Takis Emmanuel

Acting

Takis Emmanuel

Born 1933-01-04 · Messolonghi, Greece

Takis Emmanouil (Greek: Τάκης Εμμανουήλ, 1933 - 26 August 2017) was a Greek actor, with an international career in the field of cinema. He was also a director and producer, while in the last years of his life he was involved in literature. He was born in 1933 in Messolonghi and his real name was Panagiotis. Initially, in Greece, he studied acting at the Drama School of the Athens Conservatory, with the teacher of the theater director Dimitris Rontiris. Later, in the period 1979-1981, he studied directing, screenwriting and television production in Los Angeles. At the age of 27 (in 1960) he made his first appearance on stage, in the tragedy "Iphigenia in Tauris" by Euripides, performing the role of Geladaris. The play was presented at the Ancient Theatre of Epidaurus, by the 'Ancient Attic Theatre' troupe of Malaina Anousaki. Its theatrical appearances continued until 1965. In cinema, it first appeared alongside the theatre, in 1960, in the modular film The River by Nikos Koundouros. Other films followed alongside renowned directors (Nikos Koundouros, Michalis Cacogiannis, Takis Kanellopoulos, Dinos Dimopoulos, Dimis Dadiras, etc.) and important actors (Manos Katrakis, Irini Papa, Yannis Fertis, Aleka Katseli, Notis Pergialis, Phaedon Georgitsis, Eleni Zafiriou, Niki Triantafyllidi, Eleni Prokopiou, Zannino, Anestis Vlachos, Lefteris Vournas, Spyros Kalogirou, Anthony Quinn, Alan Bates, Sotiris Moustakas, etc.). The successes that most of the films in which he participated achieved, both in Greece and abroad, were his passport to an international career. In 1968, he emigrated from Greece to perform abroad in America, England, Italy and Australia. In 1982, he returned to Greece and founded his own production company.

Acting credits

The Golden Voyage of Sinbad poster
6.7

Sinbad and his crew intercept a homunculus carrying a golden tablet. Koura, the creator of the homunculus and practitioner of evil magic, wants the tablet back and pursues Sinbad. Meanwhile, Sinbad meets the Vizier who has another part of the interlocking golden map, and they mount a quest across the seas to solve the riddle of the map.

The Golden Voyage of Sinbad

1973

Play Dirty poster
6.3

During World War II in North Africa, a group of British commandos disguised as Italian soldiers must travel behind enemy lines and destroy a vital Nazi oil depot.

Play Dirty

1969

Lion of the Desert poster
7.3

Resistance leader Omar Mukhtar opposes Italian colonization before World War II. The brutal guerrilla war against Italian General Rodolfo Graziani and the Fascist forces of Benito Mussolini highlights the struggle for Libyan independence and the harsh tactics utilised by the colonisers.

Lion of the Desert

1981

Zorba the Greek poster
7.5

An uptight English writer traveling to Crete on a matter of business finds his life changed forever when he meets the gregarious Alexis Zorba.

Zorba the Greek

1964

The River poster
6.2

This films tells four different stories, all connected by the banks of a river.

The River

1960

Glory Sky poster
7.1

During the cold spring of 1941, with Greece already under German occupation, a long-suffering squad of war-battered soldiers receives orders from the headquarters in Athens to fall back, leaving behind the Albanian Front. As the men retreat through the snow-covered landscapes of the bomb-scarred Greek countryside, the terrifying certainty that nothing will ever be the same again crushes their weary human souls.

Glory Sky

1962

Electra poster
7.0

Living in exile after the death of their father, the grown children of a murdered and usurped king converge to exact eye-for-an-eye revenge.

Electra

1962

Oedipus the King poster
6.0

This classic Greek tale tells how a noble youth accidentally marries his own mother, kills his own father and ends up paying a terrible price for invoking the wrath of the Gods.

Oedipus the King

1968

Cannon for Cordoba poster
5.6

In 1912, during the Mexican Revolution, the border between Texas and Mexico is on flames due to savage raids by Mexican bandits who call themselves freedom fighters, so the US government entrusts to General Pershing the capture of General Héctor Córdoba, the most notorious among them.

Cannon for Cordoba

1970

The Magus poster
5.7

A teacher on a Greek island becomes involved in bizarre mind-games with the island's magus (magician) and a beautiful young woman.

The Magus

1968

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

That Lucky Touch poster
6.4

A European arms dealer meets a liberated woman journalist, who is writing a story about the ridiculous things men do with the armaments during a NATO war games meeting.

That Lucky Touch

1975

Young Aphrodites poster
6.4

200 BC. During a merciless drought, the brute nature of man and the delicate essence of woman become inextricably intertwined, as the omnipotence of the carnal instinct demands the total surrender of the flesh.

Young Aphrodites

1963

Έρωτας στην καφτή άμμο poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Έρωτας στην καφτή άμμο

1966

Bloody earth poster
9.0

The daughter of a powerful husband in a mountainous village in Greece is being forced to marry a wealthy villager while loving a poor lad. Her beloved will leave the village, giving an oath to return and marry her.

Bloody earth

1967

Hell Boats poster
8.1

A war drama of motor torpedo boats which did much unsung work in WW2, but the naval battles merely provide an exciting story in which an even more special romantic drama is wrapped up.

Hell Boats

1970

The barker poster
6.3

A union leader is corrupted by the owner of a factory and appointed as its CEO.

The barker

1964

N.P. - The Secret poster
6.4

An engineer invents a revolutionary machine capable of automating all industrial production, thereby eliminating the need for human labor. His groundbreaking innovation, intended to free humanity from work, instead leads to his abduction and brainwashing by unknown forces. He is then left to wander the city, stripped of his memories and identity.

N.P. - The Secret

1972

Caddie poster
6.2

Proud and classy Caddie Marsh is forced to get a job as a barmaid and raise two children on her own after her husband walks out on her.

Caddie

1976

Damned love poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Damned love

1968

Love on the Hot Sand (The Runaway) poster
5.2

No synopsis available yet.

Love on the Hot Sand (The Runaway)

1966

Ου Κλέψεις poster
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

Ου Κλέψεις

1965

The Nets of Shame poster
7.5

The poor fishermen of a small village in the Evros region are trying to set up a cooperative so that they can resist the relentless exploitation of the merchants who buy their catch for a pittance. Leading the effort is an educated young man, Stefanos, who strives to encourage the fishermen to overcome their hesitation.

The Nets of Shame

1965

The Steps poster
8.0

An artist returns to Santorini, where she spent her childhood, to face the ghosts of her past and her present.

The Steps

1966