Orestis Makris

Acting

Orestis Makris

Born 1898-09-30 · Chalkis, Euboea, Greece

Orestis Makris (Greek: Ορέστης Μακρής; 30 September 1898 – 29 January 1975) was a Greek actor and tenor. Makris graduated from the Athens Conservatoire and first entered the scene as a tenor in the troupe of Rosalia Nika in 1925. He later joined the Papaioannou troupe, before moving to more comedic roles. Makris excelled in the portrayal of folk characters, especially the stock role of the "drunkard". Makris also participated in about forty movies, mostly as an over-strict father. He is considered one of the most significant modern Greek actors. He was decorated with the Order of the Phoenix. He died on 29 January 1975 in Athens and is buried at the First Cemetery in a family grave. (Source: Wikipedia)

Acting credits

Mrs. Midwife poster
7.9

The rivalry between a professional doctor and a midwife in a small Greek village. A retired doctor decides to settle down with his family in his wife's village and opens a medical practice. However, he gradually comes into conflict with the village midwife and her unorthodox medical practices, namely eye-opening and amulets. The midwife's son, a medical student in Athens, comes to the village for vacation, falls in love with the doctor's daughter, who tries to reduce her influence over the villagers.

Mrs. Midwife

1961

One Drachma Jasmine poster
7.3

Alexis and Anna-Maria fall in love each other after a car accident. Alexis is rich and Anna-Maria is studying music. Her grandfather, a renowned conductor, now plays music in tavernas to win his bread. A boy who sells jasmine helps the couple stay together in the difficult moments.

One Drachma Jasmine

1960

Maiden's Cheek poster
7.0

Young teacher Floras arrives to teach a class at a girls’ high school in Athens. His students, daughters of rich Athenian families, are very spoilt making his and the other teachers work difficult. When he starts implementing discipline in his class, the girls use every means to get rid of him. But the most undisciplined, Lisa Papastavrou, falls in love with him.

Maiden's Cheek

1959

Καταδικασμένη και από το παιδί της poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Καταδικασμένη και από το παιδί της

1955

Stournara 288 poster
5.8

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

The Island of Silence poster
9.5

"700 meters far from humans, and million meters far from humanity…" The study of the life of the lepers of Spinalonga with a dedication and affection that brighten the neo-realistic and documentaristic framework and style of the film. Plot: We watch romantic and emotional adventures, ideological and sentimental conflicts featuring the patients, doctors and several locals. The doctor Stathis Chtenas (Giorgos Kampanellis) is disappointed at the situation on the island and confesses to the teacher (Orestis Markris) that he wants to leave soon. Their life changes with the arrival of a young volunteer doctor, Angela (Nina Sgouridou), whose dynamic presence transforms life on the island. Stathis and Angela become a couple and make everything to improve life at Spinalonga. However, on the occasion of young Sifis’s (Tzannis Kourkoulakos) “escape” from the island, Stathis’s attitude changes.

The Island of Silence

1958

The Papadopoulou Family poster
5.7

Young Alexis Vranas returns to Athens form studying abroad and starts working for a major company. There, he will meet and fall in love with a secretary, Varvara Papadopoulos.

The Papadopoulou Family

1960

Horse and Carriage poster
6.9

An old chauffeur, after removing his rambling son, decides to live with his orphaned girl while facing the advent of the car that displaces the carts.

Horse and Carriage

1957

Our Good Angel poster
6.1

After saving the beautiful but frivolous daughter of an austere businessman from an embarrassing situation, a silver-tongued gentleman becomes indispensable to both the firm and her family. Is he, indeed, their good angel?

Our Good Angel

1961

Aristides and his Girls poster
7.2

Aristides, a widowed professor, lives with his housekeeper Eudokia and his three daughters, whom he has raised with strict principles. But what happens when he discovers that his daughters are planning a party? He takes drastic measures and forbids them from leaving the house. He entrusts Faidon with the task of finding them husbands. The girls' friends, Giorgos and Dimitris, then dress up as young ladies and present themselves at the house as their classmates from the conservatory...

Aristides and his Girls

1964

The Auntie from Chicago poster
6.8

Charilaos (Orestis Makris), a retired officer with very strict and conservative principles, raises his four daughters with... military discipline, taking care of their culture, their appearance and their good behavior. Despite all his desire to marry them, he does not leave them anywhere alone, as a result of which no man approaches them. His wife, Efterpi (Eleni Zafiriou), as well as his friend and neighbor Xenophon (Pantelis Zervos), make remarkable efforts to convince him to change his tactics, but he insists on his very conservative behavior. But when the conversation reaches the well-to-do sister of Kalliopis (Georgia Vassiliadou) who has been living in Chicago, USA for years, everything turns upside down. She returns to Athens and undertakes to modernize the general's house, as well as help the four girls (and her nieces) to be rehabilitated.

The Auntie from Chicago

1957

The Counterfeit Coin poster
7.6

Four stories, humorous, romantic or dramatic, are linked by a counterfeit gold sovereign. It is made by the honest engraver in the first story, seduced by the charms of a young widow, and it subsequently passes into the hands of a beggar and a prostitute, a wealthy miser and a newly married couple where the husband is a poor artist.

The Counterfeit Coin

1955

With Pain and Tears poster
7.0

Alekos serves as captain of LOC in the area of Trikala. He loves Maria, which she keeps her relationship hidden from hers. When her father discovers it, he sends her to a monastery. Alekos is looking for her but can not find her. He leaves for the war, where after an injury he will lose his memory ...

With Pain and Tears

1965

The Abduction of Persephone poster
6.0

Two villages are in conflict over the waters of a region, but the love between two young people will restore order.

The Abduction of Persephone

1956

O Thymios takane thalassa poster
6.5

The Thimios leaves the village, the Vlachokerasia along with wife and children to come to the capital for a job. In the train station saves from suicide Liza, Brigadier daughter. In begging, however, occur to her father as Dr. Beliris, fiance Lisa. He will accept and confusion just getting started.

O Thymios takane thalassa

1959

The despised poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

The despised

1965

The Girl of the Neighbourhood poster
4.6

Spyros, an honest young man from a poor neighborhood, owns a small coffee shop. His only friends are the shoe shiner Tsichlas and the drunkard Barba-Stamos. One day, he decides that the time has come to ask for Pitsa's hand in marriage. The poor neighborhood and its people pressure Pitsa, who can't take it anymore and runs away from home during the engagement. She runs into Didi, a playboy who, in an effort to pay off his debts, supplies beautiful girls to a rich old man.

The Girl of the Neighbourhood

1954

A girl different from the others poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

A girl different from the others

1968

Snow White and the 7 Old Boys poster
7.4

Alexia is a young woman who comes from the countryside and is in love with a rich man, Paris, who is studying abroad. Her stepmother treats her cruelly and forces her to escape from home. Alexia finds herself in an isolated area by chance, where she is discovered by seven brothers who live together in a nearby house. The seven bachelors put her up and treat her like a member of their own family.

Snow White and the 7 Old Boys

1960

The steps of life poster
4.0

At the top of his class, a diligent architecture student, and son of a poor bouzouki player dreams of a life different from the one his father has already planned for him. But, can a man renounce his origins to follow his passion?

The steps of life

1962

At Night the Entanglements poster
6.3

The funny things that happen through the walking by the neighborhood night shift of a kind policeman.

At Night the Entanglements

1957

The Wizard of Athens poster
4.8

A musician-magician of noble heritage wins the hearts of women. When his darling leaves him for a rich man, he does everything in his power to win her back.

The Wizard of Athens

1931

Thieves out! poster
6.3

When the general manager who possesses 70% of the shares of a steelworks learns that he is sick and has to go abroad to be cured, he hands his shares to Timoleon Adamantas (Orestis Makris), his brother, a teacher, with whom he hasn’t spoken for almost 30 years. Timoleon, being an honest and goodhearted man, aided by his brother’s secretary, Margarita (Martha Karagianni), with whom his son Andreas is in love, finds out a number of great administrative irregularities. Immediately, he throws out his brother’s number one assistant, Kleftodimos (Dionysis Papagiannopoulos) and Margarita as well and puts everything in order.

Thieves out!

1961

The Drunkard poster
6.2

After losing his son in WW2, a poor cobbler has become a drunkard and laughing stock of the whole neighborhood, besetting his daughter. When his daughter falls in love with a rich young man, he tries in vain to hide his passion from the young man's family...

The Drunkard

1950