Danis Katranidis

Acting

Danis Katranidis

Born 1949-08-04 · Aigaleo, Attika, Greece

Danis (Daniel) Katranidis (Greek: Δάνης (Δανιήλ) Κατρανίδης, Aigaleo, 4 August 1949 – Athens, 1 September 2024) was a Greek actor. He was born on 4 August 1949 in Aigaleo. He was a graduate (1971) of the Athens Higher Drama School Giorgos Theodosiadis. During the period 1971–1978 he was an actor at the National Theatre. In the 1978–1979 theatrical season he made history in the role of the compere in the legendary play Cabaret, staged with great success by Aliki Vougiouklaki, with whom he collaborated continuously for a decade. He acted in all types of theatre, from tragedy and comedy to musicals and revues, while his participation in radio theatre is highly noteworthy. He taught at the Higher Drama School "Iasmos" and at the "Vassilis Diamantopoulos" Theatre Workshop. A lover of the sea and a keen sailor, he had dozens of participations and victories in offshore competitions to his credit. In 1971, he married fellow actress and classmate at the Theodosiadis School, Mirka Papakonstantinou. They divorced in 1977. He then married and divorced twice more, with his last marriage being to choreographer Eliza Palli. He died of cancer at the age of 75 on 1 September 2024. He was buried in Zografou Cemetery on 5 September.

Acting credits

In the Strange Pursuit of Laura Durand poster
7.0

Two men who live in modern day Athens decide to start the quest for Laura Durand, a porn star of the 90's who has disappeared mysteriously several years ago.

In the Strange Pursuit of Laura Durand

2019

The Dam poster
6.7

An engineer (Nikos Kourkoulos) oversees as a expert the cracks that have suffered a dam. The rumors that want the dam to collapse and drag people, panic the inhabitants of the surrounding area.

The Dam

1982

The Travelling Players poster
7.2

A traveling theatre troupe tours the Greek countryside from 1939 to the early 1950s, staging “Golfo the Shepherdess”. As the years pass, its members endure persecution, betrayal, executions, and exile. Their personal stories become entangled with the country’s major historical events, in a seemingly endless cycle of violence and loss.

The Travelling Players

1975

Froutopia poster
NR

Children's series with dolls which is the television adaptation of the comic of the same name (1983) by the writer Evgenios Trivizas and the cartoonist Nikos Maroulakis. The series is about the adventures of journalist Pikos Apikos, who travels to the distant land of Fruitopia to investigate the mysterious disappearance of Manolis of Manavis. The comic was also transferred to television in 1985, by the Sofianou family, visualized with puppets and achieving great success. The series began airing on November 8,1985, on the ERT channel and now also plays on ERTFLIX. Despite the fact that the finale of Fruitopia never aired, due to cutbacks in the programming zone in which the series aired, with a total of 48 episodes, were aired several times in the following years.

Froutopia

1985

Ο γυρολόγος poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Ο γυρολόγος

1980

Caution, Danger! poster
8.5

A brutal father, shaped by the right-wing deep state, forces his two sons and daughter into deadly ambushes to rob passing cars. Bound by an incestuous relationship with his daughter, he dominates the family, driving one son to seek escape while the other, disabled, struggles to emulate him.

Caution, Danger!

1983

Another one for Korydallos poster
5.8

Trapped in a vicious cycle, three drug pushers who want out, find themselves forever indebted to a hardened drug kingpin, who, in turn, is dependent on the protection of a corrupt police officer. Can they escape from the inevitable?

Another one for Korydallos

1983

The Cabaret Girl poster
7.5

No synopsis available yet.

The Cabaret Girl

1979

A Journey to the Stars poster
7.0

The story of Greek businessmen Pavlos and Thanasis Giannakopoulos and their impact on Panathinaikos basketball club

A Journey to the Stars

2022

Sly Female… Sly Woman! poster
4.0

A famous actor has problems with her relationship and the organization of her theatrical performance.

Sly Female… Sly Woman!

1980