Kostas Tsakonas

Acting

Kostas Tsakonas

Born — Died

1943-10-12 — 2015-11-04

Place of birth

Athens, Greece

Known for

Acting

Credits

69 titles

Kostas Tsakonas graduated from Diplarion School with a degree in Electrical Engineering and studied at the "Drama School of the People's Experimental Theater" of Leonidas Trivizas and the "Veaki" drama school. His first appearance in cinema was completely by chance in a short film by Kostas Zyrinis. He then played many leading roles in cinema, theater and television. His role in the film "Teach My Child Letters" was a characteristic one. The actor was seriously injured in 2004 when a tree fell on his head and in combination with various health problems that plagued him, he was no longer able to work in the theater. His health problems and difficult financial situation led him to consider g…

Known for

Film credits

2010s · 4 titles

2000s · 9 titles

1990s · 3 titles

1980s · 40 titles

Thanasi tightened your belt even more poster
6.7

Thanasis an honest tax official in the tax office. He can not cope and has trouble providing the family of the necessities. So the wife is forced to go to work in a factory as a result not seen at all. !!!

Thanasi tightened your belt even more

1980

Πρόβα...γάμου poster
1.0

They grew up in the same neighborhood but the problems of that time had the consequence that when they were ten years old they separated and since then they have not met again. The years passed, the two children grew up and went their own way. He opened a funeral home, but feels very lonely because he has not been able to start a family of his own. She is a talented singer, who never forgot her childhood friend, who lost him so suddenly. But fate once again plays its own strange game and thus an inheritance brings them together again, after twenty whole years of separation. But in order to inherit a huge sum, they have to get married first, otherwise they lose her. So of course they get married, but as a wedding rehearsal, nothing more. But during their married life, unforeseen problems will begin to arise...

Πρόβα...γάμου

1986

Ο Παπαμαφίας poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Ο Παπαμαφίας

1986

Ο πιλότος της κολάσεως poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Ο πιλότος της κολάσεως

1985

Educate Yourself My Son poster
7.6

The most important political, post-military junta satire about the nation, the religion, the education, the family.

Educate Yourself My Son

1981

I gynaikara ap' to Kilkis poster
5.2

Fed up with her unbearable and good-for-nothing husband, a proud Pontian-Greek woman from Kilkis decides to try her luck in the bustling city of Athens in search of a better future. But, can she make it big all alone?

I gynaikara ap' to Kilkis

1985

Βίβα γλυκειά μου Κατερίνα poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Βίβα γλυκειά μου Κατερίνα

1989

Olga Robards poster
6.0

In this highly stylized and enigmatic story, Olga uses her cello case as a weapons cache. When she isn’t using her sharpshooting skills to knock off eminent Arab visitors to Athens, she vamps around lightly clad on the terrace of her penthouse, entertaining one man after another.

Olga Robards

1989

No artwork available
5.0

No synopsis available yet.

Χωρίς μαλλί και γνώση

1985

Ti ehoun na doun ta matia mou poster
8.0

Three friends reunite in Athens after struggling abroad. They think of a business idea but quickly realise that not everything goes as planned. When they reach out to a lawyer friend for help, they find that we are all on our own.

Ti ehoun na doun ta matia mou

1984

Ο Ψευδομάρτυρας poster
10.0

Pantelis Hatzikoutoules is a professional court witness who testifies after he is been paid.

Ο Ψευδομάρτυρας

1987

Ο κυνηγός της χαμένης φαλάκρας poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Ο κυνηγός της χαμένης φαλάκρας

1985

Μας τάπαν κι άλλοι που την είχαν πιο μεγάλη poster
5.0

No synopsis available yet.

Μας τάπαν κι άλλοι που την είχαν πιο μεγάλη

1987

National Priests poster
4.7

Papa-Malachias, Papa-Haros and Papa-Bilias have founded the Priestly Band and make appearances at the nightclub "Xerokomata". Their abbot, who is learning their new occupation, comes to Athens, but fails to make sense of them. When he returns to the monastery of Medouli and tells everything to the other monks, they leave the monastery and form their own rebetika bands, causing a crisis in the field of folk song. At the same time, Papa-Lazaros, who is looking for a solution to his financial problems and at the same time is trying to find money to build a new wing for his parish's orphanage, is resorting to the following solution: setting up a football team with priests.

National Priests

1984

Μάθε Παιδί Μου Μπάσκετ poster
6.5

Polykarpos,a poor family man, has a son whose only interest is in baskeball.

Μάθε Παιδί Μου Μπάσκετ

1987

And once again, toward glory he strives poster
NR

A television reporter's investigation into the life of a popular idol, singer Demis Flerianos, becomes an opportunity to highlight and document a series of political and social situations and issues in the early 1980s. Easy wealth, rural depopulation, cultural degeneration, bad taste, the preservation of sterile anti-communism, etc.

And once again, toward glory he strives

1980

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

Καθαρίζω για τη γυναίκα μου poster
2.0

No synopsis available yet.

Καθαρίζω για τη γυναίκα μου

1987

The Pontians poster
6.4

Giorikas and Kostikas, Pontian immigrants, return to Greece from Germany. Their goal is to understand why jokes are told about Pontians and who spreads them. They learn that some Pontians are responsible. Kostikas stops the circulation of the jokes until he realizes how sad life is without them, so he allows them to be circulated again.

The Pontians

1986

Erastis apo hartoni poster
NR

When Alexis meets Elena, he agrees to play a game with her. He has to pretend to be her lover so that Elena can get rid of Tony. But Alexis, who is in love with her, takes his role seriously and things start to get complicated.

Erastis apo hartoni

1989

Classic Failure Case poster
7.2

Meet Mastro-Yannis, who, together with his assistant Vlasis, is capable of turning your household upside down. The biggest mess-makers in town, they get involved in unbelievable situations, blunders, and romantic adventures every day, while defending their business against Meremet Service, a multinational company that wants to shut them down. In this film, Kostas Tsakonas was injured when he fell from a folding ladder while trying to climb up to the attic to fix a water heater, and filming was halted for ten days.

Classic Failure Case

1987

Cuckold and Beaten poster
4.0

To be horned something goes and comes, but to be daring is still ridiculous. This was also the thought of July, and in order to save the wood, as the horn is impossible, he decides to find his wife's lover himself.

Cuckold and Beaten

1986

Πόντιος Είμαι... Αλλά Κάνω Θεραπεία poster
10.0

Kostas Tsakonas is Thomas Rezilikis, a professional unemployed pontiac with a strange habit.

Πόντιος Είμαι... Αλλά Κάνω Θεραπεία

1987

Thilyko thiriotrofeio poster
4.8

In a girls' school, the students compete with each other in scandalous behavior. Sassy and experienced, they decide to seduce one of their serious teachers, the young gym teacher Dimitris, who performs his duties as an educator with great conscientiousness but refuses to see them as women.

Thilyko thiriotrofeio

1984

Kane mou ligaki... ma poster
NR

Uncle Julius arrives from abroad and Soula runs around in a panic. The reason is that her uncle does not know that his niece is single, so she has to introduce him to a groom to prevent him from finding out the truth. The groom is eventually found completely by chance, and the game begins...

Kane mou ligaki... ma

1987

The big blockage poster
7.0

The 2 protagonists, Trifon and his assistant, Vassilakis work as plumbers, try to survive with dignity, but instead they destroy everything they undertake to repair, while demonstrating brazen behavior to their clients.

The big blockage

1988

Wheel, Bag and Truants 3 poster
3.6

Aris, Billias, and the rest of the students decide to return to school with the excuse of earning their high school diplomas without any favors this time.Aris and Billias put their plan into action and the fun returns to everyday life.Two new teachers appear on the scene. One is a chemistry teacher who, due to a mistake, transforms into a different animal every so often, and the other is a kindergarten teacher.

Wheel, Bag and Truants 3

1984

Ο φακίρης poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Ο φακίρης

1989

Professional Fan poster
8.0

When you are overwhelmed by obligations and have a large family, you do everything you can to make ends meet. You even become a professional fan. But what happens when you start mixing up the insignia?

Professional Fan

1985

Ο Iππότης της Λιγούρας poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Ο Iππότης της Λιγούρας

1986

Vengos the Crazy Kamikaze poster
6.1

A breadwinner, Thanasis Trampas, decides to open a shop renting motorbikes. When the local bikers begin to bother him, he turns into a kamikaze to deal with them.

Vengos the Crazy Kamikaze

1980

For a Handful of Bricks poster
5.4

A tailor tries to build his house on his unplanned plot of land and gets tangled up with banks, public services, and contractors, while his family also faces its own problems.

For a Handful of Bricks

1987

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

Lordan, o varvaros poster
6.5

Lordan is a primitive man who lives alone and believes he is the only human being on Earth. His life is simple and peaceful, without problems or stress, but Lordan is not happy. His only companions are animals, to whom he talks before eating them, in order to forget his loneliness. In his effort to find someone else of his kind, he decides to search far from his cave, which he has never left until now.

Lordan, o varvaros

1987

Act Of Faith poster
10.0

Angeliki, a young woman seeking devotion, enters a secluded convent ruled by a harsh abbess with a hidden past. Among nuns escaping their own lives, tensions rise and buried secrets slowly surface within the silence of the cloister.

Act Of Faith

1982

Alles ton protimoun gouli poster
8.0

Vangos and Alkis, poor musicians, in their anxiety to earn a living, unwittingly become entangled in the web of an illegal gang. To save their lives, they disguise themselves as women and are hired along with five girls in a female music band. But their troubles are not over. The comical misunderstandings that arise lead them to a dead end...

Alles ton protimoun gouli

1986

The Terminator Was Pontios poster
5.5

Kostas Tsakonas plays the role of an assassin from Chicago.

The Terminator Was Pontios

1986

Count Tsakona and His Draculettes poster
NR

In this offering, Kostas Tsakonas (a champion of the SOV comedy of the era) as a wimpy poor guy & petty thief who lives with his nephew, is chosen by the arch-Dracula to rule Greece, since he's a long lost relative of the vampire family, and since the current Prime Minister has sucked the Greeks dry (yes, there's some awful not-so-subtle dated attempts at political satire in there as well). What follows is Tsakona's transformation and consequent attempts to adjust to his new vampiric lifestyle, while a clumsy exorcist and some of his fellow villagers are after him.

Count Tsakona and His Draculettes

1989

Ερωτικό ταξίδι poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Ερωτικό ταξίδι

1989

Occupation: Woman poster
8.2

Marika is an ordinary Greek housewife living with her family in Athens. Her everyday is a living hell.

Occupation: Woman

1986

1970s · 4 titles

Series credits

Behind the camera