Thodoros Moridis

Acting

Thodoros Moridis

Born — Died

1903-01-01 — 2003-12-22

Place of birth

Limassol, Republic of Cyprus

Known for

Acting

Credits

63 titles

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 …

Known for

Ας με κρίνουν οι γυναίκες poster
NR

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Ας με κρίνουν οι γυναίκες

1968

The garden with the statues poster
7.3

No synopsis available yet.

The garden with the statues

1981

Antigone poster
7.6

In Thebes in ancient Greece, King Oedipus kills his father and marries his mother Jocasta, having two sons - Eteocles and Polyneices - and two daughters - Ismene and Antigone. King Oedipus dies a beggar in the exile after gouging out his own eye, and Eteocle agrees to reign in Thebes in alternating years with Polynices. However, he refuses to resign after the first year and Polynieces raises an army and attacks Thebes, and they kill each other. The ruler of Thebes Creon decrees that Eleocles should have an honorable burial while the body of the traitor Polyneices should be left on the battlefield to be eaten by the jackals and vultures. However, Antigone, who was betrothed to Creon's surviving son Haemon, defies Creon's orders and buries her brother. When Creon is reported of the attitude of Antigone, he sentences her to be placed in a tomb alive. Antigone hangs herself in the tomb and Haemon tries to kill his father first and then he kills himself with his sword...

Antigone

1961

My Child Must Live poster
8.0

Having become a beggar on the streets, Alexis reminisces about his love affair with a wealthy girl, Eva, who gave him the accordion he always wanted. When she became pregnant, Alexis suggested that she not have an abortion, in exchange for disappearing from her life. She married a failed man of aristocratic descent, who soon abandoned her for a cabaret dancer, embezzling a large part of her fortune. Alexis kidnaps his child and ends up in prison. Many years later, he is released from prison and watches his daughter's progress from afar. She learns the truth about her father from a former employee of her mother's business and rushes to find him.

My Child Must Live

1951

Κατηγορούμενη απολογήσου poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Κατηγορούμενη απολογήσου

1968

Στη θύελλα της μεγάλης αγάπης poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Στη θύελλα της μεγάλης αγάπης

1972

Film credits

1980s · 2 titles

1970s · 7 titles

Στη θύελλα της μεγάλης αγάπης poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Στη θύελλα της μεγάλης αγάπης

1972

Ο αήττητος poster
8.0

A 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

The Mistress of the Plain poster
8.0

A sweet and rich girl loves a poor shepherd and thus rejects the marriage proposals of a rich man. He accuses her beloved of theft—which the shepherd boy never committed, of course—but his scheming does not lead to the desired result.

The Mistress of the Plain

1971

Giakoumis, A Roman Heart poster
7.0

Giakoumis is a poor man with no family, working at the docks. One day he finds out that he has a very rich relative abroad.

Giakoumis, A Roman Heart

1970

I Love Only You poster
9.0

A poor and refined water fisherman, Zafeiris Kassis (Nikos Xanthopoulos), who was invited by the barba - Minas pop singer in Athens, maintains his mother and his sister's widow's family. In the center where he sings, Renata, the daughter of the millionaire big publisher Derku and editor of one of his newspapers, is visiting him. At their first meeting, they strongly argue because of a girl's article in the newspaper and his own response. When they happen to meet again in Hydra, where they know better, a strong and mutual feeling develops between them. Renata's father and his environment are opposed to this relationship, while Renata is forced to leave Zafire. But her love for him is unshakable.

I Love Only You

1970

The Slave Girl poster
7.0

During the reign of Otto, the beautiful daughter of a local lord is kidnapped. Her fiancé tries to track down the kidnappers, but to no avail. The girl endures many hardships, but eventually escapes from her captors and returns to her home and her beloved.

The Slave Girl

1970

I lived a monk without love poster
9.0

A talented young musician, Petros Apostolou, arrives in Athens and soon manages to record his first album. The success comes along with the love of young Anna, the niece of the director of the recording company, Mr. Theoharis. Despite her uncle's objections, Anna marries him, stays pregnant and dies at birth, but brings a little boy to the world. The blow is too heavy for Peter, who abandons everything.

I lived a monk without love

1971

1960s · 38 titles

Ας με κρίνουν οι γυναίκες poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Ας με κρίνουν οι γυναίκες

1968

Antigone poster
7.6

In Thebes in ancient Greece, King Oedipus kills his father and marries his mother Jocasta, having two sons - Eteocles and Polyneices - and two daughters - Ismene and Antigone. King Oedipus dies a beggar in the exile after gouging out his own eye, and Eteocle agrees to reign in Thebes in alternating years with Polynices. However, he refuses to resign after the first year and Polynieces raises an army and attacks Thebes, and they kill each other. The ruler of Thebes Creon decrees that Eleocles should have an honorable burial while the body of the traitor Polyneices should be left on the battlefield to be eaten by the jackals and vultures. However, Antigone, who was betrothed to Creon's surviving son Haemon, defies Creon's orders and buries her brother. When Creon is reported of the attitude of Antigone, he sentences her to be placed in a tomb alive. Antigone hangs herself in the tomb and Haemon tries to kill his father first and then he kills himself with his sword...

Antigone

1961

Κατηγορούμενη απολογήσου poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Κατηγορούμενη απολογήσου

1968

Για την αγάπη μιας ορφανής poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Για την αγάπη μιας ορφανής

1960

Madalena poster
6.0

Madalena 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

The Heart of a Tramp poster
6.3

Shortly before his father dies, Nikos, as the eldest son, promises to help his twin brother Andreas finish his studies. He sacrifices his dreams and the girl he loves, Anna, and throws himself into the harsh struggle for survival. He sets sail and travels to the ends of the earth, but his ship sinks and he is presumed dead. Meanwhile, Andreas completes his studies, becomes a lawyer, and gets married. When Nikos, who was rescued, returns to Greece years later, without papers, crippled, and poor, he finds himself involved in a murder case he did not commit. Andreas is the prosecutor in the trial, and Nikos tries in every way to conceal his identity, but Andreas realizes this and manages to get him acquitted. Nikos, in order not to damage the social standing of Andreas and Anna, prefers to leave again and leave them in peace.

The Heart of a Tramp

1968

Punishment poster
10.0

A 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

Betrayed poster
7.0

Manos, owner of an entertainment center, is being watched by a mysterious woman. At the same time, the club's singer tries to get close to him, gaining the trust of his wife. She senses that something is wrong and, seduced by the appearance of an old flame, she leaves her husband, only to regret it immediately afterwards.

Betrayed

1965

Throbs at the Desk poster
6.6

Lisa 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

Μίσος poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Μίσος

1963

Rag of life poster
8.0

After 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

Unfair curse poster
6.5

Costas finds Peter, a poor medical student, and convinces him to marry his sister Lisa. After the wedding, Peter leaves for London, but when he returns, Lisa's relatives avoid him. What has happened;

Unfair curse

1967

Θα ζήσω για σένα poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Θα ζήσω για σένα

1965

Sometimes even the strong cry poster
6.5

A 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

Μια γυναίκα χωρίς ντροπή poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Μια γυναίκα χωρίς ντροπή

1965

The Odyssey of an Uprooted Man poster
7.2

Vasilis Karatzoglou is a successful singer who lives with his mother and sister having lost his father in the destruction of Smyrni. From an old man learns that his father did not die but was arrested by the Turks. He decides to follow the scientific mission of Professor John Anderson in Turkey, to find traces of his father.

The Odyssey of an Uprooted Man

1969

Δυο μάννες στο σταυρό του πόνου poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Δυο μάννες στο σταυρό του πόνου

1962

Refugee Girl on the Run poster
6.5

After the death of her kind stepfather and Pontian Greek refugee, a young woman arrives in Athens to track down her biological father who is missing since the blood-drenched Pontic genocide in Asia Minor. Will she ever find him?

Refugee Girl on the Run

1969

Bitter life poster
10.0

The disabled Marina (Anna Fonsou) learns with joy that a childhood friend of hers (Phaedon Georgitsis) has returned to Greece as a brilliant doctor, after many years of studying abroad. She remembers the moments they lived, as well as the way another friend of hers (Kostas Karras) and her aunt (Rita Mousouri) pushed them away. Their meeting will dispel the clouds and even give the disabled girl a hope for a cure.

Bitter life

1965

Αιχμάλωτοι του πεπρωμένου poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Αιχμάλωτοι του πεπρωμένου

1966

Test poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Test

1966

Μαριώ, η κατατρεγμένη βοσκοπούλα poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Μαριώ, η κατατρεγμένη βοσκοπούλα

1969

The man who returned from pain poster
8.0

Nikos 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

Loyalty poster
8.0

Shortly before the start of a recital at the Odeon of Herodes Atticus, pianist Stefanos Ballis has an accident and is taken to hospital. As she goes to see him, his wife Elli, distraught, tells her friend Stella how she met Stefanos seven years ago, when he was giving her piano lessons at her home, how she fell in love with him and married him—despite her military father's opposition—and had two children with him: Petrakis and Chloe...

Loyalty

1963

The last goodbye poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

The last goodbye

1969

Slum, my love poster
8.0

A poor bookstore decides to appear to the widow of a professor's friend as their lost grandson when she learns she is about to die.

Slum, my love

1969

Δρόσω η αρχοντοπούλα poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Δρόσω η αρχοντοπούλα

1967

Innocent or Guilty poster
10.0

Petros, one of Greece's best athletes, decides to end his life with the help of his beloved wife Anna in order to escape his incurable illness and the terrible pain that accompanies it. Anna is then brought to justice on charges of premeditated murder. The trial unfolds through the testimonies of people close to them, who testify about the reasons that led her to this decision. During a break in the trial, mentally and physically exhausted, she cuts her veins and dies. Innocent or guilty? The answer to this question is left to the audience.

Innocent or Guilty

1963

Lafina poster
7.0

Giorgis 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

The one that didn't bend poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

The one that didn't bend

1968

The Golden Eagles poster
9.0

A gunman, during the Turkish occupation of Greece, collides with the landlords, considering them traitors. But when he learns that belong to the Society of Friends and prepare the Revolution, would become their ally.

The Golden Eagles

1963

The Cry of an Innocent poster
7.0

A 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

Η μεγάλη ανάσταση poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Η μεγάλη ανάσταση

1969

Thieves Rejoice Only Once poster
5.7

A lawyer goes to Paros to meet his mistress. But trying to get away from her husband, who returns unannounced, he enters the room of a good-hearted girl who tries to help him, thinking he is a thief. When he learns the truth, he gets angry and avoids him, and he sets a trick to bring her near.

Thieves Rejoice Only Once

1960

The Daily Wage of Pain poster
10.0

A melodrama that recounts the extremely difficult conditions under which a couple tries to live and find happiness. However, their quest for happiness turns into a harsh struggle for survival.

The Daily Wage of Pain

1964

Ζήσε για την αγάπη μας poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Ζήσε για την αγάπη μας

1968

Those who forgot God poster
10.0

The son of a ruthless moneylender loves a girl whose mother was his father's first love. When he refuses to accept her as his daughter, his son leaves home and takes a job in a car repair shop.

Those who forgot God

1964

Blind Angel poster
5.3

Two young people (Christina Silva and Takis Varlamos), living in a provincial town, fall in love with each other and are stolen. After a wild chase, the girl returns pregnant to her father (Theodoros Moridis), who removes the newborn, saying that she died in childbirth. The girl leaves for Athens where she marries a businessman (Lambros Konstantaras), but loses her eyesight in an accident. Her father, remorseful, investigates and discovers the child (Takis Vidos) and the woman, because of unspeakable joy, regains her sight.

Blind Angel

1960

1950s · 12 titles

My Child Must Live poster
8.0

Having become a beggar on the streets, Alexis reminisces about his love affair with a wealthy girl, Eva, who gave him the accordion he always wanted. When she became pregnant, Alexis suggested that she not have an abortion, in exchange for disappearing from her life. She married a failed man of aristocratic descent, who soon abandoned her for a cabaret dancer, embezzling a large part of her fortune. Alexis kidnaps his child and ends up in prison. Many years later, he is released from prison and watches his daughter's progress from afar. She learns the truth about her father from a former employee of her mother's business and rushes to find him.

My Child Must Live

1951

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

Experts on the Football Field poster
5.5

The everyday lives of some international football players before and after a big game.

Experts on the Football Field

1956

Ωρκίστηκα Εκδίκησι poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Ωρκίστηκα Εκδίκησι

1952

Gerakina poster
10.0

Maro, the daughter of shepherd Panos, is in love with his son, Liakos. They want to marry but his father does not agree.

Gerakina

1958

I Ruined My Life in One Night poster
7.0

In 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

Ο Γιάννος κι η Παγώνα poster
7.0

Pagona 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

The Cicada and the Ant poster
5.3

Two friends and co-owners of a flower shop, Eudaimon and Loulis, live by completely opposite principles. One enjoys himself and lives carefree, while the other works hard and plans for the future. When the "grasshopper" ogles his kind housewife, eyeing her olive trees, the "ant" tries to bring him to his senses. But the girl, whom the ant plans to introduce to the cicada, will ultimately enchant him.

The Cicada and the Ant

1958

Golfo-Girl of the Mountains poster
6.0

Spiridon 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

We Have to Marry Them Off poster
9.0

Two young people from Zakynthos have to deal with difficult situations due to the attitudes of the local community. In the end, they will manage to live happily ever after.

We Have to Marry Them Off

1953

Sarakatsanissa poster
9.0

The 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

The Duchess of Plakendia poster
7.3

After leaving Nafplio, the first capital of the newly founded Greek Nation, the affluent French Duchess of Plaisance and ardent philhellene, Sophie de Marbois-Lebrun, moves to Athens with her young daughter, Eliza, circa 1834.

The Duchess of Plakendia

1956

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