Stavros Xenidis

Acting

Stavros Xenidis

Born 1923-03-08 · Constantinople, Turkey

Stavros Xenidis (Greek: Σταύρος Ξενίδης; 1924 – 2 November 2008) was a Greek actor. Stavros Xenidis was born in Turkey. He studied acting in Karolos Koun's Theatro Technis and made his theatre début in 1944. His theatre career was closely associated with Kostas Moussouris' theatrical company during the 1950s and the 1960s . As a film actor, he took part in more than 70 movies, mostly in secondary roles; his first film role was in "The Song of Pain" (1953) (Greek title: "Το Τραγούδι του Πόνου") and his last was in "Red White" (1993) ("Άσπρο Κόκκινο"). He also appeared in several TV shows since 1971; His last appearance on television was in 1994. He died in a retirement home in Athens on 2 November 2008, after suffering a number of strokes. (Source: Wikipedia)

Acting credits

The Secrets of Sinful Athens poster
4.5

A young hoodlum tries to separate himself from his gang, while at the same time taking on behalf of his boss the blackmail of a businessman's wife.

The Secrets of Sinful Athens

1966

The Island of Aphrodite poster
7.0

In Cyprus, an EOKA fighter (against the British Administration), Kyriakoulis, is imprisoned by the British. His comrades kidnap the son of a friend of the British Administrator in retaliation. Plans to help Kyriakoulis escape fails and the British hang him. Kyriakoulis mother intervenes magnanimously and the fighters free their prisoner.

The Island of Aphrodite

1965

And the Woman Shall Fear Her Husband poster
7.4

When a man decides to marry the woman he's been living with, she stops being the silent patient person she was and claims to be the boss in the house. Her behaviour changes so much after the marriage that the husband gets so irritated as to ask for a divorce even a few hours later..

And the Woman Shall Fear Her Husband

1965

From the Stable to the Salon poster
6.0

The amateur singer, Magdalo, plucks up the courage to leave her small village in search of a well-paying job and has a chance encounter with the idealist classical musician, Fodas. Bent on taking back the familial plots from a money-grubbing loan-shark, Magdalo lands a job as a resident singer at a trendy nightclub, whereas, Fodas is having a hard time keeping himself afloat. Once more, after Magdalo's rapid rise to stardom, the two artists cross paths; however, they are too proud to admit their deeper feelings for each other. Will those two polar opposites bury the hatchet for love's sake?

From the Stable to the Salon

1972

Honeymoon poster
4.7

Taxidi Tou Melitos is about the fear that most elderly people experience: approaching death. Leon (Stavros Xenides) and Zaharoula (Betty Livanou) are heading out for their annual vacation at a summer resort. Instead of their usual carefree anticipation, their mood is subdued because their daughter has just married and is off on her honeymoon. Life is lonely without her and the couple cannot avoid the realization that death is not that far away for them. Once at the resort, Leon tries to overcome this nagging fear by taking a wild plunge in the ocean, naked, as he and Zaharoula are out walking on the beach. Taken up in the spirit of the moment, she joins him among the waves. The results, however, are not what they expected.

Honeymoon

1979

Loafing and Camouflage poster
7.6

A group of Greek soldiers are assigned to run the Cinematographic Unit of the army in the midst of political unrest.

Loafing and Camouflage

1984

Mania poster
5.0

It is on Ascension Day that Zoe, a brilliant computer analyst, visits the National Park in the center of Athens with her daughter, Katerina. That afternoon in the park, Zoe experiences an overwhelming array of instinctive compulsions and transforms into an ancient Maenad in ecstatic frenzy, even capable of murder. Instincts and animals get loose and panic takes over.

Mania

1985

Seven Years of Marriage poster
5.1

Having been married for seven years, a tourist office director and his well-known television presenter wife, Alekos and Efi Fotiou go through a crucial phase. Dedicated to their careers, they rarely meet, and when thy actually achieve it they always end up quarreling. The only family they have, their uncles, suggest they have a baby. She finds it a good idea, but Alekos thinks that they won't be able to raise a baby properly. This dispute brings them one step closer to divorce, which now seems the only solution, especially when Efi starts to believe that Alekos is flirting with Tzouli, and Alekos suspects that his wife is having an affair with Dimitris. When it is finally proved that none of this is true, and, actually, Tzouli is planning to marry Dimitris and Efi's aunt Dimitris' uncle, they all get reasonable, the couple gets over its crisis and they live happily ever after, together with their newborn child.

Seven Years of Marriage

1972

My Daughter, the Socialist poster
6.2

Liza falls in love with one of her father's employees. Her socialistic ideas about employment drive her to collide with her father and the sociopolitical status of the time.

My Daughter, the Socialist

1966

Lolitas of Athens poster
5.0

What lies hidden in a nymphet’s soul? Lust for sex? Self-preservation? Childhood trauma? Father quest? Who can really see? A Police Officer who wants to bring Rosie back onto the right track does - but Rosie is too busy flirting with middle-aged men, destroying virtuous families and scheming her way up the social ladder, while also wallowing in seedy night clubs of the ’60ies wrestling Frida, the naked dancer hiding a rod, for Jim’s eyes only. Jim is not 100% sure which one of the two blondes he wants to kill so he might just make a serious mistake and kill Rosie. But is it really easy for a nymphet to be killed?

Lolitas of Athens

1965

Exotic Vitamins poster
4.5

A middle-aged womaniser takes in his distant cousin, who has fled from an arranged marriage, and she decides to use a potent love potion to seduce the unattainable object of her desire. Can a dash of exotic vitamins help her succeed?

Exotic Vitamins

1964

The Man Who Broke the Ice poster
6.4

Lambros Konstantaras performs a wealthy gossip that has never worked, and all he has to do is make fun and jokes to others. But when he suddenly finds himself in the street, he realizes that life is not just fun and is forced to look for a job. In the end, it turns out he had not lost his fortune as it was an idea his father had invented shortly before he died to be

The Man Who Broke the Ice

1972

The Underdog poster
6.1

A young woman asks from a ship magnate to help her immigrate to Australia but he falls in love with her.

The Underdog

1960

The Brightest Star poster
5.4

A girl from the slums of Athens becomes a famous singer while falling in love with her songwriter.

The Brightest Star

1967

Cleopatra was Antonis poster
4.7

An unemployed man poses as a housekeeper to stay afloat; but, his fiancée starts to suspect something, the gardener wants more of "her", and his employer's scheming cousins want everything for themselves. Can he get out of the tight spot?

Cleopatra was Antonis

1966

Froutopia poster
NR

Children's series with dolls which is the television adaptation of the comic of the same name (1983) by the writer Evgenios Trivizas and the cartoonist Nikos Maroulakis. The series is about the adventures of journalist Pikos Apikos, who travels to the distant land of Fruitopia to investigate the mysterious disappearance of Manolis of Manavis. The comic was also transferred to television in 1985, by the Sofianou family, visualized with puppets and achieving great success. The series began airing on November 8,1985, on the ERT channel and now also plays on ERTFLIX. Despite the fact that the finale of Fruitopia never aired, due to cutbacks in the programming zone in which the series aired, with a total of 48 episodes, were aired several times in the following years.

Froutopia

1985

Milo-Milo poster
4.2

Set in the greek island Milos, this action comedy follows a group of people searching for the actual Venus de Milo

Milo-Milo

1979

The Island of Love poster
10.0

A crook meets a young man, in prison. Assisted by his girlfriend he tries to sell the tiny rock-island, which the young man inherited, to a wealthy American. But the young man falls in love with the American's daughter and...

The Island of Love

1960

Underwater Papanikolis poster
7.6

October 28, 1940. Along with the Italian army's attack on the Greek-Albanian border, Greece comes under fire from the Italian air force. The submarine Papanikolis, commanded by Captain Milto Iatridis and First Officer Vasilis Aslanoglou, is ordered to patrol the Gulf of Patras. Following the army's victories, the war council decides that it is time for the navy to enter the war and orders the submarine Papanikolis to patrol the Strait of Otranto. There, the crew captures the crew of an Italian ship and their engineer reveals the minefields of the Adriatic. Thus, the Papanikolis begins its mission. After completing its mission, it returns to its base, where it is honored.

Underwater Papanikolis

1971

Modern Cinderella poster
6.2

Katerina, a poor girl, finds a job as a secretary and falls in love with her boss on a trip to Rome.

Modern Cinderella

1965

The Brightest Bouzouki poster
5.2

The Fanouris broccoli is a traveling salesman who happens to looks amazing with the famous actor George Kartali, which creates a lot of tangles.

The Brightest Bouzouki

1968

My Dimitri... My Dimitri poster
6.4

An almost irresistible attraction between the rich daughter of a factory owner and a successful popular singer will lead to marriage against her father's will. Is he the good and honest man everybody says? Will money corrupt him, too?

My Dimitri... My Dimitri

1967

Between Two Women poster
7.0

A young lady, Maria, is hired at Mrs Elsa's house to watch her mother-in-law. But she does not realize that her lady has thrown it into nights and gambling. She also understands from the narratives of the mother-in-law of Mrs Elsa and her mother, Demetris, who is the master and has with him on the voyage and his brother Manos, that the two brothers work for a sacred purpose: to raise money and to make money Jail their father. But when Dimitris returns with the intention of staying forever on the land, he finds that Elsa has squandered all their economies on paper. Bitter thought to divorce her but Mary, knowing that Elsa loves him, prevents such a development. Maria itself decides to live with her lawyer, Mr. Pantelis, who has long been in love with her.

Between Two Women

1967

An Uncompromising Man poster
5.6

A medical student (Pavlos Sidiropoulos) delays his studies to become a singer in this story of a man who follows his own convictions. He becomes a street singer and finds a young woman (Betty Livanou) he wishes to marry. After the two are wed, he returns to medical school to support his wife and family. He earns his medical degree and lands a job in a hospital. When he refuses to take part in the exploitation of the patients, he is fired. He opens his own practice but later quits when he is asked to participate in another fraudulent medical scam.

An Uncompromising Man

1979