
Acting
Stavros Paravas
Born 1935-04-15 · Athens, Greece
Stavros Paravas (Greek: Σταύρος Παράβας, Athens, 15 April 1935 - 15 September 2008) was a Greek actor with anti-dictatorship activities, for which he was exiled to Gyaros during the Ioannides dictatorship. He was born in Tourkovounia and his parents were from Asia Minor. In order to help his family financially, he started working from a young age, doing various errands. The first person to notice his artistic talent was his singing teacher at the fifth high school of Athens where he was studying. Before finishing school and despite the reactions of his family, he enrolled in the drama school of Kostas Michaelides, who, assessing his talent, kept him in the school without paying tuition. At the Rex Theater, in the play “Seven Years of Itching”, Paravas asked the playwright to write him an anti-dictatorship mantinada. After a number of performances, he was arrested inside the theater by military police in civilian clothes. He was arrested and tortured in 1974 during the dictatorship of Ioannides and exiled to Gyaros. Stavros Paravas remained in Gyaros until the fall of the junta and was one of the last 44 exiles to leave hell. He married a British woman and had three children with her: Vanessa, Martha and Jonathan. The sudden death of the latter shook him mentally. He was a supporter of Panathinaikos. In February 2007, he faced serious health problems, heart failure, multiple strokes and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, which he overcame. He died of a heart attack and was buried two days later at public expense. His first appearance in the theater was in 1955 in the performance The First Lie with the Katerinas troupe. He then collaborated with Vilma Kyrou and immediately after fulfilling his military obligations with Dinos Iliopoulos and Kostas Hadjichristos. With the actress and dancer Eleni Prokopiou they played in many films together, while they also collaborated in the theater. In the 70s, he turned to auditing. The performance Dirlantas was also the reason for his exile. In the following decade, he switched to more classical roles. His first appearance in Epidaurus was in Aristophanes's Plutarch, where he played the role of Chremylos. His first appearance in cinema was in 1960 in the film Christina by Yannis Dalianidis. He followed this with participation in about 50 more films, mainly in comic roles. In the 1980s and 1990s he also participated in some television series. (Source: Wikipedia)
Acting credits
6.01950s Athens. Prince, a self-made impresario and the owner of the "Acropole" review theater, fires one of his leading ladies when she shows up drunk on opening night. In order to replace her, he turns to Lakis Loizos, an expert at comic female roles and an ex-wonder-child of movies, who now runs an agency for extras. At first, Lakis is surprised by the prince's proposal, but finally decides to try his luck on the stage of the legendary theater.
Acropol
1996
6.8A wealthy family is on a cruise. A rich young man falls in love with the family's maid and mistakes her for the businessman's daughter. A singer falls in love with the real daughter, and when he arrives with the rich young man at the businessman's house to ask for the rich daughter's hand in marriage, a misunderstanding arises with funny twists and turns.
When the Cat is Missing!
1962
5.5Two men intend to make a "secret" trip to Paris alone and live it up in order to escape the stranglehold of their wives.
10 Days in Paris
1962
3.0No synopsis available yet.
Αύριο θα ξέρουμε
1997
5.6Antonis and Marianna are in love and, although they are no longer young, they plan to get married. The only problem is how to break the news to their children, Elina and Giorgos, who are studying abroad. Elina sends a telegram saying that she will soon be returning to Greece, and Antonis and Marianna think they will make her like Marianna so that they can gradually tell her the truth. However, they do not know that she is returning with George...
Young and old in action...
1963
7.0A self-assured and extremely rich business entrepreneur who is convinced that money is everything has a chance encounter with a feisty young lawyer who couldn't care less about his financial status. In the end, can money buy love?
I stole my wife
1964
5.8Four cousins inherit a rich uncle. In order to do this, however, they must first fulfill the terms that each uncle has laid down in his covenant.
And All 14 Were Wonderful!
1965
5.6A brief altercation in a railroad car will lead to a golden opportunity, as the famous actor, Kostas Chatzis (Kostas Hatzihristos), and the cheerful countryman, Thimios, are like two peas in a pod. Will the popular actor learn his lesson?
O thymios tahei 400
1960
6.0A guileless peasant with a heart of gold enlists in the prestigious Hellenic Special Forces and finds himself neck-deep in trouble when his superior entrusts him to keep an eye on his beloved only daughter.
Michalios of the 14th Regiment
1962
6.6Aliki 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
6.5The honest and meticulous cashier, Savvas, works in a business and is often pressured by his wife’s siblings to embezzle money from his job and lend it to them. When his manager, leaving on a trip, entrusts him with a million drachmas without a receipt, Savvas succumbs to the pressure and gives some of the money to his brother-in-law. In the end, however, an unexpected development awaits Savvas, since his manager is killed in an airplane crash and he has to decide what to do with the money.
Another One for the Million
1964
4.7An unemployed man poses as a housekeeper to stay afloat; but, his fiancée starts to suspect something, the gardener wants more of "her", and his employer's scheming cousins want everything for themselves. Can he get out of the tight spot?
Cleopatra was Antonis
1966
4.8Charilaos Maraziotis owns a store and owes so much money both to his lenders and to the state, that he is in danger of going to jail. He decides to pretend to be a psychopath and is sent to an asylum. His lenders, upon hearing the news about his mental health, change their attitude towards him and release him from his debts.
Eftyhos... trellathika!
1961
7.0Angelina is a prostitute. Her only friends are her colleague Nana and coachman Minas. George suddenly enters her life and confesses his love to her. Angelina begins to believe that her life can change, not suspecting that George has approached her on behalf of the drug dealer Nino.
Sidewalk
1962
6.5A romantic saleswoman nurtures the sweet fantasy of marrying a rich lad who will turn her life around, as a low-ranking office clerk has exactly the same aspirations. Can they count on true love, or is it all about the money?
Κορίτσια της Αθήνας
1961
7.0A tough sailor, Fotis, returns to Greece to marry his beloved and to settle certain inheritance issues with his twin brother Fifis, who is an effeminate artist. Their striking resemblance will upset the lives of both of them equally.
Fifis the Unbeatable
1966
6.5Anthology film with a number of sketches that satirize modern Greece.
Taste from Greece
1980
5.2Yearning 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
3.8Bursting with excitement before meeting a blonde hottie and her equally good-looking companion, a lascivious merchant lures his gullible old friend into a splendid afternoon by the sea behind his wife's back. But, will he get away with it?
The Watermelon
1962
7.4Although a gas station employee, a young man has a great idea about himself and chases brides with a great dowry, ignoring his neighbor who loves him.
The Saucy Guy
1968
5.4Stavros has a cafe with his brother years and are the only ones in the family who care to get by. He is in love with Mary, which, however, not turning to look at him. Mary comes from an ...
The Princess's Little Boy
1972
6.7An unemployed man (Kostas Chatzichristos), prone to endless amusements, economically sucks his uncle (Periklis Christoforidis) in order to satisfy his desires. His despair, when his uncle decides to stop the economic benefits, will lead him to sell some furniture of the house. He sells four armchairs and then he learns that in one of them were hidden precious jewels of the aunt. He looks desperately to find and to get them back, but he only discovers three of them, and in these there is no trace of jewelry. To find the fourth and lucky one, whose traces are completely ignored, he accepts partnered with a friend (Takis Christoforidis). He is transformed into an organized, consistent and good working man, and falls in love with his sister's partner (Stella Stratigou) and discovers that the fourth chair was held by his uncle, who set up this whole story to motivate him and make him active.
The child of the square
1961
5.9The late Pericles gets permission from God to return to earth and help his family, who has gone astray after his death. Invisible to all but present everywhere, he is able to eavesdrop on what's going on: his youngest daughter lives it up with some Teddy boys, his eldest do not intend to marry her fiancé, his son has become a crook, and his wife a gambler.
Descended from Heaven
1965
7.5To convince his wealthy uncle to keep sending his monthly cheques, a poor man lies about his marital status. But, when the relative returns to Greece, he talks his partner into posing as his wife. Will they get away with fraud so easily?
For a Lousy Drachma
1968
