Nikos Galanos

Acting

Nikos Galanos

Born 1945-12-20 · Athens, Greece

Nikos Galanos (artistic pseudonym of Nikos Soupionas, Athens, 20 December 1945 - Papagou, May 2025) was a Greek film, theater and television actor. He began his career in the 1960s and became quite well-known in the early 1970s with leading roles in Greek cinema films.

Acting credits

Panic poster
6.5

Returning from a business trip to Rhodes, Markos finds out that his sick son has been kidnapped. He agrees to pay the ransom that the kidnappers demand but the police officer Makridis sees that the money used is marked so they can track them down.

Panic

1969

The Daughter of the Sun poster
6.0

The plain of Thessaly, 1910. The tenant farmers suffer untold hardships, both from the Arvanites invaders who ravage and seize their possessions and from the chief landlord of the area Stratos Karatzas, who claims the lion’s share of their harvest. The dynamic daughter of one of the tenant farmers, Maya, who is about to get married to a young farmer, Lefteris, leads their struggle for better conditions and confronts Karatzas – as well as his niece Vgenio, who also wants Lefteris. The latter plots and succeeds to separate them. Lefteris leaves for the army and Karatzas persuades Maya to marry him. Lefteris is captured during an ambush set by the Turks, but in the end he is set free and returns to Maya’s arms forever.

The Daughter of the Sun

1971

I goiteia tou hrimatos poster
9.0

Two brothers, one woman in their lives. Their erotic passion brings them face to face. They compete fiercely through the IT companies they represent. Intrigues and murders strike mercilessly at both sides. The law of "an eye for an eye" prevails...

I goiteia tou hrimatos

1988

The ship of fools poster
NR

The Zoumpos, a smart, lively and cheerful punk, which is Margarita dressed boy smuggled aboard a cruise ship. Certainly not slow to discover. Captain of the ship is Manolis Sorokos ....

The ship of fools

1989

Γλυκιά μου Μαρί poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Γλυκιά μου Μαρί

1987

Μια βαλίτσα όνειρα poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Μια βαλίτσα όνειρα

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

Astrapogiannos poster
5.3

The battle-scarred hero of the Greek Revolution, Giannos "Astrapogiannos", returns home after the end of the blood-soaked War of Independence, only to find himself in a new conflict, as he locks horns with a ruthless local Kodjabashis.

Astrapogiannos

1970

Descended from Heaven poster
5.9

The late Pericles gets permission from God to return to earth and help his family, who has gone astray after his death. Invisible to all but present everywhere, he is able to eavesdrop on what's going on: his youngest daughter lives it up with some Teddy boys, his eldest do not intend to marry her fiancé, his son has become a crook, and his wife a gambler.

Descended from Heaven

1965

A Funny Girl poster
6.3

The son of a shipping magnate finds himself increasingly drawn to a lively circus clown, unaware of her profession. This doesn't sit well with his companion, and a war in the name of love begins. Is he capable of loving the funny girl?

A Funny Girl

1970

Aliki the Dictator poster
4.5

A young woman arrives in Athens with her dog after the death of her father, the head of a bouzouki band that broke up because television took away their work. She settles in the humble home of a friend, who is married to a petty crook, and looks for work. At some point, she meets a blind student and a mutual attraction develops between them, which blossoms into love.

Aliki the Dictator

1972

Visibility Zero poster
6.6

Angelos Kreouzis (Nikos Kourkoulos) survives a shipwreck and reveals to the committee in charge that the disaster was not an accident, but the consequence of the neglect of the ship by those responsible.

Visibility Zero

1970

Ta simadia tis vias poster
NR

Stefanos is a successful businessman, and violence enters his life completely unexpectedly when three young men rape his daughter. The "marks" they leave on her soul and the police's sluggishness in finding the culprits lead him to decide to find them himself and punish them...

Ta simadia tis vias

1989

A House in the Clouds poster
4.6

As the accomplished and independent flight attendant for the Olympic Airways, Elli Makri, returns to Athens after a long-stay visit in London, her mind is consumed by brief but uncomfortable flashbacks. Sooner or later, Elli will strike up an acquaintance with the charming airline pilot-in-command, Telis Exarchos, who desperately wants to have an affair with her; however, there's definitely something that gets in the way. Could it be the notorious philanderer's reputation, or is there a dark secret hidden behind Elli's melancholic eyes?

A House in the Clouds

1978

I Love You poster
5.3

Dimitri Vranas, a young professor of medicine at the university, by mistake will be found in a youthful party where he meets Angela. Angela, has just scold me with her boyfriend Chris, a student of medicine will follow Dimitris home and although he would clear, she would spend the night in the bathtub. The next day he is forced to leave, but will rejoin him in school teaching. You know each other better and Dimitris would propose to become governess Andreas

I Love You

1971

Κλεφτρόνι αγάπη μου poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Κλεφτρόνι αγάπη μου

1987

I Die Every Dawn poster
7.0

The story of three young girls that are sisters and remain with their mother a tavern in the port. The Persa, the more dynamic it has relations with the labeled Zachos. The Tasia waiting at the port for years, the return of her beloved. Hara, a tomboy, reluctant to reveal feelings for Alekos, who sees it as a good childhood friend. Among all these catalytic moves a man of law, Orpheus.

I Die Every Dawn

1969

Βίβα γλυκειά μου Κατερίνα poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Βίβα γλυκειά μου Κατερίνα

1989

Η Αμαρτία Της Ομορφιάς poster
4.1

A pageant queen marries o wealthy man,but his mother will do anything to keep them apart.

Η Αμαρτία Της Ομορφιάς

1972

Girl of Passion poster
4.2

Niovi is an unhappily married girl daydreaming constantly in her erotic fantasies. Her sister sets her up with a gigolo so she could black mail her and her husband but things go wrong.

Girl of Passion

1974

Incredibly Unique and Beautiful... poster
7.0

A sociologist of misfortune, Tasos, with the help of a private detective, Annita, offers two underachievers, Jason and Prokopis, the admittedly exceptional opportunity to spend twenty days in a luxury hotel, because he wants to study the reactions of two working-class types in a posh environment. There, together with Jason's best friend, Sardela, they meet the following characters: an underwear entrepreneur, Markos, who wants to sell two of his companies, and two representatives of another entrepreneur who wants to buy them. Meanwhile, Sardelas falls in love with a singer, Jason's classmate, who is flirting with an actor in order to help her band. Jason falls in love with Anita, who reciprocates his feelings. She reveals to him the "sociologist" game. Jason takes advantage of this and wins five million drachmas.

Incredibly Unique and Beautiful...

1982

O sofos kai i Sofia No. 2 poster
NR

The writer Zolani becomes a father to his wife, Sophia. The baby brings turmoil to the couple's life, as his mother-in-law has strong opinions about him. However, Marina, a young woman who enters Zolani's life, will set things right.

O sofos kai i Sofia No. 2

1988

The Avenue of Hate poster
8.0

An unconscious driver fatally injures a woman and leaves her helpless to die. The victim was the wife of investigator Kostas Kyriazis, who, six years later, is called upon to solve a similar incident. He will not be able to perform his work without emotional involvement and passion, as he leads to the conclusion that the driver being treated is the same as the person responsible for the death of his wife.

The Avenue of Hate

1968

In the name of the law poster
7.0

A traumatised Korean War veteran is accused of arson and murder. Now, the deceased's criminal attorney daughter is determined to send him in prison, even though he claims he's innocent. Will she destroy a man in the name of the law?

In the name of the law

1970