Despoina Stylianopoulou

Acting

Despoina Stylianopoulou

Born — Died

1932-07-08 — 2024-06-07

Place of birth

Messini, Messinia, Greece

Known for

Acting

Credits

64 titles

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.

Known for

Film credits

1980s · 8 titles

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

Μια Μαρία... σε τιμή ευκαιρίας poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Μια Μαρία... σε τιμή ευκαιρίας

1985

Η κυρά της φάμπρικας poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Η κυρά της φάμπρικας

1987

Η σούπερ μάρκα poster
4.0

No synopsis available yet.

Η σούπερ μάρκα

1988

Say it... golden mouth poster
6.0

Stathis, an honest and hard-working young man who lives with his uncles, is angry with everyone and everything and literally speaks his mind. He even goes so far as to argue with the woman he loves, the stewardess Katie, who is forced to go abroad at some point because of a serious illness.

Say it... golden mouth

1983

Right... On! poster
5.5

Stathis, an honest and hardworking young man who lives with his uncles, angry with everyone and everything and says literally out of his teeth. Enough, in fact, still arguing with the woman he loves, the attendant Katy, which eventually forced to flee abroad because of a serious illness.

Right... On!

1983

Politsmana, tou samata i mana poster
NR

Despoina is a tough policewoman who doesn't give anyone any breaks. Pameinos has a car repair shop, he's great at his job but clueless in life. The devil brings him to sit next to Despoina at the cinema and try to put his hand on her, and then all hell breaks loose...

Politsmana, tou samata i mana

1986

I Katina... kai to soi tis poster
NR

Katerina, a classic example of a Greek wife, mother, housewife, and working woman, has her own family with its own problems, sometimes funny and sometimes sad, which also fall on her shoulders. After 25 years of marriage, she is also facing marital problems...

I Katina... kai to soi tis

1987

1970s · 9 titles

The Wretched and the Rich poster
6.0

Thessaloniki industrialist Vranas plans to marry his son Alexis to Anna, the daughter of an Athenian industrialist. Alexis reacts to his father's plan and asks his chauffeur Nontas to impersonate his boss at the meeting with his bride. However, Anna does the same with her maid Maria. In the end, Nontas falls in love with Maria and Alexis with Anna, and the two couples get married.

The Wretched and the Rich

1970

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

The Tycoon Lady poster
6.0

Shipowner Karanikas, who has been searching for his lost daughter for years, finally finds her with the help of a limping detective. However, on his way to meet her, he is killed in a car accident, leaving her his entire fortune. Despoina, a street vendor with a talent for singing, suddenly becomes a shipowner and tries to adapt to her new role. While the company's personnel, public relations, and legal affairs managers each vie for the position of general manager, Despoina falls in love with a con man, the playboy Jack, who only wants her for her money. She soon realizes what he is like and sends him away. Her pain is now eased by the financial director, Petros, whom her father had raised as his own son. With him, Despina will find affection, love, and tenderness.

The Tycoon Lady

1971

Ena agori... alloiotiko ap' t' alla poster
7.0

Marina, a poor, hard-working girl, works as an accountant at a fashion house to support not only herself but also her mother and her lazy brother, Sotiris, who hopes to solve all his problems with the lottery. When he refuses to work in Iakovos Dimitriou's sock factory, Marina dresses up as a man and takes his place. Her hard work impresses her boss, the womanizer Petros Sofianos, Dimitriou's partner and fiancé to his eldest daughter, Daizy, winning his trust. At the same time, she also wins the sympathy of Dimitriou's youngest daughter, the silly Olga, who wants to get married at any cost. In the end, there are two weddings: Sotiris and Olga, and Petros and Marina (the latter broke off his engagement to Daisy).

Ena agori... alloiotiko ap' t' alla

1971

Odd... Even Mine... poster
10.0

When she learns that her fiancé has played their wedding rings in gambling, Despina leaves him. He will buy the wedding rings again and visit her to rebuild them, but he will find four men in her house and he will be distracted. Despina will get involved in many misunderstandings until she can find her again with her beloved.

Odd... Even Mine...

1979

Lady President poster
7.0

The Greek Women Servants' Association is chaired by Despoina, who fights for the rights of the union's members, and in particular against Bigos, who seduces all the maids.

Lady President

1972

Δουλικό Αμέσου Δράσεως poster
7.2

A young and very talented actress Despoina is having an affair with Angelos who is been depressed by his mother.

Δουλικό Αμέσου Δράσεως

1972

The Taxi Driver poster
6.2

A taxi driver, Despina, falls in love with her colleague Anastasis, but he does not reciprocate her feelings. Anastasis wants to become a movie star, but it is Despina who accidentally becomes a star when her talent is revealed.

The Taxi Driver

1970

The Dwarf and the 7 Snow Whites poster
5.8

Thanasis (Nikos Rizos) arrives in Athens and gets a job at the shop where the "The 7 Snowmen" band appears, in which a friend (Elsa Rizou) of a friend of his (Athenodoros Prossalis) participates. He will fall in love with the head of the band (Despina Stylianopoulou), and after two misunderstandings they will finally get married.

The Dwarf and the 7 Snow Whites

1970

1960s · 43 titles

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

Ουδείς Αναμάρτητος poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Ουδείς Αναμάρτητος

1967

Σαπίλα και Αριστοκρατία poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Σαπίλα και Αριστοκρατία

1965

Alice in the Navy poster
6.5

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

Το χρήμα ήταν βρώμικο poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Το χρήμα ήταν βρώμικο

1967

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

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

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

Miss Manager poster
7.4

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 Luna Park Girl poster
5.4

Under the guise of a false identity, a cardiothoracic surgeon finds happiness again in the shape of a lively amusement park employee; however, all secrets, eventually, come out. Is this the end of their brief but passionate relationship?

The Luna Park Girl

1968

The Right-Minded Madman poster
6.1

A wretch employee wins a lot of money in the lottery and loses his mind. When he comes out of the mental hospital, he finds out that things at his home have changed radically.

The Right-Minded Madman

1968

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

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

The Brightest Star poster
5.5

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

The Brightest Star

1967

If Luck Favors You poster
7.4

A poor but very decent teacher, Telis, who has resigned from his job, finds a winning lottery ticket in the street. Suddenly, his life changes radically. But he then discovers that someone has put it in front of him deliberately.

If Luck Favors You

1964

Oh, That Woman of Mine! poster
6.1

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

Don't Fall in Love on a Saturday poster
6.0

A streetwise investment broker, who has been tricked into accepting a counterfeit $100 bill by a statuesque con woman, falls in love with her. Against all logic, he refuses to turn her in to the police. Is there a future between them?

Don't Fall in Love on a Saturday

1962

The Bluffer poster
7.2

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

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

The Twins poster
6.1

By a cruel fate, a pair of newborn twin brothers get separated, and one of them becomes a pampered Casanova, while the other, lands a job at the factory of his unknown sibling's stepdad. Will the polar opposite twins reunite?

The Twins

1964

A Great Love poster
4.5

The Maro is in love with Alexis balm, in which the parents did not approve because known play-Boys. The peers aunt Lena undertakes to assist the other to the party that will organize to get to know the parents of Alexis Maro, Lena and Alex will feel a strange attraction. Lena, however, is married with a child and trying to control her emotions.

A Great Love

1964

Father, Behave Yourself! poster
5.8

Antonis is a wealthy peasant who finds out that his son spends money and time partying instead of studying. He decides to visit him and restore him to track but instead of achieving his purpose, he falls into the trap of sweet life too.

Father, Behave Yourself!

1967

Groom for Crying poster
5.5

Loukas, a petty crook in prison, tries to exploit his connections with his fellow inmates to get ahead when he is released.

Groom for Crying

1962

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

Sucker Groom poster
6.6

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

Gerontokoros poster
6.4

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

Gerontokoros

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

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

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

Tornado poster
7.0

Andreas, as the owner of a semi-central building in Athens, intends to give it away in exchange for compensation, but the building houses a nightclub owned by Stefanos, who is strongly opposed to this. Stefanos decides to prevent this by any means necessary, even if it means sacrificing his personal happiness with Kaiti. Since Stefanos knows that Andreas won't marry Fani unless he marries his sister Vasso first, he tries to seduce her. So he does not hesitate to use various schemes to undermine her relationship with Stelios, a fellow Greek from Congo who is a friend of Fani's brother, Alekos. When he finally succeeds, he begins to slander Fani as well, thus destroying her relationship with Andreas.

Tornado

1964

A Tough Guy in the Salons poster
5.1

A young fisherman who lives in a Greek island save a rich girl from a accident when she is in holidays in island. He will love her and the problems just begun.

A Tough Guy in the Salons

1969

Wake Up, Poor Periklis! poster
4.8

To make his frivolous nephew see the error of his ways, a shipowner takes under his wing his bookish secretary to give her a complete makeover, bent on making him notice her. But, can the new and improved lady win the philanderer's heart?

Wake Up, Poor Periklis!

1969

Η Αρχόντισσα Της Κουζίνας poster
7.2

Asimina is a young joyful tavern owner. One day she decides to take place in a cook contest but there is a rule: all the contestants must be married.

Η Αρχόντισσα Της Κουζίνας

1969

Artesta poster
9.0

A rich young man is in love with a dancer, whom she marries against the will of his parents.

Artesta

1966

With Many Children poster
7.4

A poor waiter struggles to provide for his family, while his wife keeps giving birth to twins, triplets - and always girls.

With Many Children

1964

The Doorwoman poster
7.0

Miss Fanouria Kalafati, also known as Ritsa (Sappho Notara), is a very intelligent doorwoman, to whom everyone runs to tell them the truth and advise them on their love affairs. Of course, she interferes in their lives at every opportunity, as in the case of a singer, Zozefina, who sets her up with a middle-aged earner, Michalakis, in order to make her suitor, Sakis, jealous and stop postponing the wedding. When she realizes that her niece is in love with a young man, she rushes to grant them her wish, while she herself still loves Antonis, her youthful love who had emigrated to Australia. A lottery ticket, given to her by Michalakis, makes her rich overnight, so she buys the penthouse of the apartment building and houses her love, since Antonis returned from Australia the same way he left, that is, penniless.

The Doorwoman

1968

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 Stupid Face poster
8.0

Two persons try to become rich using an... armchair.

The Stupid Face

1965

The Giant of Kypseli poster
6.1

Nikos is a short hairpin chandler, which has very high opinion of himself. Flirts shamelessly with the towering diva region, Clara, which has also been put on the eye and the irresistible charmer in the same area, Alekos, but she plays with both. The giggly maid mother of Clara, the Zambetas, is madly in love with Nick, but he snubbed the fanfare. One night the bouzouki, the Zambetas meets George Zambetas, who immediately recognized her talent and showcases a star of popular music, thereby becoming sought after bride

The Giant of Kypseli

1968

The Sorceress poster
7.0

A young doctor, Spyros, falls in love with a poor singer, Eleni, who is under the extortionist urge of her fiancé Peter, who is unbearably pushing her to marry a wealthy old man so that he can pay his debts on paper. Spyros is driven for his sake by separation from his spoiled and wealthy fiancé, Katerina, and the usual problems in such cases begin. In the pre-existing class differences, the hatred of the people in his circle, who do everything they can to prevent it, is added. Spyros, however, is totally determined to cope with life the way he thinks - and eventually succeeds.

The Sorceress

1967

The Tough Guy poster
8.0

A diamond of inestimable value will become the apple of discord and the cause of an incredible mess between a gang of criminals, the police, the priests of a parish, and... the savages of a jungle tribe!

The Tough Guy

1961

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

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