Dinos Iliopoulos

Acting

Dinos Iliopoulos

Born — Died

1913-06-12 — 2001-06-04

Place of birth

Alexandria, Egypt

Known for

Acting

Credits

69 titles

Dinos Iliopoulos (Greek: Ντίνος Ηλιόπουλος, 12 June 1913 – 4 June 2001) was a Greek actor. He was one of the most prevalent film/theater actors in Greece. He was born in Alexandria, Egypt in 1913. A few years later his family moved to Marseille and there he finished high school. He permanently relocated to Greece in 1935 at the age of 22 started studying at the Berkshire High Commercial School in Athens and also studied acting at the Drama School of Giannoulis Sarantidis. In 1944, he made his stage debut at the Katerina Andreadi Theatre with the play of Leo Lenz's Lady I Love You, and in cinema he debuted in 1948 in the film 100,000 Pounds. In 1963, he became theatrical entrepreneur founded…

Known for

Film credits

1980s · 18 titles

The Beekeeper poster
7.0

Following the wedding of his daughter, stone-faced beekeeper Spyros makes an annual journey from the north of Greece to the south, traveling along with his hives. En route, he meets an erratic, young female drifter, with whom he strikes up an unusual, self-destructive relationship.

The Beekeeper

1986

Κλέψαν τα δις την κάλπη να δεις poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Κλέψαν τα δις την κάλπη να δεις

1989

Nelly, the Spy poster
5.0

Against the backdrop of the Nazis' rapid rise to power, a Greek music student arrives in 1936 Berlin and becomes a cabaret singer. In Europe, WWII rages on, and joining the Resistance is the only way to fight back. Will Nelly do her part?

Nelly, the Spy

1981

The Bricks poster
5.8

Two streetwise childhood friends and powerful financial tycoons who never quite managed to graduate from high school will go back to class, only to fall for the same girl. But, are they willing to let the woman do the choosing?

The Bricks

1985

Τα πήρες όλα... κι'...έμεινες poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Τα πήρες όλα... κι'...έμεινες

1987

Για μια χούφτα εκατομμύρια poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Για μια χούφτα εκατομμύρια

1987

Koritsia gia tsibima poster
7.0

The students of the 3rd grade of a Lyceum, for a week now, have a vacancy in Greek because their philologist is ill. During these hours they spend the pool with Sotiris, who is very hot with Teresa. One day at the pool, Teresa meets Nikos and their acquaintance evolves into a strong feeling ...

Koritsia gia tsibima

1985

A Bachelor's Pad For Ten poster
6.2

To make some easy money, Stamatis rents Chroni's house to his womanizer boss Soultanoglou but also to his other boss's wife, Dora, who decided to cheat on her husband ... So, Chroni's house turns into a double love nest for cheating couples, without him having any clue.

A Bachelor's Pad For Ten

1981

The Hemline poster
4.6

At a luxurious hotel various women spend their summer holidays trying, each one in her own way, to find the love of their life or solve the problems of a love affair. Through various misunderstandings and amusing incidents, the women find what they are looking for, with the help of luck and their female instinct.

The Hemline

1980

Here And Now Cucumbers!!! How Much Did You Eat Today? poster
5.0

To have a clear picture of the Greek public opinion after the recent victory of the current government, the editor-in-chief of a famous newspaper organisation enlists the help of two of his best reporters. What will the survey show?

Here And Now Cucumbers!!! How Much Did You Eat Today?

1982

Pontios eimai, oti thelo kano poster
4.8

After four years in the Mediterranean as deck ratings of a luxurious cruiser, two Pontian Greeks return to their hometown of Athens to settle down with a well-off woman from the big city. But, is the perfect match closer than they think?

Pontios eimai, oti thelo kano

1986

Rock Star During the Day... At Night Maid poster
6.0

Babis, who is crazy about rock music, gives a performance with his band "Jelings Band" to his fellow villagers. However, they don't like disco and beat him up. Disappointed, he heads to Athens to become a star. He meets Eva, the daughter of a big hotel owner. Eva starts to like him, unlike her friends who make fun of him. Bambis, penniless and level-headed, approaches the hotel manager and is hired as a chambermaid under the name Agrampeli. However, the ingenious detective Tsakmakis realizes what is going on...

Rock Star During the Day... At Night Maid

1984

Στον πυρετό της δόξας και της λόξας poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Στον πυρετό της δόξας και της λόξας

1986

A Papadia in Bouzouki No. 2 poster
NR

Returning from a trip, Father Akakios sees that his neighborhood has been filled with discos and soccer fields, projects of the mayor. Unable to accept this situation and in order to bring young people closer to the church, he begins a campaign to close these establishments. However, he faces opposition from the mayor and so tries various ways to sabotage the discos...

A Papadia in Bouzouki No. 2

1985

Clumsy Lover poster
4.7

No synopsis available yet.

Clumsy Lover

1984

Mia papadia sta bouzoukia! poster
7.2

Akakios, a local priest, embarks on a challenging mission to motivate youth. But his neglected wife Margarita starts frequenting the city's nightclubs, unaware that her niece is in love with the son of his most capable opponent, the mayor.

Mia papadia sta bouzoukia!

1983

The Knight of the Pond poster
4.9

A private investigator follows in the footsteps of his idol, Michael Knight, the star of Ο ιππότης της ασφάλτου (1982), and comes up with PSIT: the equivalent of KITT and Greece's first artificially intelligent, crime-fighting vehicle.

The Knight of the Pond

1985

Υπέρ επείγον poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Υπέρ επείγον

1989

1960s · 20 titles

Ladies of the Courtyard poster
7.8

The Pippi a genuine artist, painting with touches of everyday life of ordinary people, who live and share the joys and sorrows in the large and vibrant with life yard of a neighborhood of old Athens.

Ladies of the Courtyard

1966

The Bait poster
6.7

Α crook turns a cabaret girl into a fine lady to use her as bait for his victims.

The Bait

1964

Makrykostas and Kontogiorgis poster
7.2

Stelios Kondogiorgis (Dinos Iliopoulos) and Thomas Makrykostas (Costas Hajihristos) are two quiet men that come from the same Peloponnese village yet do not know each other. Their families however are involved in a bloody feud that started 80 years ago. Stelios and Thomas are the last male members from each family. After the last murders in the village where a member of each family died, Stelios' uncle (Pantelis Zervos) urges him to find and kill Thomas for revenge lest he finds him and kills him first. At the same time Thomas is visited by his aunt (Joly Garbi) who asks of him the same and provides him with weapons. Despite everything, neither Stelios nor Thomas are interested in murdering one another and they are both terrified from the idea that a stranger is looking for them in order to kill them. So, they decide to leave their respective jobs and hide at some remote hotel. Luck brings them together without them knowing of each other's identity as they share a room.

Makrykostas and Kontogiorgis

1960

My friend, Lefterakis poster
6.2

Theodoros in order to be able to go out with his occasional lovers, he "invented" a non-existent friend from Patras, Lefterakis, and use him as an alibi in wife Fofo. When one day arrives at home, quite suddenly, the non-existent friend Lefterakis Tsampardis, Theo will welcome him with surprise and terror.

My friend, Lefterakis

1963

The Wise Guy poster
6.9

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...

The Wise Guy

1962

To Be or Not To Be poster
6.6

After his business' bankrupcy, Giorgos Alexiou decides to commit suicide. Rosa, his cousin's wife who stand to benefit form his death, hires a private detective to keep an eye on him in case he changes his mind. Minas, Giorgos' employee, becomes Giorgos' guardian angel preventing the suicide at the last minute.

To Be or Not To Be

1966

Gerontokoros poster
6.4

Thanasis is against marriage, by conviction. But he changes his mind when hiring Mary as secretary.

Gerontokoros

1967

The Young Lady's Fool poster
6.1

Julia, the daughter of Telis, general manager of the steel company, is a rich girl who likes the good living. Grigoris, a poor employee in the company who is in love with Julia, after a series of misunderstandings will lose his job and be fired ...

The Young Lady's Fool

1960

Satrapis poster
5.3

Despite being widowed twice, a goldsmith sets sail for his third marriage, aiming to find an obedient bride who will not object to his wishes. However, the woman he meets is a karate instructor who does not take orders.

Satrapis

1968

Anakatosouras poster
4.2

Thomas Karatoulpanis (Dinos Iliopoulos) is a naive employee at a car show in the Thessaloniki International Trade Fair. Because of his modest personality he is constantly criticised by his mother-in-law, his uncle and his boss. The only one who supports him is his wife. But the appearance of a doppelganger who buys extravagant gifts in his name causes a ruckus. Thomas is an amateur singer and participates in the Thessaloniki Song Festival winning the first prize. This is when everyone realises that there are two people who look alike.

Anakatosouras

1967

Someone like It Cold... poster
6.7

Lakis (Dinos Iliopoulos) has to make sure that his three sisters are married before he can marry his beloved Lela (Martha Karagianni). While at the beach, Eva (Zoe Laskari) and Maria (Hloi Liaskou) will meet Kleopas (Costas Voutsas) and Giorgos (Vagelis Voulgaridis) with whom they will start dating. But Rena (Rena Vlahopoulou) has a secret relationship with Thodoros (Giannis Vogiatzis) for 10 years.

Someone like It Cold...

1963

The Big Fool poster
8.7

Businessman Telis Birkas (Periklis Hristoforidis) decides to marry his daughter Antzela (Sasa Kastoura) with a nice guy, his accountant Dinos (Dinos Iliopoulos). Antzela though does not want to hear a word about it. Telis, decides to train Dinos in order for him to win his daughter's heart. Training does not go so well and so the call in the big guns.

The Big Fool

1967

Stratis Has Strayed poster
7.0

Poor and unappreciated writer besieged by producer of cinema to give consent for turning a book into a movie.

Stratis Has Strayed

1969

Three Ladies and me poster
6.2

As the lithe accountant of an haute couture house on the brink of bankruptcy takes three beautiful mannequins to promote their work, a chance encounter with a rich businessman will soon pave the way for a delightful romance under the sun.

Three Ladies and me

1960

The World Has Gone Mad... poster
4.2

The beautiful Katy, employee Patroklos fashion firm is engaged to lawyer Lycurgus Karanikolarea, but he flirts shamelessly with other women, despite their faith and loyalty vows she has made. To get the blood back and give him a firm lesson begins flirting with five men at the same time: the partner of Lycurgus, Dionysis, his Patroclus accountant Pythagoras, a giegie left over from her own apartment, Reno called dynamite, the cantor cousin of Patroclus, James, and the director of a school wrestlers, Hercules Karamasista.

The World Has Gone Mad...

1967

The Heirs poster
6.9

Four very different people inherit a percentage of a fashion house but in order to make it work they have to get along with each other.

The Heirs

1964

The Miss Of The Mister poster
5.4

Minas, a conscientious and honest employee, is responsible for procurement at the company where he works. His wife, Eva, is a faithful and obedient spouse who embraces her husband's principles, but she enjoys luxury, furs, and jewelry. One day, her husband's boss approaches her and suggests that she recommend one of his suppliers to Minas, without any compensation. Thus begins a story in which, behind her husband's back, Eva earns money, which she justifies as an inheritance from an uncle. However, when Minas discovers her trick, every trickster sits on his bench.

The Miss Of The Mister

1962

The Robber Cries Thief! poster
7.4

An extremelly honest man, Timoleon Lambrou (Dinos Iliopoulos), who has lost his job many times due to his honesty finds a wallet full of cash and a letter from the USA that belongs to a military General who is the president o a large public organisation and decides to return it. The General's wife though, Lia (Rena Vlahopoulou), covers for her brother (Andreas Douzos) who has embezzled from her husband's organisation and the letter proves the lies and embezzlements. Finally, Lia gets hold of the letter despite the honest man's objections but the General, decides to hire him due to his honesty. There, he discovers the embezzlements and when he tells everything to the General, his wife and her brother try to prove that he is crazy, a crook, a communist and anti-systemic, things that usually make the General furious. The honest man is imprisoned but in the end Lia decides to come forth with the truth.

The Robber Cries Thief!

1965

Liar Wanted poster
7.3

A sharp altercation will pave the way for a brilliant career when a shameless liar meets his future employer: a resourceful parliamentarian. But, what happens when he tells one lie too many? Is his flair for fiction always beneficial?

Liar Wanted

1961

The Best Student poster
5.7

A businessman who balances between legality and illegality can't persuade his rightful employee to overlook his financial discrepancies. To succeed, he enlists the help of a beautiful woman; however, what happens if she, too, fails?

The Best Student

1968

1950s · 14 titles

The Ogre of Athens poster
7.1

On New Year’s Eve, a timid bank clerk is mistaken for a notorious criminal mastermind who rules the streets of Athens. Embracing his mistaken identity comes with a price though, as his unwitting white lie begins to unravel.

The Ogre of Athens

1956

Stournara 288 poster
6.0

Through the narration of a tenant of a block of flats on 288 Stournara street, we watch the everyday stories of people living in the city, their problems, their comic situations and their love affairs.

Stournara 288

1959

Father-in-Law With a Heart of Gold poster
4.7

A few hours after the arrival of Aristeidis (Dinos Iliopoulos), Mary's (Kakia Analyti) soon to be fiance, her father Andreas (Vasilis Diamantopoulos), an upstanding citizen, lies about having a meeting with the Bishop and instead goes to meet his neighbor Betty (Anna Kyriakou). Aristeidis, on his way to Mary's house as a series of misfortunes and ends up in a fight with Andreas (whom he does not know) while he is with Betty at a studio apartment.

Father-in-Law With a Heart of Gold

1959

The Happy Beginning poster
7.0

Three young musicians and three female singers strive for success, competing each other. But love gets in their way.

The Happy Beginning

1954

Four Brides and a Groom poster
7.4

father of four girls of marriageable age brings home a prospective suitor. One daughter agrees to see him but the rest are trying to persuade the. The three friends of the groom are also trying to prevent the ap`to marriage, but eventually fall in love with the three girls and get married.

Four Brides and a Groom

1958

Eva poster
4.8

Young Antinoos is on vacation on an island where he meets a seductive woman, Eva, who is having a miserable time with her middle-aged husband, Alekos. Eva is attracted to Antinoos, who is her missing part, but at the same time, she feels guilty and tries to suppress her passion.

Eva

1953

Grousouzis poster
7.1

Agatocles, a grumpy and gruesome caffector, finds out a baby's out of his cafe and, to the surprise of everyone, decides to adopt it.

Grousouzis

1952

The 4 Stairs poster
8.0

Surrounded by wealth, an impecunious young lady leaves home and the suave man of her dreams to spread her wings in Athens. But, he refuses to give up on her. Will she ever know that love awaits at the villa with the four marble stairs?

The 4 Stairs

1951

Amaryllis poster
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

Amaryllis

1959

Party, Money and Love poster
5.8

Angelos, a law student in Athens, is expecting Lavrentis, his rich uncle from the village, hoping that with his money, his luck will change. His uncle though is very sick and the doctors suggest rest and calmness. Youyou, Angelos' girlfriend though suggests otherwise in order to push the rich uncle closer to his death. And so, Angelos, with two friends from his village, Damian and Sarantis start partying with Lavrentis whose health starts getting better and better. In the meantime Angelos meets Myrto, falls madly in love with her and decide to finish his studies and marry her.

Party, Money and Love

1955

Marriage Adventures poster
6.8

Helena (Xenia Kalogeropoulou) returns to Greece after studying in Paris and on the ship home she meets Dinos (Dinos Iliopoulos). An attraction develops between them and after a while Dinos asks for her hand in marriage. Helena though cannot accept his proposal because she is pregnant.

Marriage Adventures

1959

Engagement poster
6.5

A young couple's romance comes to a tragic end. It is the first Greek film made by a female director.

Engagement

1950

The Tower of Knights poster
6.2

A down-to-earth grocer yields to pressure and decides to follow his wife's advice to put to good use his deceased Jewish associate's gold sovereigns, even though he cherishes his simple lifestyle. In the end, can money bring happiness?

The Tower of Knights

1952

Thanasakis, the Politician poster
6.8

The young daughter (Anna Synodinou) of a well-off family comes back from Switzerland after completing her studies, married to a young scientist, Thanasakis (Byron Pallis), who comes back to Greece determined to serve his country as a politician. With the financial support of his brother-in-law (Dinos Iliopoulos) he enters the election with no results. Soon though, another election is announced and he decides to run for a second time, again asking support from his brother-in-law who insists that a new campaign would be financial suicide for the family.

Thanasakis, the Politician

1954

1940s · 2 titles

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