Acting
Thodoros Moridis
Born 1903-01-01 · Limassol, Republic of Cyprus
Thodoros Moridis (Greek: Θόδωρος Μορίδης, Limassol, 1905 – Athens, 22 December 2003) was a Greek Cypriot actor. Born in the city of Limassol in Cyprus, Thodoros Moridis made his debut in 1924 with the Emilios Veakis - Christopher Nezer troupe in the play For Her Love. With them, he also co-starred in Sophocles' Oedipus Tyrannus, among others. With the Cybele troupe, he played in Agnosto (1927) and the following year in Iphigenia en Tavroiis with Eleni Chalkousi, with whom he collaborated again in Bogris's The Engagement. He was a key figure in Vasilis Rotas' "People's Theatre" and in 1932 he collaborated for the first time with Marika Kotopouli - he later continued in her theatre which also housed the "Karolos Koun" Art Theatre, while in 1936 he began his collaboration with Mrs. Katerina, in whose troupe he remained until 1943, performing many important roles in major works of world drama (The Lady with the Camellias, The Merchant of Venice, Much Ado About Nothing, Enda Gambler, Pygmalion, The Lady of the Sea, Nora, etc.). In Katerina's troupe he met and loved Jolie Garbi and married her, with whom he was together for 60 years on stage and in life. This was followed by collaborations with the Manolidou - Veakis - Pappas troupe (1943-44) (The Shepherdess' Lover), with the "United Artists" (1945-46) (Julius Caesar, Enemies of Maxim Gorky, The Brothers Karamazov, Von Dimitrakis, etc.), with the "Thymelikos Troupe", with Mimis Fotopoulos, with Nikos Hadziskos, where he performed Polonius in Hamlet (1955), with the "Hellenic People's Theatre" of Manos Katrakis (Christ Recrucified, The Idiot, Queen Amalia), with Antigone Valakou, Mary Aroni (Manto Mavrogenous), with Elsa Vergi. From 1961 to 1983 he joined the National Theatre, performing dozens of important roles in ancient drama and in the world drama (Aias, Agamemnon, Trojans, Philoctetes, Medea, Rosmersholm, The King, The Demoniac, The Tempest, The Cherry Orchard, Mary Stuart, General Secretary, etc.). Immediately afterwards he participated in Master Solnes, Dimitris Horn's last performance. This was followed by The Strange Intermezzo with Alexandrakis - Galineus, Oedipus at Colonus with the "Empirical Troupe" of Minotis, collaborations with Danis Katranidis, Marietta Rialdi, George Messalas. In cinema he participated in many films from 1948 to the 1970s (Lost Angels, Red Rock, The Duchess of Placentia, Golfo, Heartbeats at the Desk, Zousa the Monk Without Love, Electra - a filmed performance from Epidaurus in 1961 directed by Takis Mouzenidis with Anna Synodinou, etc.), as well as in television (Police Stories, The Garden with Statues, etc.). He died on December 22, 2003, at the age of 98. He died at the Attiko Hospital where he was hospitalized and became known in the media on January 2, 2004. He was the husband of actress Tzolys Garbi. She was buried in Marathon, as had happened with Jolie Garbi.
Acting credits
7.3Something changes in the relationship of Achilleas and Anna when she starts to dream vividly and insists on relating her dreams to her husband. He is a barrister in the middle of an important murder trial and his temper becomes frayed with Anna's seeming indifference and involvement and preoccupation with her dream world.
The Woman Who Dreamed
1988
5.5The everyday lives of some international football players before and after a big game.
Experts on the Football Field
1956
7.0No synopsis available yet.
Αιχμάλωτοι του πεπρωμένου
1966
6.2Madalena is a tough seventeen-year-old who is forced to take on her father's ferry business after he dies. She has her many brothers and sisters to support, and there is no one else to do the job. So she rallies her defenses and sets out to give her rival in the ferry business a run for his money. But at the same time, the rival's handsome son is starting to look better and better. Madalena refuses to acknowledge her feelings for him -- though how long she can sustain that denial is the question.
Madalena
1960
9.0No synopsis available yet.
Μίσος
1963
8.0A childless Romani woman abducts the daughter of the prosecutor who imprisoned her. As she trains the child to do her evil bidding, the girl becomes a woman and soon finds herself accused of murder. Can a trainee solicitor clear her name?
Ο αήττητος
1971
7.0Young 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
7.0No synopsis available yet.
Κατηγορούμενη απολογήσου
1968
9.0The story of Romeo and Juliet is transferred to the Greek province (on the slopes of Mount Parnassos), where the conflict between two powerful Sarakatsanai families rages, whose children, despite family hatreds, love each other madly.
Sarakatsanissa
1959
6.5A poor young man, working hard, manages and becomes a captain on a ship of the shipowner, in whose home his mother worked older as a shipwreck. But he resigns when he discovers that the ship is dangerous.
Sometimes even the strong cry
1967
9.0No synopsis available yet.
The one that didn't bend
1968
7.0A former teacher, Alexis Vergis, agrees to give private lessons to the young son of a wealthy family, but quickly realizes that the real reason he was hired is to help Anna, the boy's sister, who has suffered a nervous breakdown after the death of her fiancé. With kindness and methodicalness, he tries to lift the girl's spirits. Walks in the countryside and conversations about happy and carefree topics help her to relax somewhat. However, Anna's stepmother is disturbed by the relationship developing between the two young people, because she actually intends to have Anna committed to a mental institution and inherit her husband's fortune. She tries to slander Alexis and partly succeeds, but in the end, the truth shines through and the love of the two young people triumphs.
The Cry of an Innocent
1969
8.0No synopsis available yet.
Θα ζήσω για σένα
1965
7.0In the orderly and happy life of a married woman, an old lover reappears and disrupts her peace of mind. His reappearance threatens her family peace and her relationship with her husband, a relationship that is being tested irreparably.
I Ruined My Life in One Night
1951
8.0Nikos Liosis returns to his homeland, with the wounds of the Korean War still fresh in his mind and body. His wife Vera and all his relatives think him dead. He does not want to be present in his home in the state where he is. One day Vera meets him at random. He denies the identity of Nikos Liossis and is recommended as Alexis Sarris. She asks him to play the role of her real husband who never ceases to love, to avoid the marriage forced by her parents.
The man who returned from pain
1966
7.0No synopsis available yet.
The last goodbye
1969
10.0No synopsis available yet.
Δρόσω η αρχοντοπούλα
1967
6.0Spiridon Peresiadis (1864 - 1918) was one of the best writers of the dramatic idylls and mountain adventure genre that flourished into the late nineteenth century in Greece. In 1894, Peresiadis wrote Golfo, a story of love, jealousy and betrayal. In a village near Mount Helmos where the waters of the River Styx of Mavroneri flow, the young Golfo and Tassos swear eternal love to one another. True to her word, Golfo rejects a nobleman who wishes to marry her, but Tassos breaks his oath and agrees to wed a rich young woman instead. When he changes his mind, it is too late and the forces of destiny continue to their inevitable conclusion
Golfo-Girl of the Mountains
1955
6.6Lisa is a student, pretending the sick not to go to school. Her parents are worried about her health and call the doctor to examine her. He realizes her lies but he covers her. Soon, they fall in love and eventually get married. However, after the honeymoon she begins to yearn school and her classmates and she returns to it without saying anything to her husband. Soon, her husband begins to suspect her because of her frequent absences from home and her secret meetings with the professor seem to confirm his suspicions.
Throbs at the Desk
1963
7.0Pagona loves Yiannos, her father's sheeper, who wants to marry her with Dimos, the son of other sheeper of the nearby village. However, Crystalo loves Yiannos too.
Ο Γιάννος κι η Παγώνα
1959
8.0After the end of World War II, a Greek woman who was imprisoned in a German concentration camp returns to Greece. She is a woman broken by the hardships, but at the same time determined to find the man who caused her all this misery, namely the one who reported her to the Gestapo as a Jew.
Rag of life
1969
7.0Giorgis is the only son of the richest tseligas of a mountain village. Although he is considered a sought-after groom, he only has eyes for Droso, who reciprocates his feelings. The obstacle to their love is Giorgis' father. He is a cruel usurer who has confiscated the girl's fields. After a fight between father and son, the former falls dead. However, everyone believes that Droso killed him. Droso runs away from the village and takes refuge in the caves and cliffs, among the lads of the robber Zarvas, who helps to uncover Bournova's murderer. The murder has been committed by Maria, a noblewoman in love with Giorgis, who is subsequently arrested by the gendarmerie. Thus, Droso is now free to marry Giorgis.
Lafina
1962
10.0A poor teacher, living with her disabled father and lazy brother, falls in love with a doctor. The doctor's mother tries to prevent the romance and helps get the teacher fired from the school. The teacher ends up becoming a singer, but she never forgets her lover...
Punishment
1965
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Δυο μάννες στο σταυρό του πόνου
1962