in his phenomenally successful youth melodrama Katiforos. He soon became one of the best and most popular comic actors of his generation and created personal groups, starring in many Greek comedies by top playwriters and classics like Aristophanes' "The Wasps" (as Philokleon), Molière's "Le bourgeois gentilhomme" (title role) etc.

Career

He was a mjor actor in Finos Films and went on to star in about 60 movies, mostly comedies and musicals of the 'golden era" of Greek commercial cinema .

Filmography

* Kyra mas, i mammi ( 1958 ) , "Our Dame , the midwife"
* Gia tin agapi tis voskopoulas ( 1959 ) , "For the love of sheperdess"
* Agori pou agapo (1960) , "The Boy who I love
* Skliros antras ( 1961 ) , "Tough man"
* Katiforos (1961) , "The Slip"
* Aliki sto Naftiko ( 1961 ) , "Aliki in the Navy"
* Thodoros kai to dikano (1962) , "Theodoros and the double - barrelled gun"
* Nomos 4000 ( 1962 ) , "Law 4000"
* Gynaikes theloun xylo ( 1962 ) , "The Women want mush"
* Astronaftes (1962) , "Astronauts"
* Ziteitai timios ( 1963 ) , "It is demanded honest"
* Pseftra ( 1963 ) , "The liar woman"
* Merikoi to protimoun kryo ( 1963 ) , "Some like it cold"
* Kati na kaii ( 1963 ) , "Something is burning"
* Filos mou o Lefterakis ( 1963 ) , "My Friend Lefterakis"
* Ena koritsi gia dyo ( 1963 ) , "One girl for two ( men )
* Emeis ta batirakia ( 1963 ) , "We are the skints"
* Oti thelei o Laos ( 1964 ) , "Everything want the people"
* Klironomoi ( 1964 ) , "Inheritors"
* Hartopektra ( 1964 ) , "The gambler woman"
* Teddy boy agapi mou ( 1965 ) ,
* Prosopo tis imeras ( 1965 ) ,
* Koritsia gia filima ( 1965 ) ,
* Ena exypno exypno... moutro ( 1965 ) ,
* Ohi, Kyrie Johnshon ( 1965 ) ,
* Xypolytos prigips, O ( 1966 ) ,
* Radevou ston aera ( 1966) ,
* Thalassies oi hadres, Oi ( 1967 ) ,
* Nyhta gamou ( 1967 ) , "The night of wedding"
* Gabros ap' to Londino ( 1967 ) ,
* Gia poion htypa i... koudouna (1968 ) ,
* Mia kyria sta bouzoukia ( 1968 ) ,
* Pio labro bouzouki, To ( 1968 ) ,
* Pseftis, O ( 1968 ) , "Liar man"
* Gois ( 1969 ) ,
* Thyma ( 1969 ) , "Victim"
* Daskalakos itan leventia ( 1970 ) ,
* Ego rezilepsa ton Hitler ( 1970 ) ,

Achievements

In 1984 he received a Lifetime Achievement Award at the Thessaloniki Film Festival.

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