Angelos Antonopoulos

Acting

Angelos Antonopoulos

Born 1932-01-16 · Piraeus, Greece

Angelos Antonopoulos (16 January 1932 - 30 May 2026) was a Greek actor. Originally from Gortynia, he was born in Piraeus and grew up in Tambouria and Ancient Olympia. This place influenced his thinking and his life. He studied at the Drama School of the Karolos Koun Theater. As an actor, he served all types of theater. He began his wonderful journey, playing in performances by great Greek and foreign writers under the guidance of Karolos Koun. An era rich in successes and experiences. After Koun, his journey in theater continued in collaboration with Dimitris Myrat at the Mousouri Theater. Since 1962 and for ten years he has been playing in large troupes. He collaborated with all the leading men and women of Greek theater, in all theatrical genres: "Julius Caesar" (by Shakespeare), "The Rise of Arthur Huy" (by Brecht), "The Loves of the Four Colonels" (by Ustinov), "The Seagull" (by Chekhov), "Tovarich" (by Jacques De Waal), etc. In cinema, he made an impressive start with Takis Kanellopoulos' Excursion and Parenthesis. Subsequently, he collaborated with Vasilis Georgiadis, Dinos Dimopoulos, Yannis Dalianidis, Erricos Andreou, Giorgos Tzavellas and of course Filopoimenas Fino. In total, he has acted in over 30 films. Television owes him a lot, since he played in various series. In 1971, director Kostas Koutsomytis suggested that he star in the television series The Unknown War (directed by Nikos Foskolos), where he experienced unprecedented recognition and became a "star" overnight. Other series include The Pantheons (directed by Tasos Athanasiadis), The Light of the Dawn, Madame Sousou, and The Wedding Dress Rehearsal. His last television appearance was in Children of Niobe in 2004. He was a teacher at a Drama School for many years, a job he loved because he was fascinated by working with young children. He had published two novels: The Passengers of the Moon and Don't Speak Father, You Are Dead, as well as a poetry collection entitled Unguarded Passage. (Source: Wikipedia)

Acting credits

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

Panic poster
6.5

Returning from a business trip to Rhodes, Markos finds out that his sick son has been kidnapped. He agrees to pay the ransom that the kidnappers demand but the police officer Makridis sees that the money used is marked so they can track them down.

Panic

1969

Frenzy poster
9.5

A woman murders her disabled husband and informs his brother (with whom she is having an affair), but she realizes she has misdialed and accidentally confessed her crime to a stranger. The caller attempts to blackmail her, but when he tries to rape her she kills him in the struggle. Worse still, her doctor and lover inform her to say nothing because her husband has been dead for eight months and everything that has happened she has imagined.

Frenzy

1971

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

A Woman in the Resistance poster
6.0

1940. Anna stay alone, her husband her brother her father leave for the war with the Italians. The attack of the Germans will give a hard blow to her family. She will continue to fight, approaching the German commander of the area.

A Woman in the Resistance

1970

The 7th Day of Creation poster
6.7

A newlywed man who has just completed his national service, Alekos Stathakis, is trying to get over his class' misery, but doesn't have the necessary "equipment". He conceives an ambitious plan and submits it to a great concrete factory. He seems to believe that success is just around the corner and shares his illusion with his wife and his father. When his plan is rejected by the company, he keeps it to himself, making things even worse. He keeps leaving home to seemingly go to work and wanders to no purpose in Athens. He watches the world around him without really seeing anything, until a fatal accident ends his tragedy

The 7th Day of Creation

1966

Η ώρα της αλήθειας poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Η ώρα της αλήθειας

1969

The Jet Set poster
6.1

Erotica set in Greece's upper class of the 1970s. Elena Chrysou, a rich, beautiful, and idle woman, seeks to meet Thanos Vergis, a wealthy businessman. He mistakes her for a paid model, and she becomes involved in a murder...

The Jet Set

1972

Papaflessas poster
6.9

The life and work of the hero of 1821 Papaflessas that during the liberation struggle of the Greeks against the Turks, revolutionizing the elders and the world to declare war!!! Up to the heroic battle Maniaki.... A movie that shows the heroism and sacrifice of the Greeks for their homeland and their freedom

Papaflessas

1971

Excursion poster
7.5

1941 and the war culminates. The wife of a lieutenant and a sergeant fall madly in love. Times and circumstances -military service, marriage, friendship between the two men- forbid this love, but do not negate it. When the lieutenant is injured and taken to hospital, the two lovers, against all odds, dare the only possible way out: he defects, she leaves her husband, and they begin a journey without return towards the border.

Excursion

1966

A German in Kalavryta poster
5.5

No synopsis available yet.

A German in Kalavryta

1970

Miss Manager poster
7.5

The strict and formal director Lila Vassiliou has under her orders all the staff of the technical office of which she takes over the management, but at the same time, she is looking to find ways of charm to conquer the lively sub-engineer Alekos Samiotakis.

Miss Manager

1964

Δύσκολοι δρόμοι poster
10.0

In mid-1960s Perama, a popular singer plans to marry a sweet woman, not because he loves her, but because he hates her boyfriend who truly loves her.

Δύσκολοι δρόμοι

1965

Bullets Don't Come Back poster
6.1

From a tragic misunderstanding, the farmer Stathis Karatasos (Angelos Antonopoulos) is accused as the leader of a notorious gang. He manages to escape just before getting executed and the law enforcement starts chasing him. Even the bandits are looking to find him, believing that he has the loot of the robbery in his possession. In addition, another prisoner called Tsakos (Kostas Kazakos) tries to locate him and bring him back dead or alive, in order to ensure the freedom promised to him by the police.

Bullets Don't Come Back

1967

Η ανταρσία των 10 poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Η ανταρσία των 10

1970

The Flight of the Swan poster
7.6

Alexis is an explosive personality, passionate about life, humanity, nature, love and beauty. That is until the breakneck rhythm, intensity, stress and convolutions of career and economic success shatter him, alienating him from everyone and everything he loves: even his children and his soul mate Maria. Alexis is jolted back to reality when the unbridled greed of the multinational conglomerate his company is involved in causes an unprecedented ecological catastrophe costing many human lives. The multinational's Golden Boy suddenly realizes that he is nothing more than a cog in the machine he had fought so passionately against in his youth. He is determined to rediscover himself, to reclaim his soul, to rebuild the dream with Maria - but he is completely trapped. He is caught in a web of intrigue that tightens like a vice driving him to an inevitably lethal conflict with the conglomerate.

The Flight of the Swan

2011

Interlude poster
6.0

​Two strangers, a man and a woman, meet during a brief interlude in their journeys, discovering a connection that exists only within the hours of a train delay.

Interlude

1968

A Matter of Fatal Importance poster
6.0

The Antonis Maras, a successful professional, and his wife Olga live a peaceful and happy life until the Antonis discovers the double life of his wife. Instructs s` an employee to monitor and eventually will discover that the husband goes secretly to a remote house. The secret of Olga, however, is that extorted by a coil holding her brother hostage. The brother of escapes and suicides and members of Spiral abduct Olga.

A Matter of Fatal Importance

1973

Thief or Reality poster
6.1

An experimental-allegorical film. Three different people: a sculptress of funereal monuments, an actor preparing for Sophocles’ Antigone, and a mother who has lost her child, experience three different versions of reality - with a fourth character, a thief, providing the connecting link.

Thief or Reality

2001

Θύελλα Στο Σπίτι Των Ανέμων poster
8.3

Lawyer Orestis Lambiris and his family are spending the summer at their cottage by the sea.

Θύελλα Στο Σπίτι Των Ανέμων

1968

The happy face of Leonora poster
3.0

It is an eventful evening in Anna's luxurious villa, attended by a group of nouveau riche from the northern suburbs of Athens during the years of the dictatorship. The guests are Thanos and his wife Alex, Emmy, George, and Dolly's pregnant friend, while later on, Alexander, Alex's brother, arrives, bringing a pornographic film with him. As the social gathering reaches its peak, the titillating viewing of the porn is interrupted by a crisis involving Dolly, which requires the urgent call of their old friend, Dr. Matzavelakis.

The happy face of Leonora

1982

Zero Hour Society poster
6.1

A formerly heroic air force pilot, now an alcoholic loser with a failed marriage, is appointed by his older brother in the Ministry of Commerce to investigate a tragic plane crash that killed 28 people. As he goes through the motions in an alcoholic daze, he gradually comes to realize that the wreck was due to criminal negligence and failure to follow mandatory safety regulations.

Zero Hour Society

1966

Blood on the Land poster
7.1

Two rival brothers vie for the same woman against the backdrop of peasant revolts in their Greek homeland. In Thessaly in 1907, a man incites the poor farmers to take over the land they work for the benefit of the landowners. Odysseus (Nikos Kourkoulos), the son of one such landowner (Manos Katrakis), refuses to clash with the farmers.

Blood on the Land

1966

No artwork available
6.0

In 1940, on the eve of the Greek-Italian war, in life of Colonel Diagoras Vartanis, his sister Christina and her husband Captain Hector Psachos appears a second Hector Psachos, which insists that this is true of the two. Christina is still in a dilemma while Vartanis lead the committee to interrogate and investigate which of the two men who claim to be the captain Psachos, is real and what is a spy.

Unknown War 2: The Man with Two Faces

1987