
Acting
Vasilis Kailas
Born
1953-05-01 (73)
Place of birth
Piraeus, Greece
Known for
Acting
Credits
52 titles
Vasilis Kailas (Greek: Βασίλης Καΐλας, Piraeus, May 1, 1953) is a Greek actor. He started his career alongside Elli Lampeti, in the movie The Last Lie, when he was 4 years old. Very soon he established himself in characteristic supporting roles (and leading roles in Maria Plyta's films such as O lustrakos, O emborakos). Later he switched to the theater. In 1985 he was the star of the film You got a degree. He participated in a total of 117 films, not only Greek but also foreign. He went down in history as the child prodigy of Greek cinema. His first experience in dubbing began while working with Yiannis Kalatzopoulos and George Nezos. Later he did dubbing for ERT series and films directed …
Known for
4.2When mysterious creatures invade a Greek seaside port, a misfit band of musicians, tourists, bodybuilders, and grannies unite to save the city in this quirky action-comedy.
Minore
2024
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Θέλω πίσω το παιδί μου
1969
8.0No synopsis available yet.
Kostis Palamas
1993
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Στη θύελλα της μεγάλης αγάπης
1972
7.3Proinos Kafes was a television daytime show aired by ANT1 in Greece during the period 1991-2009. Though it has received low ratings in the past years, it was one of the longest running and well known shows in Greece. The show consisted of different segments which included fashion shows, game and prizes, interviews, and live music from Greek and foreign artists. 'Proinos Kafes previous hosts': 1991-1994: Roula Koromila, 1994-1995: Popi Chadzidimitriou, 1995-2005: Eleni Menegaki, 2005-2008: Eleonora Meleti 2008-2009 Katerina Zarifi and Nikos Moutsinas 2009 George Lianos and Despoina Kabouri, 2009- Vicky Kaya Since the start of the show in 1991, the show has toured different parts of Greece including different areas of Athens, Heraklio on the island of Crete, Patras, Thessaloniki and many other places in Greece. The theme song of Proinos Kafes, was "Kalimera" - a song originally sung by Alexia Vassiliou, also known as, Alexia, in her 1990 album, 'Ela Mia Nyxta'.
Πρωινός Καφές
1991
6.6In 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
Film credits
1980s · 3 titles
6.1A breadwinner, Thanasis Trampas, decides to open a shop renting motorbikes. When the local bikers begin to bother him, he turns into a kamikaze to deal with them.
Vengos the Crazy Kamikaze
1980
10.0No synopsis available yet.
Πήρες πτυχίο;
1985
4.5It concerns the sinful life and scandals of Metropolitan of Preveza, who was involved in various suspicious cases. His activity is described in the darker colors and the subject gets political dimensions, in relation to the prevailing situation within the Greek Church.
The Saint of Preveza
1982
1970s · 2 titles
1960s · 42 titles
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Θέλω πίσω το παιδί μου
1969
6.6In 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
10.0No synopsis available yet.
Το κορίτσι του πόνου
1964
5.1Infatuated with a handsome sculptor, an overindulged daddy's girl will make use of every trick in the book--including a cunning but charming impersonation--to reach her goal. But, will the pampered heiress have it her way once more?
The Liar
1963
5.9The consistency of a family with 13 children tested when a childless couple asks Americans to adopt the 14th located in his mother's belly.
Horafa family
1968
8.0No synopsis available yet.
Πλήγωσες την Αγάπη μου
1966
6.5200 BC. During a merciless drought, the brute nature of man and the delicate essence of woman become inextricably intertwined, as the omnipotence of the carnal instinct demands the total surrender of the flesh.
Young Aphrodites
1963
6.0Madalena 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
7.9The 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
7.0Thanasis Vengos plays a poor young man that comes to Athens looking for a job. We watch as he tries many different jobs; druggist, photographer, even wrestling referee. The result is always hilarious and explosive!
Jack of All Trades, Master of None
1963
6.3In a mountain village, a dying woman reveals a secret to the priest and entrusts him with her two children, Dimitrakis and Annoula. Growing up, Dimitris leaves for Athens, finds a job, and shortly after, Anna arrives. He falls in love with Betty, while Stefanos is interested in Anna. Stefanos helps Dimitris to become a singer, but the revelation that the two children are not siblings, as Anna is the daughter of Mr. Pantelis, overturns everything and gives them the right to be together.
I will turn my heart to stone
1968
8.0No synopsis available yet.
Θα ζήσω για σένα
1965
6.0A mother fights tooth and nail to get her child back from an orphanage. She left him there when the man of her life, the child's father, abandoned her, leaving her alone and helpless. But she is not discouraged and continues her struggle.
Hearts in the storm
1963
7.2Stelios Kondogiorgis (Dinos Iliopoulos) and Thomas Makrykostas (Costas Hajihristos) are two quiet men that come from the same Peloponnese village yet do not know each other. Their families however are involved in a bloody feud that started 80 years ago. Stelios and Thomas are the last male members from each family. After the last murders in the village where a member of each family died, Stelios' uncle (Pantelis Zervos) urges him to find and kill Thomas for revenge lest he finds him and kills him first. At the same time Thomas is visited by his aunt (Joly Garbi) who asks of him the same and provides him with weapons. Despite everything, neither Stelios nor Thomas are interested in murdering one another and they are both terrified from the idea that a stranger is looking for them in order to kill them. So, they decide to leave their respective jobs and hide at some remote hotel. Luck brings them together without them knowing of each other's identity as they share a room.
Makrykostas and Kontogiorgis
1960
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Κατατρεγμένοι της μοίρας
1964
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I'm an unhappy woman
1964
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The great oath
1965
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Δυο μάννες στο σταυρό του πόνου
1962
5.5Two childhood friends are steered apart by their parents
The Winner
1965
6.5A poor young man, working hard, manages and becomes a captain on a ship of the shipowner, in whose home his mother worked older as a shipwreck. But he resigns when he discovers that the ship is dangerous.
Sometimes even the strong cry
1967
8.0A man from Thessaloniki travels to Athens to punish the swindler who cheated his kind-hearted father. However, he falls in love with a girl and when she becomes pregnant, they decide to get married. When the swindler is murdered, the authorities arrest the young man as the culprit. The confession of the real murderer will free the man seven years later. His beloved is nowhere to be found, and he wanders around Syntagma Square like a vagrant. There he meets two children selling lottery tickets. The little girl is his daughter. A lucky lottery ticket will be the reason for him to find his beloved again and live happily for the rest of his life.
A Tramp's Christmas
1962
4.1Isaiah and Anargyros are partners and keep together a wedding bureaux office. Things are not going well lately, and Isaiah's wife, Kallirroi, is in charge of helping the situation. She finds a bridegroom for her daughter, a wealthy family. But the groom is not as rich as he is in fact the son of the groom. The situation is getting even more confused since her daughter is not the daughter of a shipowner as he presented her!
The Wedding Dance
1966
6.5Louisa's father does not approve her young painter lover because he is poor.
For the heart of beautiful Helen
1967
6.2The small loustrakos Vasilis Maras alongside the school of fine on the streets of Athens to make money. The mother finds injustice in prison for the murder of Demetrias. With the persistence of the king, however, and the help of a lawyer, the Karelia, the mother of leaving prison.
Loustrakos
1962
7.0Giorgis is the only son of the richest tseligas of a mountain village. Although he is considered a sought-after groom, he only has eyes for Droso, who reciprocates his feelings. The obstacle to their love is Giorgis' father. He is a cruel usurer who has confiscated the girl's fields. After a fight between father and son, the former falls dead. However, everyone believes that Droso killed him. Droso runs away from the village and takes refuge in the caves and cliffs, among the lads of the robber Zarvas, who helps to uncover Bournova's murderer. The murder has been committed by Maria, a noblewoman in love with Giorgis, who is subsequently arrested by the gendarmerie. Thus, Droso is now free to marry Giorgis.
Lafina
1962
6.7As Pelopidas is going around hungry, trying to find something to eat, a misunderstanding makes him seem like a thief. In order to escape his persecutors, he runs trying to hide. He hitchhikes and gets a ride by a truck, whose driver happens to be his fellow villager who knows the runaway’s past. Pelopidas has been working hard since his childhood, but due to his naivety nobody is serious with him. His return to the village where was born gets him mixed up in more trouble.
A Patented Stupid Man
1963
10.0No synopsis available yet.
Δρόσω η αρχοντοπούλα
1967
9.0No synopsis available yet.
Η πικραγαπημένη
1965
5.0Revolving around the modern Greek woman and her perspective on love in general, not one, but twenty-one brief and vivid vignettes attempt to shed light on an ever-present matter: can there be consequences in Cupid's eternal game?
The Greek woman and love
1962
7.2An avid fan of football and fan of Panathinaikos falls for the daughter a fan of Olympiakos. The effort to reconcile with the father of the girl, and perennial football rival, will be full of misunderstandings and humorous.
The Madman
1963
9.0The poor daughter of a once-famous musician sees her world turn upside down when she gets fired, and her beau, the son of a wealthy industrialist, finds himself without a place to live. Will his cruel father realise his grave mistake?
Τι κι αν γεννήθηκα φτωχός
1967
7.7Lena Konstantinidi, a wealthy young woman who is paralyzed, falls in love with a poor student, Alexis, who sells newspapers to earn money for his studies. The evil stepmother Elsa, who envies her husband's daughter, is opposed to this marriage and does everything she can to thwart it, even going so far as to accuse Alexis of stealing a valuable statuette. However, her plans are completely ruined, thanks to Alex's kindness and the help of a young street vendor whom Alex had taken into his home after the death of his mother.
The Merchant
1967
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Αγωνία μιας αγάπης
1963
7.0No synopsis available yet.
Ας με κρίνουν οι ένορκοι
1969
10.0To preserve his mother and sister, Michalis works at the port of Piraeus. His sister falls in love with a poor young man, but she is engaged to another man. When the girl loses her light in an accident, her fiancée will disappear, and only the young man who really loves her will stay with her. The latter will sell the coffee shop that is given to him by a friend and he will be able to cure it in America.
We despised My Sweetness
1965
10.0The tragic story of a woman who divorces her rich husband after the intrigues of her mother-in-law.
Angels Without Wings
1965
3.8A shoe shiner works hard to support his poor and suffering mother, whom his father has heartlessly abandoned. But one day, his father returns, remorseful but now wealthy, and re-enters their lives. Unfortunately, bad luck prevents the shoeshine boy from enjoying his happiness...
Why did you abandon me?
1965
6.5A young man, Spiros, abandons his beloved without knowing that she is pregnant. The girl remarries, while the boy who is born is tormented by his stepfather. As the years pass, Spiros returns from abroad, searching for traces of his son, who has run away from home to escape the torment he is suffering...
Storm in a child's heart
1965
7.0No synopsis available yet.
Μπροστά στην αγχόνη
1968
7.0No synopsis available yet.
Τα παληόπαιδα
1963
4.3To earn money, Panos becomes a sailor and leaves behind his wife and children. However, the money is not enough, and his wife works here and there to make ends meet. The release of his lazy brother from prison will worsen the situation, as the latter will force his brother's wife to give him the money she earns. Panos' ship is missing and his wife falls ill, forcing their children to take to the streets to bring money home. The little girl loses her sight after an accident, and only her father's return can cure her, while sending her prodigal brother back to prison.
Broken Hearts
1963
8.0No synopsis available yet.
Stay close to me my love
1968
Series credits
8.0No synopsis available yet.
Kostis Palamas
1993
7.3Proinos Kafes was a television daytime show aired by ANT1 in Greece during the period 1991-2009. Though it has received low ratings in the past years, it was one of the longest running and well known shows in Greece. The show consisted of different segments which included fashion shows, game and prizes, interviews, and live music from Greek and foreign artists. 'Proinos Kafes previous hosts': 1991-1994: Roula Koromila, 1994-1995: Popi Chadzidimitriou, 1995-2005: Eleni Menegaki, 2005-2008: Eleonora Meleti 2008-2009 Katerina Zarifi and Nikos Moutsinas 2009 George Lianos and Despoina Kabouri, 2009- Vicky Kaya Since the start of the show in 1991, the show has toured different parts of Greece including different areas of Athens, Heraklio on the island of Crete, Patras, Thessaloniki and many other places in Greece. The theme song of Proinos Kafes, was "Kalimera" - a song originally sung by Alexia Vassiliou, also known as, Alexia, in her 1990 album, 'Ela Mia Nyxta'.
Πρωινός Καφές
1991
No synopsis available yet.
Όλη η δόξα... Όλη η χάρη...
1989


