Dionysis Papagiannopoulos

Acting

Dionysis Papagiannopoulos

Born — Died

1912-01-01 — 1984-04-17

Place of birth

Diakopto, Achaia, Greece

Known for

Acting

Credits

60 titles

Dionysis Papagiannopoulos (Greek: Διονύσης Παπαγιαννόπουλος; 12 July 1912 – 13 April 1984) was a Greek actor. He was born in Diakopto in the northeastern part of Achaea in 1912. He studied at the Drama School of the National Theatre of Greece (Ethniko Theatro) in Athens and made his stage debut in 1938, appearing as the Knight in William Shakespeare's King Lear. He excelled in Shakespeare's Hamlet as the Grave Digger and in Dimitris Psathas' Fonazei o Kleftis as General Solon Karaleon. Dionysis Papagiannopoulos acted in all types of plays and appeared in more than 120 films in supporting and leading roles. One of his leading roles in cinema was O Kyr Giorgis Ekpaidevetai (Mr. Giorgis is bein…

Known for

Voyage to Cythera poster
7.1

An old communist returning to Greece after 32 years in the Soviet Union is disillusioned with the state of things.

Voyage to Cythera

1984

Rough Seas poster
4.2

The message of the return of Captain Nikoli sfakianes Andros, after four years of absence, will bring great inconvenience to his house. His wife Chrisoula will scrape together the three daughters of the party on the beaches and transform them appropriately, knowing how severe is the captain. The change is so successful that Captain Nikolas disappointed by their appearance ...

Rough Seas

1966

A Matter of Earnestness poster
7.1

Minister Andreas Mavrogialouros (Labros Konstadaras) visits the village of his electoral district, Platanias for the inauguration of a maternity hospital. After an accident, he finds his voters' dissatisfaction and the scams of his partners. He, therefore, decides to step down from the government and bring order to his life, starting from his wife and his daughter.

A Matter of Earnestness

1965

Μυρτιά poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Μυρτιά

1961

Η Ζωή Μου Αρχίζει Με Σένα poster
3.7

An arrogant lieutenant of the Royal Hellenic Navy who finds out that his ex-lover has deeper feelings for one of his colleagues, wants to take his revenge on him after a nearly fatal accident. Can he swallow his pride and accept the truth?

Η Ζωή Μου Αρχίζει Με Σένα

1961

Stella poster
6.9

The story of a young, wild woman who doesn't want to compromise and settle down. Stella is a restless, rebellious Greek woman who plays with men and enjoys her life as much as she can. But when she meets a young footballer, things get mixed up. She loves him but she loves her freedom too. So it's about time she made an important choice.

Stella

1955

Film credits

2020s · 1 titles

1970s · 9 titles

Vacation to Our Cyprus poster
7.0

The heirs of two Cypriot winemakers and sworn rivals visit incognito the city of Paphos to flee from two arranged marriages of convenience, only to meet and fall in love. Is this a star-crossed affair in the likes of Romeo and Juliet?

Vacation to Our Cyprus

1971

If I Were Rich poster
6.5

Michalis and Filippos work in a garage and dream of the good life. One day, they decide to take the car of a businessman, Aristeidis, who is away in Paris for a few days. At a night club, they bump into Mitsi, Mr. Aristeidis’ daughter, and Michalis pretends to be the rich businessman. The girl, although she suspects the truth right away, likes them and invites them over to her house.

If I Were Rich

1972

Crazy Girls Awesome Boys poster
8.0

Two detergent entrepreneurs decide to marry their children, each believing that their rival holds the secret to a certain type of biological enzyme. However, their children react to these machinations and devise their own plan to counter their parents' illicit ambitions.

Crazy Girls Awesome Boys

1970

Ο Πατούχας poster
4.7

No synopsis available yet.

Ο Πατούχας

1972

The Charlatan poster
9.0

An immigrant in Germany works hard to support his father and sister, who live in Greece. When he is forced to return home, he discovers that he has no money because the bank where he kept his savings has gone bankrupt. So he returns hidden in a refrigerated truck and arrives frozen, which starts a battle between refrigerator advertisers over who will convince him to advertise their refrigerators.

The Charlatan

1973

A Law-Abiding Citizen poster
8.5

A young man who grew up beneath the heavy shade of autocratic and avaricious mother, son Gregory, has lost initiative and the minimum footprint. The servility of his mother against his boss, which facilitates the solicitations of the latter to his sister, infuriates him. The fiancée, Soula, can not understand his sexual desires and his girlfriend, Julia, the only one that loves him really forced to abandon him. Gregory wonder with all this and rebels, but his rebellion brings him to the brink of madness. When you finally meet, forced to follow the commands of the mother and uncle ultraconservative so he marries the woman who suggest those.

A Law-Abiding Citizen

1974

Lysistrata poster
6.1

Based on Aristophanes's play, Athenian women band together to encourage their men to stop fighting the Spartans by withholding sex from them when they return from the front.

Lysistrata

1972

The Teacher was One Hell of a Man poster
6.5

The teacher of a primary school in a mountainous village, arrives in Athens to force a rich businessman to keep his promise and to build a new school in the village.

The Teacher was One Hell of a Man

1970

Behind the Curtain: Dionysis Papagiannopoulos poster
NR

The beloved theater and film actor, Dionysis Papagiannopoulos, talks about his life in Diakopto, reminisces about his childhood and school years, and his first amateur theatrical attempts. He describes his passion for theater and the difficulties he faced in pursuing theatrical studies, mainly due to his family's objections.

Behind the Curtain: Dionysis Papagiannopoulos

1979

1960s · 37 titles

Rough Seas poster
4.2

The message of the return of Captain Nikoli sfakianes Andros, after four years of absence, will bring great inconvenience to his house. His wife Chrisoula will scrape together the three daughters of the party on the beaches and transform them appropriately, knowing how severe is the captain. The change is so successful that Captain Nikolas disappointed by their appearance ...

Rough Seas

1966

A Matter of Earnestness poster
7.1

Minister Andreas Mavrogialouros (Labros Konstadaras) visits the village of his electoral district, Platanias for the inauguration of a maternity hospital. After an accident, he finds his voters' dissatisfaction and the scams of his partners. He, therefore, decides to step down from the government and bring order to his life, starting from his wife and his daughter.

A Matter of Earnestness

1965

Μυρτιά poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Μυρτιά

1961

Η Ζωή Μου Αρχίζει Με Σένα poster
3.7

An arrogant lieutenant of the Royal Hellenic Navy who finds out that his ex-lover has deeper feelings for one of his colleagues, wants to take his revenge on him after a nearly fatal accident. Can he swallow his pride and accept the truth?

Η Ζωή Μου Αρχίζει Με Σένα

1961

The Lady and the Tramp poster
5.5

Rena’s father insists on marrying her off to the son of a shipowner. Rena, however, doesn’t even want to hear about it, so she runs away and disguises herself as a boy named Pipis. As such, she meets a poor fisherman, Lefteris, and helps him on his way to Ioannina.

The Lady and the Tramp

1968

The Man Who Returned from the Plates poster
5.8

A Greek-American started from low washing dishes, became a landlord dozens restaurants in America. One day, he decides to return to Greece to marry, but things will be confused when they get into the wrong house ...

The Man Who Returned from the Plates

1969

You Came Too Late poster
7.0

The bond between a young painter and a girl who accidentally encounters a beach finds obstacles because of the information that her father learns about her past, who visits her and persuades her to give up. Based on the story of The Lady with the Camellias.

You Came Too Late

1962

The Greedy poster
7.0

The daughter of a factory owner beats with her car, the unemployed and hungry Chris, and her father from the obligation to recruit staff. Life Christos changing for the better and all you want to complete the happiness is to marry the daughter of his boss.

The Greedy

1967

Groom from London poster
6.6

Betty has become engaged, for her father’s sake, with a hard working and kind young man, Kostas, who works at a store selling electrical appliances that belongs to Betty’s father, Mr. Periklis. The latter values Kostas and truly wants to make him his son-in-law. Kostas saves the life of a sensitive girl, Mary, who tries to commit suicide because her English lover deserted her. Later on, he is persuaded to impersonate a rich Englishman in order to help Mary deal with her father, Mr. Kyriakos, who is trying to force her to marry someone against her will.

Groom from London

1967

The Orgies Villa poster
6.1

A parliamentary candidate and his mistress will spend the night at the police station. After all, no one is above the law, no matter what his credentials or social status may appear to be.

The Orgies Villa

1964

The Liar poster
5.5

Indebted to the ocean liner's doctor, a stowaway impersonates him in a romantic rendez-vous with his unknown pen-pal under the nose of his jealous fiancée and falls in love with her. Will they forgive them when they unearth their secret?

The Liar

1968

Ladies of the Courtyard poster
7.8

The Pippi a genuine artist, painting with touches of everyday life of ordinary people, who live and share the joys and sorrows in the large and vibrant with life yard of a neighborhood of old Athens.

Ladies of the Courtyard

1966

The Liar poster
5.1

Infatuated with a handsome sculptor, an overindulged daddy's girl will make use of every trick in the book--including a cunning but charming impersonation--to reach her goal. But, will the pampered heiress have it her way once more?

The Liar

1963

To gelio vgike ap' ton Paradeiso poster
7.3

An industrialist has decided to marry his daughter with his partner and, for that reason, will try to help him in whatever way he can.

To gelio vgike ap' ton Paradeiso

1963

Confession of a Mother poster
8.0

Having found, after many years, the man she loved and their daughter, a woman hesitates to reveal herself to them and decides to write her story in a letter to the young girl.

Confession of a Mother

1962

The Barefoot Prince poster
6.2

Run out of options and in desperate need of cash, a down-and-out young man accepts his rich hotelier friend's preposterous proposal to impersonate an exotic Arab Prince. But what does the bride-to-be has to say about this scandalous farce?

The Barefoot Prince

1966

Groom with tassels poster
4.7

Kitsos lives a quiet life in Gastouni, grabbing his sheep. But the pressure of his father and his beloved Asteros forces him to become a merchant by turning to nearby villages without success. Desperate father sends him to Athens where everything is so different from the village. Kitsos goes to the house of the uncle, Pericles. There he discovers that Ritsa, Pericles's daughter, has relation with an employee, Vassilakis. Pericles wants to marry Ritsa with Parmenion, but Kitsos decides to help the lovers.

Groom with tassels

1969

Horafa family poster
5.9

The consistency of a family with 13 children tested when a childless couple asks Americans to adopt the 14th located in his mother's belly.

Horafa family

1968

Jenny Jenny poster
7.1

Jenny Skoutari, a student and the daughter of a party local commander Kosmas Skoutaris, gets use to visit the private library of - her father's political rival - the shipowner Miltos Kassandris. Kassandris prepares his nephew - and a childhood friend of Jenny - Nikos Mantas, as a candidate for the next election. Mantas' rival has a lead, and is backed by Skoutaris, who is facing financial problems. So Kassandris decides to force Jenny to marry his nephew with a fake marriage, while at the same time financially breaks down her father in order to secure the election of his nephew. This marriage, however, will lead to unexpected situations between the couple..

Jenny Jenny

1966

Thieves out! poster
6.2

When the general manager who possesses 70% of the shares of a steelworks learns that he is sick and has to go abroad to be cured, he hands his shares to Timoleon Adamantas (Orestis Makris), his brother, a teacher, with whom he hasn’t spoken for almost 30 years. Timoleon, being an honest and goodhearted man, aided by his brother’s secretary, Margarita (Martha Karagianni), with whom his son Andreas is in love, finds out a number of great administrative irregularities. Immediately, he throws out his brother’s number one assistant, Kleftodimos (Dionysis Papagiannopoulos) and Margarita as well and puts everything in order.

Thieves out!

1961

The Woman Driver poster
5.8

Mary and Nikos are a happily married couple whose life turns upside down when Mary’s friend, Lilly, borrows their new car. When Lilly crashes the car, she asks Mary to cover for her so that her husband doesn’t find about her new affair. The case of the car crash is brought to court, and Mary is accused. Things get so complicated that not even Lilly’s confession can solve the misunderstanding.

The Woman Driver

1964

To nyfopazaro poster
8.0

Three friends, on a cruise in the Ionian Sea, throw erotic messages in bottles into the sea and fantasize about the women in their lives.

To nyfopazaro

1969

Παγίδα poster
8.0

In the Turkish-occupied Greece of the 18th century, Menousis when the Turks would kill his wife, decides to climb the mountains and along with the thieves to fight for the liberation of his country.

Παγίδα

1962

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 Neraida Kai to Palikari poster
5.9

Fourtounakis’ daughter, Katerinio, is forced to get engaged with a brutal Cretan, Skandalakis. But the return of Manousos Vrontakis from Athens and his flirtation with the girl leads to a great romance, without them knowing that they belong to families who are longstanding enemies.

I Neraida Kai to Palikari

1969

Miss Manager poster
7.4

The strict and formal director Lila Vassiliou has under her orders all the staff of the technical office of which she takes over the management, but at the same time, she is looking to find ways of charm to conquer the lively sub-engineer Alekos Samiotakis.

Miss Manager

1964

Some tired boys poster
6.3

Dinos Diamantidis, a good-looking, 50 years old, man who lives with his sister, is running behind any attractive female. When he meets the twenty-year-old Korina he loses his mind as Korina pretends that she is in love with him. His secretary, Rita, who has been engaged for many years with him, takes action and, with the help of his doctor and a former employee, makes Dinos finally figure out what this girl really is.

Some tired boys

1967

An Unbelievable Sucker poster
6.7

Thanasis and he will become barber, continuing the tradition of Chatzipapageorgakopoulokonstantinogiannopoulon in traditional shop in the neighborhood, without knowing that the court of the occupation, the German commander, Von Tzifren, has hidden a treasure. Thanasis is in love with Lisa's daughter Charoupoglou, rich neighborhood that made money held. Germany Von Tzifren is released ...

An Unbelievable Sucker

1969

Come in, Kitso! poster
6.5

A naive provincial, Kitsos, who lives in Athens, accepts to work as a doorman in the apartment building where his old friend Aris lives, in order to help him marry the owner's daughter, Poly. Because the latter is quite a difficult character, Kitsos is forced to play the fool. Then, he discovers that Poly is in love with another resident of the apartment building, the famous singer Yannis Vogiatzis. Poly's father assigns Kitsos to monitor his daughter, because he suspects something, while his maid manages to charm him, and marry him, and the apartment building is disturbed by his incredible antics.

Come in, Kitso!

1968

Ο Αδελφός μου... ο Τροχονόμος poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Ο Αδελφός μου... ο Τροχονόμος

1963

The Island of Love poster
10.0

A crook meets a young man, in prison. Assisted by his girlfriend he tries to sell the tiny rock-island, which the young man inherited, to a wealthy American. But the young man falls in love with the American's daughter and...

The Island of Love

1960

Snow White and the 7 Old Boys poster
7.4

Alexia is a young woman who comes from the countryside and is in love with a rich man, Paris, who is studying abroad. Her stepmother treats her cruelly and forces her to escape from home. Alexia finds herself in an isolated area by chance, where she is discovered by seven brothers who live together in a nearby house. The seven bachelors put her up and treat her like a member of their own family.

Snow White and the 7 Old Boys

1960

All Men Are the Same poster
4.8

Polyxeni becomes enraged when she finds her husband flirting with their maid. After dismissing the girl, she leaves her husband and goes to live at her parents' house. There, however, by chance, her former maid comes to work as a domestic helper. Polyxeni's father, brother, son-in-law, a naval officer, and two of his sailors fall in love with the maid, leading to misunderstandings and comical situations.

All Men Are the Same

1966

Bouzouki Strumming poster
7.3

One day, while Grigoris is working and singing at a construction site, a conductor, Vangelis, and two bouzouki musicians happen to pass by. They listen, enchanted by his limpid voice, and suggest that he becomes a member of their orchestra. Thus, the newly-wed day laborer gets a second job at Mr. Lefteris’ night club. His wife, Marina, soon joins him at the club, and, before long, she too goes on stage, cuts capers and charms everyone. Her success, however, has a negative impact on the couple’s relationship, since Marina’s admirers as well as those of Grigoris’, turn one away from the other.

Bouzouki Strumming

1966

If Luck Favors You poster
7.4

A poor but very decent teacher, Telis, who has resigned from his job, finds a winning lottery ticket in the street. Suddenly, his life changes radically. But he then discovers that someone has put it in front of him deliberately.

If Luck Favors You

1964

Throbs at the Desk poster
6.6

Lisa is a student, pretending the sick not to go to school. Her parents are worried about her health and call the doctor to examine her. He realizes her lies but he covers her. Soon, they fall in love and eventually get married. However, after the honeymoon she begins to yearn school and her classmates and she returns to it without saying anything to her husband. Soon, her husband begins to suspect her because of her frequent absences from home and her secret meetings with the professor seem to confirm his suspicions.

Throbs at the Desk

1963

Oh, If I Only Were a Man poster
5.4

Frustrated and unemployed after being sexually harassed repeatedly, Stella decides to play the role of a guy, using the identity of her twin brother (who is living in Australia) hoping to get a job. She immediately wins the trust of her new employers and soon gets promoted to manager. The troubles begin when she falls in love with her boss' son.

Oh, If I Only Were a Man

1966

1950s · 11 titles

Stella poster
6.9

The story of a young, wild woman who doesn't want to compromise and settle down. Stella is a restless, rebellious Greek woman who plays with men and enjoys her life as much as she can. But when she meets a young footballer, things get mixed up. She loves him but she loves her freedom too. So it's about time she made an important choice.

Stella

1955

Maiden's Cheek poster
7.0

Young teacher Floras arrives to teach a class at a girls’ high school in Athens. His students, daughters of rich Athenian families, are very spoilt making his and the other teachers work difficult. When he starts implementing discipline in his class, the girls use every means to get rid of him. But the most undisciplined, Lisa Papastavrou, falls in love with him.

Maiden's Cheek

1959

Stournara 288 poster
6.0

Through the narration of a tenant of a block of flats on 288 Stournara street, we watch the everyday stories of people living in the city, their problems, their comic situations and their love affairs.

Stournara 288

1959

Bouboulina poster
6.8

The life and action of Laskarina Bouboulina. Captain Lascarina decides to organize the revolution in Spetses and to participate herself, despite her double widowhood. In the struggle for the liberation of Greece, she gives all her property and fighting along with her lads.

Bouboulina

1959

We Have Only One Life poster
7.9

A bank teller discovers an accounting error, becomes rich and lives his life like he's never lived it.

We Have Only One Life

1958

Two Grapes poster
5.4

After finding out about the affair between young farmer and his spoiled daughter, the landlord persecutes the former, takes away his family's rented vineyard and wine barrels, de facto dismantling this family. The young man returns on his father's funeral, and meets his old love again.

Two Grapes

1955

An Italian in Greece poster
6.2

Charming, affluent--with his father's money--and self-assured, a frivolous son who can have any woman he desires falls head over heels for a beautiful Italian student; however, she is a hard nut to crack. Will he manage to impress her?

An Italian in Greece

1958

The Little Mouse poster
6.8

Loukis, after a successful break-in, manages to escape the police chase thanks to a younf flower seller named Krinoula who introduces herself as "Little Mouse". He will take her with him in his hideout where he lives with Vangelis, Hristina and their gang leader Costas. Loukis wants to live an honest life and so he rents a room with the Little Mouse and tries to astart over. Costas though is not yet ready to see his criminal gang disband...

The Little Mouse

1954

Ο Γιάννος κι η Παγώνα poster
7.0

Pagona loves Yiannos, her father's sheeper, who wants to marry her with Dimos, the son of other sheeper of the nearby village. However, Crystalo loves Yiannos too.

Ο Γιάννος κι η Παγώνα

1959

Erotic Stories poster
4.9

A modest film of three independent parts showing sad couple stories.

Erotic Stories

1959

The Policeman of the 16th Precinct poster
7.8

Ilias dresses himself in a police uniform as part of a complex burglary plot. Unfortunately for him, the impostor officer is called to assist in the investigation of a real crime. The other officers involved in this case treat him as a colleague, and he is forced to play along in hopes that his cover is not blown.

The Policeman of the 16th Precinct

1959