Kostas Voutsas

Acting

Kostas Voutsas

Born 1931-12-31 · Vyronas, Athens, Greece

Voutsas was born in Athens, in 1931. He studied drama at the Drama School of the Macedonian Conservatory of Thessaloniki and made his stage and screen debut in 1953. In 1961 his breakthrough came when Giannis Dalianidis a Greek film director gave him a leading role in his phenomenally successful youth melodrama O Katiforos. He soon became one of the best and most popular comic actors of his generation and created personal groups, starring in many Greek comedies by top playwrights and classics like Aristophanes' The Wasps (as Philokleon), Moliere's Le bourgeois gentilhomme (title role) etc. He has always been more committed to being a theatrical actor. In an interview at Athens daily newspaper To Vima, he said "Playing in movies has helped me a lot, but I was always committed to the theatre and that was my highlight" He was a major actor in Finos Films and went on to star in about 60 movies, mostly comedies and musicals of the 'golden era" of Greek commercial cinema. (Source: Wikipedia)

Acting credits

Mrs. Midwife poster
7.9

The rivalry between a professional doctor and a midwife in a small Greek village. A retired doctor decides to settle down with his family in his wife's village and opens a medical practice. However, he gradually comes into conflict with the village midwife and her unorthodox medical practices, namely eye-opening and amulets. The midwife's son, a medical student in Athens, comes to the village for vacation, falls in love with the doctor's daughter, who tries to reduce her influence over the villagers.

Mrs. Midwife

1961

The Island 2: The Hunt for the Lost Treasure poster
6.2

In Nisos 2 the main actors return to the island following the rumours of a hidden treasure. During their "treasure hunt" a bunch of surprises and unexpected events await them.

The Island 2: The Hunt for the Lost Treasure

2011

Charlie's Son poster
3.5

The story takes place in a port controlled by Charlie the Greek and his criminal band. There are two things Charlie hates: drugs and homosexuality. But both are part of his life: he is madly in love with Joy who is a junkie, though he denies it even to himself. And regarding the homosexuality issue, his right hand, Tony, has an amorous relationship with a transsexual who is part of a group of trans-prostitutes. Ignoring Charlie's adamant orders, the transvestites work the streets around the port, with the help of Tony, who secretly supports them

Charlie's Son

2008

Every Saturday poster
7.0

A divorced actor meets his 15-year-old son each Saturday. While the father encounters professional and relationship problems in his everyday life, his son is anxious about his first date with a girl.

Every Saturday

1999

Larisa Confidential poster
5.2

Life in Pezoula and Vrysoula flowed harmoniously. Of course, it helped that there was a wall between the two villages, built from one end to the other, so that no one interfered in the other's business. But when Kallikrates comes to unite the two villages, everything is turned upside down! A prominent journalist dies, the biological treatment plant divides opinion, the minister is bribed, the starters come and go, the SDOE gets involved, the night owls are disturbed, individual and local interests get tangled up, while surprises and hilarious situations follow one after another...

Larisa Confidential

2012

The Island poster
6.3

The death of a prominent citizen reveals the corruption that festers behind closed doors on a seemingly beautiful serene Greek island of Sifnos.

The Island

2009

The Heirs poster
7.3

Four very different people inherit a percentage of a fashion house but in order to make it work they have to get along with each other.

The Heirs

1964

Bedlam My Love poster
5.2

An old couple reviews their lives together, from the first time they met and got married since the present, through good and bad moments...

Bedlam My Love

1972

Nomos 4000 poster
6.1

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

Seven Years of Marriage poster
5.1

Having been married for seven years, a tourist office director and his well-known television presenter wife, Alekos and Efi Fotiou go through a crucial phase. Dedicated to their careers, they rarely meet, and when thy actually achieve it they always end up quarreling. The only family they have, their uncles, suggest they have a baby. She finds it a good idea, but Alekos thinks that they won't be able to raise a baby properly. This dispute brings them one step closer to divorce, which now seems the only solution, especially when Efi starts to believe that Alekos is flirting with Tzouli, and Alekos suspects that his wife is having an affair with Dimitris. When it is finally proved that none of this is true, and, actually, Tzouli is planning to marry Dimitris and Efi's aunt Dimitris' uncle, they all get reasonable, the couple gets over its crisis and they live happily ever after, together with their newborn child.

Seven Years of Marriage

1972

The Building Manager poster
6.3

A gently ironic portrait of a midlife crisis. Pavlos takes over the job of building manager just as a sewage pipe bursts. Will Pavlos succeed in fixing the broken sewage pipe before he can fix his own wrecked life? Director Hoursoglou succeeds in creating a faithful, entertaining, and even touching portrait of "ordinary" interpersonal relations.

The Building Manager

2010

The Greek Job poster
3.5

A freedom fighter, whose secret organization was brutally dismantled years ago, comes out of self-exile only to become entangled in an international frame-up involving the mafia and the political future of Greece.

The Greek Job

2023

The Barefoot Prince poster
6.5

Run out of options and in desperate need of cash, a down-and-out young man accepts his rich hotelier friend's preposterous proposal to impersonate an exotic Arab Prince. But what does the bride-to-be has to say about this scandalous farce?

The Barefoot Prince

1966

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

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NR

Greek movie 2002

Gyro gyro oloi

2002

The Parisian Lady poster
6.2

Sometimes, the circumstances call for reckless bravery--and just like that--a humble neighbourhood seamstress becomes an enchanting Parisian couturière bent on dazzling Mykonos' haut monde. But, is all fair in love and war?

The Parisian Lady

1969

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

A Leopard Never Changes Its Spots poster
6.1

Antonis, who is in love with Roula, must find a way to convince her brother to allow him to marry her.

A Leopard Never Changes Its Spots

1973

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

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

Magic Skin poster
4.0

Running away from a life filled with failure and rejection, Nikos desperately dives into the dark waters of human desire, after closing a faustian pact. He is given an old piece of animal skin that promises its owner everything, but at a high price - his life. As he steadily steps down the spiral of madness, Nikos wonders if he could ever wake up from a life that more and more resembles a dream. A contemporary, radical outlook on Balzac’s classic novel.

Magic Skin

2018

Thursday the 12th poster
5.7

Eftihis, after being fired from his job, tries to find a new one in Greece, while the economic crisis is at its peak. Along his 'adventure' he meets two people with different morals who mentor him through life.

Thursday the 12th

2014

Flu, my love poster
9.0

Gerasimos is a typical example of a family man, living under the oppressive care of his wife, who literally does not let him do anything. But one day another woman enters his life, but unfortunately for him they have a car accident. In order not to be exposed, Gerasimos pretends to have amnesia and thus finds an opportunity to change his life. He throws it out, takes initiative and generally does pretty much the opposite of what he did before. However, this arouses the suspicions of his wife. She, smarter, cuts him off and squeezes him into the housework, which he supposedly did before, making his life unlivable...

Flu, my love

1989

I love School Desks poster
5.7

At a high school in Athens, the unhappy headmaster is having a hard time with a group of seniors who have paired up, are making life difficult for the teachers and himself, and insist on going on a trip together to find her. However, the Board of Directors objects and decides that the girls should go alone. The boys, however, not wanting to be betrayed by the girls, follow them in various ways. So, when they arrive, the party begins...

I love School Desks

1988

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