Nikos Tsachiridis

Acting

Nikos Tsachiridis

Born 1933-09-09

Nikos Tsachiridis (September 9, 1933 – August 3, 2015) was a Greek actor. He was described as the "tough guy" of Greek cinema. A child of Pontic uprootedness and fatherless, he emerged from a very young age in the harsh struggle of life. He played in many films of both black-and-white and color Greek cinema. His first appearance was in the film Magic City (1954) by Nikos Koundouros, where the director gave him a small role. His roles in most films were secondary, usually those of the "tough guy". Nikos Tsachiridis always played his role convincingly, which is why he prevailed as one of the "tough guys" of Greek cinema. He was a footballer and a member of the Panhellenic Association of Paid Footballers (PSAP), while in addition to being an excellent actor he was also one of the best stuntmen in cinema. He lived in his detached house in Melissia. In recent years he suffered from Alzheimer's disease. He was buried in the Melissia Cemetery.

Acting credits

Angels of Sin poster
9.0

A young man with ideals, equipped with a high-school diploma, dreams of a quiet and honest life. Nevertheless, being unable to find a job and facing the problems of unemployment, he gets involved in a ring of thieves. The hoodlums organize a major heist. Lefteris agrees to take part in order to solve his money problems and live happily with his girl. Things, however, do not develop smoothly. The hero, at the last moment, manages to escape and avoid arrest by the policemen, thanks to the help of a girl who works in a cabaret in Piraeus and is in love with him.

Angels of Sin

1966

Η ζωή ενός ανθρώπου poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Η ζωή ενός ανθρώπου

1968

Glory Sky poster
7.1

During the cold spring of 1941, with Greece already under German occupation, a long-suffering squad of war-battered soldiers receives orders from the headquarters in Athens to fall back, leaving behind the Albanian Front. As the men retreat through the snow-covered landscapes of the bomb-scarred Greek countryside, the terrifying certainty that nothing will ever be the same again crushes their weary human souls.

Glory Sky

1962

Bouboulina poster
6.8

The life and action of Laskarina Bouboulina. Captain Lascarina decides to organize the revolution in Spetses and to participate herself, despite her double widowhood. In the struggle for the liberation of Greece, she gives all her property and fighting along with her lads.

Bouboulina

1959

The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Travels with Father poster
6.1

While visiting Russia on his father’s lecture tour, Indy runs off on his own and meets Leo Tolstoy. Later, on a trip to Athens, Indy and his father are forced together by circumstance when they get into a bind in the monasteries of Meteora, where they share some memorable moments.

The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Travels with Father

1996

Loafing and Camouflage poster
7.6

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

Οι κολασμένοι poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Οι κολασμένοι

1964

Χάιδω poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Χάιδω

1967

Sky Riders poster
6.2

When an industrialist's wife and kids are kidnapped by terrorists in Greece, the woman's ex-husband comes to the rescue with a plan involving hang gliders.

Sky Riders

1976

Arpa Colla poster
6.5

"Arpa-colla" in Greek literally means "Grab and stick", a phrase used to show something that has been done quickly and therefore isn't good enough. This is what the 2 main heroes of the film are doing. The one is a director(Giorgos) and the other an author(Kostas) with communistic ideas, who has won a prize at a festival. They both want to make a movie for the cinema. But every idea they have never comes true, because every time they meet someone to whom they tell their idea, they change their mind, and they want to make a totally different movie, ideas varying from political cinema to Greek historical dramas and modern films with motorcycle gangs. Not a bad attempt for the Greek cinema of the early 80's, which starts to wake up from the hibernation of the 70's.

Arpa Colla

1982

Island of Death poster
4.8

A British couple on a break on a small Greek Island spreads terror beyond anything the Islanders could ever have imagined, only stopping every once in a while to shag anything that moves, be it man, woman or animal. But will they go unpunished, or will the inspector from London be able to put an end to their killing spree?

Island of Death

1976

The cry of truth poster
7.0

A young woman who lost her husband five years ago to a naval tragedy in the seas of Indochina does not say to lose her hope. He always lives with the remembrance of his form and with the certainty that he will once come back alive and she will reassert him in her arms.

The cry of truth

1971

Μίσος poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Μίσος

1963

Never on Sunday poster
6.9

An American scholar in Greece sets about improving the local prostitute with whom he is infatuated.

Never on Sunday

1960

Kamikazi Tsantakias poster
5.6

Poseidon is a peaceful man who cares about nothing more than his job at the factory and his violin at home. One day, he discovers that his brother, Michalis, whom he considered a conscientious medical student, has become involved with a gang of pickpockets. To save him and bring him back into line, he transforms himself into a kamikaze pickpocket...

Kamikazi Tsantakias

1982

Wanted honest poster
7.1

A 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

Come in, Kitso! poster
6.5

A naive provincial, Kitsos, who lives in Athens, accepts to work as a doorman in the apartment building where his old friend Aris lives, in order to help him marry the owner's daughter, Poly. Because the latter is quite a difficult character, Kitsos is forced to play the fool. Then, he discovers that Poly is in love with another resident of the apartment building, the famous singer Yannis Vogiatzis. Poly's father assigns Kitsos to monitor his daughter, because he suspects something, while his maid manages to charm him, and marry him, and the apartment building is disturbed by his incredible antics.

Come in, Kitso!

1968

Οικογένεια παντρευόμαστε poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Οικογένεια παντρευόμαστε

1986

The Striker with Number 9 poster
5.3

The story of a talented yet self-destructive soccer player in Greece. Based on the novel of the same name by Menis Koumandareas, the film narrates the life and works of Vassilis Seretis, a young, unknown, poor, but talented and ambitious football player, who dreams of conquering the pitches. The hero is willing to give everything and suffer whatever it takes in order to conquer the football world. With his talent as his only weapon, he tries to define his destiny, on a route from Thessaloniki, to Volos and from there to Athens. With him, we taste the mud of the fields, the loneliness of the countryside, the "sold out" matches, but also the ephemeral glow of success. Pantelis Voulgaris signs a film that left an era, as, in addition to its original directorial perspective, it outlines the phenomenon of Greek football in a poetic and at the same time realistic way.

The Striker with Number 9

1988

In the Vertigo of Sin poster
9.0

After the end of the war, a Nazi officer returns to Greece with the aim of recovering the hidden property of a Jew whom he had killed. The daughter of the murdered man will trap him with her charm, take back her property, and avenge her father's murder.

In the Vertigo of Sin

1972

Fylakes anilikon No. 2: Ekdikisi sti via poster
5.7

Stefanos, Giorgos, and Nondas are three young men who ended up in juvenile detention for stealing a bag containing three million euros. After a few years, they are released, full of the experiences they had during all those years locked up in prison. Their goal is to start a new life, avoiding all the mistakes and temptations of the past. Unfortunately for them, however...

Fylakes anilikon No. 2: Ekdikisi sti via

1984

Καραγκούνα poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Καραγκούνα

1961

Ο Τελευταίος... Μπάτσος poster
10.0

A police officer is called, along with his team, to investigate a kidnapping case of a young son of a businessman.

Ο Τελευταίος... Μπάτσος

1987

Imperiale poster
6.3

The selfish mistress of a soldier, Zoe, betrays her lover and marries the emperor of Byzantium. She then convinces her husband to banish her lover (and his devoted general) to the isolated castle of Monemvasia . When astrologers predict the end of the world and even specify the exact date, the now empress Zoe, instead of holding her position and supporting her husband, prefers to spend the last days of her life with her former lover.

Imperiale

1968