George Foundas
Birthday: Born in 1924-02-13 in Mavrolithari, Folkida
Deathday: 2010-11-28
Giorgos Fountas (Greek: Γιώργος Φούντας; February 13, 1922 – November 28, 2010) was a Greek actor in film and television. Fountas attended the Dramatic School at the Athens Odeum. He appeared for the first time in the theatre in Nyfiatiko tragoudi ("Bridal Song") and his first film in 1944. He was awarded at the Thessaloniki Film Festival in 1966 and 1967 for his participation in his films With the Shine in the Eyes and Fever on the Road. He remained popular and he is best remembered for his role in the movie Stella with Melina Mercouri. He also appeared on several TV roles
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Γαλήνη
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Ο Χριστός ξανασταυρώνεται
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Zorba the Greek
Character: Mavrandoni
An uptight English writer traveling to Crete on a matter of business finds his life changed forever when he meets the gregarious Alexis Zorba....
Jealousy
Character: Alexis Romanos
A successful businessman suspects that his wife is having an affair with his best friend. Sadly, it will take more than a decade to unearth the truth, as his daughter thirsts for answers and closure. But, were they, indeed, lovers?...
Never on Sunday
Character: Tonio
An American scholar in Greece sets about improving the local prostitute with whom he is infatuated....
Stella
Character: Miltos
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....
The Red Lanterns
Character: Mihailos
The inextricably intertwined stories of five sex workers who live in a brothel at Pireas harbor....
A Girl in Black
Character: Hristos
Against the backdrop of a cloudless summer, love's unforeseen complications will entwine an Athenian writer, a morosely beautiful daughter, and a scorned local suitor. And then, calamity strikes. Can love redeem the sad girl in black?...
Λεβέντες της θάλασσας
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Ο μεγάλος ένοχος
Character: Hristos Notaras
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Dawn on the Third Day
Character: le résistant
The inhabitants of Praxos, a mountain village in an occupied country, organize their own resistance to the oppressor. Faced with reprisals, they decide that every hour a man will cross the bridge that is the population's only supply route. The action, which results in the death of all those taking part, continues until dawn on the third day....
17 Bullets for an Angel
Character: Notis
Iro Konstantopoulou was thirteen years old when the Germans invaded Greece. Despite her age, however, she got involved with the resistance. When she was arrested for the first time, her rich father managed to set her free, and she fell in love with a young doctor who took care of her injuries following torture. A little before the withdrawal of the Germans, she participated in the blowing up of a train that was transporting ammunition, and she was arrested again, but this time no one could save ...
Trouba '67
Character: Argyris
A dark atmosphere pervades this film in true noir fashion. So does the feeling that our principals are trapped. They fight their way against economic forces and their status in life, and love might conquer all....
Anakatosouras
Character: Cameo (uncredited)
Thomas Karatoulpanis (Dinos Iliopoulos) is a naive employee at a car show in the Thessaloniki International Trade Fair. Because of his modest personality he is constantly criticised by his mother-in-law, his uncle and his boss. The only one who supports him is his wife. But the appearance of a doppelganger who buys extravagant gifts in his name causes a ruckus. Thomas is an amateur singer and participates in the Thessaloniki Song Festival winning the first prize. This is when everyone realises t...
The barker
Character: Tasos Kagiapis
A union leader is corrupted by the owner of a factory and appointed as its CEO....
Serenity
Character: Fotis Glaros
Originally edited in two versions. Version I, 70 minutes; version II, 90 minutes. (The only known existing version is not Markopoulos’s edit and contains additional titles, music and voice-over added later than 1961. 65 minutes.) Filmed in Mytilene and Annavysos, Greece, 1958. Existing copy on video, J. and M. Paris Films, Athens....
The Lagoon of Desire
Character: Hristos Razis
Greece's submission for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1957....
Bitter Bread
Character: Giangos Lyberis
A poor builder tries, with the help of his wife, to raise his three children. When he gets killed in an accident at the construction site, his oldest son undertakes the responsibility of providing for the family, facing all difficulties....
The Magic City
Character: Kosmas Betsos
A look at poverty in post-war Athens. Kosmas, a young man living in the slums, constantly tries to make ends meet, hoping for a better day. Because of debts, he gets tangled up in smuggling. His morals are tested and he tries to find a way out....
Emergency exit
Character: Markos Angelou
When Daisy saves the life of police officer Markos she is immediately promoted to the drug department of the police. Markos falls in love with her and they start going out until he asks her to marry him. That's exactly when she meets a junkie named Tasos Bekiris and falls in love with him. When he is murdered by a mysterious woman all the clues lead to Daisy who tries to prove her innocence. As she discovers, this woman is in charge of a drug-smuggling racket and she is also planning to import a...
Scream
Character: officer Giorgos
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Θα σε περιμένω πάντα
Character: Zanis
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The Sunday girl
Character: Miltos
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The Scum
Character: Manos
A string of miscalculated choices and the longing of a fresh start will drag Magda of the slums deeper and deeper into a tireless personal nightmare....
The Asphalt Fever
Character: Officer Merkos
A police constable tries to find blood during the night for his wife to be born. When he finally finds a blood donor, he will have to deal with a frenzy runaway, who holds hostage children in a school car....
Με Τη Λάμψη Στα Μάτια
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During the German occupation, the Nazis plan to execute 30 men in retaliation for the death of a German soldier at the hands of the partisans. Among the men are three brothers (Giorgos Fountas, Anestis Vlachos and Giannis Fertis). The villagers ask the German officer (Zoras Tsapelis) to spare the life of one of the brothers. He accepts on the condition that their father (Lavrentis Dianellos) selects the one to remain alive....
Ο Αντάρτης Του Βάλτου
Character: Thanasis Vardas
1868, Thessaly. Thanasis Vardas stalked by a Turkish-Albanian gang and forced to leave the 5 year old son Giorgis in a monastery in Meteora. Fifteen years later, when Thessaly was liberated and incorporated into the Greek state, Giorgis, big anymore, leaving the monastery. Flying robes and becomes engaged to the daughter of a fellow Turk-Albanians but always lurking and wanting at all costs a medallion held, on which is engraved the point where the lost treasure of Ali Pasha is hidden. The confl...
Applause
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Alfa (Attik) runs an itinerant theatrical troupe and can see that a young woman, Nora (Zinet Lakaz), is very talented. Indeed, Nora turns into a great actress. However, when she does not reciprocate his love, he turns her away. After this, Alfa falls on hard times, while Nora achieves great popular success....
Ο Ψαρόγιαννος
Character: Psarogiannos
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Treason Avenue
Character: Alexandros Vergos
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The Refugee
Character: Giorgos / Leonis Skoutaris
The adoptive son of a lawyer, with the help of a girl who loves him, healed from amnesia, which was caused because of a childhood trauma. He remembers that he has a twin brother. When he discovers, he sees with surprise that his brother has become a successful lawyer, but who will draw him to court, accusing him of burglary....
Η Ζαβολιάρα
Character: Lambros Desillas
A fisherman's daughter is secretly in love with a strong man who works for her father; however, after a nearly-fatal accident, the crew will have to venture into the isle's notoriously dangerous waters. Will they return in one piece?...
Open Sea
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On an island in the Aegean, a young girl, when he learns of the authoritarian father that is illegitimate, he tries to commit suicide by falling from the cliff into the sea, but is saved from a wreck in the desert shore Marine...
Take Me Away, My Love
Character: Μεμάς
Graceful Sofia falls in love with Alkis, a charming young writer. They make plans for the future; but, one day, her boss, Memas, enters the picture: a tough guy who owns a cabaret in Trouba, and wants Sofia back....
Just for One Night
Character: Dimitris Sergiou
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The Girl From Mani
Character: Panagos
For Her Love Has Become A Desperate Dream....
The Girl of the Neighbourhood
Character: Spyros
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Betrayed love
Character: Stratos
Anna, who lives with her aunt, is afraid that Stratos, the man she loves, is cheating on her with another woman. She decides to leave for America, where she will spend a year with another aunt. When she returns to Athens, her aunt will try to marry her off to a rich young man, but she is still in love with Stratos....
The stigmatized
Character: Giorgos Floras
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The mother's curse
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After the murder of a brutal landowner, and six long years of incarceration, unarmed Tasos returns to his village, only to face the deceased's murderous brothers. Is Tasos willing to honour his promise to his late mother?...
The Dawn of Triumph
Character: Γιώργος
A group of resistance fighters during the Occupation, collaborates with a lieutenant who comes to Greece from the headquarters of the Middle East, aiming to blow up a German ship....
The lover of the shepherdess
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Mavri Gi
Character: Dimitris
A young emerald miner is in love with a girl but doesn't ask her to marry him because he cannot support her financially....
Too Late for Tears
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Αντίο Ζωή
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A woman who lives happily with her husband and child discovers that she is suffering from cancer and tries to ensure their happiness after her death, without learning anything about the truth…...
Ανεμοστρόβιλος
Character: Andreas Vardis
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Η μεγάλη θυσία
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Γερακίνα
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Maro, the daughter of shepherd Panos, is in love with his son, Liakos. They want to marry but his father does not agree....
Πόθοι στα Στάχυα
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Dead City
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Dead City (Greek: Nekri politeia) is a 1951 Greek drama film directed by Frixos Iliadis. It was entered into the 1952 Cannes Film Festival....
Experts on the Football Field
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The everyday lives of some international football players before and after a big game....
Ο άνεμος του μίσους
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