Kostas Rigopoulos

Acting

Kostas Rigopoulos

Born 1930-11-22 · Athens, Greece

Kostas Rigopoulos (Greek: Κώστας Ρηγόπουλος; 22 November 1930 – 14 January 2001) was a Greek actor. Rigopoulos was born in Athens in November 1930 and graduated from the National Theatre of Greece Drama School in 1953. He appeared on stage for the first time at the Kyveli Theater, playing an Oscar Wilde role. It was there that he met the 18-year-old actress Kakia Analyti, whom he later married. Together they had a daughter, Zoi Rigopoulou, who became an actress as well. Later on, he appeared alongside other renowned actors and actresses, including Lambeti, Katerina, Katrakis and Horn. From 1962, he ran his own theater company with his wife, at the Diana Theatre; a year later, they established their own theatre, the Analyti Theatre. Rigopoulos also appeared on cinema; he won the Honorary Award at the Thessaloniki International Film Festival for his role at Pantelis Voulgaris' film To proxenio tis Annas (Το προξενιό της Άννας, "Anna's Arranged Marriage"). He also appeared on television, participating at the Greek TV series Axiomatikos Ypiresias (Αξιωματικός Υπηρεσίας), Viva Katerina (Βίβα Κατερίνα) and Hamoyelaste parakalo (Χαμογελάστε παρακαλώ). In 1988, he presented the game show Essis ti lete (Εσείς τι λέτε). Apart from Greek, Rigopoulos also spoke English and French. Later in his life, he lived alone in Palaio Faliro, southwest of Athens. He died from a major stroke.

Acting credits

Anna's Engagement poster
6.2

A lower-class maid navigates the social world of the upper-crust family she works for.

Anna's Engagement

1972

Οι κολασμένοι poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Οι κολασμένοι

1964

Divorce, Greek Style poster
4.0

A furious and overworked lawyer spends all her time at her office, dealing with her clients' problems and cases, and so she has no time to see her husband. In order to shake her up and make her see sense, he decides to cheat on her and starts dating one of his wife's voluptuous clients, who wants to divorce her husband because he neglects her. She then tries to do the same thing to make her husband jealous and come back to her. And she succeeds...

Divorce, Greek Style

1964

Mr. Wing Commander poster
6.5

Sotiris, the president of Ano Latini, goes to Athens to get information about the project of expropriation for the construction of a military airport in the village. Dimitroula, president's daughter, is in love with Vangelis, an aircraftsman, who serves his duty in Athens. When Vangelis learns that a wealthy villager asked to marry his girlfriend, he goes to the village with his friend Kanellos, to find out what's happening. Kanellos is a naive hotel concierge who wears a fancy uniform, making everyone in the village believe that he is a Wing Commander.

Mr. Wing Commander

1963

I stole my wife poster
7.0

A 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

My Love Ua Ua poster
5.8

A writer is going through a serious crisis, since neither his career nor his marriage are going well. His talent, and friends, seem to have abandoned him. The only one standing by his side is a girl from Africa, who has come to Greece to study, and, in order to make ends meet, she works as a maid in his home. Naive and kind, she manages to restore a happy atmosphere in the home.

My Love Ua Ua

1974

And All 14 Were Wonderful! poster
5.8

Four 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

O kerveros kai to doloma... poster
NR

Kyriakos has spent his entire career working for the Greek Customs Service. Day and night, holidays and weekdays, he has become the fear and terror of the airport and the pursuer of every smuggler who dares to enter. He is Cerberus. His personal life is non-existent. Unmarried and alone, his only love is his duty...

O kerveros kai to doloma...

1987

Rena... Here's the Opportunity poster
5.4

The loss of the first lottery ticket by a poor seamstress becomes the reason for her to become famous and ultimately earn a lot of money.

Rena... Here's the Opportunity

1980

Love Written in Blood poster
8.0

A mountain adventure set in the mountains of Crete. The fiancé of a beautiful girl is killed on their engagement day by an unknown assailant. Shortly before he dies, the hero implores his beloved to find his killer and avenge his death. She promises to do so and does everything in her power to keep her vow, with the help of a young man who is in love with her.

Love Written in Blood

1962

Agents 005 Against Goldenfoot poster
5.6

Two James Bond fans, Kosmas and Damianos Bouralas, own a wine bar and hold a 5% stake in an industry. Mikes Pararas, who owns 47.5% of the same industry, is a wealthy man who, together with his partner Telis Hatzineftis, exploits and mistreats the employees and steals from the company. The arrival of the owner of the other 47.5%, Rita Pavlidi, will help the two friends take control of the business, after Chrysopodaros' misdeeds are revealed.

Agents 005 Against Goldenfoot

1965

Sidewalk poster
7.0

Angelina 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

24 Hours of Liveliness poster
NR

Louisa Ragozzi, exhausted by her husband's antics, whom she caught red-handed with her typist, pretends to have amnesia and does not recognize him. She asks their servant Petros to throw him out of the house. Her husband is worried and seeks the help of a famous psychiatrist, who tries to help Louisa regain her memory. However, he must proceed discreetly, because the "psychopath" thinks that the doctor is her husband!

24 Hours of Liveliness

1969

Ο αναρχικός poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Ο αναρχικός

1987

Ο τσιφούτης poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Ο τσιφούτης

1986

Τα νιάτα θέλουν έρωτα poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Τα νιάτα θέλουν έρωτα

1961

For a Lousy Drachma poster
7.5

To 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

Poisonous Women poster
5.0

It is a story of a normal, everyday Greek family that each member turns out to be wacko or gets wacko by the other members. The father is the stoic figure that accepts everything. The mother has a middle age crisis and takes advantage of her husbands inability. The older brother is a doctor of psychology and has everything under control (or believe so) and the younger brother does nothing with his life acclaiming that he is a filmmaker.

Poisonous Women

1993

Without Identity poster
7.0

Giannis (Alekos Alexandrakis) pretends to be the lost son of the Mavroleontos family. The mother (Vaso Metaxa) is happy with the return of her son. Her daughter Liana (Zoe Laskari) is also happy, and Giannis falls in love with her. Liana’s cousin Zanet (Mary Chronopoulou) tries to kill Liana so that she can claim the family fortune, but in the end she injures Giannis.

Without Identity

1962

The Enemy of the People poster
6.2

No synopsis available yet.

The Enemy of the People

1972

The imaginary one poster
5.6

A conceited businessman, who thinks that he has struck oil, starts a petroleum company and catches the attention of money-grubbing swindlers. Can his secretary help him see that this reckless enterprise is nothing but an elaborate hoax?

The imaginary one

1973

The Greek woman and love poster
5.0

Revolving around the modern Greek woman and her perspective on love in general, not one, but twenty-one brief and vivid vignettes attempt to shed light on an ever-present matter: can there be consequences in Cupid's eternal game?

The Greek woman and love

1962

Thieves Rejoice Only Once poster
5.7

A lawyer goes to Paros to meet his mistress. But trying to get away from her husband, who returns unannounced, he enters the room of a good-hearted girl who tries to help him, thinking he is a thief. When he learns the truth, he gets angry and avoids him, and he sets a trick to bring her near.

Thieves Rejoice Only Once

1960

Ζωή και κότα poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Ζωή και κότα

1987