Name
Vagelis Protopapas
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1917-01-01
Deathday
1995-05-21 (78 years old)
Place of Birth
Tinos, Greece
Biography
Vangelis Protopapas (Greek: Βαγγέλης Πρωτόπαπας, Tinos 1917 - May 21, 1995) was a Greek actor.
He was originally from Messolonghi and was the son of a senior judicial officer. His father, Dimitrios Protopapas, a first-instance judge and member of parliament, intended him to be a lawyer, but in his first year of law school he decided to pursue a career as an actor, studying at the National Theatre School where he enrolled in 1937. He interrupted his studies in 1938 for military service, and graduated in 1942, with honors in the top ten. He was a friend of Dimitris Horn, with whom he graduated together, of the director Alexis Solomos, as well as of Melina Mercouri.
He had important roles in the films A Hero in Slippers (1958), Santa Chikita (1953), The Fake Pound (1955), The Jealous Cat (1956), Miss 39 (1954), etc., all with Vasilis Logothetides, with whom he was closely friends, but also in the television series Police Officer Thanasis Papathanasis (1990), Androcles and His Lions (1985), etc.
He was also the Director of the Municipal Theater of Argos. He participated in many television and radio series. E. Protopappas was also a painter, and left behind several works.
(Source: Wikipedia)
Known For
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George finished his studies and returned to Greece and his father, Anthony Delistavrou, as...
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The wife of an industrialist who doesn't care about her creates a plot with her cousin to ...
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Four stories, humorous, romantic or dramatic, are linked by a counterfeit gold sovereign. ...
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A poor man accepts the money someone offers him to marry a foreign woman so that she can s...
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A peaceful, though extremely mean, family man, Manolis, is married for ten years to Veta. ...
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Telemachus, an unhappy old man, still lives with his sister, whom he expects to restore so...
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A veteran general, living poorly but honestly with his wife and his daughter, is visited b...
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Zinon is a successful fashion designer but he has family problems. His wife, his children ...
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4 years after the Nazi occupation in Greece, the Greeks are involved in a Civil War and th...
- 1986 The Yannis who became Tzonis
- 1966 The Hunchback
- 1962 The Wise Guy as Grigoris
- 1956 Jealous like a Cat as Markos Manolopoulos
- 1963 Marriage Lads
- 1983 Anyone Else for Heaven? as Father
- 1957 Trouble for Fathers as Μικές
- 1952 A Ripple in the Pond as Giorgos
- 1953 Santa Chikita as Michalis
- 1955 No Harm's Done as Vangelis
- 1948 The Germans Strike Again as Zisis
- 1962 Koutroulis` Wedding as Strovilis
- 1955 The Counterfeit Coin as Dinos
- 1983 I Really Play the Man as Nectarios
- 1947 Marina as Waiter
- 1961 The Tough Guy as Kalogirou
- 1980 Taste from Greece
- 1954 A Young Miss... Aged 39 as Kriton Stefanis
- 1988 One But... Leon as Stathis Froutakis Sr.
- 1958 A Hero in His Slippers as Sotiris Lymberiadis
- 1985 Rena, ta resta sou!
- 1952 Greedy for Everything as Margaras
- 1989 Hungry and a gentleman
- 1962 Κατηγορούμενος... ο Έρως as Defence attorney
- 1954 The Swindlers as Karameletis
- 1986 Alles ton protimoun gouli as Ντίνος
- 1989 I Rita... kai to Ritaki as Evripidis Daponte
- 1990 Προσοχή! Μας βάλανε μπόμπα... as President
- 1989 Champion as Haralambos
- 1981 The Big Nostril
- 1986 O proikothiras kai to manouli
- 1988 Thanasis in the country of Will
- 1988 A Madhouse Named "Hellas"
- 1986 Erastis horis gynaika as Παρασκευάς
- 1987 Σας έπιασα στα πράσα
- 1987 Τράβα μου μια ...φωτογραφία
- 1989 Καμαριέρα χωρίς καριέρα
- 1987 Το κορίτσι του υποπλοιάρχου
- 1988 Σιγανοπαπαδιά
- 1987 Η ... Μικρομεσαία των Μπάτσων Σχολή
- 1989 Ο χαρτοπαίκτης και το χαμίνι
- 1988 Μπρος στρατός και πίσω τρέλλα as Leonidas
- 1972 Monday's Theater ( 1 episode ) as Θέμος
- 1985 Ο Ανδροκλής και τα λιοντάρια του ( 26 episodes )
- 1982 Το ξεκίνημα της φωτιάς: Ρόκκος Χοϊδάς ( 1 episode )
- 1991 Μια Απίθανη Γιαγιά ( 18 episodes ) as Χρόνης
