Takis Spyridakis

Acting

Takis Spyridakis

Born 1958-02-04 · Aigina, Greece

Takis (Panagiotis) Spyridakis (Greek: Τάκης (Παναγιώτης) Σπυριδάκης, Aegina, 4 February 1958 - Athens, 14 September 2019) was a Greek film, theatre and television actor, director and screenwriter. Takis Spyridakis was born in Aegina and grew up in Piraeus, where he also went to school. He worked in various jobs from a young age (he went to night school). He often watched films, but without initially being oriented towards the acting profession. He studied at the Drama School of the National Theatre, which he abandoned shortly before the end. He has participated in 13 films while his directorial debut was in 1994 with the film The Garden of God, for which he also wrote the screenplay. The film was awarded 7 state quality awards at the Thessaloniki Film Festival. Spyridakis first appeared on the big screen playing one of the protagonists in the film Sweet Gang, directed by Nikos Nikolaidis (1983). For his performance, he won the special performance award at the Thessaloniki Film Festival that same year. His second participation was also noteworthy, in Nikos Perakis's Loufa and Variation (1984). This was followed by Morning Patrol (Nikos Nikolaidis, 1986), Family Protector (Nikos Perakis, 1997), This Night Stays (Nikos Panagiotopoulos, 1999), Black Milk (Nikos Triantafyllidis, 1999), No One Loses in Everything (Dionysis Grigoratos, 2000), Cheap Cigarettes (Renos Charalambidis, 2000), I'm Tired of Killing Your Loved Ones (Nikos Panagiotopoulos, 2002), Loofah and Disguise: Sirens in the Aegean (Nikos Perakis, 2005), Isovites (Theodoros Maragos, 2008) and 4 Black Suits (Renos Charalambidis, 2009). In 1989, Spyridakis wrote and directed the short film Vera Cruz, which won the 1st prize for best film at the corresponding Festival, was honored by the Ministry of Culture and was awarded by the National Film Center of France in 1990. For the last four years, he has starred in the theater, in the play "Agrios Sporos" by Yannis Tsiros, at the Epi Kolono theater, directed by Eleni Skoti. He also participated in commercials for a mobile phone company, in which he played the president of a football team.

Acting credits

Edge of Night poster
6.4

Stella is a beautiful young girl who dreams of becoming one day a famous singer. Her boyfriend Andreas leads a quiet life working at his small store, and doesn't approve Stella's quest for fame. When she decides to leave Athens for a singing job offered to her somewhere in north Greece, Andreas sets off on a quest to find her again and convince her to come back to him

Edge of Night

2000

Loafing and Camouflage poster
7.6

A group of Greek soldiers are assigned to run the Cinematographic Unit of the army in the midst of political unrest.

Loafing and Camouflage

1984

What If... poster
6.3

Athens, the age of economic crisis. Demetris is a highly independent man who lives a normal life. A confirmed bachelor at the age of 33! When a moment arrives, his choice at that point in time will change everything. His roommate is a female German Shepherd called Lonesome. One night, after supper, Lonesome wants to be taken out. Demetris tries to change her mind, but Lonesome insists. It’s at this moment that he comes to a decision. This decision will change his entire life. If Demetris goes out, he will meet Christina, the love of his life. If he stays in, he will not meet her. Does true love exist? What is the impact of a severe economic crisis on people, and how can the crisis destroy a couple? One story shown from two different angles.

What If...

2012

Sirens in the Aegean poster
6.0

A group of Greek solders, who serve their military service in Kos, is sent to guard the skerry of Pitta. Everything looked normal until a Turkish boat disembarks 4 castaways on Pitta.

Sirens in the Aegean

2005

Fading Light poster
10.0

Twelve year old Christos Myrisiotis lives with his mother Eleni on a remote picturesque Aegean island. The boy has been doubly singled out by fate. He has a remarkable musical talent but at the same time is condemned to going blind as a result of a rare disease. Now an eccentric loner, Christos finds an outlet in nature and the dream world of a cave where his heightened hearing enables him to collect natural sounds which he then turns to musical compositions for his violin. His only friends are his classmate Angeliki and the old lighthouse keeper Soursoumis who teaches him not only the violin but also about life in general. Everything changes when the new schoolteacher Maria arrives on the island. She develops a great interest in Christos’ exceptional abilities even though he keeps on being indifferent to school. On her own initiative Maria ensures his participation in a music contest. Christos’ traumatic family and personal experiences cause him to mature as an artist.

Fading Light

2000

Tonight We Dine at Iokastis poster
3.8

When one fine morning a peaceful neighborhoods disrupted by the unexpected disappearance of a Latvian manicurist, Iocasti Papadamou joins forces with ingenious, albeit completely naive, neighbor in order to shed light on the bizarre case.

Tonight We Dine at Iokastis

2015

The Limousine poster
5.0

Three friends from 60s Paris attempt a road trip to modern-day Greece, looping in and out of fantasy and questioning absolutely everything. A situation comedy and a coming-of-age fairy tale or, according to the director himself, "a film that can be heard". Starring Nikos Kouris, Doukissa Nomikou, Dimitris Katalifos and Pavlos Haikalis. Lifetime Achievement Award to Nikos Panagiotopoulos

The Limousine

2014

Morning Patrol poster
6.8

In a deserted city, a woman walks alone trying to approach and enter the forbidden zone. Traps and the morning patrol lurk everywhere. Electronic voices summon the (non-existent) people to abandon the city. Can a love affair survive?

Morning Patrol

1987

Directing Hell poster
5.5

A Documentary about Nikos Nikolaidis' work. Nikos Nikolaidis was an acclaimed film director and author from Greece. He is famous for creating controversial characters in his films that have a rebellious attitude towards the social and political status quo. He illustrates a dark and pessimistic present and future, but also providing ambiguous hope for the end when his heroes find their escape in death. His films are shocking and contentious, raising questions during times when political visions start to fade away. His filming was poetic, dynamic and aesthetically beautiful in order to present situations on edge and elicit his audience's feelings. The aim of this project is to transfer his dynamics in a documentary that will convey some of his messages and create a platform for exchanging opinions among filmmakers from all over the world, in an effort to decipher his universe and his symbols as reflections of his unique and rare personality.

Directing Hell

2011

Black Milk poster
4.7

Alekos is a young writer, who faces a creative block, can not find any meaning and redemption in his reality, wasting himself among adventurous romances and dangerous friendships.

Black Milk

2000

No artwork available
NR

Two students who work at the horse racing, try to understand each other.

Gagnant

1984

The Horsemen of Pylos poster
5.6

Telemachus, an actor with a glorious past and an uncertain future, leaves Athens at the age of fifty to escape the banks. With the help of Babis "Fou," he finds refuge in an abandoned castle in the heart of Messinia. The only inhabitants are two brothers who don't speak to each other and a niece who got fed up with them and left, Demokratia. Telemachus meets her by chance and is enchanted. A little of the doctor's syrup for his lungs, which have become a mine, a little tsipouro, a little of Babis' "forbidden substances"... the gods intervene and Democracy returns to her place! Dream, reality, or both? You be the judge, and whoever finds out wins a Kalamon pasteli.

The Horsemen of Pylos

2011

Amore Mio poster
5.8

The extramarital adventures of a female volleyball team coach, a best friend and a buddy who fall in love at the same woman a hopelessly mismatched relationship and a marriage of disaster entangled in the most unpredictable way.

Amore Mio

2015

Boobheads poster
5.0

In a prison cell two lifers meet, a former truck driver and the other one a "volunteer" who entered the prison because he believes that life as an inmate prisoner is better than outside.

Boobheads

2008

Sweet Bunch poster
6.2

The diary of the life and death of a group of 'amoral' young people, who have reached the point of no return and seek something to believe in and to die for. Their behavior brings the attention of the State. A discreet surveillance begins. A vigilante group monitors their house, headed by a nameless blonde man.

Sweet Bunch

1983

Aria poster
NR

Athens, today. Seventeen-year-old, Aria working at the local kebab place, is waiting for a driving lesson with her father.

Aria

2017

Cheap Smokes poster
6.7

As the lights flicker on a warm August night, amidst vacant Athens' stillness, a modern bohemian flirts with a woman he just met at a phone booth, while strolling around the city's quiet night streets.

Cheap Smokes

2001

I'm Tired of Killing Your Lovers poster
6.0

Theophilus Palios, owns a small traditional publishing house. He man madly falls in love with Sia, that is doing vocals on the show of a known singer. Sia maintains her living by the "generosity" of old fans. In the face of Theophilus, Sia will experience true love, though it continues to accept the offers of numerous admirers. Theophilus mad by jealousy, is lead to huge wastages and ultimately to economic collapse. He ends up entangled in a case of robbery and murder. Sia, in a guilt and self-sacrifice crisis, becomes mistress of the investigating policeman in exchange for his silence. This creates an odd triangle ..

I'm Tired of Killing Your Lovers

2002

The Republic poster
NR

A photojournalist and surveillance expert decides to go up against a system of political corruption and corporate intrigue after witnessing the murder of his brother.

The Republic

2015

4 Black Suits poster
4.8

Four undertakers in financial trouble latch onto a one-off opportunity to change their lives and bid farewell to a profession they entered for a while, but got stuck in for good. On the promise of a large fee, they fulfill the dying wish of a rich Greek who lived his life abroad: he wants them to take his body from Athens to a village in Boeotia for burial...on foot. Deciding to grant his bizarre request, they embark on an odyssey, which soon becomes an unexpected voyage of discovery.

4 Black Suits

2010

Nobody Loses Forever poster
4.3

In the near future, when Athens is in danger of ecological catastrophe, a mysterious man, a young hacker and a washed out singer become entangled in a dark web of radioactive waste and suspected maritime shipwrecks.

Nobody Loses Forever

2000

Utopia poster
NR

In an unspecified near future, humanity seems to have turned into a fishbowl: everything is transparent, monitored by an all-powerful central authority, while people are trapped and suffer from almost complete amnesia—just like goldfish.

Utopia

2004

Pater Familias poster
6.3

A young writer takes to edit the autobiography of a popular folk singer then, however, falls victim to intrigues and accused of kidnapping her daughter.

Pater Familias

1997

The Garden of God poster
6.0

It's Christmas time. Shortie, Beanpole, Alekos and Sinoue, everyday people, decide to reinvent themselves because in the garden of god everything seems the same. They play ball, keep notes, lose their friends, strike their enemies, working out in the yard, learning how to dance, reciting poetry. They drink alcohol, paint, set fire to their bodies. And they promised to themselves, this Christmas to "make their way down" to the sea.

The Garden of God

1994

Behind the camera