Spiros Focás
Birthday: Born in 1937-08-17 in Patras, Greece
Deathday: 2023-11-10
Spiros Focás (born 17 August 1937) 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 Inheritance. Description above from the Wikipedia article Spiros Focás, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Happy Holiday
Character: Nikos
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Alle origini della mafia
Character: La Monica
Mini series about the origins of the Italian mafia...
Il ricatto
Character: Karsan
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Της Αγάπης Μαχαιριά
Character: Antonis Stamatakis
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Murder, She Wrote
Character: Constantin Kesmek
An unassuming mystery writer turned sleuth uses her professional insight to help solve real-life homicide cases....
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Shaft in Africa
Character: Marco Sassari
Detective John Shaft travels incognito to Ethiopia, then France, to bust a human trafficking ring....
Rambo III
Character: Masoud
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....
The Jewel of the Nile
Character: Omar
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....
Rocco and His Brothers
Character: Vincenzo Parondi
When a impoverished widow’s family moves to the big city, two of her five sons become romantic rivals with deadly results....
Moon Runway
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A police comedy/fantasy adventure with witches, ghosts, beautiful fairies and a cop who tries to solve a mysterious murder....
Love on the Hot Sand (The Runaway)
Character: Stefos Pergamos
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Hate Thy Neighbor
Character: Ken Dakota
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....
Η ζωή ενός ανθρώπου
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Hill 33
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A small army outpost on an offshore island of the Aegean. Its mission – area surveillance and the collecting of information on the enemy....
Basta guardarla
Character: Fernando
Enrichetta, a young peasant girl who lives in a little village, joins Silver Boy as a dancer....
Condition Critical
Character: Luca
Medical-center doctors discover the shocking source of a deadly virus spreading through Los Angeles....
Eighteen in the Sun
Character: Johnny
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....
Psycosissimo
Character: Pietro, l'autista
Two bumbling actors get wrapped up in a scheme to murder a rich man's wife....
A Man for Burning
Character: Jachino
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....
The Serpent of Death
Character: Stavros (as Spiros Focás)
An archaelogist falls under the spell of a statue with a curse on it....
The Fear
Character: Nikos
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....
Messalina
Character: Lucius Maximus
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....
Η απολύτρωση
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Corbari
Character: Orlandi
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....
Πεθαμένο λικέρ
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Επικίνδυνο παιχνίδι
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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....
Vacation in Kolopetinitsa
Character: Alekos
All the village society, but especially the President Thimios Tambourlas and the policeman Miltiadis Sourvos, welcome Mr. Toni and his wife Judy. They have come to spend their honeymoon in Kolopetinitsa and this is a great honor for the village. No one suspects that this is a pair of bandits who fled to the village until their robbery was forgotten ......
White Palace
Character: George
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....
Misunderstanding
Character: Nikos
Remake of Jean-Pierre Melville's "Le Doulos."...
Μπροστά στην αγχόνη
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Stefania
Character: Giorgos Daponte
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...
Zorro in the Court of England
Character: Pedro Suarez / Zorro
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Mark Shoots First
Character: Morini
Mark Terzi goes to Genoa to take on the case of a serial killer who calls himself "The Sphinx"....
Queen of Clubs
Character: Alexandros
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....
Holocaust 2000
Character: Harbin
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....
Flavia the Heretic
Character: The French Duke
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....
The Smugglers
Character: Alfred
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Sonia
Character: Tonio
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....
Tre colonne in cronaca
Character: Bassouri, il socio libanese
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....
Black Tunnel
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The attempt to kill a guy connected to the mob fails when he and his assassins get trapped in a mountain tunnel....
Family Killer
Character: Luca Ferrante
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......
Egoism
Character: Kostas
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....
The First Line
Character: Folis
Two Athenian attorneys pursue litigation for the return of the Parthenon Marbles. As the bronze statue of Athena Promakhos used to stand guard in front of the Parthenon, both must find the courage to stand in defense of what they love....
Barbecue Them!
Character: Iasonas
Three marginals provoke the social establishment with their every act....
The treasure
Character: Χαράλαμπος
A widow who inherits a debt-ridden inn spreads the word that somewhere inside it is a treasure hidden by the Occupation. At once potential and unlikely treasure hunters are killed to rent a room....
Run with the Devil
Character: Marco
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....
Λύγκος ο λεβέντης
Character: Tasos Lygos
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Bread for a Fugitive
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Business in Balkan
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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....
Πάρτα Όλα
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Σαπουνόπετρα: Το Χρήμα στο Λαιμό σας
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The Steps
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An artist returns to Santorini, where she spent her childhood, to face the ghosts of her past and her present....
Βίτσια γυναικών
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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....
Ellinikon
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In the abandoned airport of Ellinikon, a man's peaceful solitude is disrupted by bustling activity, and his ticket out might lead him right back to his starting place....
Αλέξανδρος και Αϊσέ
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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....
Death of a Friend
Character: Bruno
Two young people trickle, steal and exploit prostitutes....
L'ospite segreto
Character: Finanziere
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Ο Χάρος Βγήκε Παγανιά
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Anna is the Jewish daughter of a Spanish mother and a Greek father. She has returned to her family's house in Greece...
Watch Out! Red Light
Character: Pateras tou Giorgou
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....
A Matter of Time
Character: Mario Morello
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....
Bloody Twilight
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Bloody Twilight (Greek: Matomeno iliovasilemma) is a 1959 Greek drama film directed by Andreas Labrinos. It was entered into the 1959 Cannes Film Festival....