Despoina Stylianopoulou

Acting

Despoina Stylianopoulou

Born 1932-07-08 · Messini, Messinia, Greece

Despoina Stylianopoulou studied vocals at the Hellenic Conservatory and theater at the Dimitris Rontiris Drama School, from which she graduated in 1959. She made her film debut in 1960, in the film Stranger in the Night, and since then she has established herself in comedic roles. Her most common role was that of a provincial housemaid who made grammatical errors. She also played the common girl in non-leading roles.

Acting credits

The Grouch poster
6.9

A nephew of three strange uncles loves a girl, but his uncles are against the marriage. A resourceful aunt takes the case and helps the couple.

The Grouch

1969

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

Oh, That Woman of Mine! poster
6.0

A man finds out that his boss had a quarrel with his wife, so he now tries to present her as his housemaid.

Oh, That Woman of Mine!

1967

My son-in-low, the fortune hunter poster
4.8

A clerk, choked by debts, accidentally knows a rich girl and for the sake of wanting to leave the Trailer Trash he loves. But the latter did not easily give up

My son-in-low, the fortune hunter

1967

Miss Manager poster
7.5

The strict and formal director Lila Vassiliou has under her orders all the staff of the technical office of which she takes over the management, but at the same time, she is looking to find ways of charm to conquer the lively sub-engineer Alekos Samiotakis.

Miss Manager

1964

The Smart Aleck poster
6.3

A smart young man is forced to pretend to be stupid in order to get a job in the office of a strict businessman, whose daughter he is in love with. By pretending to be stupid, he manages to save the businessman from making major mistakes, winning his sympathy.

The Smart Aleck

1966

Alice in the Navy poster
6.6

Aliki is in love with someone who serves his duty in the greek navy. Wanting to see him, she disguises as a navy soldier and gets aboard her lover's ship. Things get more complicated when she comes accross the ship's captain; her father!

Alice in the Navy

1961

The Brightest Star poster
5.4

A girl from the slums of Athens becomes a famous singer while falling in love with her songwriter.

The Brightest Star

1967

Ουδείς Αναμάρτητος poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Ουδείς Αναμάρτητος

1967

Three Loonies poster
6.5

Spiros is working to the laundry of the captain Nikola but wants to be an actor, gi` self whenever it goes to shop dressed in a military school and go to photo GEL in order to have as much as possible photos in the file. One day will wear the uniform of captain Virgin, who has just returned from Italy, in which he will find forgotten photographs of actress Laura Fiorentina. The captain Panag will give an interview to Spiro and naval tell stories. Meanwhile a scandal would erupt in Italy. All this will create upheaval in the Captain's house and the wife Evanthia will leave him with the suspicion that the has cheated.

Three Loonies

1969

The Bluffer poster
7.3

John Halaris is neat antiques and incurable bluffer. After a successful bluff to three friends in Hydra, he returns to Athens. The carefree single life will change completely when they visit a young girl pretending to be his daughter. At first he thinks it is a bluff, but quickly convinced that Gianna is indeed daughter, by his first and only love of his life, Miranda ...

The Bluffer

1969

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

My Dimitri... My Dimitri poster
6.4

An almost irresistible attraction between the rich daughter of a factory owner and a successful popular singer will lead to marriage against her father's will. Is he the good and honest man everybody says? Will money corrupt him, too?

My Dimitri... My Dimitri

1967

Our love poster
6.1

An usherette in a theatre, where a distinguished and popular actor performs, gets her big break when the leading actress has an accident. The director decides to take advantage of the heretofore unexploited talent of the girl and asks her to replace the leading actress. This unexpected opportunity transforms her from a humble usherette into a shining star. Later on, she wins the heart of the leading actor with whom she was secretly in love. However, her sudden rise to theatrical-musical stardom creates complications in their love affair, as her companion sinks into disappointment and drowns himself in drink, abandoning his career. Nevertheless, the usherette/leading actress doesn't give up; She looks for him, finds him and supports him, psychologically and morally, until he makes a comeback to the stage and their love nest.

Our love

1968

Σαπίλα και Αριστοκρατία poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Σαπίλα και Αριστοκρατία

1965

Captain Fandis Bastounis poster
6.5

Captain Andreas, a widower master learns that the planned departure postponed and the crew discovers hidden in the ship's refrigerator a girl, Marina. The company and the kind of behavior makes him take her with him to his home in Poros, which is home to the sister of Royal and two nephews. The presence of the marina there inflamed passions and causes the scheming sister, culminating when he set sail for the trip. When his ship sinks and he is considered missing, his sister declares him dead, eliminates the Marina and trying to reap his fortune with the help of their lawyer. Some time later, Andrew returns secretly finds Marina, marries her and takes her to his home, where enforce order ...

Captain Fandis Bastounis

1968

Να με λένε δημαρχίνα να ψοφάω από την πείνα poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Να με λένε δημαρχίνα να ψοφάω από την πείνα

1989

World and Kosmakis poster
5.2

Yearning to make a fast buck, a suave swindler and his statuesque fiancée approach a factory owner and his wife who thirsts to break into the high-end social circles, unbeknownst to them that he is on to them. Will he get rid of them?

World and Kosmakis

1964

The Father-in-Law poster
5.5

Xristos is married to the rich Rena. In fact the rich is his mother-in-law, who has big business abroad. In Greece the mother-in-law gives the hotel's managment to Xristos but also loads to him all the work. Desperate, he decides to slam the yoke and kill her ...

The Father-in-Law

1968

Sucker Groom poster
6.7

Two fanciful friends earn a half-apartment in a lottery and are forced to cohabit, while they like the same girl and want to marry her. So one tries to put obstacles in the other and engage in comic situations.

Sucker Groom

1962

Stranger of the Night poster
9.0

A woman offers shelter to an English officer who arrives at the island of Mykonos under Italian occupation.

Stranger of the Night

1960

Conductor 007 poster
5.5

An honest employee saves some valuable documents when a fire breaks out in the factory where he works, at the risk of his life. But the secrets hidden in these documents are capable of destroying the relationship between his two bosses.

Conductor 007

1966

Η σούπερ μάρκα poster
4.0

No synopsis available yet.

Η σούπερ μάρκα

1988

Gerontokoros poster
6.4

Thanasis is against marriage, by conviction. But he changes his mind when hiring Mary as secretary.

Gerontokoros

1967