
Acting
Mimis Fotopoulos
Born — Died
1913-04-20 — 1986-10-29
Place of birth
Zatouna, Arkadia, Greece
Known for
Acting
Credits
68 titles
Dimitris "Mimis" Fotopoulos (Greek: Δημήτρης (Μίμης) Φωτόπουλος; 8 April 1913 – 29 October 1986) was a Greek actor, writer, poet, and artist. He was born in Zatouna, Gortynia, Arcadia. He studied at the Dramatic School of National Theatre (Δραματική Σχολή του Εθνικού Θεάτρου). He also studied at the Philosophical School at the University of Athens until his second year in 1933. He headed a theatrical company from 1952 and an actor from 1960. He died on 29 October 1986 in Athens, from a heart attack, aged 73. (Source: Wikipedia)
Known for
7.2Greek television series
Monday's Theater
1972
7.3No synopsis available yet.
The garden with the statues
1981
6.2Charming, affluent--with his father's money--and self-assured, a frivolous son who can have any woman he desires falls head over heels for a beautiful Italian student; however, she is a hard nut to crack. Will he manage to impress her?
An Italian in Greece
1958
7.0No synopsis available yet.
Ρωμέικη καρδιά
1953
7.9In 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
7.6Four 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
Film credits
1980s · 13 titles
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Οι ατσίδες του σούπερ μάρκετ
1985
3.7An 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
5.9A major hit in the Greek cinemas at the time, this comedy by Omiros Efstratiadis is about a bunch of teenagers who make things difficult for their teachers.
Wheel Bag and Kopana
1982
7.0A frivolous husband who longs for a fast 1000cc sports bike decides to sell the family business. However, his hard-working wife has other plans in store for him. Will he have to kiss his dream goodbye?
A Thousand Cubic Meters of Madness
1983
10.0No synopsis available yet.
Κέρατο στο κέρατο
1982
6.9Mitsos, 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
4.7Anthology film with a number of sketches that satirize modern Greece.
Taste from Greece
1980
4.7Much to his surprise and not a moment too soon, the young long-term unemployed, Achilleas Taleporos, realises that his striking resemblance to his twin sister and traffic officer, Varvara, will finally land him a steady job, provided that he went the extra mile to succeed. Suddenly, his sister's uniform, a pair of black almond-toe pumps, a flaxen wig and a little bit of make-up will open the doors to the Police Academy, where "Varvara", amidst an all-female class, gets a rigorous training. But, now that the new recruit in disguise is finally accepted, what are the chances of finding true love in the most unusual of places?
Traffic Cop Varvara
1981
8.0A country kid enters a physical education college that prepares future champions. Rookie as he is, he is teased by his classmates. But he does not give up and tries in a thousand and two ways to prove to them that he is not the provincial they think, but a hard heart conqueror.
Ένας Πρωτάρης Στο Κολλέγιο!
1984
5.3A 35-year-old reservist is called up for retraining in new weapons. He has been engaged for nine years to a Cretan girl, whose brother threatens to kill him if he does not set a wedding date immediately. So he sees his conscription as a saving grace, but he is assigned to a paratrooper commando unit and endures hell during training. At the camp, he hangs out with three other guys his age who are turning the universe upside down. However, the difficult life at the camp eventually convinces him to get married and become a good family man.
Commando and Manoulias
1982
NRAn ex-criminal wants to change his life but the Mafia wants him back.
Αλλαγή... και το λουρί της μάνας
1982
3.6Aris, Billias, and the rest of the students decide to return to school with the excuse of earning their high school diplomas without any favors this time.Aris and Billias put their plan into action and the fun returns to everyday life.Two new teachers appear on the scene. One is a chemistry teacher who, due to a mistake, transforms into a different animal every so often, and the other is a kindergarten teacher.
Wheel, Bag and Truants 3
1984
7.5A young man, Kostas, together with two friends, sets for a journey on a sailboat, looking for something precious that his father hid on one of the Aegean islands during the years of Greek Resistance and Civil War.
On Course
1985
1970s · 5 titles
4.8Babis (Nikos Rizos), after his release, finds it difficult to balance between the groups with the guys and jobber of Piraeus, and the strict surveillance of the police, who closed the once in prison. He will try to sell the alleged Byzantine icons that makes a fellow prisoner, but will be arrested. It will be released as there were images of value, and will be informed that the mother of the same (Mary Metaxa) alerted the police to remove him from the unlawful activity.
The Street Smarts
1979
7.3Leandros is a night club owner who is trying to avoid imprisonment by searching for money to pay the insurance contributions. Along with his debts, he has to withstand the pressures of his beloved for marriage.
What Does Man Do To Live
1970
10.0Kitsos leaves behind his village to create a better future in Athens, Greece. He rescues Helen but soon realises that she is the daughter of an industrialist. Does Kitsos, the hippie in sandals, stand a chance of winning her heart?
A Hippie With Slippers
1970
9.0Two jobless bosom buddies have a chance encounter with an Arab billionaire and his sad daughter who is in love with an Athenian singer. Will they make her laugh again? Above all, can they stop a sinister scheme behind the sheikh's back?
Two Clever Fools
1971
7.7Manolios decides to quit working on a ship and return to Crete so he can marry his beloved one, Lenio.
Enter Manolio
1970
1960s · 18 titles
6.1After 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
5.9The late Pericles gets permission from God to return to earth and help his family, who has gone astray after his death. Invisible to all but present everywhere, he is able to eavesdrop on what's going on: his youngest daughter lives it up with some Teddy boys, his eldest do not intend to marry her fiancé, his son has become a crook, and his wife a gambler.
Descended from Heaven
1965
6.9When it comes to his wife, Orestis is suspicious of everything, be it a moustachioed chauffeur or a lost pair of bumblebee-yellow gloves. But, are his fears justified or is this case of the lost fashion accessories a big misunderstanding?
The yellow gloves
1960
6.3Intent on marrying into money, two antagonists will stop at nothing to seduce a young heiress, renouncing their sweethearts just to get a greater chance at a lucrative love. But, what does the girl have to say about their risky business?
Poor Bums
1961
4.8A super market owner opposes the affair of his daughter with a new employee at his business.
Gold and Tin
1962
5.3When an open-hearted folk man, a butcher of the profession, buys an apartment to stay with his family in a block of flats in a lush neighborhood, the tenants are colluding in order to get him away. The only defenders are the concierge and a general who will think of a clever way to correct the situation.
Kolonaki Conduct Zero
1967
6.5The 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
5.5As he slips into something more pastoral chic to boost sales in an Athenian travel agency, a poor countryman finds love in the person of an unexpected admirer. What does his official fiancée have to say about his shameless shenanigans?
Agent Kitsos calls Gastounis
1967
5.7The daughter of a miser grocer react to their father's effort to marry with the man he approves. When her uncle from America and her older sister arrive, the situation radically changes, because the new arrivals happen to be open-minded and view things in a different light.
A Bird in the Hand Is Worth Two in the Bush
1965
6.0A bachelor by conviction not watch the girl who works at the shop cashier is in love with him, despite all the efforts of the landlady.
The Miserable
1962
5.8Two young people are trying to make their common life although have to face the obstacle of an authoritarian mother. The young man, trying to overcome his financial difficulties, will be involved with a suspected man in a hypothetical big bay.
The Daywork of Happiness
1960
7.1A sometimes blind and sometimes mute homeless panhandler becomes the pivotal point in a modular story composed of secret love affairs, bittersweet conclusions, the end of an era, and pure hope. How hard is it to find an honest man?
Wanted honest
1963
5.5A couple of rich Greek-Americans travels from New York to Piraeus with their five nephews, who are unaware that their uncle has decided to implement a plan to find out who is the most suitable to inherit his immense fortune.
A Ship Full of Papadopoulos
1966
5.2No synopsis available yet.
Aspasia's dollars
1967
6.9An anachronistic and paleolithic father tries to find a good, honest husband for his daughter.
Theodore and the gun
1962
7.4Alexia 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
7.1A dedicated classical music tutor who keeps burning bridges with everyone in the name of art is unwilling to reconcile with his successful bouzouki player neighbour. But, can those two bury the hatchet for their children's sake?
Beethoven and Bouzouki
1965
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
1950s · 22 titles
6.2Charming, affluent--with his father's money--and self-assured, a frivolous son who can have any woman he desires falls head over heels for a beautiful Italian student; however, she is a hard nut to crack. Will he manage to impress her?
An Italian in Greece
1958
7.0No synopsis available yet.
Ρωμέικη καρδιά
1953
7.9In 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
7.6Four 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
7.0After 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
6.6Lalakis is married with Poppe. He goes on a trip to Salonique by train, with his mistress, pretending that he has business there to attend. After his wife found out the truth about the motive of her husbands trip, finally accepts the proposition of Nikos, a man who was in love with her for a long time, and they go to a little village called Thyrassia, which has also a train station. By accident Lalakis and his mistress get down at the same station just to rest a bit but they manage somehow to lose the train. The train station manager hosts both of the couples at his house for the night and unfortunately introduces everybody..
No Harm's Done
1955
4.2Madame 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
7.0All the village society, but especially the President Thimios Tambourlas and the policeman Miltiadis Sourvos, welcome Mr. Toni and his wife Judy. They have come to spend their honeymoon in Kolopetinitsa and this is a great honor for the village. No one suspects that this is a pair of bandits who fled to the village until their robbery was forgotten ...
Vacation in Kolopetinitsa
1959
7.8A good-natured paterfamilias who is struggling to make ends meet rests his hopes on his successful expatriate brother to finally see their older sister get married. However, is the wealthy sibling willing to help?
Fanouris and His Kin
1957
6.4A streetwise guy, according to a will, has to marry an extremely ugly old lady to get the money of the inheritance.So he tries to trick a poor devil into getting married with her.
The Beauty of Athens
1954
6.0A barber owes a lot of money to his landlady, who shows great patience and understanding, hoping that one day he will convince him to marry her.
Goal in Love
1954
7.5Two poor portable barrel piano players ramble through Greek countryside and play in fairs. They meet by chance with a rich runaway girl whose father offers a large reward to her finders.They have to choose between getting the reward or helping the girl with her renegade love affair.
The Hurdy-Gurdy
1955
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
8.0Surrounded by wealth, an impecunious young lady leaves home and the suave man of her dreams to spread her wings in Athens. But, he refuses to give up on her. Will she ever know that love awaits at the villa with the four marble stairs?
The 4 Stairs
1951
6.8Antonis is the nephew of the good-hearted grocer Harilaos Toukouras. He is slothful and lazy but he is the only heir to his uncle, who considers marriage as the only solution to his nephew’s problems. That’s why he is looking for a bride for him by checking the newspaper ads. Due to a printing error, an ad for the sale of a sewing machine appears in the personal ads column, bringing uncle and nephew to the house of a serious and honest estate agent who has two single sisters.
Come to Uncle
1950
7.1Agatocles, a grumpy and gruesome caffector, finds out a baby's out of his cafe and, to the surprise of everyone, decides to adopt it.
Grousouzis
1952
5.8Returning to Athens after the end of the World War II, Captain Nikolas finds out what happened to his family from a neighbor.
Bloody Christmas
1951
6.2A down-to-earth grocer yields to pressure and decides to follow his wife's advice to put to good use his deceased Jewish associate's gold sovereigns, even though he cherishes his simple lifestyle. In the end, can money bring happiness?
The Tower of Knights
1952
6.8Loukis, after a successful break-in, manages to escape the police chase thanks to a younf flower seller named Krinoula who introduces herself as "Little Mouse". He will take her with him in his hideout where he lives with Vangelis, Hristina and their gang leader Costas. Loukis wants to live an honest life and so he rents a room with the Little Mouse and tries to astart over. Costas though is not yet ready to see his criminal gang disband...
The Little Mouse
1954
7.5Pavlaras and Petrakis have spent the money that Kaiti's father gave them two years ago and continue to travel around Athens with their lantern. However, Pavlaras is not well and needs to rest, as recommended by his doctor. Petrakis collects money from their friends, but it is not enough to cover their expenses. He is then forced to secretly sell the lantern without Pavlaras' knowledge.
Laterna, Poverty and Carnation
1957
6.0A look at poverty in post-war Athens. Kosmas, a young man living in the slums, constantly tries to make ends meet, hoping for a better day. Because of debts, he gets tangled up in smuggling. His morals are tested and he tries to find a way out.
The Magic City
1955
5.8Vangelis is a lazy guy who's trying to earn some money to marry his beloved, but he is captured by the police who confused him with a wanted man. Eventually, the true crook is arrested and Vangelis returns to his beloved.
The Big Shark
1957
1940s · 2 titles
7.0To help her sick mother, a girl is hired for what she believes to be a simple delivery service. That will cause her serious problems with her boyfriend and with justice.
Fallen Angels
1948
7.44 years after the Nazi occupation in Greece, the Greeks are involved in a Civil War and they are killing each other. Theodoros, a quiet and modest man, disgusted and disappointed, falls asleep and has a nightmare. Hitler is alive and the Nazis strike back with new, more powerful weapons.
The Germans Strike Again
1948
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9.0A kind-hearted man from the Greek province falls deeply in love with the beautiful daughter of his self-made entrepreneur boss. However, complications arise when another suitor enters the equation. Who will prevail in this romantic test?
A Nanny and a Maid, Everyone
1971
9.0Two lazy friends (Mimis Fotopoulos and Ntinos Iliopoulos) find a job as ice-cream vendors to pay their back rent. When they start giving ice-cream to poor children for free, their boss, incensed, chases them off, and they take refuge in a nightclub, where they disguise themselves as female dancers. One misunderstanding follows another, until the impresario seeks them out, offering them a job as a comedy routine.
Above all... Coolness
1951
9.0Two lazy friends (Mimis Fotopoulos and Ntinos Iliopoulos) find a job as ice-cream vendors to pay their back rent. When they start giving ice-cream to poor children for free, their boss, incensed, chases them off, and they take refuge in a nightclub, where they disguise themselves as female dancers. One misunderstanding follows another, until the impresario seeks them out, offering them a job as a comedy routine.
Above all... Coolness
1951


