Giannis Voglis
Birthday: Born in 1937-09-30 in Αθήνα, Ελλάδα
Deathday: 2016-04-20
Giannis Voglis (Greek: Γιάννης Βόγλης; 30 September 1937 – 20 April 2016) was a Greek actor. Voglis was born in Athens and he studied at Pelos Katselis' drama academy. His father was from Asia Minor and his mother from Andros. His first appearance in the theater was in the theatrical performance I anodos tou Artouro in 1961, directed by Karolos Koun. He made his first appearance in film in the movie I Iperifani. He became famous during the movie Koritsia ston ilio (Girls In The Sun) in 1968. His most important role was in the movie To homa vaftike kokkino (The Soil Got Painted Red) by Vassilis Georgiadis. Voglis appeared mainly in theatre along with other famous actors and actresses including Elli Lambeti, Alekos Alexandrakis and Manos Katrakis. He was a member of Anatoli company during the 1980s. He participated in many publications as a narrator, he was participated even in directing. In October 2009, he became an artistic member of DIPETHE Patras from the public council of the theatre. Voglis died on 20 April 2016, aged 78, in his native Athens.
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Σύνορα Αγάπης
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Η Αγάπη Ήρθε από Μακριά
Character: Anestis Vrahnos
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Μαντώ Μαυρογένους
Character: Θεόδωρος Κολοκοτρώνης
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Ψίθυροι Καρδιάς
Character: Mpenetos
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Σε φόντο κόκκινο
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Peter and Paul
Character: John
Peter and Paul assume leadership of the Church as they struggle against violent opposition to the teachings of Christ and their own personal conflicts....
Της Αγάπης Μαχαιριά
Character: Markos Leventogiannis
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Έρωτας Κλέφτης
Character: Jony
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Άγγιγμα ψυχής
Character: Mητροπολίτης Θεόκλητος
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Ακροβατώντας
Character: Κοσμάς
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Μεθυσμένη πολιτεία
Character: Επαμεινώνδας
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Ο Επισκέπτης της Ομίχλης
Character: Αχιλλέας
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Άφρικα
Character: Stavros Koumenakos
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Η Δίψα
Character: Αντώνης Σέκερης
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Ακτή ονείρων
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Ασημένιο Δηνάριο
Character: Θωμάς Μοσχίδης
Journalist Costas Tsarouchas reveals the recipient of the stolen goods from the great theft of the Esterházy collection from the "Museum of Fine Arts" in Budapest, in November 1983, as revealed by evidence from the investigations he conducted....
Μια ζωή για την Έλσα
Character: Αντώνης Θεοχάρης, πατέρας Έλσας
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Τα ψάθινα καπέλλα
Character: Λούζης
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Onassis: The Richest Man in the World
Character: Uncle Alexander
Biography of the life of Aristotle Onassis, a Greek who rose to become one of the world's most wealthiest men, detailing his rise to power and unhappy marriages....
The Swamp
Character: Vangelis
Lena, Alexis and Manolis are ready to run with the money of a bogus company they had founded, when Lena discloses the secret to her childhood friend Dimitris. Alexis and Manolis decide to take him along, in their small private plane. They will land in a deserted spot and try to kill him, while Lena escapes with the plane, which she throws to a swamp along with the money it carries. The people from a lighthouse nearby apprise of the situation and try to get the plane out of the swamp, hoping the ...
Girls in the Sun
Character: Shepherd
A shepherd falls in love with an English tourist in Greece....
Hero Bunker
Character: Petros
Following the torpedoing of the destroyer Elli on August 15, 1940 on Tinos by an Italian submarine, war was declared, and the Italians attacked the Albanian front on October 28. From an outpost on the Greek-Albanian border, a military truck unexpectedly comes under fire by Italian tanks. Petros, the only one who manages to escape death or captivity, saves a village girl, Maria. However, the Greeks manage to recapture the machine-gun nest, setting free the soldiers who had been pinned down. The p...
Love without Borders
Character: Doctor
An impotent husband pushes his wife in the arms of a playboy in order to offer her satisfaction. At the same time a lesbian is flirting with her....
The barker
Character: Stavros
A union leader is corrupted by the owner of a factory and appointed as its CEO....
Word of Honour
Character: Andreas Hatziandreas
Drama set in 1940 about a peasant who traverses Cyprus to pray at a monastery....
The Golden Eagles
Character: Thanasis Bousgos
A gunman, during the Turkish occupation of Greece, collides with the landlords, considering them traitors. But when he learns that belong to the Society of Friends and prepare the Revolution, would become their ally....
Blood on the Land
Character: Rigas Hormovas
Two rival brothers vie for the same woman against the backdrop of peasant revolts in their Greek homeland. In Thessaly in 1907, a man incites the poor farmers to take over the land they work for the benefit of the landowners. Odysseus (Nikos Kourkoulos), the son of one such landowner (Manos Katrakis), refuses to clash with the farmers....
Beautiful People
Character: Nikos
A successful model abandons the world of fashion to marry her beloved. A little before the wedding, their relationship goes through a serious crisis, when they meet a wealthy and enigmatic man....
Interlude: City of a Dead Woman
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A former opera singer, a priest and a bullfighter meet on the island of Patmos, seeking redemption; their encounter will affect each other’s lives irrevocably....
Frenzy
Character: Detective Gibson
A woman murders her disabled husband and informs his brother (with whom she is having an affair), but she realizes she has misdialed and accidentally confessed her crime to a stranger. The caller attempts to blackmail her, but when he tries to rape her she kills him in the struggle. Worse still, her doctor and lover inform her to say nothing because her husband has been dead for eight months and everything that has happened she has imagined....
A Tough Guy in the Salons
Character: Petris
A young fisherman who lives in a Greek island save a rich girl from a accident when she is in holidays in island. He will love her and the problems just begun....
I blame the People
Character: Stavros Roussos
A new, ambitious prosecutor undertakes a great trial for a murder trial but things get very confused. Instead of the accused, slowly proved that culprit is actually the wife of itself....
Panic in the Schools
Character: Giannis (father)
When he loses his son from overdose, in his school, the outraged father will look for the villains responsible for the loss of his child. At the same time, a journalist covers the narrative report on drugs in schools. With her help, the father will discover the gang leader with whom traded smuggled drinks for himself....
The Brave Bunch
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Two friends, a military and a journalist, after the collapse of the Albanian front, go to Macedonia to organize resistance against the Bulgarians....
The Bluffer
Character: John Halaris
John Halaris is neat antiques and incurable bluffer. After a successful bluff to three friends in Hydra, he returns to Athens. The carefree single life will change completely when they visit a young girl pretending to be his daughter. At first he thinks it is a bluff, but quickly convinced that Gianna is indeed daughter, by his first and only love of his life, Miranda ......
Ξεχασμένοι Ήρωες
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Blind Date
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A young woman who is married with an older man, she is getting bored more and more as she feels ignored and unfulfilled. One rainy day she meets a lonely painter at his little beach house....
Sweet Country
Character: Max
An American couple in Chile is drawn into the turmoil that followed President Salvador Allende's 1973 overthrow....
The Proud
Character: Liakos Bournovas
Shortly after the revolution of 1821, somewhere in rebellious Greece, Liakos Bournovas wants to marry Fotini, sister of the powerful Panagiotis Notaras. Notaras, in turn, wants Liakos' sister. When Fotini is captured by the bandit Captain Arvanitis, Liakos frees her. His pride makes him refuse the reward offered by Notaras. Notaras, equally proud, sends one of his subordinates to ask for Liakos' sister's hand in marriage. She commits suicide and Liakos swears revenge. In the ensuing conflict, No...
Storm
Character: Alexis Mikelis
A love story about a young composer and a famous singer who lost her memory....
Eleftherios Venizelos: 1910-1927
Character: King Contantine
A biographical film about the great Greek politician Eleftherios Venizelos for the period between 1910-1927. The film highlights his vision of a Greater Greece and refers to important events in Greek history such as the formation of a government by Venizelos after the Goudi movement, his dispute with the King over Greece's stance in the First World War, the temporary his withdrawal from politics after his defeat in the 1920 elections and the Asia Minor disaster. A biography of the former Greek p...
Σατανάδες στα σχολεία
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Dirty city
Character: Mikes Liaskis
Mikes, the head of sanitation for a large city, is a ruthless blackmailer who pressures his wife Anna to divorce him so he can marry his mistress. Callous and insensitive as he is, he has made her life a living hell. Anna does not want to divorce him because she is pregnant with his child and fears social condemnation. One night, she is attacked by a man who tries to rape her, but she is saved by a passerby, Alexis....
the mother's amulet
Character: Στέλιος Παπαγεωργίου
Vera Kontaxis (Martha Vourtsi), a wife and mother whose husband dies, is forced - in order to feed her son - to leave him in someone else's hands (her godmother, who had raised her from childhood) and leaves with a close friend (Despina Stylianopoulou) for Australia, to find work there as factory workers. Vera's prospect is to return some years later and take the child back from her godmother, to raise it a little better, having made a certain compote in Australia....
Moonstruck
Character: Μανώλης
The love of two young people from Crete brings to the fore an old story of a vendetta that separates their families....
I goiteia tou hrimatos
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Two brothers, one woman in their lives. Their erotic passion brings them face to face. They compete fiercely through the IT companies they represent. Intrigues and murders strike mercilessly at both sides. The law of "an eye for an eye" prevails......
O efialtis
Character: Δημήτρης Αποστόλου
Dimitris Apostolou is a successful lawyer and former minister. He lives peacefully with his wife and daughter, leading an uneventful family life. Tassos, a dear friend of his, tries to convince him to make his life a little more fun by escaping from the daily grind, but he is not convinced. Dimitris meets Aliki, a journalist by profession, who becomes his lover but also writes his biography. However, someone from his past comes to disturb his peace......
Παγίδα
Character: Menousis
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....
A Dream of Passion
Character: Edward
Melina Mercouri plays Maya, a jet-setting Greek actress who returns to her homeland to undertake the role of Medea. Searching for inspiration and clues as to how a mother could kill the children she loves, Maya discovers Brenda (Ellen Burstyn), a bible-spouting American woman serving time in an Athens prison for that very crime....
Αντίστροφη μέτρηση
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I rejected Hitler
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The Suspended Step of the Stork
Character: Missing Politician (uncredited)
A reporter notices an old man in a border town who may be an important Greek politician who disappeared mysteriously years ago....
Ταξίδι... στη Μπανγκόκ
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