Vagelis Protopapas

Acting

Vagelis Protopapas

Born — Died

1917-01-01 — 1995-05-21

Place of birth

Tinos, Greece

Known for

Acting

Credits

48 titles

Vangelis Protopapas (Greek: Βαγγέλης Πρωτόπαπας, Tinos 1917 - May 21, 1995) was a Greek actor. He was originally from Messolonghi and was the son of a senior judicial officer. His father, Dimitrios Protopapas, a first-instance judge and member of parliament, intended him to be a lawyer, but in his first year of law school he decided to pursue a career as an actor, studying at the National Theatre School where he enrolled in 1937. He interrupted his studies in 1938 for military service, and graduated in 1942, with honors in the top ten. He was a friend of Dimitris Horn, with whom he graduated together, of the director Alexis Solomos, as well as of Melina Mercouri. He had important roles in …

Known for

Film credits

1980s · 25 titles

Ο χασοδίκης poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Ο χασοδίκης

1989

Σιγανοπαπαδιά poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Σιγανοπαπαδιά

1988

To Glyfitzouri poster
7.0

Babis is a middle aged employee in a tourism office. Married with Varvara, a housewife, with two adult kids, he is having a middle life crisis. He falls in love with Eleni, a young & beautiful salesgirl at a boutique who has recently broken up with her boyfriend. The affair is marred by a series of unfortunate events that will finally give Babis a new perspective and appreciation of home life.

To Glyfitzouri

1985

Η ... Μικρομεσαία των Μπάτσων Σχολή poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Η ... Μικρομεσαία των Μπάτσων Σχολή

1987

Ο χαρτοπαίκτης και το χαμίνι poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Ο χαρτοπαίκτης και το χαμίνι

1989

Το κορίτσι του υποπλοιάρχου poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Το κορίτσι του υποπλοιάρχου

1987

Σας έπιασα στα πράσα poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Σας έπιασα στα πράσα

1987

Μπρος στρατός και πίσω τρέλλα poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Μπρος στρατός και πίσω τρέλλα

1988

O proikothiras kai to manouli poster
NR

Liza is the only daughter of a millionaire and at an art exhibition she meets Alexis Valvis, who, although unemployed and penniless, pretends to be a wealthy shipowner in order to find a rich bride. He invites Liza to his yacht and picks her up in his car. In reality, both belong to Liza, but she has borrowed them through various schemes. Liza does not reveal to him that the yacht and the car are hers...

O proikothiras kai to manouli

1986

Τράβα μου μια ...φωτογραφία poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Τράβα μου μια ...φωτογραφία

1987

Champion poster
7.0

Who is this dangerous and elusive stranger who enters Thanasis's life and causes him problems and adventures with his striking resemblance? Is he an agent of a foreign power? Is he a ruthless criminal? Is he someone who wants to destroy his happiness? Is he a common opportunist, or is he an alien? And what should Thanasis do to confront him and ultimately emerge as the "champion"?

Champion

1989

Thanasis in the country of Will poster
4.7

No synopsis available yet.

Thanasis in the country of Will

1988

Καμαριέρα χωρίς καριέρα poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Καμαριέρα χωρίς καριέρα

1989

The Big Nostril poster
6.4

Sotiris Moustakas is Thiseas Doxapatris, a detective with a twin brother.

The Big Nostril

1981

One But... Leon poster
7.4

After the sudden death of his grandfather, the pervasive Stathis suddenly finds himself president of a large public limited company but is in danger of being out of business because he does not find the shares he has inherited. These young people are also looking for these shares, who manage to turn all the members of the board against them. But Stathis shows, from the very beginning, that he is the absolute sovereign and does not raise any doubts, while at the same time instructs a private detective to find the valuable shares.

One But... Leon

1988

Erastis horis gynaika poster
6.0

Tolis, an avid lottery ticket buyer, wins the first prize, but while celebrating his success in the streets, he is killed by a passing car. However, he returns to his wife as a ghost, having been granted permission by the Almighty, with the aim of restoring her...

Erastis horis gynaika

1986

The Yannis who became Tzonis poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

The Yannis who became Tzonis

1986

I Rita... kai to Ritaki poster
1.7

The theft of a valuable painting from New York and the kidnapping of the daughter of the painting's owner, Harris Savvas, puts Rita Kalogirou, a private detective, in trouble. A wealthy family of art collectors in Greece is the focus of suspicion. Rita enters their home pretending to be Savvas' daughter, who is friends with them. On her first night there, she discovers two terrible secrets. One is that she is in love with the youngest member of the family, Petros, who is a rally driver. The second secret gets her into even more trouble...

I Rita... kai to Ritaki

1989

Hungry and a gentleman poster
5.5

The life of a sidekick goes from bad to worse as it can not find a job and do not have to eat. Returns Thessaloniki disappointed and determined to kill himself, but knows a rich girl, prepared and this put an end to her life.

Hungry and a gentleman

1989

Taste from Greece poster
4.7

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

Taste from Greece

1980

A Madhouse Named "Hellas" poster
7.3

Thanasis lives in today's conditions, where Greece is a madhouse. A police sergeant after many years of impeccable service, he anxiously awaits his long-awaited promotion. At the new police station where he has been assigned, somewhere in the center of Athens, he faces incidents of daily madness, lawlessness, and corruption, while also dealing with his own personal anxieties about his unfortunate family, especially his son, who is an anarchist. There is no shortage of conflict between them, as each tries to impose his ideas and beliefs on the other. But who are the people behind the illegal networks, and how can Thanasis find a way out of his predicament?

A Madhouse Named "Hellas"

1988

Rena, ta resta sou! poster
5.3

Rena Verygou is a woman who gambles constantly at the casino. However, her husband, Dimitris, has a problem with this and does not like Rena being at the casino. He vows that she will never touch a deck of cards again. When her husband Dimitris goes on a business trip to Frankfurt, Rena and her friend Despoina find the opportunity to go to the casino in Rhodes, but they get caught up in comical situations.

Rena, ta resta sou!

1985

Anyone Else for Heaven? poster
6.3

The honorable Ieremias Ayioklimas has a car accident and is driven to Heaven, where he asks God to allow him a temporary return to Earth in order to pay his debts to the bank. God agrees and sends him back, together with another dead man named Machos and the Archangel Ezekel.

Anyone Else for Heaven?

1983

I Really Play the Man poster
5.3

Zinon is a successful fashion designer but he has family problems. His wife, his children and his parents-in law are too abusive and uncaring. Everything changes when the police starts looking for a serial killer who is identical to Zinon.

I Really Play the Man

1983

Alles ton protimoun gouli poster
8.0

Vangos and Alkis, poor musicians, in their anxiety to earn a living, unwittingly become entangled in the web of an illegal gang. To save their lives, they disguise themselves as women and are hired along with five girls in a female music band. But their troubles are not over. The comical misunderstandings that arise lead them to a dead end...

Alles ton protimoun gouli

1986

1960s · 6 titles

The Wise Guy poster
6.9

Alekos (Dinos Iliopoulos) is in love with Voula (Maria Voulgari) whose brother threatens to kill him if he doesn't marry her soon. Alekos' father (Pantelis Zervos) on the other hand insists that Alekos' sister (Zoe Laskari) has to get married before him. His sister Annoula (Zoe Laskari) is in love with Antonis (Stephanos Stratigos) and pressures him to ask for her hand in marriage from her family. Antonis meets Alekos by accident at a cafe in Panorama - they don't know each other - and advises him to use the infalible method of "escaping through an engagement" to calm down Voula's brother. This is after all what he intends to do himself... And God help them...

The Wise Guy

1962

Κατηγορούμενος... ο Έρως poster
6.5

No synopsis available yet.

Κατηγορούμενος... ο Έρως

1962

The Tough Guy poster
5.5

Iraklis (Hercules) Leontopoulos is a low-paid employee with a heart of gold, who inherits a building together with its tenants. His easy disposition is his biggest problem because he can not collect any rents. In addition, he can not make any evictions nor can he demand any increase in the rents. Everything is about to change when his lawyer Aleka Palli makes him play the tough guy in order to collect the unpaid rents. The consequences of this transformation will be hilarious.

The Tough Guy

1961

Marriage Lads poster
7.0

Fotis and Kosmas are partners in a country resort. They are not so concerned with their work as they are with their unmarried sisters. Finding the right husband is their primary concern, but they don't know that behind their backs, Fotis' sister is dating Kosmas, and Kosmas' sister is dating Fotis.

Marriage Lads

1963

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

Koutroulis` Wedding poster
5.0

A tailor mistakenly considered an ambassador of a foreign country, which exploits the future father in law to present him as a groom on frivolous daughter.

Koutroulis` Wedding

1962

1950s · 10 titles

Trouble for Fathers poster
6.5

George finished his studies and returned to Greece and his father, Anthony Delistavrou, assigned to the plant in order himself to live his life. He thinks it has conquered Rena, which, however, is a friend of George. Anthony will be forced to land when the learned but would COMFORT her friend Rena, Bill........

Trouble for Fathers

1957

The Counterfeit Coin poster
7.6

Four 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

Santa Chikita poster
7.2

A poor man accepts the money someone offers him to marry a foreign woman so that she can stay in Greece.

Santa Chikita

1953

A Hero in His Slippers poster
7.4

A veteran general, living poorly but honestly with his wife and his daughter, is visited by his future son-in-law who informs him that he is going to immigrate to Australia. On the same day, his cousin Apostolos pays him a visit as well and tells him that the government intending to honor him has decided to construct his statue and place it at the small square in front of his house.

A Hero in His Slippers

1958

Jealous like a Cat poster
7.6

The wife of an industrialist who doesn't care about her creates a plot with her cousin to make him jealous.

Jealous like a Cat

1956

No Harm's Done poster
6.6

Lalakis 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

A Ripple in the Pond poster
6.2

A peaceful, though extremely mean, family man, Manolis, is married for ten years to Veta. Some night he spends an astronomical amount of money at a night club, with his partner Giorgos and two pretty and cheerful Greek-American girls, Margaret and Evelyn. However, to his bad luck, Evelyn is no other but Vangelitsa, his wife’s cousin, who visits the next day for lunch.

A Ripple in the Pond

1952

A Young Miss... Aged 39 poster
6.9

Telemachus, an unhappy old man, still lives with his sister, whom he expects to restore so that he marries the woman he loves. In the end, he is persuaded by a friend to put an ad in the newspaper to find her bridegroom, without mentioning her real age and highlighting her dowry. Finally, two bridal candidates appear: A retired and a Greek-Argentine landowner...

A Young Miss... Aged 39

1954

The Swindlers poster
6.5

Three friends living day by day on the streets of Athens by put-up jobs.

The Swindlers

1954

Greedy for Everything poster
7.2

The avaricious Athenian, Fanouris Karababas, forbids his daughter to marry her beloved and behaves cruelly to his wife. But she persuades him that he suffers from a rare disease.

Greedy for Everything

1952

1940s · 2 titles

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