Periklis Hristoforidis

Acting

Periklis Hristoforidis

Born — Died

1907-01-01 — 1983-09-30

Place of birth

Trebizond, Ottoman Empire [now Trabzon, Turkey]

Known for

Acting

Credits

60 titles

Pericles Christoforidis (Greek: Περικλής Χριστοφορίδης, 1907 - September 30, 1983) was a Greek comic actor. He came from an artistic family in Pontus, since both his father and grandfather Pericles were also actors. He holds the record for participating in more films than any other actor (more than 200). He was born in Trabzon. In 1922 he moved to Greece. His tenure in the darkrooms was one of the longest, from 1929 to 1979, participating in films such as "Bora" by Dimitris Gaziadis and "The Journey of Melitos" by Giorgos Panousopoulos. His grandfather and father were also actors, as was his sister Stella, who was one of the first to make films. His cousin, Takis Christoforidis, also appea…

Known for

Film credits

1970s · 7 titles

The Incredible poster
7.5

Thomas, the owner of an electrical appliances store, is having business problems due to his short-fuse temper and bad luck.

The Incredible

1970

My Luck Went Crazy poster
6.0

An employee can not marry the girl, because of financial problems and stalked by her brother. So decide, together with the son of his boss, facing the same problems, to get each other's position.

My Luck Went Crazy

1970

Honeymoon poster
5.0

Taxidi Tou Melitos is about the fear that most elderly people experience: approaching death. Leon (Stavros Xenides) and Zaharoula (Betty Livanou) are heading out for their annual vacation at a summer resort. Instead of their usual carefree anticipation, their mood is subdued because their daughter has just married and is off on her honeymoon. Life is lonely without her and the couple cannot avoid the realization that death is not that far away for them. Once at the resort, Leon tries to overcome this nagging fear by taking a wild plunge in the ocean, naked, as he and Zaharoula are out walking on the beach. Taken up in the spirit of the moment, she joins him among the waves. The results, however, are not what they expected.

Honeymoon

1979

Η ζωή μου στα χέρια σου poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Η ζωή μου στα χέρια σου

1970

My Only Son, My Good Boy poster
7.0

A harmless simpleton with a heart of gold arrives in Athens and falls in love. Can he prove his worth in the bustling big city and fulfil his destiny?

My Only Son, My Good Boy

1973

One Vengos for All Jobs poster
6.0

An honest man is trying to find a job, but finds it difficult just because of the honesty. The need becomes more urgent when falls in love for a young girl who lives near him.

One Vengos for All Jobs

1970

The last prisoner poster
7.0

Dinos, the sole survivor of a group of saboteurs who were exterminated by the Germans for treason, finds refuge in the house of a crippled girl. She hides him in the basement and, falling in love with him, keeps him prisoner without telling him that the war is over, not wanting to lose him. When Dinos manages to escape from the basement, he faces the bitter reality. His girlfriend doesn't care for him, his friends died in the Occupation, and the one who betrayed the group was a fellow soldier. He decides to return to the basement and the girl who really loved him.

The last prisoner

1970

1960s · 43 titles

The Gambler Lady poster
6.8

About Aleka who is obsessed with playing cards and the efforts of her husband to make her quit this bad "habit".

The Gambler Lady

1964

Τρεις καρδιές ένας χτύπος poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Τρεις καρδιές ένας χτύπος

1965

The Liar poster
5.5

Indebted to the ocean liner's doctor, a stowaway impersonates him in a romantic rendez-vous with his unknown pen-pal under the nose of his jealous fiancée and falls in love with her. Will they forgive them when they unearth their secret?

The Liar

1968

Χωρισμός poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Χωρισμός

1966

Τα Ξένα Χέρια Είναι Πικρά poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Τα Ξένα Χέρια Είναι Πικρά

1968

A Rich Without Money poster
4.2

A poor accountant, in order to raise money for his marriage, finds a second job in a luxury hotel where he accepts to change his name and life with a rich playboy who wants to try if women want him for his money .

A Rich Without Money

1967

Electricity... Water... Telephone, Plots with Installments poster
4.4

Two friends get involved in a scam involving selling of land plots.

Electricity... Water... Telephone, Plots with Installments

1966

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

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

Thou-Vou Bald Agent, Operation: Havoc poster
7.1

Thou-Vou and his new partner, MAP31, accept three imaginary tasks from a cunning director who is only interested in filming the unsuspecting duo for his upcoming movie feature. Will the agents manage to squeeze success out of failure?

Thou-Vou Bald Agent, Operation: Havoc

1969

Runaway Bride poster
6.6

In her delicate bridal gown and bent on finding her beloved, a determined would-be wife flees from a dreadful marriage of convenience and enlists the help of a kind wandering salesman. Can anyone stand in the way of a woman in love?

Runaway Bride

1962

The Bait poster
6.7

Α crook turns a cabaret girl into a fine lady to use her as bait for his victims.

The Bait

1964

Groom from London poster
6.6

Betty has become engaged, for her father’s sake, with a hard working and kind young man, Kostas, who works at a store selling electrical appliances that belongs to Betty’s father, Mr. Periklis. The latter values Kostas and truly wants to make him his son-in-law. Kostas saves the life of a sensitive girl, Mary, who tries to commit suicide because her English lover deserted her. Later on, he is persuaded to impersonate a rich Englishman in order to help Mary deal with her father, Mr. Kyriakos, who is trying to force her to marry someone against her will.

Groom from London

1967

Help! Vengos Visible Agent '000' poster
7.8

Vengos studies in a secret agents' academy, dreaming of becoming a great spy like 007. Unfortunately, he can't do anything right, so he wreaks havoc during his final exams.

Help! Vengos Visible Agent '000'

1967

Doctor Z-Vengos poster
7.3

A blunderer barber ends after a misunderstanding to pretend doctor. However the patients problems aren't medical nature but personally so he helps them.

Doctor Z-Vengos

1968

Miss Manager poster
7.4

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

The tailor poster
4.5

The relationship between a doctor and his wife gets broken after he came home late last night. Meanwhile, he has to pretend to be a dressmaker because of a misunderstanding between him and the furious fiancé of an old girlfriend he met.

The tailor

1967

Eftyhos... trellathika! poster
4.8

Charilaos Maraziotis owns a store and owes so much money both to his lenders and to the state, that he is in danger of going to jail. He decides to pretend to be a psychopath and is sent to an asylum. His lenders, upon hearing the news about his mental health, change their attitude towards him and release him from his debts.

Eftyhos... trellathika!

1961

The Winner poster
5.5

Two childhood friends are steered apart by their parents

The Winner

1965

The Hustler poster
7.3

Thanasis is part of a mistaken identity featuring an angry brother concerned about his sister's troubled marriage.

The Hustler

1964

Η ζωή ενός ανθρώπου poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Η ζωή ενός ανθρώπου

1968

If Luck Favors You poster
7.4

A poor but very decent teacher, Telis, who has resigned from his job, finds a winning lottery ticket in the street. Suddenly, his life changes radically. But he then discovers that someone has put it in front of him deliberately.

If Luck Favors You

1964

Venus the girl who hurt poster
4.0

Shortly after the Gorgopotamos bridge was blown up, Loukas and Christoforos, two Cypriot students studying in Athens and staying at Kyra-Anthi's house, decide to join the Greek army and try to escape to the Middle East. With the help of Papa-Sinisios and a cabaret singer, they set off with other patriots for the coast of Asia Minor, but off the coast of Samos they encounter a German frigate and Loukas is lost at sea. The bad news reaches Cyprus and plunges his beloved Aphrodite into grief. Aphrodite's father decides to marry her off to Telis. At the end of the war, Loukas, who had been rescued, returns to the island and claims Aphrodite, but her father forces him to write to her saying that he does not love her. Aphrodite continues to love him, and Telis is forced to step aside, leaving her free to be with her beloved.

Venus the girl who hurt

1968

We Parted Ways One Evening poster
9.0

Fani returns from abroad after her father's suicide. She accepts the harsh treatment of her relatives and distances herself from their environment. She meets the son of the man responsible for her father's financial ruin and falls in love with him. When she realizes who her beloved is, she leaves him. However, despite his father's objections, he finds her and marries her. His father regrets the harm he caused Fani and her family.

We Parted Ways One Evening

1966

Η μοίρα μας χτύπησε σκληρά poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Η μοίρα μας χτύπησε σκληρά

1966

Wake up Vassili poster
6.8

Vasilis is a poor conservative man who works in a company and tends to buy the lottery very often - but with no luck. His life will turn upside down when his younger sister turns out to be an anarchist and gets involved with a leftist rebellious man he already knows and hates. Eventually, in an ironic twist of faith, the two of them will earn millions and gain the exact lifestyle they used to fight against and Vasilis will lose his mind.

Wake up Vassili

1969

The Heirs poster
6.9

Four very different people inherit a percentage of a fashion house but in order to make it work they have to get along with each other.

The Heirs

1964

Η ώρα της αλήθειας poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Η ώρα της αλήθειας

1969

A tough corporal poster
7.5

Lieutenant Colonel Thanasis helps the colonel's son and his niece to marry their loved ones, while he wants to marry the general's servant, Frosso.

A tough corporal

1964

Ο φακίρης Σταμάτης Κόκκορας poster
8.0

Stamatis Kokoras leaves the profession of the fakir and accepts to work for diplomat Petros. Stamatis, however, must sleep during the day and stay up at night.

Ο φακίρης Σταμάτης Κόκκορας

1969

The idiot poster
6.2

An engineer is working hard without any substantial effect and he is not taking seriously the persistent remarks of his wife on this. When a businessman, on the one hand, and his company's executives, on the other hand, will try to lure him to serve their conflicting interests in the construction of a new road, the engineer reacts.

The idiot

1968

The jealous woman poster
4.2

A woman with pathological jealousy makes her husband's life so difficult that he risks losing both his health and his job. Her unbridled imagination discovers her husband's infidelities where they do not exist and relationships with women he has never met. Until suddenly an incident overturns their family life...

The jealous woman

1968

The Decline poster
5.7

A weak before her lady-killer lover, a blond diva breaks up with the arrogant libertine to be with a kind friend. His ego demands appeasement, but the lethal revolver in her hand thirsts for retribution. Who is to blame for her downfall?

The Decline

1961

Another One for the Million poster
6.5

The honest and meticulous cashier, Savvas, works in a business and is often pressured by his wife’s siblings to embezzle money from his job and lend it to them. When his manager, leaving on a trip, entrusts him with a million drachmas without a receipt, Savvas succumbs to the pressure and gives some of the money to his brother-in-law. In the end, however, an unexpected development awaits Savvas, since his manager is killed in an airplane crash and he has to decide what to do with the money.

Another One for the Million

1964

Nomos 4000 poster
5.7

Maria falls in love with George who is a student of her strict father, Andreas Economou. Dolly, a classmate of Maria spends a night with George and the next morning tells Maria about it. ..

Nomos 4000

1962

The child of the square poster
6.7

An unemployed man (Kostas Chatzichristos), prone to endless amusements, economically sucks his uncle (Periklis Christoforidis) in order to satisfy his desires. His despair, when his uncle decides to stop the economic benefits, will lead him to sell some furniture of the house. He sells four armchairs and then he learns that in one of them were hidden precious jewels of the aunt. He looks desperately to find and to get them back, but he only discovers three of them, and in these there is no trace of jewelry. To find the fourth and lucky one, whose traces are completely ignored, he accepts partnered with a friend (Takis Christoforidis). He is transformed into an organized, consistent and good working man, and falls in love with his sister's partner (Stella Stratigou) and discovers that the fourth chair was held by his uncle, who set up this whole story to motivate him and make him active.

The child of the square

1961

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

Crazy, Nuts and Vengos poster
6.4

Thanasis, the waiter of country tavern "The seven brothers", is preparing to marry the Anthoula. Shortly before going to church but has an accident and suffers amnesia. While Anthoula, siblings and friends are waiting for him in the church, he wanders the streets unnecessarily.

Crazy, Nuts and Vengos

1967

The Grocer's Errand Boy poster
8.7

Agathonas tries to avoid marriage with Panoraia, his boss's sister.

The Grocer's Errand Boy

1968

Open Letter poster
6.9

Thirty-year-old lower middle class Dimitris, faint-hearted and not particularly ambitious, is ready to jump at the opportunity that will get him handsomely provided. He wavers between yesterday, the German occupation nightmare and his love debut with a neighbour and contemporary, fluid reality. He meets Thaleia, a rich woman his age, who frequents the same night club as him, but his daily routine is invariably the same. The closure of the small industry in Drapetsona, where he used to work for the last 8 years, and his relationship with Maria confront him with a different reality. Maria is a progressive, evening school teacher, full of dreams.

Open Letter

1967

Modern Cinderella poster
6.2

Katerina, a poor girl, finds a job as a secretary and falls in love with her boss on a trip to Rome.

Modern Cinderella

1965

Mikes Is Getting Married poster
3.0

A naive young man, Mikes tries to solve its economic problems by marriage with a wealthy bride. After various matchmaking, find an equally naive but wealthy girl and the match ends in love. However, at the request of her father to marry her must first find the job himself. His efforts to restore business fail and decides to thieves with his beloved. Fortunately her father will give in and allow them to marry.

Mikes Is Getting Married

1968

Kiss the Girls poster
6.0

A director of a travel agency goes with her niece to Greece for holidays and business, there they meet a Greek company of men trying to "catch the good".

Kiss the Girls

1965

1950s · 6 titles

The Coffee Reader poster
7.9

In a poor neighborhood of Athens, next to the coffee shop of Spyros (Mimis Fotopoulos) is a coffee shop that has gained a great reputation and is preparing to move to Kolonaki as it has made a lot of money by telling the cup. In the same neighborhood is a laundress, Kalliopi (Georgia Vassiliadou), who makes a living by force. One day, after an incident in which a customer (Kostas Mentis) humiliates Kalliopi and Spyros intervenes, he comes up with an idea: for Kalliopi to run the coffee shop, since the other one has left.

The Coffee Reader

1956

A Hero in His Slippers poster
7.4

A veteran general, living poorly but honestly with his wife and his daughter, is visited by his future son-in-law who informs him that he is going to immigrate to Australia. On the same day, his cousin Apostolos pays him a visit as well and tells him that the government intending to honor him has decided to construct his statue and place it at the small square in front of his house.

A Hero in His Slippers

1958

The Unwilling Nanny poster
7.0

After returning from a masquerade, much to his surprise, a wandering textile salesman stumbles upon an abandoned and helpless baby. Will he find his parents--and if not--will the poor child finally find a loving foster family?

The Unwilling Nanny

1959

Those Not Allowed to Love poster
3.8

Pavlos, a conservatory student dreaming of becoming a great artist of quality music, lives with his fiancée Kaiti in a small room, hosted by two friends. Due to financial tribulations, he is forced to join his friends' folk band and performs every night at a night club. That's were Mr Giorgos and his lover Liza frequent. Liza, a rich girl, falls in love with Pavlos and tries to seduce him. However, when she realizes how deeply he loves his fiancée, decides to help him get back together with Kaiti.

Those Not Allowed to Love

1951

The Unknown poster
4.2

Madame X (Greek title: I Agnostos) is a 1954 Greek drama film directed by Orestis Laskos. It is based on the 1908 play by French playwright Alexandre Bisson (1848-1912). Thrown out of her home by a jealous husband, a woman sinks into degradation. Twenty years later, she is charged with killing a man bent on harming her son. The son, unaware of who the woman is, takes the assignment to defend her in court.

The Unknown

1954

We Have Only One Life poster
7.9

A bank teller discovers an accounting error, becomes rich and lives his life like he's never lived it.

We Have Only One Life

1958