Spiros Focás

Acting

Spiros Focás

Born — Died

1937-08-17 — 2023-11-10

Place of birth

Patras, Greece

Known for

Acting

Credits

65 titles

Spiros Focás  (Greek: Σπύρος Φωκάς, born 17 August, 1937 - November 10, 2023) was a Greek actor who, in a career extending for over half-century, has appeared in over two hundred films (Rambo III, The Jewel of the Nile) and episodes of television series. Born in Patras, Greece's third-largest urban area and the regional capital of West Greece Periphery, Spiros Focás made his initial screen appearances at the age of 22, when he acted in four films produced in 1959. Among the directors for whom he worked are Luchino Visconti, Vincente Minnelli and Ferdinando Baldi. In 2011 he had been performing in Lords of Magic and was scheduled for another title, planned for 2012 release, The Family Inheri…

Known for

Murder, She Wrote poster
7.5

An unassuming mystery writer turned sleuth uses her professional insight to help solve real-life homicide cases.

Murder, She Wrote

1984

The Jewel of the Nile poster
6.2

Joan Wilder is thrust back into a world of murder, chases, foreign intrigue... and love. This time out she's duped by a duplicitous Arab dignitary who brings her to the Middle East, ostensibly to write a book about his life. Of course, he's up to no good, and Joan is just another pawn in his wicked game. But Jack Colton and his sidekick Ralph show up to help our intrepid heroine save the day.

The Jewel of the Nile

1985

Rocco and His Brothers poster
8.0

When a impoverished widow’s family moves to the big city, two of her five sons become romantic rivals with deadly results.

Rocco and His Brothers

1960

Rambo III poster
6.2

Combat has taken its toll on Rambo, but he's finally begun to find inner peace in a monastery. When Rambo's friend and mentor Col. Trautman asks for his help on a top secret mission to Afghanistan, Rambo declines but must reconsider when Trautman is captured.

Rambo III

1988

White Palace poster
6.7

Max Baron is a Jewish advertising executive in his 20s who's still getting over the death of his wife. Nora Baker is a 40-something diner waitress who enjoys the wilder side of life. Mismatched or not, their attraction is instant and smoldering. With time, however, their class and age differences become an obstacle in their relationship, especially since Max can't keep Nora a secret from his Jewish friends and upper-crust associates forever.

White Palace

1990

Origins of the Mafia poster
8.0

Journey back more than 400 years to 16th century Sicily, where the small Italian islands have fallen victim to corruption, intimidation, extortion, and brutality.

Origins of the Mafia

1976

Film credits

2000s · 6 titles

The Devil Turned Holy Mother poster
NR

Anna is the Jewish daughter of a Spanish mother and a Greek father. She has returned to her family's house in Greece

The Devil Turned Holy Mother

2003

L'ospite segreto poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

L'ospite segreto

2003

Parta ola poster
NR

A wealthy, eccentric old man leaves his friend, a notary, a strange will. He wants to be buried with a view of the sea, gypsies playing music, and his coffin carried by four girls dressed like Moulin Rouge dancers. Otherwise, his enormous fortune will be inherited by the church for the benefit of illegitimate and extramarital children. His son, a former progressive and now a businessman, is unable to revoke the will because the church will be the plaintiff. So all the members of the family will try overnight to find a way to fulfill the terms of the will in order to get the money. But the road will not be as easy as they imagined...

Parta ola

2003

Alexandros and Aishe poster
8.0

A Christian boy and a Muslim girl fall in a forbidden love in the town of Komotini. They decide to escape together, but the Turkish consul has another opinion.

Alexandros and Aishe

2001

Watch Out! Red Light poster
1.5

The occupation of students just before the Panhellenic effervescence inducing s`ena public high school in Piraeus. On the first day of the Panhellenic found dead in the toilets George, with a syringe stuck in the arm. All his friends swear that their informal leader never took drugs. The investigations are difficult and the youth does not show any willingness to cooperate.

Watch Out! Red Light

2003

Vitsia gynaikon poster
3.6

A young drifter working on a river barge disrupts his employers' lives while hiding the fact that he knows more about a dead woman found in the river than he admits.

Vitsia gynaikon

2000

1990s · 9 titles

White Palace poster
6.7

Max Baron is a Jewish advertising executive in his 20s who's still getting over the death of his wife. Nora Baker is a 40-something diner waitress who enjoys the wilder side of life. Mismatched or not, their attraction is instant and smoldering. With time, however, their class and age differences become an obstacle in their relationship, especially since Max can't keep Nora a secret from his Jewish friends and upper-crust associates forever.

White Palace

1990

The Serpent of Death poster
3.6

An archaelogist falls under the spell of a statue with a curse on it.

The Serpent of Death

1990

Tre colonne in cronaca poster
6.4

Chronicle of the dark maneuvers put into practice by a politician to seize an opposition newspaper. A Lebanese terrorist receives the order to kill a stockbroker, which triggers a series of blackmail and deception. A deputy commissioner and a journalist intend to shed light on all these murky matters, but the politician has no scruples and also knows how to move with extraordinary skill.

Tre colonne in cronaca

1990

Condition Critical poster
4.2

Medical-center doctors discover the shocking source of a deadly virus spreading through Los Angeles.

Condition Critical

1992

Business in the Balkans poster
6.8

Alexandros wants to open a bar in a district town so he travels to Romania to find young girls to work for him.The bar has unprecedented success but then something happens.

Business in the Balkans

1996

Hill 33 poster
7.7

A small army outpost on an offshore island of the Aegean. Its mission – area surveillance and the collecting of information on the enemy.

Hill 33

1998

Dead liqueur poster
4.7

In late-1950s Athens, a big sister and her twin brothers sneak in their grandfather's distillery to perform a strange rite. But, how important is the last drop of the rare "Dead Liqueur" to the experimenting adolescents' budding sexuality?

Dead liqueur

1992

Moon Runway poster
9.0

A police comedy/fantasy adventure with witches, ghosts, beautiful fairies and a cop who tries to solve a mysterious murder.

Moon Runway

1994

Sapounopetra: To hrima sto Laimo sas poster
4.5

A brilliant investigative journalist, Alekos Varnesis, desperately searches for the truth behind a scandal that is rocking Greek society concerning the trade in human organs. In his attempt to track down the mastermind behind the ring, he encounters unpredictable comical situations, similar to those we experience in our everyday lives. When he manages to reach the mastermind, known as "The Big One," he discovers that he too has his own family problems. His twelve-year-old son is an alcoholic and madly in love with his stepmother. All this creates a lot of confusion...

Sapounopetra: To hrima sto Laimo sas

1995

1980s · 9 titles

The Jewel of the Nile poster
6.2

Joan Wilder is thrust back into a world of murder, chases, foreign intrigue... and love. This time out she's duped by a duplicitous Arab dignitary who brings her to the Middle East, ostensibly to write a book about his life. Of course, he's up to no good, and Joan is just another pawn in his wicked game. But Jack Colton and his sidekick Ralph show up to help our intrepid heroine save the day.

The Jewel of the Nile

1985

Rambo III poster
6.2

Combat has taken its toll on Rambo, but he's finally begun to find inner peace in a monastery. When Rambo's friend and mentor Col. Trautman asks for his help on a top secret mission to Afghanistan, Rambo declines but must reconsider when Trautman is captured.

Rambo III

1988

Mistress poster
4.2

A woman who's been having an affair with a married man who's been taking care of her. When he dies she finds herself with nothing. So she tries to rebuild her life but not without the stigma of being a kept woman following her.

Mistress

1987

Lily poster
NR

Lily Miniver is an eccentric, intrepid young woman whose job as associate curator at the prestigious Jeffersonian Museum in Washington, D.C. takes her around the globe. When a unique Aztec necklace, on loan from the British Museum, is slightly tarnished, she quickly deduces that it's a fake, and she is sent to London by her boss to determine how a substitute necklace showed up at the Jeffersonian.

Lily

1986

Barbecue Them! poster
8.0

Three marginals provoke the social establishment with their every act.

Barbecue Them!

1981

Sonia poster
6.5

The brief love story that Sonia lived in the summer with her teacher, an older man and married in the 60's. For the autumn, Tonio travels with his family abroad, leaving Sonia with his most intimate memories. Sonia has lived in Florence, Paris and has acquired the romanticism of the interwar years she has found in books, paintings and music of the time. He has chosen to live a life apart, of introspection, away from the crowds, but always in a sensational mood.

Sonia

1980

Black Tunnel poster
7.0

The attempt to kill a guy connected to the mob fails when he and his assassins get trapped in a mountain tunnel.

Black Tunnel

1986

Misunderstanding poster
9.0

Dimitris Lembessis gets out of prison, pays his friend Stratos a visit and kills him. With Ilias he organizes a big jewel heist. During the operation they discover that someone has ratted on them. In their attempt to escape, a police officer is killed and Ilias is mortally wounded...

Misunderstanding

1983

Dangerous game poster
4.4

During his summer vacation in Mytilene, a young and lonely small-time clerk, Kostas, becomes bewitched by a femme fatale, Anna Parisi, a thirty-five-year-old German woman married to a wealthy local businessman.

Dangerous game

1982

1970s · 11 titles

Shaft in Africa poster
6.2

Detective John Shaft travels incognito to Ethiopia, then France, to bust a human trafficking ring.

Shaft in Africa

1973

Flavia the Heretic poster
5.9

Puglia, southern Italy, around 1400. A convent is invaded by the Tarantula cult, whose fanatical and crazed members desecrate the sacred place by committing obscene and bloody acts.

Flavia the Heretic

1974

Holocaust 2000 poster
5.8

An executive in charge of a nuclear power plant in the Mid-East must stop his son-- who turns out to be the Anti Christ -- from blowing it up.

Holocaust 2000

1977

Basta guardarla poster
4.9

Enrichetta, a young peasant girl who lives in a little village, joins Silver Boy as a dancer.

Basta guardarla

1970

Corbari poster
6.1

The real story of the partisan Silvio Corbari (Giuliano Gemma). Silvio forms a band of partisans in Northern Italy, completely independent from the Italian organized resistance (CLN). Ines (Tina Aumont), leaves her husband to join the band and becomes Silvio's lover. Silvio seems to suceed in creating a free-zone, his personal republic, independent from Nazi-occupied Italy, in a little village called Tregnano.

Corbari

1970

The Smugglers poster
4.6

No synopsis available yet.

The Smugglers

1971

Mark Shoots First poster
6.6

Mark Terzi goes to Genoa to take on the case of a serial killer who calls himself "The Sphinx".

Mark Shoots First

1975

A Matter of Time poster
5.1

During a press conference, international star Nina remembers simpler times, flashing back to her days as a maid in a run-down Italian hotel. As a young woman, Nina befriends Contessa Sanziani, an elderly woman who entertains Nina with memories of her vibrant, wealthy life with Count Sanziani. Inspired by her tales of success, young Nina fantasizes about her own adventures and seeks to find the same excitement in her life.

A Matter of Time

1976

Family Killer poster
6.1

Stefano, son of the Mafia Don Angelino Ferrante, is killed by Gaspare Ardizzone (John Saxon) for refusing to sell some valuable land. The old don sends for Ferrante Santino Billeci from America, in the hope that he'll be able to help in getting revenge. But Gaspar, meanwhile, is becoming the most powerful and ruthless boss of the area...

Family Killer

1973

No artwork available
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Lui per lei

1972

Zorro in the Court of England poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Zorro in the Court of England

1970

1960s · 20 titles

Rocco and His Brothers poster
8.0

When a impoverished widow’s family moves to the big city, two of her five sons become romantic rivals with deadly results.

Rocco and His Brothers

1960

Eighteen in the Sun poster
5.1

An Italian variation on the Frankie & Annette-Gidget beach party movies that were all the rage in North America in the early 60s. Nicole Molino (Catherine Spaak) and Nicola Molino (Gianni Garko) are not related to one another. In fact, they don’t even know each other until both are inadvertently assigned the same hotel room on the island of Ischia. Nicole isn’t interested in any hanky-panky, so Nicola reluctantly promises to keep his hands to himself.

Eighteen in the Sun

1962

Hate Thy Neighbor poster
5.0

Ken Dakota's search for the murderer of his brother, killed by bandit Gary Stevens, at the behest of land owner Chris Malone. Dakota attempts to bring the men responsible for his brothers death to justice.

Hate Thy Neighbor

1968

Messalina poster
5.6

Messalina was the Roman noblewoman who inveigled ageing emperor Claudio into marriage. Once ensconced on the throne, Messalina launched a reign of terror that shook the empire to its very foundations. The subject of countless film treatments, Rome's most villified empress is herein played by British actress Belinda Lee.

Messalina

1960

A Bullet Through the Heart poster
6.0

Francesco, a young Sicilian aristocrat, scars an aging gangster who has set out to take away his property. The gangster vows to obtain vengeance, and Francesco is forced to flee across Greece with his girl friend, pursued by his antagonist's vicious henchmen.

A Bullet Through the Heart

1966

A Man for Burning poster
5.8

Political activist Salvatore returns to his native Sicily and stirs up trouble among the peasants, urging them to confront the Mafia and demand the right to plough their own fields. The peasants refuse to help him, and Salvatore is marked by the Mafia as a troublemaker.

A Man for Burning

1962

Queen of Clubs poster
6.8

A model (Elena Nathanail) is on vacation with her sailor husband (Thodoros Roumpanis), and she falls in love with an employee (Spyros Fokas) who works in the hotel where they are staying. She confesses her feelings to her husband, and he abandons her. The young woman hooks up with with the employee, who goes with her to Athens. There, their passion – and her crisis - will reach their peak.

Queen of Clubs

1966

Έρωτας στην καφτή άμμο poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Έρωτας στην καφτή άμμο

1966

Psycosissimo poster
6.7

Two bumbling actors get wrapped up in a scheme to murder a rich man's wife.

Psycosissimo

1961

Stefania poster
4.7

18 year old Stefania is brought to a juvenile reformatory for young prostitutes. The institution is actually a prison, and one of the worst and most squalid of its kind. It's a real hell. Two dozens of ragged girls are crammed into a dormitory, locked by a thick iron door, two in each bed. Meals and work is carried out in other sections of the building, separated by iron bars. A young doctor shall investigate the newcomer. When they meet, they immediately recognize each other. It is Giorgos, the doctor that treated Stefania's mother a couple of years ago, and then had a little flirt with Stefania. He has been thinking of her ever since. He immediately falls in love with her, and wants to help her. Stefania is thinking about any possibility to get out from the prison. She flirts with the ugly yard guard Armandos, and with the truck driver coming with foodstuff, but in vain...

Stefania

1966

Η απολύτρωση poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Η απολύτρωση

1961

Death of a Friend poster
6.6

Two young people trickle, steal and exploit prostitutes.

Death of a Friend

1960

Run with the Devil poster
5.1

The trials and tribulations of a group of artist friends and a gay gallery owner living in the Via Margutta neighbourhood of Rome. Stefano is a talented painter, devoted to his art but not interested in promoting himself, while many of his fellow artists are far more adept at selling their persona than creating art.

Run with the Devil

1960

Love on the Hot Sand (The Runaway) poster
5.2

No synopsis available yet.

Love on the Hot Sand (The Runaway)

1966

The Fear poster
7.3

In this disturbing family drama, a prosperous middle-aged farmer takes up gambling and whoring at the expense of his devoted second wife. Meanwhile, his son the pervert becomes fascinated with the family's maid, a deaf-mute.

The Fear

1966

Η ζωή ενός ανθρώπου poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Η ζωή ενός ανθρώπου

1968

Bread for a Fugitive poster
10.0

Giovanni, an Italian soldier, finds refuge in the home of two weary women, who are sisters. The Germans are looking for him, but one sister falls in love with him and hides him. The other, having lost two sons in the Greek-Italian war, betrays him to the Germans. Her sister, however, with the help of fellow villagers and rebels, saves him from the clutches of his pursuers. The woman who betrayed the Italian finds redemption by committing suicide.

Bread for a Fugitive

1967

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

Egoism poster
6.0

A spoiled girl, Maria, does not care about anyone but herself and her good-natured. She relates eroticly to her sister's fiancé, Costas, to pay her the debts she has to do with her wasteful life.

Egoism

1964

Μπροστά στην αγχόνη poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Μπροστά στην αγχόνη

1968

Series credits