Ilias Logothetis
Birthday: Born in 1938-04-15 in Lefkada, Greece
Deathday: 2024-02-28
Elias Logothetis (Lefkada, 15 April 1939 – Athens, 28 February 2024) was a Greek actor. He was born in Lefkada. He did not consider pursuing acting, as he was more attracted to opera. He was a graduate of the Department of Political Science at Panteion. He spoke three languages: English, Russian and Italian. He came into contact with theatre through the Karolos Koun Art Theatre, from which he graduated in 1967, and took part in many theatrical performances. His favourite performance was "My Mother's Sin", in which he starred with his wife, Maria Zachari, for 12 years. He made his film debut in 1970, in the play "Babylonia". He became known mainly for his comedic roles in television and film. In 2000, he received positive comments from Harold Pinter for his performance in the play "Dead Zone". He collaborated with the troupes of Yannis Fertis-Xenia Kalogeropoulou, Kakia Analytis-Kostas Rigopoulos, Nikos Xanthopoulos, Thanasis Vengou, Angelos Antonopoulos-Miranda Kounelakis, with the Amphitheater of Spyros Evangelatos and others. He participated in many theatrical plays on television in the well-known "Monday Theater" (ERT1) and took part in musical performances, such as the tribute to Michalis Sougioul.
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Αγνώστου διαμονής
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Έτερος Εγώ
Character: Grandpa
A series of murders alarm the police authorities, as strange symbolisms are traced to every crime scene. The eccentric professor of criminology Dimitris Lainis is asked to shed some light on the mystery....
Ο ιός του πατέρα
Character: Γεράσιμος
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Μυστικές διαδρομές
Character: καθηγητής
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Άρωμα Γυναίκας
Character: Αριστείδης Παπαδόπουλος
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Ο Κίτρινος Φάκελος
Character: Θανάσης Πετρόπουλος
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Το Μινόρε της Αυγής
Character: Giorgos Ntozis
Set in the 1930s, Antonis Zagouras is a young misusian who comes to Athens trying to make ends meet....
Γάμος με τα Όλα του
Character: Μιχάλης
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Βαμμένα Κόκκινα Μαλλιά
Character: Πέτρος Ρετσίνας
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Ο Πρίγκιπας
Character: Λοχαγός
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Poisonous Women
Character: Konstadinos Sebekos
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....
The Bubble
Character: Spartakos
Makis , a man with difficulties in the stock market, falls for Roula , who is the mistress of a big tycoon , which Makis has invested in. Makis becomes witness to an assassination gone wrong. The police are after him thinking he is the shooter but the real assassin is after Makis to recruit him to his terrorist beliefs. The only comfort Makis can find is Roula who follows him on his deadly adventure....
Ciao Italia
Character: Chrysovalantis
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Arpa Colla
Character: Mr. Alexiou
"Arpa-colla" in Greek literally means "Grab and stick", a phrase used to show something that has been done quickly and therefore isn't good enough. This is what the 2 main heroes of the film are doing. The one is a director(Giorgos) and the other an author(Kostas) with communistic ideas, who has won a prize at a festival. They both want to make a movie for the cinema. But every idea they have never comes true, because every time they meet someone to whom they tell their idea, they change their m...
A Bachelor's Pad For Ten
Character: Warrant Officer Moundreas
To make some easy money, Stamatis rents Chroni's house to his womanizer boss Soultanoglou but also to his other boss's wife, Dora, who decided to cheat on her husband ... So, Chroni's house turns into a double love nest for cheating couples, without him having any clue....
The Yannis who became Tzonis
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Wild Duck
Character: Petros
“Wild Duck” is the story of Dimitris, a telecommunications engineer who’s forced to shutter his business after running up a considerable debt with a local loan shark. He and his buddy Nikos, another telecommunications expert working for a big outfit, decide to get to the bottom of a big scandal. Their research leads them to a certain apartment, whose tenant Panagiota becomes the focus of their attention. Dimitris is now facing some major dilemmas and a trip to his hometown will help him clear hi...
The Suspended Step of the Stork
Character: Colonel
A reporter notices an old man in a border town who may be an important Greek politician who disappeared mysteriously years ago....
Landscape in the Mist
Character: Seagull
Two Greek children embark on a journey to search for their father, who supposedly lives in Germany....
Daskale ti didaskes?
Character: Nursery director
Dimitris Thalassias is a single singing teacher at a senior high school in Athens and undertakes the care of a child abandoned by its mother at the door of the foundling hospital. He does everything required to raise it right, but he sees his life changing unexpectedly, since his fiancée leaves him, and his relations with his students go from bad to worse. While this is happening, the mother shows up to claim her child. In the end, everything is corrected, and a solution is provided through marr...
Like a Prairie Cock in Wyoming
Character: Giannis
The coming of age of a young student, through a series of events and erotic-emotional regressions, the same time that his mother is pregnant, without a father, while his boss falls in 'old age. "...
The Tree and the Swing
Character: Kyriakos
Coming home to make amends with her estranged father, Eleni finds herself confronted with an unexpected kinship....
The Only Journey of His Life
Character: Georgios Vizyinos
As Georgios Vizneyos, one of Greece's greatest authors, degenerates in an Athens mental asylum, the tale of another story-teller, his grandfather, begins to emerge through his mad ramblings. This lavish film recreates (through his own words) the writer's childhood life, rich with fantasy and legend. Apprenticed to a tailor, young Georgios' mind is filled with his grandfather fairy tales. He ponders the hill from which one can climb into the sky and waits each day for the chance to bring clothes ...
Numbered
Character: Officer Tsempos
A burglar accidentally kills a wealthy businessman and assumes his identity. He finds life as a playboy very enjoyable, but the deceased man's sister (who lives far away from him) soon starts being suspicious....
Love Knot
Character: Giorgos
Olga is a young pharmacist whο lives in the country in Chania, Crete in a confine and claustrophobic environment. Married and the mother of a child she will one day fir herself face to face with her childhood sweetheart, Lefteris who has returned to his place of birth after a long absence, full of ambitions... They both share a tragic sec without, however, confessing, it to each other: they are brother and sister from a different mother. It was the reason they had broken up when they were in lov...
Thanasi tightened your belt even more
Character: Thodoros Xezoumidis
Thanasis an honest tax official in the tax office. He can not cope and has trouble providing the family of the necessities. So the wife is forced to go to work in a factory as a result not seen at all. !!!...
Thanasis in the land of the cuff
Character: circus boss
The movie is about dictatorships in Greece – first, the Metaxas regime (1936-1940), and then the Colonels’ Junta (1967-74). In Part One, the Metaxas regime is depicted as a circus, where Thanasis (Thanasis Vengos) is a clown trying to conceal a young colleague’s subversive action. In Part Two, we see Thanasis suffer because of his honesty and kindness, in a country where the system’s irrationality is clearly evident....
Babylonia
Character: Georgios Fantes
In 1827, at an inn in Nafplio, the capital of the newly established Greek state, a group of people from different parts of Greece are celebrating the defeat of the Turkish fleet in Navarino. However, in their patriotic fervor they drink too much, and a hot-tempered Arvanite, not understanding the dialect of a Cretan and thinking he has insulted him, injures him with a pistol. Police Inspector Dionysios Fantes from the Ionian Islands arrives at the scene to interrogate the witnesses but he too ca...
The Horsemen of Pylos
Character: Myron
Ο Τηλέμαχος, ηθοποιός με ένδοξο παρελθόν και αβέβαιο μέλλον, εγκαταλείπει στα πενήντα του την Αθήνα για να γλυτώσει από τις τράπεζες. Με την βοήθεια του Μπάμπη του «Φου», βρίσκει καταφύγιο σ'ένα ερημωμένο κάστρο στην καρδιά της Μεσσηνίας. Μοναδικοί κάτοικοι δύο αδέρφια που δε μιλιούνται και μια ανηψιά που τους βαρέθηκε κι έφυγε, η Δημοκρατία. Ο Τηλέμαχος την συναντάει τυχαία και μαγεύεται. Λίγο τα σιρόπια του γιατρού για τα πνευμόνια του που έχουν γίνει ορυχείο, λίγο τα τσίπουρα, λίγο οι «απαγορ...
Χάρρυ Κλυνν Και Πάσης Ελλάδος
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A super revue of Harry Klynn with a lot of humor....
Γέλιο Με Δόσεις
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A young Casanova falls in love with a tallyman-woman who keeps persisting knocking at his door everyday....
The Children of the Swallow
Character: Panos
A journalist (Alekos Alexandrakis), working together with a young director (Peris Michailidis), tries to gather information about a family that was separated due to political turmoil. They locate some of its members, who tell their dramatic stories that began with the Civil War. The two men’s search is interrupted when a key person refuses to speak...
Ροκάκιας Την Ημέρα... Το Βράδυ Καμαριέρα
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The sex hunter
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Athens Blues
Character: Mimis
A group of men in their sixties that spend the August nights in Athens outside a pharmacy during night shift, an ambulance driver who has an affair with a younger girl, a middle-aged couple who have invented a lie to renew their passion for one another, a child pretending to sleepwalk in the streets of Athens, two younger people who are tied together in an office after a burglar attack, and other amorous encounters during the same night....
Σαπουνόπετρα: Το Χρήμα στο Λαιμό σας
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The Enigma
Character: Mantzavinos
A successful young Athenian lawyer, Theodora, who is the daughter of a general, takes on the case of Mantzavinos who is a grocer in Kolonos. Trying to avoid the usual hum-drum approach, she becomes involved with a strange gang with a blind beggar for a leader, Linos, a former teacher, and current idol, of hers, who seems to Theodora like a modern Oedipus. Linos' companion and right-hand man is the former caretaker of the school. The group is completed by two sister-hookers, Anta and Mina, who wo...
Ο Ρεπόρτερ
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Second Class Citizens
Character: Director
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Ντο Ρε Μι Φασολάδα
Character: Apostolos
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Ζητείται δράκος
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Ο αυτάκιας
Character: Aftakias
A penniless swindler loses an ear during a fight with an angry, cheated husband and receives a bionic device that allows him to hear otherwise imperceptible sounds. But is his sensitive hearing a blessing or a curse?...
Μια Παπαδιά Στα Μπουζούκια Νο2
Character: Ηλίας
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Μια παπαδιά στα μπουζούκια
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Akakios, a local priest, embarks on a challenging mission to motivate youth. But his neglected wife Margarita starts frequenting the city's nightclubs, unaware that her niece is in love with the son of his most capable opponent, the mayor....
Μπορούμε και κάτω απ' τα θρανία
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A scholar assigned to a high school that is famous for unruly pupils, and suffers from the pranks he get up to. But when a student falls in love and revealed the side of his character which he knows to feasts, he will win his students, combining fun and teaching....
Παπα-Turbo: Μας πήραν και τα...ράσα!
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Made in Greece
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Giannis Giannakis, released from psychiatric hospital after many years, decides to return home to his parents. On his way back he slowly discovers that the outside world is crazier than he thought - and starts to question whether he'd be better off back in the psychiatric ward....
Metamorphoses
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Three girls try to enjoy to the fullest their carefree lives in Athens. However, they get mixed up in situations whose full seriousness they do not grasp....
The Dream Factory
Character: Yuri / Superintendent
In a dystopian society after an unexpected epidemic citizens can't have dreams. Only few people are privillaged to dream. They operate small underground companies where they can have other people dreams....
Δώστε την τσόντα στο λαό!
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Η γυναικάρα με τα πράσινα
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Wandering
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A lawyer, offspring of a bourgeois family of Greek-Egyptians, tries to find the traces of a relative of his. Through a rich tapestry of characters, Christofis creates an ode to the Hellenic Diaspora....
O agapitikos tis Dimitroulas
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The show that broke the box office at the "Vembo" theater. A stage comedy of thieves and sinners....
The frogs
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The comedy was written and played at the end of the 5th century BC, at the end of the Peloponnesian War, a time of decline of the Athenian Republic. Aristophanes, on the occasion of the political situation in his country, tries to help his fellow citizens by presenting this comedy. Dionysus and his slave Xanthias, with the instructions of Hercules, go down to Hades looking for a poet, who will bring his city out of the impasse in which it has reached. After the poetic struggle between Euripides ...
Κότες...
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