Giannis Argyris
Date of birth: 1918-01-01
Place of birth: Schimatari, Viotia, Greece
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Yannis Argyris, Giannis Argyris, Γιάννης Αργύρης, Яннис Аргирис
Biography
Yannis Argyris (Schimatari, Boeotia, 1918 − 23 July 1993) was a Greek actor with a fifty-year career, one of the best known of his generation. He studied acting at the Drama School of the National Theatre and made his first appearance with the Carousos troupe in 1937, in William Shakespeare's Othello, at the age of just 19. Since then, he has performed hundreds of roles, both in theatre and cinema, and on television. He was the father of conductor Spyros Argyris.
Movie Credits
The Ogre of Athens
1956-03-05
A peaceful, frightened little man is mistakenly identified as "The Dragon", a notorious criminal at
Provocation
1971-02-08
Angelos holds nothing in Greece. His sweetheart married his former friend, the woman who once was hi
Η ζωή ενός ανθρώπου
1968-01-01
The Dressmaker
1964-01-01
The son of a shipowner is in love with a poor seamstress. When his father reacts to their love, he a
Η ζωή μου στα χέρια σου
1970-01-01
Το κορίτσι του "17"
1969-10-04
Το σπίτι των ανέμων
1966-03-03
Two Grapes
1955-04-22
After finding out about the affair between young farmer and his spoiled daughter, the landlord perse
As the bride and groom wish
1959-01-01
The Big Streets
1953-01-01
An only child of poor farmers goes to Athens to study medicine. He meets and falls in love with an o
I Neraida Kai to Palikari
1969-12-22
Fourtounakis’ daughter, Katerinio, is forced to get engaged with a brutal Cretan, Skandalakis. But t
Thanos and Despina
1967-08-26
Katina, an impoverished Greek woman, tries to arrange the marriage of her shepherd son, Thanos, to D
O Ippolytos kai to violi tou
1963-01-01
A poor violinist gets involved in a bizarre adventure, when a drunken customer at the night club whe
The Child of the Street
1957-01-01
A girl, Vassula, learns shortly before marrying her lover, Richard, that the alleged father is actua
The Drawer of Sin
1966-01-01
Greek melodrama about a woman shunned by her family after being raped by her sister's husband.
Love on a Horse
1973-12-22
A son and his stepmother, without noticing their father/husband peeping at them, make love on a hors
The Harbor Bum
1961-09-05
Accused of stabbing his nightclub singer mistress to death, unscrupulous dockhand Christos is on the
Dating Agency
1956-01-01
An elderly man, Kosmas, gets involved in a fight and, trying to escape from the police, runs into Ma
Crazy, Nuts and Vengos
1967-01-01
Thanasis, the waiter of country tavern "The seven brothers", is preparing to marry the Anthoula. Sho
The Constellation of Virgin
1973-12-03
3 different story's that a prostitute says to her patrons whe she is asked about her story life
Dead City
1951-12-03
A young painter returns to his hometown, Mystras, where he falls in love with the daughter of a fami
Love and Blood
1968-01-01
The abysmal hatred which exists between two landowners is transferred to their natural environment a
Abuse of authority
1971-01-01
A police officer tries to discover the murderer of his brother, who was a pianist and a morphine. As
Love In The Dunes
1958-02-01
The tragic love of Anna and a prison breaker.
Astrapogiannos
1970-09-21
The battle-scarred hero of the Greek Revolution, Giannos "Astrapogiannos", returns home after the en
Joe, the Amazing
1955-03-21
Joe, and Gardelis his friend, plan to rob a safe, a Russian émigré, Lavrentis Shack. By opening, how
Pavlos Melas
1973-02-04
The military action of a Greek officer, Pavlos Melas, for the liberation of Macedonia from the Turks
In the name of the law
1970-05-09
A traumatised Korean War veteran is accused of arson and murder. Now, the deceased's criminal attorn
To Our Teacher, with Love
1969-02-13
A young teacher arrives in a village that has been almost completely deserted by emigration and trie
Poverty
1965-01-01
Kaiti's father decides to end Nikos' family and evicts them. Nikos and his mother rent a room in Ann
Η μάνα της φόνισσας
1988-10-01
Fanny, young daskalitsa, is in love with Lambros, student of Chemistry. Transferred to the Greek sch
The She-Wolf
1951-03-26
Wanting to have nothing to do with the feud that has decimated not only his own family but also that
Η ανταρσία των 10
1970-09-26
Antigone
1961-05-31
In Thebes in ancient Greece, King Oedipus kills his father and marries his mother Jocasta, having tw
Κατηγορούμενος... ο Έρως
1962-01-01
The fate of the innocent
1965-09-01
I am innocent
1960-01-01
Triantafyllo ki agathi
1988-11-29
A dramatic story, as true as life itself, as shocking as the harshest fate and as inhuman as the wor
Rose and Thorn: Part II
1988-11-26
A dramatic story, as true as life itself, as shocking as the harshest fate and as inhuman as the wor
O orkos tou misous
1988-01-01
Maria Valfi is the daughter of wealthy merchant Valfi, who is unjustly accused in a trial for some u
Μας ενώνει ο πόνος
1964-01-01
Attik's Street Organ
1955-04-23
The poor and orphaned Manto tries in every way to care for her sick father. An equally poor musician
Λουίζα
1966-02-04
For the Love of my Child
1963-01-01
Antonis is a tough and heartless guy who, after several years in prison, is released and returns hom
Sinful Women of the Night
1966-01-01
A poor and uneducated girl is forced into prostitution by a corrupt individual.
For the love of the shepherdess
1959-01-01
Those who forgot God
1964-01-01
The son of a ruthless moneylender loves a girl whose mother was his father's first love. When he ref
Ματωμένη γη
1967-01-01
The daughter of a powerful husband in a mountainous village in Greece is being forced to marry a wea
Ο γυρολόγος
1980-10-01
Δέσπω
1962-01-01
Ματωμένα στέφανα
1961-01-01
Καραγκούνα
1961-01-01
Η αρχόντισσα του λιμανιού
1969-01-01