Makis Demiris

Acting

Makis Demiris

Born 1939-01-01 · Athens, Greece

Makis Demiris (1939 - 14 October 1999) was a Greek stage and film actor. His real name was Kouloumbas Prodromos. He studied at the Pelos Katseli Drama School, from where he graduated in 1963, and worked with great leading ladies, such as Aliki Vougiouklaki and Rena Vlachopoulou. He became known for playing the coffee shop owner "Maki" in the YENED television series "Our Neighborhood". He was a well-known Panathinaikos fan.

Acting credits

King of Liars poster
3.3

Achilleas, who works together with his friend Paminos at Prokopis’ gas station, tries, via correspondence, to find a rich woman from abroad to marry and, in this way, hit the jackpot.

King of Liars

1971

The Grouch poster
6.9

A nephew of three strange uncles loves a girl, but his uncles are against the marriage. A resourceful aunt takes the case and helps the couple.

The Grouch

1969

From the Stable to the Salon poster
6.0

The amateur singer, Magdalo, plucks up the courage to leave her small village in search of a well-paying job and has a chance encounter with the idealist classical musician, Fodas. Bent on taking back the familial plots from a money-grubbing loan-shark, Magdalo lands a job as a resident singer at a trendy nightclub, whereas, Fodas is having a hard time keeping himself afloat. Once more, after Magdalo's rapid rise to stardom, the two artists cross paths; however, they are too proud to admit their deeper feelings for each other. Will those two polar opposites bury the hatchet for love's sake?

From the Stable to the Salon

1972

Doste tin tsonta sto lao!.. poster
10.0

Two police officers are desperately trying to track down the leaders of an illegal pornographic film production ring, with their only clue being the buttocks of a starlet from the industry. Meanwhile, the cunning Nikolakis, who along with his friend Bebis is a fanatic fan of the genre, decides to star in a porn film himself, with the ultimate goal of surpassing the most famous porn star, Tasos, in fame.

Doste tin tsonta sto lao!..

1983

Wheel Bag and Kopana poster
6.1

A 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

Thou-Vou Bald Agent, Operation: Havoc poster
7.3

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

A Matter of Earnestness poster
7.0

Minister Andreas Mavrogialouros (Labros Konstadaras) visits the village of his electoral district, Platanias for the inauguration of a maternity hospital. After an accident, he finds his voters' dissatisfaction and the scams of his partners. He, therefore, decides to step down from the government and bring order to his life, starting from his wife and his daughter.

A Matter of Earnestness

1965

The Man Who Broke the Ice poster
6.4

Lambros Konstantaras performs a wealthy gossip that has never worked, and all he has to do is make fun and jokes to others. But when he suddenly finds himself in the street, he realizes that life is not just fun and is forced to look for a job. In the end, it turns out he had not lost his fortune as it was an idea his father had invented shortly before he died to be

The Man Who Broke the Ice

1972

Zavoliara poster
9.0

Two poor young lovers who dream of making a rich wedding pose as rich.

Zavoliara

1971

Holidays in Vietnam poster
6.3

Returning from a 3 year captivity in Vietnam, a kind chemist finds his wife married to his boss who has become rich due to his invention.

Holidays in Vietnam

1971

National Priests poster
6.5

Papa-Malachias, Papa-Haros and Papa-Bilias have founded the Priestly Band and make appearances at the nightclub "Xerokomata". Their abbot, who is learning their new occupation, comes to Athens, but fails to make sense of them. When he returns to the monastery of Medouli and tells everything to the other monks, they leave the monastery and form their own rebetika bands, causing a crisis in the field of folk song. At the same time, Papa-Lazaros, who is looking for a solution to his financial problems and at the same time is trying to find money to build a new wing for his parish's orphanage, is resorting to the following solution: setting up a football team with priests.

National Priests

1984

Η ανταρσία των 10 poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Η ανταρσία των 10

1970

Η αρχόντισσα του λιμανιού poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Η αρχόντισσα του λιμανιού

1969

Bouzanka à la... Greek poster
8.0

A Naive man from the countryside, affected by the famous Italian cine star Lado Bouzanka and his ladiesman ways, travels to Athens in order to act in a similar way with women, after having sold all his land and ready to spend a lot. He stays with his cousin, a crazy deluded artist and his sexy models. His many attempts with every single girl he meets, are being interrupted by several incidents.

Bouzanka à la... Greek

1975

Aristotelis the Lightweight poster
4.3

A pasta-factory owner, Aristotelis Kolokythas, after two unsuccessful marriages in the past, is now crazy about a folk singer, Mirella. For her sake, he lavishly squanders his pasta profits, despite the earnest efforts of his partner Orestis, to rein in his spending and put some sense into him. When the business finally goes bankrupt, the hero considers leaving for the Congo to work with his twin brother, Vangelis. Suddenly, however, everything changes, as Vangelis arrives in Athens.

Aristotelis the Lightweight

1970

Traffic Cop Varvara poster
4.9

Much 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

Commando and Manoulias poster
5.0

A 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

Cleopatra was Antonis poster
4.7

An unemployed man poses as a housekeeper to stay afloat; but, his fiancée starts to suspect something, the gardener wants more of "her", and his employer's scheming cousins want everything for themselves. Can he get out of the tight spot?

Cleopatra was Antonis

1966

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

Three Loonies poster
6.5

Spiros is working to the laundry of the captain Nikola but wants to be an actor, gi` self whenever it goes to shop dressed in a military school and go to photo GEL in order to have as much as possible photos in the file. One day will wear the uniform of captain Virgin, who has just returned from Italy, in which he will find forgotten photographs of actress Laura Fiorentina. The captain Panag will give an interview to Spiro and naval tell stories. Meanwhile a scandal would erupt in Italy. All this will create upheaval in the Captain's house and the wife Evanthia will leave him with the suspicion that the has cheated.

Three Loonies

1969

The Man from Karpazia poster
7.5

Anestis is a nice guy but he doesn't have the courage to react when others bother him. When one of his close friends brings him some "magic" pills that give Anestis the superpowers of his dreams, everything is going to change...

The Man from Karpazia

1969

The Brightest Bouzouki poster
5.2

The Fanouris broccoli is a traveling salesman who happens to looks amazing with the famous actor George Kartali, which creates a lot of tangles.

The Brightest Bouzouki

1968

My Dimitri... My Dimitri poster
6.4

An almost irresistible attraction between the rich daughter of a factory owner and a successful popular singer will lead to marriage against her father's will. Is he the good and honest man everybody says? Will money corrupt him, too?

My Dimitri... My Dimitri

1967

Καταναλωτική κοινωνία poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Καταναλωτική κοινωνία

1971