Vagelis Protopapas

Acting

Vagelis Protopapas

Born 1917-01-01 · Tinos, Greece

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 the films A Hero in Slippers (1958), Santa Chikita (1953), The Fake Pound (1955), The Jealous Cat (1956), Miss 39 (1954), etc., all with Vasilis Logothetides, with whom he was closely friends, but also in the television series Police Officer Thanasis Papathanasis (1990), Androcles and His Lions (1985), etc. He was also the Director of the Municipal Theater of Argos. He participated in many television and radio series. E. Protopappas was also a painter, and left behind several works. (Source: Wikipedia)

Acting credits

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

Marina poster
6.5

An island girl comes to Athens and ends up as a singer in a cabaret. There she meets a sailor called Vasos. Her nostalgia for her island and Dimitris, a young man who loves her and waits for her to return, cannot be extinguished by the city's temptations. When Marina returns to the island, she marries Dimitris and has a child with him. After many years, Vasos comes to the island by chance, and Marina asks him not to reveal her past to Dimitris in order not to disturb their happy life together.

Marina

1947

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

Σιγανοπαπαδιά poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Σιγανοπαπαδιά

1988

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

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

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

Anyone Else for Heaven? poster
7.0

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

Μπρος στρατός και πίσω τρέλλα poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Μπρος στρατός και πίσω τρέλλα

1988

Τράβα μου μια ...φωτογραφία poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Τράβα μου μια ...φωτογραφία

1987

One But... Leon poster
7.5

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

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

Καμαριέρα χωρίς καριέρα poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Καμαριέρα χωρίς καριέρα

1989

Προσοχή! Μας βάλανε μπόμπα... poster
10.0

Thanasis works at the reception desk of a luxury hotel. Every day he finds himself in unbelievable situations, trying to satisfy the crazy demands of the hotel's guests. All this will change one day when a crazy bomber invades the hotel, taking Thanasis' daughter hostage.

Προσοχή! Μας βάλανε μπόμπα...

1990

Taste from Greece poster
6.5

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

Taste from Greece

1980

Ο χαρτοπαίκτης και το χαμίνι poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Ο χαρτοπαίκτης και το χαμίνι

1989

Santa Chikita poster
7.1

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

Santa Chikita

1953

Η ... Μικρομεσαία των Μπάτσων Σχολή poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Η ... Μικρομεσαία των Μπάτσων Σχολή

1987

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

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

Σας έπιασα στα πράσα poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Σας έπιασα στα πράσα

1987

Thanasis in the country of Will poster
4.7

No synopsis available yet.

Thanasis in the country of Will

1988

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

Κατηγορούμενος... ο Έρως poster
6.5

No synopsis available yet.

Κατηγορούμενος... ο Έρως

1962