Taygeti

Acting

Taygeti

Born — Died

1914-06-29 — 2003-01-28

Place of birth

Marousi, Athens Prefecture, Greece

Known for

Acting

Credits

48 titles

Taygeti (Greek: Ταϋγέτη, 1914 - 2003) was born in Athens and her theatrical studies include the National Theater Academy of Greece. She made her first appearance on stage in the mid 40s. Shortly after she was arrested for her left-wing beliefs, was imprisoned and exiled. She suffered tortures at the hands of her guardians but she never abandoned her ideology. After her release she continued to work on stage alongside important Greek actors and concluded her theatrical career as a member of the National Theater of Greece(from 1984-1992). She also appeared in about 70 movies usually playing the ugly old-maid. In her final days she seemed a lonely, unapproachable woman usually smartly dressed i…

Known for

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

Innocent Souls poster
7.0

A children's film about the adventures of a young boy, Lampros, who returns to school after an absence of many days due to an accident. Lampros has a loyal and true friend in his dog, whom he calls Lykos (Wolf), with whom he spends endless hours of games and carefree abandon.

Innocent Souls

1960

Betrayed poster
7.0

Manos, owner of an entertainment center, is being watched by a mysterious woman. At the same time, the club's singer tries to get close to him, gaining the trust of his wife. She senses that something is wrong and, seduced by the appearance of an old flame, she leaves her husband, only to regret it immediately afterwards.

Betrayed

1965

A Rich Without Money poster
4.2

A poor accountant, in order to raise money for his marriage, finds a second job in a luxury hotel where he accepts to change his name and life with a rich playboy who wants to try if women want him for his money .

A Rich Without Money

1967

School for Chauffeur Ladies poster
6.8

Babis and Dinos have a driving school in partnership with several customers. And while fetching Dinos manages to combine a joy of life with his conquests, the Wretch Babis, left the thicker, the poor and elderly clients faculty ..

School for Chauffeur Ladies

1964

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

Film credits

1970s · 3 titles

1960s · 30 titles

Innocent Souls poster
7.0

A children's film about the adventures of a young boy, Lampros, who returns to school after an absence of many days due to an accident. Lampros has a loyal and true friend in his dog, whom he calls Lykos (Wolf), with whom he spends endless hours of games and carefree abandon.

Innocent Souls

1960

Betrayed poster
7.0

Manos, owner of an entertainment center, is being watched by a mysterious woman. At the same time, the club's singer tries to get close to him, gaining the trust of his wife. She senses that something is wrong and, seduced by the appearance of an old flame, she leaves her husband, only to regret it immediately afterwards.

Betrayed

1965

A Rich Without Money poster
4.2

A poor accountant, in order to raise money for his marriage, finds a second job in a luxury hotel where he accepts to change his name and life with a rich playboy who wants to try if women want him for his money .

A Rich Without Money

1967

School for Chauffeur Ladies poster
6.8

Babis and Dinos have a driving school in partnership with several customers. And while fetching Dinos manages to combine a joy of life with his conquests, the Wretch Babis, left the thicker, the poor and elderly clients faculty ..

School for Chauffeur Ladies

1964

Μια 'βδομάδα στον παράδεισο poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Μια 'βδομάδα στον παράδεισο

1964

Meletis of the Flying Squad poster
4.8

The life of the kind-hearted policeman Study, and endless unexpected incidents faced

Meletis of the Flying Squad

1966

Lazy like a dog poster
5.6

A lazy and wasteful slacker who enjoys living off his hard-working brother reluctantly accepts to work as a debt collector. Now, he is in love, and for once in his life, he is good at something. Can the boss' daughter straighten him out?

Lazy like a dog

1963

My Poor Little Sparrow poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

My Poor Little Sparrow

1965

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 Jar poster
6.3

Two poor friends live together and hope to earn some money to marry their beloved ones. When they discover a jar full of pounds in a building site, their lives change.

The Jar

1962

Papatrechas poster
7.8

Polydoros Lagos is a janitor in an ordinary Athens' block in the 1960s who's struggling to serve as many of the building's residents as possible in order to save some money to help his six sisters (and his aunt) get married, since this is the only way he can finally get married too.

Papatrechas

1966

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

A Tramp's Christmas poster
8.0

A man from Thessaloniki travels to Athens to punish the swindler who cheated his kind-hearted father. However, he falls in love with a girl and when she becomes pregnant, they decide to get married. When the swindler is murdered, the authorities arrest the young man as the culprit. The confession of the real murderer will free the man seven years later. His beloved is nowhere to be found, and he wanders around Syntagma Square like a vagrant. There he meets two children selling lottery tickets. The little girl is his daughter. A lucky lottery ticket will be the reason for him to find his beloved again and live happily for the rest of his life.

A Tramp's Christmas

1962

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

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

We without money poster
5.0

A poor young man leaves the city that lives and works to go to Athens. On the way he will meet one mad, who falls in love with him , and a young women falling in love.

We without money

1963

The Tourists poster
10.0

A pair of struggling artists meanders through Athens, Greece, posing as tourists to keep a roof over their heads.

The Tourists

1963

Lafina poster
7.0

Giorgis is the only son of the richest tseligas of a mountain village. Although he is considered a sought-after groom, he only has eyes for Droso, who reciprocates his feelings. The obstacle to their love is Giorgis' father. He is a cruel usurer who has confiscated the girl's fields. After a fight between father and son, the former falls dead. However, everyone believes that Droso killed him. Droso runs away from the village and takes refuge in the caves and cliffs, among the lads of the robber Zarvas, who helps to uncover Bournova's murderer. The murder has been committed by Maria, a noblewoman in love with Giorgis, who is subsequently arrested by the gendarmerie. Thus, Droso is now free to marry Giorgis.

Lafina

1962

The Grocer's Errand Boy poster
8.7

Agathonas tries to avoid marriage with Panoraia, his boss's sister.

The Grocer's Errand Boy

1968

The Card Player poster
4.5

Stavros, having just finished his military service and fearing that he will lose his beloved Rita, decides to imitate the fortune teller in his neighborhood. He succeeds with great success, convincing even Rita's parents that the man they were matchmaking her with is not suitable for their daughter.

The Card Player

1967

Manolakis Teddy Boys poster
7.0

Manolis and Manolios are two mischievous plumbers who decide to get married through classified ads. After meeting the nieces of their prospective brides, they find themselves working as waiters in a wealthy household.

Manolakis Teddy Boys

1967

Out Poverty and Good Heart poster
5.7

Thanasis Kourtis came from the countryside to Athens to find his friend, the well-known impresario Giorgos Oikonomidis. Oikonomidis cannot find him a job, but suggests that he open an agency to seek out new talent. Thanasis follows his advice, and one of his first clients is Kostas, the son of industrialist Lyridis, who wants to become an actor. Eleni, who wants to help him and win him over, becomes Thanasis' secretary.

Out Poverty and Good Heart

1964

Tsakitzis: The Patron Saint of the Poor poster
5.3

No synopsis available yet.

Tsakitzis: The Patron Saint of the Poor

1960

Prokopis the Unlucky One poster
10.0

Prokopis and Nikos, two unemployed, bumbling friends, are looking for work through the employment agency run by their acquaintance, Patroklos. They get jobs as babysitters, but fail miserably. Immediately afterwards, Prokopis takes on the task of guarding a dead body, facing many problems, while Nikos gets a job at a souvlaki restaurant, where he is fired from the very first moment...

Prokopis the Unlucky One

1969

Beggar of Love poster
8.0

A pop singer with a good heart and a lot of achievements, Manos, tenderly loves an orphan anthopolida, Annoula, which works several years in the center singing Manos, in order to finish high school. When he decides to leave Daisy's mistress and marry Anna, the girl's natural father, who was missing seventeen years in Canada, intervenes and claims her. He tries to redeem her stepfather and mistress, Mr Spyros, who, however, refuses. Anna is following her natural father in Thessaloniki. Mr. Spiros is in danger of dying from his fortune, and Manos gets sick by losing his voice. But everything is corrected by the return of the girl and the revelation that her father suddenly remembered it because she intended to put in the money her mother left.

Beggar of Love

1964

The Matchmaker poster
7.0

Georgia Vasiliadou claims to be a simple housewife. And an inveterate matchmaker! She spies on everyone and everything and issues a daily bulletin about what is happening in a working-class apartment building in Athens in the 1960s. Most importantly, however, she marries everyone who has been left on the shelf and even "makes" children for those who don't have any! A hilarious comedy

The Matchmaker

1966

The Hunk poster
6.5

Alexis, a charming little man, has taken on the task of looking after his nephews Kostas and Tolis, who have their eyes set on two beautiful neighbors, Anna and Kaiti, the nieces of a strict captain. When Kostas' aunt, Loukia Lolochampero, telegraphs from Africa that she is coming to Greece, they decide to throw a party and invite the two cousins so they can meet in person. The aunt postpones her trip, but the party must go on. They convince Alexis to dress up as a woman and pretend to be their aunt.

The Hunk

1968

Από λαχτάρα σε λαχτάρα poster
10.0

Stamatis and Kosmas are two clumsy brothers who saved the life of desperate Annoula.

Από λαχτάρα σε λαχτάρα

1967

Kokovios and Sparos in the Spider's Web poster
9.0

A scientist, inventor of the "ray of life", is found murdered. The perpetrators are Arachne and the inventor's former assistant, Mona. However, the two naive servants of the deceased took the blueprints of his invention with them when they left: Kokkovios and Sparos. Arachne and her gang constantly set traps to extract the coveted paper from the two fools.

Kokovios and Sparos in the Spider's Web

1967

1950s · 9 titles

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

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

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

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

Happy Bums poster
7.5

Two jobbers meet an actor, when the sneak in a theater. The actor is homeless and they invite him to stay with them He will know and love their neighbor, who is studying classical dance.

Happy Bums

1958

The Heirs of Karampoumpounas poster
3.5

A notary calls in the office three brothers: Theophrastus, Telis and Kokkovio Karampoumpouna and announces the death of their distant uncle from Chicago, who left their legacy sixty thousand US dollars, provided to start a company together. Telis, the most intelligent, has its own photography and aims, with the help of his fiancée Bubi, eat whole heritage. Two friends Bubi, Mirka and Jenny, are employed, diplaronoun naive and the plan seems to be going well.

The Heirs of Karampoumpounas

1959

Bed of Grass poster
7.5

Agioupa, an unruly orphan girl, sleeps in the fields, choosing the company of the birds to her fellow villagers.

Bed of Grass

1957

Dating Agency poster
4.2

An elderly man, Kosmas, gets involved in a fight and, trying to escape from the police, runs into Maritsa, who is standing in the museum garden waiting for the man of her dreams. He falls in love with her and they decide to get married, but all he knows about her is that she is looking for a husband through the marriage bureau of Pipi and Fifi.

Dating Agency

1956