Giorgos Tzifos

Acting

Giorgos Tzifos

Born — Died

1918-01-01 — 1986-05-27

Place of birth

Athens, Greece

Known for

Acting

Credits

60 titles

Giorgos Tzifos (Greek: Γιώργος Τζιφός; 1918 – 27 May 1986) was a Greek actor in theater and movies. He played mostly secondary roles in comedies, even Law 4000 of Giorgos Dalianidis. I Will Make You Queen (as a builder) and I de gyni na fovitai ton andra as a chauffeur. In 1982, he appeared in the movie Alaloum with Harry Klynn. He also appeared in that time in a television series about milk, as a hero of little Bobo. He died on 27 May 1986 and is buried in Athens Cemetery.

Known for

The Travelling Players poster
7.2

A traveling theatre troupe tours the Greek countryside from 1939 to the early 1950s, staging “Golfo the Shepherdess”. As the years pass, its members endure persecution, betrayal, executions, and exile. Their personal stories become entangled with the country’s major historical events, in a seemingly endless cycle of violence and loss.

The Travelling Players

1975

Weak Spot poster
6.2

During the brutal era of the military government, an innocent tourist manager is accused of being a member of the illegal resistance movement.

Weak Spot

1975

Hardbodies 2 poster
3.3

A film crew is travelling from America to Greece to produce a movie. Before their work is done they will have to face many unusual situations, along with numerous opportunities for the actresses to take their clothes off.

Hardbodies 2

1986

The Hunters poster
7.6

During a hunting party on New Year's Eve 1976, five representatives of the bourgeoisie encounter with their companion the body of a partisan from the Civil War of the late forties. What they are most confused about is the fact that the corpse that lies at their feet is still bleeding…

The Hunters

1977

For the Love of Benji poster
5.8

Benji gets lost after a flight overseas and becomes a stray in Athens, Greece. He then tries everyday to reunite with his family while mysterious people pursue him, in a race to get a code which was secretly tattooed on his paw at the airport. But who are the bad guys and who are the agents that can be trusted? Will Benji and his kids and their nanny ever get to enjoy their vacation?

For the Love of Benji

1977

Days of '36 poster
6.4

The assassin of a prominent trade unionist takes a conservative MP hostage, throwing the government into a state of disarray.

Days of '36

1972

Film credits

1980s · 5 titles

1970s · 29 titles

The Travelling Players poster
7.2

A traveling theatre troupe tours the Greek countryside from 1939 to the early 1950s, staging “Golfo the Shepherdess”. As the years pass, its members endure persecution, betrayal, executions, and exile. Their personal stories become entangled with the country’s major historical events, in a seemingly endless cycle of violence and loss.

The Travelling Players

1975

Weak Spot poster
6.2

During the brutal era of the military government, an innocent tourist manager is accused of being a member of the illegal resistance movement.

Weak Spot

1975

The Hunters poster
7.6

During a hunting party on New Year's Eve 1976, five representatives of the bourgeoisie encounter with their companion the body of a partisan from the Civil War of the late forties. What they are most confused about is the fact that the corpse that lies at their feet is still bleeding…

The Hunters

1977

For the Love of Benji poster
5.8

Benji gets lost after a flight overseas and becomes a stray in Athens, Greece. He then tries everyday to reunite with his family while mysterious people pursue him, in a race to get a code which was secretly tattooed on his paw at the airport. But who are the bad guys and who are the agents that can be trusted? Will Benji and his kids and their nanny ever get to enjoy their vacation?

For the Love of Benji

1977

Days of '36 poster
6.4

The assassin of a prominent trade unionist takes a conservative MP hostage, throwing the government into a state of disarray.

Days of '36

1972

Δάκρυα για έναν αλήτη poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Δάκρυα για έναν αλήτη

1971

The Charlatan poster
9.0

An immigrant in Germany works hard to support his father and sister, who live in Greece. When he is forced to return home, he discovers that he has no money because the bank where he kept his savings has gone bankrupt. So he returns hidden in a refrigerated truck and arrives frozen, which starts a battle between refrigerator advertisers over who will convince him to advertise their refrigerators.

The Charlatan

1973

Η Αριστοκράτισσα Και Ο Αλήτης poster
6.5

No synopsis available yet.

Η Αριστοκράτισσα Και Ο Αλήτης

1970

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

The Mediterranean In Flames poster
5.0

A volunteer from a World War II-era Greek resistance group agrees to seduce a German officer in order to gain secrets

The Mediterranean In Flames

1972

The Hotel of the Corrupt poster
7.5

The authorities are monitoring Gregor Vasilievich from Pennsylvania, who is staying at the Pentelikon Hotel. A spy game is underway at the hotel, where Achilles Nikolaou and his wife Liza arrive to spend their honeymoon.

The Hotel of the Corrupt

1972

Ο μεγάλος ένοχος poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Ο μεγάλος ένοχος

1970

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

The Dark Recording of a Heliography poster
9.0

The dark recording of a heliography revolves around the annihilation of the essence of being human, as people are forced to compromise on an increasing number of issues. The main character returns to his hometown and comes up against the past. In the words of the director himself, the film includes "few images, that talk about the loneliness of a man who always stood apart."

The Dark Recording of a Heliography

1977

I Loved an Armchair poster
5.9

Years ago, Grigoris was forced to sell four velvet armchairs to the junk dealer. After the death of his aunt, he was informed that her entire legacy, which was a box of jewelry, was hidden in one of those four armchairs. In the meantime, the armchairs had been sold to other people, and so a desperate quest for the right armchair begins, resulting in many and sometimes grotesque adventures.

I Loved an Armchair

1971

The Man Who Ran a Lot poster
6.7

Thanasis Zevedaios (Thanasis Vengos) has a shop with watches and running but not enough! Time and the clocks have become obsessed after running nonstop in an effort to nourish their relatives. The 'philosopher' brother dies and leaves another four mouths under his protection. The day is divided between the shop, his sister and his niece to marry, and his beloved, who works in a supermarket, while the economic situation and their obligations do not allow them to marry.

The Man Who Ran a Lot

1973

Carefree... Nut poster
5.8

In this color comedy Thanasis trying for years to leave illegally for America to make his life because due to financial can not pay fares, but always something was wrong and left behind. His friend, Nikiforos, advises him to stay in Greece, to work and to look to find the namesake of Thanasis, who helps around the world.

Carefree... Nut

1971

The Terrorist poster
6.0

With the end of the dictatorship, three friends create a Humanitarian Movement to save Greece. In order to raise money, they kidnap a wealthy businessman and threaten to kill him if he does not give them the money they need. Things get complicated when they realize that the businessman's relatives are not interested in him.

The Terrorist

1975

Το κρυφό σπίτι της Αγγέλας poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Το κρυφό σπίτι της Αγγέλας

1972

Ο Πούσκας των Πετραλώνων poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Ο Πούσκας των Πετραλώνων

1972

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

The Bases And Vassula poster
4.9

The adventures of a young naive prostitute when she meets and fall in love with a law student and decides to escape her slavery.

The Bases And Vassula

1975

Curtain Lecture poster
7.3

Lawyer Savvas Tsiviklis receives a gift from an old girlfriend, Kiki Petachtidou, who has just returned from the Congo. The gift is two small wooden lions which, in order not to find his wife Koula and mad in the bedroom, gives them to a well-known young man. In a while, however, his wife comes and gives him the lions he had previously given to the young man. Savvas goes crazy and begins the quarrels and jealousy that bachelor Menios supposes by constantly exclaiming "What good do I do and not get married!" Of course, in the end, they clear everything, since Koula from the beginning She had said the lions were a gift from an old classmate, Ms. Contoyorgus, and those that Savvas gave to the young, though quite the same, were different.

Curtain Lecture

1971

A Bouzouki Different from the Others poster
7.0

Kostas Karavedouras is the conductor of the municipal orchestra in a small town in the country, when he decides to leave for Athens to become a great classic music performer. He is staying temporarily at his cousin’s place and he spends all his spare money with his landlady’s daughter. He works in many places just because he doesn’t want to work as a bouzouki player. Finally, the owner of the club where he was working as a waiter, takes him into performing for him and Kostas ends up being what he always avoided, a bouzouki player.

A Bouzouki Different from the Others

1970

The Lover-Boys poster
6.0

Alekos falls in love with Sophie, daughter of tycoon Grigoriadis, and is presented as the son of industrialist Merntsesoli.

The Lover-Boys

1971

Volunteer in Eros poster
6.2

A kind accountant meets the statuesque owner of a boutique who comes up with a double proposal: apart from bookkeeping, he has to help her with her fiancé. As deeper feelings take over, will this brave volunteer of love emerge victorious?

Volunteer in Eros

1971

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

Thanasis in the land of the cuff poster
8.0

The movie is about dictatorships in Greece – first, the Metaxas regime (1936-1940), and then the Colonels’ Junta (1967-74). In Part One, the Metaxas regime is depicted as a circus, where Thanasis (Thanasis Vengos) is a clown trying to conceal a young colleague’s subversive action. In Part Two, we see Thanasis suffer because of his honesty and kindness, in a country where the system’s irrationality is clearly evident.

Thanasis in the land of the cuff

1976

What Does Man Do To Live poster
7.3

Leandros is a night club owner who is trying to avoid imprisonment by searching for money to pay the insurance contributions. Along with his debts, he has to withstand the pressures of his beloved for marriage.

What Does Man Do To Live

1970

1960s · 21 titles

Thou-Vou Bald Agent, Operation: Havoc poster
7.1

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

I'll Make You Queen poster
7.5

Antonis Tsilivikis, a stingy construction contractor, neglects his home and wife Eleni and forces her to lie to her rich uncle in America, Peter, in order to continue to send a monthly financial aid. But when the uncle notices that he comes to Greece, and in order not to reveal the truth, Antonis disguises himself as a retired named Beizanis, who supposedly rents a room at their home...

I'll Make You Queen

1964

Η αρχόντισσα του λιμανιού poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Η αρχόντισσα του λιμανιού

1969

The Lucky One poster
7.5

A countryman arrives in Athens to make it big and becomes a millionaire overnight. However, a duo of swindlers has set their sights on getting their hands on his fortune. Will he discover the hard way that more money means more problems?

The Lucky One

1968

Crazy, Nuts and Vengos poster
6.4

Thanasis, the waiter of country tavern "The seven brothers", is preparing to marry the Anthoula. Shortly before going to church but has an accident and suffers amnesia. While Anthoula, siblings and friends are waiting for him in the church, he wanders the streets unnecessarily.

Crazy, Nuts and Vengos

1967

The yellow gloves poster
6.9

When it comes to his wife, Orestis is suspicious of everything, be it a moustachioed chauffeur or a lost pair of bumblebee-yellow gloves. But, are his fears justified or is this case of the lost fashion accessories a big misunderstanding?

The yellow gloves

1960

And the Woman Shall Fear Her Husband poster
7.4

When a man decides to marry the woman he's been living with, she stops being the silent patient person she was and claims to be the boss in the house. Her behaviour changes so much after the marriage that the husband gets so irritated as to ask for a divorce even a few hours later..

And the Woman Shall Fear Her Husband

1965

Jack of All Trades, Master of None poster
7.0

Thanasis 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

Ο Κίτσος και τ' αδέλφια του poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Ο Κίτσος και τ' αδέλφια του

1968

The tailor poster
4.5

The relationship between a doctor and his wife gets broken after he came home late last night. Meanwhile, he has to pretend to be a dressmaker because of a misunderstanding between him and the furious fiancé of an old girlfriend he met.

The tailor

1967

Come on People poster
6.5

Thanasis tries to reunite with his wife.He is having for obstacle her mother, which did not want him because he helps anyone in need with any way he can.

Come on People

1967

My Wife's Husband poster
4.5

By closing his pharmacy, Panagiotis Panagiotidis falls on a provocative stranger, Lulu, who leads him to a beach for swimming and then drives him home. There, he learns that he is called Jordan Steka, that Lulu is his wife and that he suffers from a personality split. He asks for police assistance, but the policeman is convinced that he is crazy and he asks for a psychiatrist to prove him suffering from a personality split.

My Wife's Husband

1962

The idiot poster
6.2

An engineer is working hard without any substantial effect and he is not taking seriously the persistent remarks of his wife on this. When a businessman, on the one hand, and his company's executives, on the other hand, will try to lure him to serve their conflicting interests in the construction of a new road, the engineer reacts.

The idiot

1968

Wake up, you sucker... poster
5.4

The Tasia chasing the impostor Lepoura Vangelis arrives with hitchhiking in Athens. Gaining confidence wholesaler Kyriacou Bolore and taken to his house as a maid. The daughter of Kiriakos, Lia, presents the writer Phaedon Tramountana and asks him to finance the scenario. His son Lakis, wants to succeed in the profession of wholesaler and prefers to deal with the rock band. His sister Ismene has in mind only the deck.

Wake up, you sucker...

1969

The Miserable poster
6.0

A bachelor by conviction not watch the girl who works at the shop cashier is in love with him, despite all the efforts of the landlady.

The Miserable

1962

Nomos 4000 poster
5.7

Maria falls in love with George who is a student of her strict father, Andreas Economou. Dolly, a classmate of Maria spends a night with George and the next morning tells Maria about it. ..

Nomos 4000

1962

Wanted honest poster
7.1

A sometimes blind and sometimes mute homeless panhandler becomes the pivotal point in a modular story composed of secret love affairs, bittersweet conclusions, the end of an era, and pure hope. How hard is it to find an honest man?

Wanted honest

1963

Ο ναύτης του Αιγαίου poster
9.0

A group of sailors with two days on-shore leave go to town to have fun with their friends.

Ο ναύτης του Αιγαίου

1968

Ο φιγουρατζής poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Ο φιγουρατζής

1968

Everything the People Wants poster
5.7

Thanasis (Giannis Gionakis) succumbs to the pressure of his wife (Kati Lambropoulou) and buys an old car that turns out to be a shame. Until he can get rid of it and take back his money, there will be a number of misunderstandings and confusions, comic situations, and emotional fools.

Everything the People Wants

1964

I'm going to burn my money. poster
8.5

Kleonis is devoted to chemistry and does not want to start a family. However, his uncle, Timoleon, threatens him if he does not start a family.

I'm going to burn my money.

1968

1950s · 4 titles

The Happy Beginning poster
7.0

Three young musicians and three female singers strive for success, competing each other. But love gets in their way.

The Happy Beginning

1954

Heaven Is Ours poster
6.0

A small and poor girl who lives with her sick adoptive grandmother knows and falls in love with a apotakto Air Force. Friend is an Aviation Group Captain. He and his wife have lost their little girl for several years. It turns out that the poor girl was their daughter.

Heaven Is Ours

1953

Party, Money and Love poster
5.8

Angelos, a law student in Athens, is expecting Lavrentis, his rich uncle from the village, hoping that with his money, his luck will change. His uncle though is very sick and the doctors suggest rest and calmness. Youyou, Angelos' girlfriend though suggests otherwise in order to push the rich uncle closer to his death. And so, Angelos, with two friends from his village, Damian and Sarantis start partying with Lavrentis whose health starts getting better and better. In the meantime Angelos meets Myrto, falls madly in love with her and decide to finish his studies and marry her.

Party, Money and Love

1955

Allou to oneiro, ki allou to thavma poster
6.0

Kokovios and his close friend Nikolakis engage in various odd jobs with the hope that they will eventually find success. The kind-hearted Kokovios helps an elderly woman take her paralyzed daughter, Vasso, to Tinos, where the Virgin Mary always performs miracles. On their return to Piraeus, he learns that his father has died and so he becomes the heir to the family business. As he is no longer penniless, he confidently asks for Vasso's hand in marriage, and she agrees. A typical Greek comedy with naive heroes and excessive optimism.

Allou to oneiro, ki allou to thavma

1957