Spyros Kalogirou

Acting

Spyros Kalogirou

Born — Died

1922-11-03 — 2009-06-27

Place of birth

Athens, Greece

Known for

Acting

Credits

68 titles

Spyros Kalogirou (Greek: Σπύρος Καλογήρου, Kypseli, 3 November 1922 - Athens, 27 June 2009) was a Greek theatre and film actor, best known for his villainous roles on the big screen. His trembling voice and fierce appearance were characteristic. He acted in many films, both on television and in cinema, and when he played such roles he was very convincing. He also participated in many theatrical performances but did not have many collaborations with his wife, as she was at the National Theater and he was more involved with independent theater. After the '80s they formed their own troupe, staged performances and toured. He acted in approximately two hundred plays and in all genres of theater…

Known for

Film credits

1980s · 33 titles

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Η στρίγγλα ήταν άγγελος

1987

Ο παπαφαγάνας poster
NR

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Ο παπαφαγάνας

1987

Οικογένεια παντρευόμαστε poster
10.0

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Οικογένεια παντρευόμαστε

1986

Ο παραχαράκτης poster
NR

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Ο παραχαράκτης

1989

Ο εθνικός μας έρωτας poster
NR

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Ο εθνικός μας έρωτας

1989

O xemoramenos poster
4.0

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O xemoramenos

1987

Το παιδί... Που είναι το παιδί; poster
NR

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Το παιδί... Που είναι το παιδί;

1988

Η ντίβα και ο πρωτάρης poster
NR

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Η ντίβα και ο πρωτάρης

1988

A Thief and a Gentleman poster
6.0

Stathis tries to find a job but in the meantime he finds Marina, who he decides to help figure out who is behind the motorcycle that has been stolen from her father.

A Thief and a Gentleman

1986

Λούφες θρανία και τρελλά σχολεία poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Λούφες θρανία και τρελλά σχολεία

1989

Τίποτα δεν Άλλαξε Λαέ! poster
NR

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Τίποτα δεν Άλλαξε Λαέ!

1987

Ραντεβού με τον θάνατο poster
NR

Its sink or swim as four bakers dive into baking cookies, cupcakes and a showpiece cake inspired by the deep blue sea. When six hours is up, Buddy Valastro, Tregaye Fraser and Ralph Attanasia will award the best baker with a dream vacation.

Ραντεβού με τον θάνατο

1989

Darling, Let's Get Naked! poster
6.2

Stathis, a naughty young man whose father owns a coffee shop at the island’s central square, picks up attractive tourists. His neighbor Rena, who is in love with him, stands in the middle of his love affairs and does her best to win him. Moreover, his sister Kaiti, a cute and tender girl, falls in love with an young guy who met while traveling, and who stays on the island for her sake. After many humorous events, both couples find happiness.

Darling, Let's Get Naked!

1984

Young Lad at the School Desks poster
4.2

One teacher is hired in a private school full of spoiled children.

Young Lad at the School Desks

1987

Robbers and insurers poster
6.5

Antonis Alaiporos has just been fired from his job and gets into the world of insurance market.

Robbers and insurers

1988

Brain With Screw... And Valve!!! poster
7.5

Eftyhios Anemelos is a detective with slow down business. One day...

Brain With Screw... And Valve!!!

1988

Markisia tou limaniou poster
NR

She was a woman of the night, but she never became a prostitute. She was mired in filth up to her neck, but she continued to dream. And when the dirty pimps of the port tried to break her spirit, she became a fierce hyena, who bloodied the mulberry tree...

Markisia tou limaniou

1988

Ένας τίμιος απατεώνας poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Ένας τίμιος απατεώνας

1989

Ο τελευταίος πειρασμός του Μήτσου poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Ο τελευταίος πειρασμός του Μήτσου

1989

O kontos me to papaki poster
NR

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O kontos me to papaki

1988

Διακοπές και... πειρασμοί poster
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Διακοπές και... πειρασμοί

1986

Ena moro... gia treis poster
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Charalambos Stournaras is a selfish, loud-mouthed but ultimately kind-hearted father. His daughter is in love with one of his company employees, Heracles. To help her forget him, he sends her to Paris for two years to study. When his daughter returns from Paris, instead of having forgotten Heracles, she presents him with a baby, claiming that she had it with Heracles. However, the baby is actually her brother's with a mannequin. She doesn't dare tell her father because he will cut off her allowance...

Ena moro... gia treis

1988

Μαντάμ Ορτάνς poster
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Μαντάμ Ορτάνς

1986

Πασοκομαζέματα Ανδρεοσκορπίσματα poster
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Πασοκομαζέματα Ανδρεοσκορπίσματα

1988

Κλέβετε και προσεύχεσθε poster
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Κλέβετε και προσεύχεσθε

1987

Ο παπαλεβέντης poster
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Ο παπαλεβέντης

1988

Τα ντερέκια poster
NR

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Τα ντερέκια

1987

The First Cup and Troteza poster
4.1

Stathis Xetrypis, a naive policeman patrolling in an area frequented by prostitutes. As not yet enough, the commander, to confer the protection of Elsa, a secret policeman, trying to find a gang of drug dealers.

The First Cup and Troteza

1989

Fire in my pants poster
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Gregory has developed separate bonds with four married women, the atheophobe. They all love him and declare to him, each in their own way, that if he leaves them, "snake stump that ate him". Until one morning the husband appears, a husband like all cuckolded husbands and tells Grigoris that tonight he must divorce his wife. She threatens him that if he doesn't break up she will empty the gun on him and leaves. But whose wife is she? Come on, she can't describe him to any of his four mistresses because he could simply be the man of one of the other three...

Fire in my pants

1988

The Rider of F.M. Stereo poster
4.5

A poor and "arbitrary" young man creates a radio station to send messages of love to his girlfriend. Suddenly, however, an unexpected will grants him a respectable name and a huge fortune, which creates endless problems for him. Even his life is in danger...

The Rider of F.M. Stereo

1986

Tall, Thin and a Big Liar poster
5.0

A pathological liar, having reached old age, tells his life in order to become a television series, while his relatives were waiting for him to die to inherit it.

Tall, Thin and a Big Liar

1985

I Love You, Mitso poster
5.0

Detective Mitsos finds a baby on the doorstep of an industrial building completely by chance. In his attempt to help the baby, he gets involved in comical and tragic incidents with the police...

I Love You, Mitso

1988

Agrafos nomos poster
8.0

Stratos, a marginal figure, carries on his shoulders the freedom and doubts of his generation. Upon leaving prison after serving a five-year sentence, he will seek out those responsible, demanding his share of a theft for which he paid the consequences. It is an extremely dangerous journey, and to reach his destination, he must pass through the dark circles of nighttime illegality. He encounters old "friends" who still want him as a pawn in their game, women with strange identities, and police officers who lead him into a relentless pursuit...

Agrafos nomos

1987

1970s · 9 titles

The Daughter of the Sun poster
6.0

The plain of Thessaly, 1910. The tenant farmers suffer untold hardships, both from the Arvanites invaders who ravage and seize their possessions and from the chief landlord of the area Stratos Karatzas, who claims the lion’s share of their harvest. The dynamic daughter of one of the tenant farmers, Maya, who is about to get married to a young farmer, Lefteris, leads their struggle for better conditions and confronts Karatzas – as well as his niece Vgenio, who also wants Lefteris. The latter plots and succeeds to separate them. Lefteris leaves for the army and Karatzas persuades Maya to marry him. Lefteris is captured during an ambush set by the Turks, but in the end he is set free and returns to Maya’s arms forever.

The Daughter of the Sun

1971

Astrapogiannos poster
5.3

The battle-scarred hero of the Greek Revolution, Giannos "Astrapogiannos", returns home after the end of the blood-soaked War of Independence, only to find himself in a new conflict, as he locks horns with a ruthless local Kodjabashis.

Astrapogiannos

1970

Lieutenant Natassa poster
6.6

The year is 1965. Natasa Arseni visits Dachau, the place where she was found by the Americans at the end of the World War II. She returns to Greece, and during the train ride she recalls those past events. Before the beginning of the Greek-Italian war, she met Orestis . With the German invasion, Orestis, who was an officer in the Greek army, left for the Middle East. She followed him and accompanied him back to occupied Greece on a mission. She was arrested, interrogated and tortured and was finally sentenced to execution.

Lieutenant Natassa

1970

The Constellation of Virgin poster
4.2

3 different story's that a prostitute says to her patrons whe she is asked about her story life

The Constellation of Virgin

1973

The Trial of the Judges poster
6.9

A true story: The trial of judges Polizoidi and Tertseti for disobedience and their triumphant acquittal during the three men regency council, when king Othon of Greece was a minor. The cast of the film was enormous, with almost half of the theatrical people participating.

The Trial of the Judges

1974

A Funny Girl poster
6.3

The son of a shipping magnate finds himself increasingly drawn to a lively circus clown, unaware of her profession. This doesn't sit well with his companion, and a war in the name of love begins. Is he capable of loving the funny girl?

A Funny Girl

1970

A German in Kalavryta poster
5.5

No synopsis available yet.

A German in Kalavryta

1970

The Revolutionary poster
4.3

Set in the 1880's, a rich young man from the middle class falls in love with the daughter of a local count and sets in motion a series of conflicts with the aristocrats of Zante.

The Revolutionary

1971

In the name of the law poster
5.8

A traumatised Korean War veteran is accused of arson and murder. Now, the deceased's criminal attorney daughter is determined to send him in prison, even though he claims he's innocent. Will she destroy a man in the name of the law?

In the name of the law

1970

1960s · 15 titles

The Asphalt Fever poster
6.2

A police constable tries to find blood during the night for his wife to be born. When he finally finds a blood donor, he will have to deal with a frenzy runaway, who holds hostage children in a school car.

The Asphalt Fever

1967

Cyprus in Flames poster
10.0

This is the film Crete in Flames, with some changes made to exploit a true story – it is about the kidnapping of Tasoula Vardinoyannis by Yannis Kefalogiannis –, a story that had shocked and fascinated the entire Greek nation, and had received widespread publicity. The Battle of Crete and the legendary resistance of the brave Cretan people against the German occupiers who invaded the island en masse by air in 1942.

Cyprus in Flames

1964

Confession of a Mother poster
8.0

Having found, after many years, the man she loved and their daughter, a woman hesitates to reveal herself to them and decides to write her story in a letter to the young girl.

Confession of a Mother

1962

Trouba '67 poster
6.6

A dark atmosphere pervades this film in true noir fashion. So does the feeling that our principals are trapped. They fight their way against economic forces and their status in life, and love might conquer all.

Trouba '67

1967

I Neraida Kai to Palikari poster
5.9

Fourtounakis’ daughter, Katerinio, is forced to get engaged with a brutal Cretan, Skandalakis. But the return of Manousos Vrontakis from Athens and his flirtation with the girl leads to a great romance, without them knowing that they belong to families who are longstanding enemies.

I Neraida Kai to Palikari

1969

Madalena poster
6.0

Madalena is a tough seventeen-year-old who is forced to take on her father's ferry business after he dies. She has her many brothers and sisters to support, and there is no one else to do the job. So she rallies her defenses and sets out to give her rival in the ferry business a run for his money. But at the same time, the rival's handsome son is starting to look better and better. Madalena refuses to acknowledge her feelings for him -- though how long she can sustain that denial is the question.

Madalena

1960

The... victim poster
5.8

A young man is wasting the money his brother sends for studies, fun and abuse. But when the big brother comes out of the village, to learn the progress of the little one, she gets tangled up in the nets of a singer.

The... victim

1969

Bullets Don't Come Back poster
5.7

From a tragic misunderstanding, the farmer Stathis Karatasos (Angelos Antonopoulos) is accused as the leader of a notorious gang. He manages to escape just before getting executed and the law enforcement starts chasing him. Even the bandits are looking to find him, believing that he has the loot of the robbery in his possession. In addition, another prisoner called Tsakos (Kostas Kazakos) tries to locate him and bring him back dead or alive, in order to ensure the freedom promised to him by the police.

Bullets Don't Come Back

1967

Love and Blood poster
6.0

The abysmal hatred which exists between two landowners is transferred to their natural environment as well. Whatever crosses the river separating the two families, be it man or beast, dies. The film is yet another rendering of the Romeo and Juliet tale, with intense emotions, dominated by the extreme behavior of the heroes. The film tries to imitate the style, atmosphere and action of westerns.

Love and Blood

1968

I am innocent poster
7.0

At first there was the theatrical adaptation, by Manolis Skouloudis, of the legendary Dreyfus Affair (an adaptation based on the novel by Emile Zola). It was then transferred to the cinema. The subject: the early 20th century and the military establishment, with the help of a money-loving and womanizing junior officer (Alekos Alexandrakis), accuses Captain Alfred Dreyfus (Dimitris Myrat) of treason, because he allegedly handed over secrets to the Germans. After a mock trial, where expediency prevailed, Dreyfus was convicted and imprisoned. However, Emile Zola firmly believes in his innocence and, through the press, fights a brave and effective battle, which will lead to the uncovering of the conspiracy and the restoration of the honor of the unjustly slandered captain.

I am innocent

1960

Stefania poster
4.7

18 year old Stefania is brought to a juvenile reformatory for young prostitutes. The institution is actually a prison, and one of the worst and most squalid of its kind. It's a real hell. Two dozens of ragged girls are crammed into a dormitory, locked by a thick iron door, two in each bed. Meals and work is carried out in other sections of the building, separated by iron bars. A young doctor shall investigate the newcomer. When they meet, they immediately recognize each other. It is Giorgos, the doctor that treated Stefania's mother a couple of years ago, and then had a little flirt with Stefania. He has been thinking of her ever since. He immediately falls in love with her, and wants to help her. Stefania is thinking about any possibility to get out from the prison. She flirts with the ugly yard guard Armandos, and with the truck driver coming with foodstuff, but in vain...

Stefania

1966

Panic poster
6.5

Returning from a business trip to Rhodes, Markos finds out that his sick son has been kidnapped. He agrees to pay the ransom that the kidnappers demand but the police officer Makridis sees that the money used is marked so they can track them down.

Panic

1969

Amok poster
5.6

Ten women hide out on an deserted island in the Ageian after an prison break where seven men, led by an ex-Nazi, arrive on the island to search for a buried treasure and force the women to dig for them, until one strong-willed woman, named Sarah, decides to plot a revolt.

Amok

1963

Five Thousand Lies poster
9.5

A professor asks two poor students of law to steal, for a fee, a rare figurine from the house of a collector. After the successful outcome of the theft, the professor dies from joy, and the two students decide to return the figurine to its owner. There they meet his daughters, to whom they tell numerous lies. In the end, it is revealed that the whole thing was part of a wager between the professor and the collector, and the two students fall in love with the latter's daughters.

Five Thousand Lies

1966

Lola poster
7.0

Aris, Nikos Kourkoulos, is released from prison after three years, and he turns up at Troumpa, a slum area in Piraeus. His purpose is not to settle his own accounts but to find out if Lola (Tzeni Karezi), a young woman who works at Stelios’ cabaret, was among the ones who betrayed him. Aris loves and cares about Lola and wants to get her out of there, but Stelios, who is also in love with her, assigns a thug to kill Aris.

Lola

1964

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