Giannis Fyrios

Acting

Giannis Fyrios

Born — Died

1913-01-23 — 2007-04-16

Place of birth

Andros, Greece

Known for

Acting

Credits

70 titles

Giannis Firios (January 23, 1912 - April 16, 2007) was a Greek actor. He was born in Andros. He studied at the Drama School of Dionysis Devaris, a former actor of the famous director Konstantinos Christomanos. He first appeared in the theater in 1937 with the troupe of Ios Palaiologos and Sp. Patrikios and in the cinema in 1952 with Stelios Tatasopoulos' film Mavri gehi, together with Giorgos Foundas, Frosso Kokkola and others.

Known for

American Playhouse poster
6.6

American Playhouse is an anthology television series periodically broadcast by Public Broadcasting Service in the United States.

American Playhouse

1982

Konstantinos and Helen poster
6.9

Eleni and Konstantinos are two totally different people who are forced to live under the same roof, because they are in the middle of the proceedings of a trial, regarding the ownership of the house. Konstantinos is a strict university professor, while Eleni is a crazy girl who works at a bar. Their different characters put them in constant conflict, but does this mean that they really hate each other?

Konstantinos and Helen

1998

Οι Τρεις Χάριτες poster
7.7

The Haritou family's ancestral home was initially inhabited only by the unmarried youngest daughter, Irini. However, in the first episode of the series, her older and widowed sister, Olga, moves into the same house until the construction of the new house she is building is completed. Although initially they thought that her move would be temporary, it eventually became permanent for the entire series. At the same time, the middle daughter, Maria, decides to move into her ancestral home and stay with her sisters, because she caught her husband, Yannis, red-handed with her best friend.

Οι Τρεις Χάριτες

1990

Ulysses' Gaze poster
7.5

An exiled filmmaker finally returns to his home country where former mysteries and afflictions of his early life come back to haunt him once more.

Ulysses' Gaze

1995

Παππούδες εν δράσει poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Παππούδες εν δράσει

2000

A Touch of Spice poster
6.7

"A Touch of Spice" is a story about Fanis, a young Greek boy growing up in Istanbul, whose grandfather, a culinary philosopher and mentor, teaches him that both food and life require a little salt to give them flavor. They both require... A Touch of Spice. Fanis grows up to become an excellent cook and uses his cooking skills to spice up the lives of those around him. 35 years later he leaves Athens and travels back to his birthplace of Istanbul to reunite with his grandfather and his first love. He travels back only to realize that he forgot to put a little bit of spice in his own life.

A Touch of Spice

2003

Film credits

1980s · 18 titles

Landscape in the Mist poster
7.6

Two Greek children embark on a journey to search for their father, who supposedly lives in Germany.

Landscape in the Mist

1988

Loafing and Camouflage poster
7.4

A group of Greek soldiers are assigned to run the Cinematographic Unit of the army in the midst of political unrest.

Loafing and Camouflage

1984

Η πολυτεχνίτισσα poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Η πολυτεχνίτισσα

1987

Nelly, the Spy poster
5.0

Against the backdrop of the Nazis' rapid rise to power, a Greek music student arrives in 1936 Berlin and becomes a cabaret singer. In Europe, WWII rages on, and joining the Resistance is the only way to fight back. Will Nelly do her part?

Nelly, the Spy

1981

Γιώτα Χι ώρα μηδέν poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Γιώτα Χι ώρα μηδέν

1988

Παράξενο Σαββατοκύριακο poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Παράξενο Σαββατοκύριακο

1989

Και κλάμα ο ξενοδόχος poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Και κλάμα ο ξενοδόχος

1985

A Leftist Night's Dream poster
3.3

A left-wing ideologist reaches the limits of suicide, experiencing a deep crisis. He tries to write a book about everything that once existed, but has changed today. Everything around him seems distant. The friends, the family, the Party from which he withdrew. His hope for a different future is virtually dead.

A Leftist Night's Dream

1987

And the First Matakias poster
3.7

An unruly voyeurism, Simos, works in a hotel as a bourgeois. A gang of burglars has put in the eye of the hotel's safe. The members of the gang - five in number and very pretty women - are staying at the hotel, waiting for the proper opportunity for the burglary. Meanwhile, the hotel's daughter, Myrto, seeing that the hotel is not doing well, and believing that some people sabotage the business, represents the receptionist, in order to learn from the inside exactly what is happening. The passion of Simos makes him a companion of the five women's gang's plans, both to frustrate the burglary and to win the hand of Myrto, who has fallen in love with him.

And the First Matakias

1982

Father Gomenios poster
5.4

Menios is an unrepentant womanizer with countless victories on his resume. Eventually he decides to settle down and marry Sula. Paradoxically, although his friends called him small "Gkomenio" for obvious reasons, fails to demonstrate the capabilities of the Gannet, which remains unblemished even after the honeymoon. On the one disappointment Menios and the other pressures of mother-who wants grandchild, lead him to the monastery of his uncle, where they stylite monk. There by the grace of God, meets various women that seek a "blessing" of ...

Father Gomenios

1982

The Last Man poster
7.4

Kosmas has his views on women challenged when an old friend and his wife visit him.

The Last Man

1981

Politsmana's Balcony poster
4.3

A housewife slips into her cousin's police uniform to check on her husband who is dazzled by a seductive industrial spy, and in the meantime, gives wrongdoers what they deserve. But, can a law-enforcement uniform save her marriage?

Politsmana's Balcony

1981

When The Wheels Danced poster
4.6

A group of young lives intensely, leading engines and wildly amusing. George falls in love with a serious girl, who will attempt to admonish him. Her brother would react to their relationship but will calm, when George, for the sake of the relationship with his beloved, will change mentality.

When The Wheels Danced

1984

Taxi, Mon Amour poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Taxi, Mon Amour

1986

Iron Lady poster
4.8

Rena, a dynamic woman who looks up to Margaret Thatcher, decides to fix the problems she sees around her, in Athens and Greece in general. When the president of state television gives her the opportunity to host a show and express her views, she takes advantage of the offer. She takes to the streets and, with the help of a cameraman, attempts to document the wrongdoings of the country.

Iron Lady

1983

Taste from Greece poster
4.7

Anthology film with a number of sketches that satirize modern Greece.

Taste from Greece

1980

Μήτσος ο Ρεζίλης poster
6.9

Mitsos, the son of a coffee shop owner and matchmaker, runs a marriage bureau and earns his living by arranging marriages. He does not hesitate to dress up according to the occasion in order to satisfy his clients' whims. Everything goes well until he meets Eva and his heart beats wildly with love.

Μήτσος ο Ρεζίλης

1984

Πρώτη νύχτα γάμου poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Πρώτη νύχτα γάμου

1985

1970s · 13 titles

The Travelling Players poster
7.2

A traveling theatre troupe tours the Greek countryside from 1939 to the early 1950s, staging “Golfo the Shepherdess”. As the years pass, its members endure persecution, betrayal, executions, and exile. Their personal stories become entangled with the country’s major historical events, in a seemingly endless cycle of violence and loss.

The Travelling Players

1975

Υπόθεση Πολκ poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Υπόθεση Πολκ

1978

Κάθε ναυάγιο και μια κόλασι poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Κάθε ναυάγιο και μια κόλασι

1971

The Bald Student poster
6.3

Thanasis, a family breadwinner who has been working for 17 years at the Ministry of Measure and Station without any promotion, is trying to cover his expenses by doing a second job. When he learns that he can not be promoted because he does not own a high school diploma, he decides to go back to school.

The Bald Student

1979

The Wicked World of Thanasis poster
6.6

The film presents seven short stories of everyday madness: parking in Athens. Thanasis, the soccer referee. Thanasis, the projectionist at a porn theater. Thanasis, the extra in a pasta commercial. Thanasis, the hospital director. Thanasis, the undertaker. Thanasis, the sailor who suspects his wife is cheating on him.

The Wicked World of Thanasis

1979

What Did You Do in the War, Thanassi? poster
6.7

A wild tale of mistaken identity set during the Nazi occupation of Greece and starring the great Thanasis Vengos. Thanasis is called upon, during the Occupation, to testify at the trial of a tavern owner accused of serving cat meat to his customers. He too is accused of perjury and imprisoned with some resistance fighters. The resistance fighters escape, but Thanasis remains in his cell. He is accused of being Ivan, the notorious ringleader of certain revolutionaries.

What Did You Do in the War, Thanassi?

1971

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

How did we end up like this, Sotiris? poster
7.5

A humble clerk gets his lucky break when a compassionate man offers him a well-paying job. Now, his relatives all want a piece of his salary, as his mother-in-law is telling everyone that he is rich. Is there an easy way out of this mess?

How did we end up like this, Sotiris?

1972

Hero Bunker poster
6.0

Following the torpedoing of the destroyer Elli on August 15, 1940 on Tinos by an Italian submarine, war was declared, and the Italians attacked the Albanian front on October 28. From an outpost on the Greek-Albanian border, a military truck unexpectedly comes under fire by Italian tanks. Petros, the only one who manages to escape death or captivity, saves a village girl, Maria. However, the Greeks manage to recapture the machine-gun nest, setting free the soldiers who had been pinned down. The platoon in question puts up a hard fight against the Italian invaders, while, at the same time, the Greek army is preparing for a counter-attack, which doesn't take long to happen. Right after, the Italians are forced to fall back; Northern Epirus is recaptured, and the army of the Badoglio is repulsed from the Adriatic.

Hero Bunker

1972

The Windbag poster
5.7

A pretentious lawyer, the scion of an aristocratic family, falls in love with a simple receptionist and rejects her, unaware that she is the daughter of a count.

The Windbag

1971

Yves! Yves! poster
4.0

In a second division team, "Pyraulos," a conscientious soccer player, Manolis Yvanis, idolizes the Greek-French player Yv Triantafyllos, since his father is Cretan and his mother is French. His dream is to become great and famous. Thanks to his stubbornness and high performance, he manages to eliminate a big team in the Greek Cup with his team. His next opponents, fearing this player, send a femme fatale to distract him. When the parties exhaust him and his team loses the match because of him, the footballer restores his name and proves his worth with the help of his fiancée, who happens to be his coach's daughter...

Yves! Yves!

1972

The Man Who Ran a Lot poster
6.7

Thanasis Zevedaios (Thanasis Vengos) has a shop with watches and running but not enough! Time and the clocks have become obsessed after running nonstop in an effort to nourish their relatives. The 'philosopher' brother dies and leaves another four mouths under his protection. The day is divided between the shop, his sister and his niece to marry, and his beloved, who works in a supermarket, while the economic situation and their obligations do not allow them to marry.

The Man Who Ran a Lot

1973

Hippocrates And Democracy poster
6.8

The father of medical in Kos, Hippocrates, believes that illnesses can be treated with medicines and herbs instead of prayers and comes into conflict with the medical establishment of the island. Leaving Kos, he goes to Athens, where he is called to face a plague for save the city.

Hippocrates And Democracy

1972

1960s · 23 titles

Οι ασυνείδητοι poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Οι ασυνείδητοι

1966

Οι κολασμένοι poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Οι κολασμένοι

1964

So Many Dreams on the Streets poster
8.0

Two ambitious young employees land a job at the small store of an avaricious man, intending to stay there no more than a few months. But, fate has other plans in store for them. How many dreams must one sacrifice to find happiness?

So Many Dreams on the Streets

1968

The Secrets of Sinful Athens poster
4.5

A young hoodlum tries to separate himself from his gang, while at the same time taking on behalf of his boss the blackmail of a businessman's wife.

The Secrets of Sinful Athens

1966

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

Ladies of the Courtyard poster
7.8

The Pippi a genuine artist, painting with touches of everyday life of ordinary people, who live and share the joys and sorrows in the large and vibrant with life yard of a neighborhood of old Athens.

Ladies of the Courtyard

1966

Captain Fandis Bastounis poster
6.5

Captain Andreas, a widower master learns that the planned departure postponed and the crew discovers hidden in the ship's refrigerator a girl, Marina. The company and the kind of behavior makes him take her with him to his home in Poros, which is home to the sister of Royal and two nephews. The presence of the marina there inflamed passions and causes the scheming sister, culminating when he set sail for the trip. When his ship sinks and he is considered missing, his sister declares him dead, eliminates the Marina and trying to reap his fortune with the help of their lawyer. Some time later, Andrew returns secretly finds Marina, marries her and takes her to his home, where enforce order ...

Captain Fandis Bastounis

1968

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 love poster
6.1

An usherette in a theatre, where a distinguished and popular actor performs, gets her big break when the leading actress has an accident. The director decides to take advantage of the heretofore unexploited talent of the girl and asks her to replace the leading actress. This unexpected opportunity transforms her from a humble usherette into a shining star. Later on, she wins the heart of the leading actor with whom she was secretly in love. However, her sudden rise to theatrical-musical stardom creates complications in their love affair, as her companion sinks into disappointment and drowns himself in drink, abandoning his career. Nevertheless, the usherette/leading actress doesn't give up; She looks for him, finds him and supports him, psychologically and morally, until he makes a comeback to the stage and their love nest.

Our love

1968

Oh, If I Only Were a Man poster
5.4

Frustrated and unemployed after being sexually harassed repeatedly, Stella decides to play the role of a guy, using the identity of her twin brother (who is living in Australia) hoping to get a job. She immediately wins the trust of her new employers and soon gets promoted to manager. The troubles begin when she falls in love with her boss' son.

Oh, If I Only Were a Man

1966

Don't Fall in Love on a Saturday poster
6.0

A streetwise investment broker, who has been tricked into accepting a counterfeit $100 bill by a statuesque con woman, falls in love with her. Against all logic, he refuses to turn her in to the police. Is there a future between them?

Don't Fall in Love on a Saturday

1962

Μας κλέψανε τη Γκόλφω poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Μας κλέψανε τη Γκόλφω

1961

Taxi Driver poster
6.3

Thanasis is a good-looking taxi driver whose girlfriend is pushing him to marry. When an uncle from America gives him an expensive car, Thanasis' life will change. He will marry his beloved and, when uncle returns to Greece, he will run a car dealership on his behalf.

Taxi Driver

1962

Έξυπνοι και Κορόιδα poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Έξυπνοι και Κορόιδα

1962

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

The Clown poster
6.0

Stavros finishes his military service, rents a small room in Mrs. Olympia's house, and, with the help of a friend, finds a job. However, Stavros cannot tell lies, and this will cost him three consecutive dismissals from the jobs he tries to do. At the same time, he falls in love with a blind girl, whom he will help regain her sight with the help of a surgeon. The couple will set up their own puppet theater, providing entertainment for children.

The Clown

1968

Isaiah, Don't Dance poster
6.2

Lambros has a bizarre office that does crazy jobs, because he is not a fan of the "Fake pie to eat" theory, but he also puts his hand on every time he wants to reach a happy ending in a neighborhood. But he believes that marriage is a bad thing, until the day when the female Satan, using tricks similar to his own, appears in front of him.

Isaiah, Don't Dance

1969

Manolakis Teddy Boys poster
7.0

Manolis and Manolios are two mischievous plumbers who decide to get married through classified ads. After meeting the nieces of their prospective brides, they find themselves working as waiters in a wealthy household.

Manolakis Teddy Boys

1967

Prokopis the Unlucky One poster
10.0

Prokopis and Nikos, two unemployed, bumbling friends, are looking for work through the employment agency run by their acquaintance, Patroklos. They get jobs as babysitters, but fail miserably. Immediately afterwards, Prokopis takes on the task of guarding a dead body, facing many problems, while Nikos gets a job at a souvlaki restaurant, where he is fired from the very first moment...

Prokopis the Unlucky One

1969

No artwork available
9.0

An entire social microcosm lies hidden in plain sight in a decrepit Athenian courtyard of a humble mid-1960s neighbourhood. Love, desire, and deceit are all vital components of this little machine; nevertheless, is dreaming for everyone?

Heartbreak in the Slums

1965

The Immigrant poster
10.0

A young man returns to his home after years abroad, despite not becoming wealthy, he has managed to save money for his last years.

The Immigrant

1965

The Matchmaker poster
7.0

Georgia Vasiliadou claims to be a simple housewife. And an inveterate matchmaker! She spies on everyone and everything and issues a daily bulletin about what is happening in a working-class apartment building in Athens in the 1960s. Most importantly, however, she marries everyone who has been left on the shelf and even "makes" children for those who don't have any! A hilarious comedy

The Matchmaker

1966

The Hunchback poster
9.0

The respectable Mr. Nikos Paganis is a commissioner at the Holy Temple of the Holy Apostles and considers his hunchbacked brother Markos to be a good-for-nothing because he does not work and spends his time philosophizing and speaking in riddles. His widowed mother, Liza, and his niece Sofia, who calls the hunchback "Karagiozis," share the same opinion. Nikos wants to betroth his daughter to his business partner, Thanos, giving her their family home as a dowry. He tries to usurp Markos' share and embezzles a considerable amount from the church treasury. The new priest, Father Timotheos, discovers the theft, and Thanos, fearing his reputation will be ruined, abandons Sofia. Liza tries to convince a senior judge, her former lover and Markos's real father, to help Nikos, but he categorically refuses.

The Hunchback

1966

Series credits

American Playhouse poster
6.6

American Playhouse is an anthology television series periodically broadcast by Public Broadcasting Service in the United States.

American Playhouse

1982

Konstantinos and Helen poster
6.9

Eleni and Konstantinos are two totally different people who are forced to live under the same roof, because they are in the middle of the proceedings of a trial, regarding the ownership of the house. Konstantinos is a strict university professor, while Eleni is a crazy girl who works at a bar. Their different characters put them in constant conflict, but does this mean that they really hate each other?

Konstantinos and Helen

1998

Οι Τρεις Χάριτες poster
7.7

The Haritou family's ancestral home was initially inhabited only by the unmarried youngest daughter, Irini. However, in the first episode of the series, her older and widowed sister, Olga, moves into the same house until the construction of the new house she is building is completed. Although initially they thought that her move would be temporary, it eventually became permanent for the entire series. At the same time, the middle daughter, Maria, decides to move into her ancestral home and stay with her sisters, because she caught her husband, Yannis, red-handed with her best friend.

Οι Τρεις Χάριτες

1990

Οι Τρεις Χάριτες poster
7.7

The Haritou family's ancestral home was initially inhabited only by the unmarried youngest daughter, Irini. However, in the first episode of the series, her older and widowed sister, Olga, moves into the same house until the construction of the new house she is building is completed. Although initially they thought that her move would be temporary, it eventually became permanent for the entire series. At the same time, the middle daughter, Maria, decides to move into her ancestral home and stay with her sisters, because she caught her husband, Yannis, red-handed with her best friend.

Οι Τρεις Χάριτες

1990

Παππούδες εν δράσει poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Παππούδες εν δράσει

2000

Something is going on with the people next door poster
6.2

Two completely different couples live in the same building complex. Thanasis runs a mobile phone shop. Behind it, he has set up a business selling illegal CDs. Gogo's wife aspires to become a popular singer. Manos is a painter without any recognized talent and is married to Eleni, an associate professor of sociology. However, something is wrong with these two couples. The two couples belong to completely different worlds, which constantly clash with comical results... Thanasis with Gogo or perhaps Gogo with Manos? Manos with Eleni or Eleni with Thanasis?

Something is going on with the people next door

1999

Ακυβέρνητες Πολιτείες poster
9.5

No synopsis available yet.

Ακυβέρνητες Πολιτείες

1985

No artwork available
7.5

No synopsis available yet.

Ο Ανδροκλής και τα λιοντάρια του

1985

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Η Μανιάτισσα

1987

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Όλη η δόξα... Όλη η χάρη...

1989