Giannis Fermis

Acting

Giannis Fermis

Born 1921-04-08 · Smyrne, Turkey

Yannis Fermis (real name: Ioannis Kagkas, 8 April 1921 - 26 January 1999) was a Greek actor. He was born in Smyrna in 1921. After the Asia Minor Catastrophe, he moved with his family to Larissa. He studied at the Drama School of the National Theatre. He pursued a career mainly in the field of musical theatre and revue and collaborated with many leading actors in the field. He took part in many tours in Greece and abroad. He also developed a rich activity in the field of cinema. He played characteristic roles in more than forty films and appeared in well-known television series. He died in Larissa from cancer and was buried there. His financial problems became a topic on television windows in 1998. He was helped by Thymios Karakatsanis.

Acting credits

Never on Sunday poster
6.9

An American scholar in Greece sets about improving the local prostitute with whom he is infatuated.

Never on Sunday

1960

The Cradle That Rocked You poster
10.0

Three sisters, Barbara, Theodora, and Kiki, have inherited an old mansion from their father, but they cannot sell it unless they first find a husband for their fourth sister, Filio, who is both deaf and dumb. Two suitors reject her immediately and she rejects the third suitor, but falls in love with the fourth, a diplomat who turns out to be a fraud. The suitor of the youngest sister, Kiki, Markos Spyropoulos, who is a building contractor, decides to bring order to the house. Already living there are Barbara's lazy future husband, Tryfonas, and Theodora's fiancé, Pantelis, who is a lifelong student. Filio is sent to Australia to find a groom, but she returns on the same ship to finally marry a middle-aged man, Prokopis.

The Cradle That Rocked You

1966

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

Gold and Tin poster
4.8

A super market owner opposes the affair of his daughter with a new employee at his business.

Gold and Tin

1962

Aristides and his Girls poster
7.2

Aristides, a widowed professor, lives with his housekeeper Eudokia and his three daughters, whom he has raised with strict principles. But what happens when he discovers that his daughters are planning a party? He takes drastic measures and forbids them from leaving the house. He entrusts Faidon with the task of finding them husbands. The girls' friends, Giorgos and Dimitris, then dress up as young ladies and present themselves at the house as their classmates from the conservatory...

Aristides and his Girls

1964

I Want a Forceful Man poster
6.5

Mrs. Mina is fed up with her husband Laki's excessive kindness, patience, and stoicism. She can no longer stand his gentle nature and, with his consent, goes out in the evenings with his friend Fani. Nionios, another friend of Lakis, who is also fed up with his behavior, in an attempt to change him, tells him about his exploits with women and urges him to find a mistress. That same evening, the naive Lakis recounts to Pavlina, Nionios' wife, what his friend told him, and she, in order to take revenge on her husband, decides to seduce Lakis.

I Want a Forceful Man

1959

The Wedding Dance poster
4.1

Isaiah 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

As the bride and groom wish poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

As the bride and groom wish

1959

Lovers Without a Dime poster
8.5

Three poor men who have lost their jobs decide to swindle a wealthy Greek-American who returns to his homeland in search of his nephew.

Lovers Without a Dime

1958

Μια 'βδομάδα στον παράδεισο poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Μια 'βδομάδα στον παράδεισο

1964

For the Love of my Child poster
10.0

Antonis is a tough and heartless guy who, after several years in prison, is released and returns home, causing great turmoil in the previously peaceful life of the village. Everyone fears him and avoids any kind of conflict with him for any reason. Tassos, however, who has recently returned from abroad and has a heightened sense of justice, does not hesitate to confront him in order to win Vasso's heart and save her child (from her first marriage), who has been kidnapped by Antonis in order to blackmail her.

For the Love of my Child

1963

Elsewhere the Cackling poster
7.0

The revolution of an oppressed husband, whose wife locked him in the coop.

Elsewhere the Cackling

1960

A Father by Accident poster
9.0

The discovery of an abandoned infant disrupts the lives of residents in a poor neighborhood of Athens.

A Father by Accident

1957

My Boss Was a Fool poster
8.0

Melpomene is working as economies of wealthy bachelors Charalambous many years. At some point they realize that the years have passed and it has not done anything important for yourself and thus decide to begin coming with Theodore who are butchers. Charalambos gets Besides, when one night I go out with a girlfriend and encounters in a center Melpomeni dancing with Theodora.

My Boss Was a Fool

1969

Kitsos Mini and Souvlaki poster
7.0

Kitsos from Gastouni comes to Athens and gets a job at the souvlaki restaurant owned by Dimos from Roumeli. He falls in love with his boss's daughter, Zeta, but she does not reciprocate his feelings. After a heated argument with Dimos, he quits and leaves. He opens his own souvlaki restaurant and is very successful. His terrified competitors try everything they can to learn his secret and even go so far as to recruit the beautiful Suzy to seduce him.

Kitsos Mini and Souvlaki

1968

The Wooden Shoe, the Gun and the Bow Tie poster
10.0

In 1927, a student in Athens met three young women and broke up with them during pregnancy to return home. Years later, his three identical sons have grown up, and they are unaware of each other's existence.

The Wooden Shoe, the Gun and the Bow Tie

1957

Σουσουράδα poster
9.0

Sousourada is the spoiled daughter of Nikolakis, a wealthy man. She is consistently mischievous and is always upsetting her family. A poor young man falls in love with her and decides to do anything he can to tame and marry her.

Σουσουράδα

1960

The Treasure of the Beatitude poster
7.6

Theoni finds a strange way to gain some money, in order to pay her bills , by renting rooms in her rickety house.

The Treasure of the Beatitude

1959

If All the Women in the World poster
6.0

In a mountain village, a conflict develops between peace-loving and war-loving women, culminating in a global women's alert for peace and social justice.

If All the Women in the World

1967

The Death of the Young Man poster
6.5

We are in the mid-19th century, in a village where a matchmaker, Panousis, convinces the widowed lord Artemis Lycopanagos to give his daughter, Pothiti, to his worthy beau, Avgeris, and himself to marry the beautiful Poulias. The matchmaking is completed and the parents of the two young people accept the union, without knowing that their children love each other madly. Avgeris, who does not want to betray his beloved, refuses to take Pothiti as his wife and comes into conflict with Lycopanagos, and is killed. Poulias is forced to take refuge in a monastery, and shortly afterwards she dies in turn.

The Death of the Young Man

1961

The Lady Kiosk Owner poster
9.0

A good-hearted taxi driver dreams of living comfortably and rich. In her attempt to help people, she upsets her little neighborhood.

The Lady Kiosk Owner

1970

The Cicada and the Ant poster
5.3

Two friends and co-owners of a flower shop, Eudaimon and Loulis, live by completely opposite principles. One enjoys himself and lives carefree, while the other works hard and plans for the future. When the "grasshopper" ogles his kind housewife, eyeing her olive trees, the "ant" tries to bring him to his senses. But the girl, whom the ant plans to introduce to the cicada, will ultimately enchant him.

The Cicada and the Ant

1958

Ο βιολιστής της φάπας poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Ο βιολιστής της φάπας

1989

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