Date of birth: 1911-01-01
Place of birth: Agios Lavrentios, Magnisia, Greece
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Λαυρέντης Διανέλλος, Λαυρεντης Διανελλος, Λαυρέντης Διανέλος, Lavrentis Dianelos
He was born in Agios Lavrentios Magnesia in 1911. He studied at the Drama School of the Art Theater of Karolos Koun. He first appeared in the theater in 1936, while in the cinema in 1948 in the film "The Germans are back". He was the most prolific actor of Greek cinema (followed by Nasos Kedrakas and Giorgos Velentzas), as he acted in 195 films during the 25 years (1948-1973). He was the wife of Frosos Kokkola, also an actress and singer of folk songs. He died on 16 Sep 1978 in Seattle (United States of America) and was buried in Rafina on 19 Sep 1978.
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1965-01-01
In mid-1960s Perama, a popular singer plans to marry a sweet woman, not because he loves her, but be
1960-10-24
Madalena is a tough seventeen-year-old who is forced to take on her father's ferry business after he
1958-05-08
A bank teller discovers an accounting error, becomes rich and lives his life like he's never lived i
1960-02-02
Stelios Kondogiorgis (Dinos Iliopoulos) and Thomas Makrykostas (Costas Hajihristos) are two quiet me
1964-02-03
A melodrama that recounts the extremely difficult conditions under which a couple tries to live and
1971-12-27
The plain of Thessaly, 1910. The tenant farmers suffer untold hardships, both from the Arvanites inv
1964-01-01
1970-01-01
1967-11-07
A girl from the slums of Athens becomes a famous singer while falling in love with her songwriter.
1955-11-14
Angelos, a law student in Athens, is expecting Lavrentis, his rich uncle from the village, hoping th
1973-01-01
1962-10-15
An anachronistic and paleolithic father tries to find a good, honest husband for his daughter.
1962-02-20
Two poor roommates, Mitros and Mitrousis, struggle to survive by doing odd jobs, from the neighborho
1959-09-09
All the village society, but especially the President Thimios Tambourlas and the policeman Miltiadis
1957-04-01
Pavlaras and Petrakis have spent the money that Kaiti's father gave them two years ago and continue
1963-04-13
Infatuated with a handsome sculptor, an overindulged daddy's girl will make use of every trick in th
1963-02-12
A lazy and wasteful slacker who enjoys living off his hard-working brother reluctantly accepts to wo
1964-11-11
Thanasis Kourtis came from the countryside to Athens to find his friend, the well-known impresario G
1964-05-31
Aristides, a widowed professor, lives with his housekeeper Eudokia and his three daughters, whom he
1968-01-01
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1961-03-03
An arrogant lieutenant of the Royal Hellenic Navy who finds out that his ex-lover has deeper feeling
1966-01-01
A young man with ideals, equipped with a high-school diploma, dreams of a quiet and honest life. Nev
1968-01-01
Captain Andreas, a widower master learns that the planned departure postponed and the crew discovers
1961-01-09
In a countryside village, a veteran politician, Damalas, and a young attorney, Ntinos, son of the vi
1967-01-01
During the occupation, the German forces capture and imprison at Haidari leader of the Resistance Co
1948-01-01
Sousou is a poor Greek woman who behaves like an aristocrat causing trouble to her honest husband an
1972-01-01
Loukas has been living in Africa for many many years, working hard to send money to his family who h
1951-01-01
Having become a beggar on the streets, Alexis reminisces about his love affair with a wealthy girl,
1969-01-01
The film is based on real events and tells the story of a group of Greeks who successfully escape fr
1967-01-30
Vengos studies in a secret agents' academy, dreaming of becoming a great spy like 007. Unfortunately
1968-01-01
Under the guise of a false identity, a cardiothoracic surgeon finds happiness again in the shape of
1961-12-02
A weak before her lady-killer lover, a blond diva breaks up with the arrogant libertine to be with a
1965-12-31
When Thanassis leaves the orphanage tries to do various jobs but with no consolidates. A private det
1961-06-12
Adapted from Nikos Foskolos’ theatrical play. On a terribly stormy night, in a secluded hotel, the o
1962-05-05
Maria falls in love with George who is a student of her strict father, Andreas Economou. Dolly, a cl
1966-09-26
Yannis meets and falls in love with the leading actress of a play, Emma. She convinces him to propos
1961-01-01
1969-10-20
A young fisherman who lives in a Greek island save a rich girl from a accident when she is in holida
1958-03-31
The sudden heritage, which is announced to two mercantiles, infuses their minds and begins to live r
1964-01-30
Mr. Anastasis, an elderly bouzoukis who suffers from his heart, forbids Liza's daughter to become a
1964-06-10
A pop singer with a good heart and a lot of achievements, Manos, tenderly loves an orphan anthopolid
1966-10-01
A new, ambitious prosecutor undertakes a great trial for a murder trial but things get very confused
1963-01-01
An avid fan of football and fan of Panathinaikos falls for the daughter a fan of Olympiakos. The eff
1968-11-17
While Greece is under German occupation, a group of soldiers starts from Cairo and arrives in Athens
1970-01-01
1940. Anna stay alone, her husband her brother her father leave for the war with the Italians. The a
1967-09-14
1966-02-28
Polydoros Lagos is a janitor in an ordinary Athens' block in the 1960s who's struggling to serve as
1959-01-01
Thomas is a good but low intelligence man. He is in love with Urania, a widow, whose stingy husband
1966-08-13
1969-10-07
After the death of her kind stepfather and Pontian Greek refugee, a young woman arrives in Athens to
1968-11-17
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1968-10-05
Stavros finishes his military service, rents a small room in Mrs. Olympia's house, and, with the hel
1965-03-06
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1966-08-27
Two friends get involved in a scam involving selling of land plots.
1971-02-22
Returning from a 3 year captivity in Vietnam, a kind chemist finds his wife married to his boss who
1967-05-16
Thanasis tries to reunite with his wife.He is having for obstacle her mother, which did not want him
1961-11-13
A rich girl leaves her family to avoid marrying the person her father has chosen for her. Her father
1959-05-30
Ilias dresses himself in a police uniform as part of a complex burglary plot. Unfortunately for him,
1964-01-01
A poor waiter struggles to provide for his family, while his wife keeps giving birth to twins, tripl
1961-09-24
The rivalry between a professional doctor and a midwife in a small Greek village.
1963-01-01
As Pelopidas is going around hungry, trying to find something to eat, a misunderstanding makes him s
1969-02-27
Two very poor young people who grow up together, Alexis and Anna, live in two hovels with a common c
1958-12-29
father of four girls of marriageable age brings home a prospective suitor. One daughter agrees to se
1969-01-01
Asimina is a young joyful tavern owner. One day she decides to take place in a cook contest but the
1957-02-07
Paschalis Zoumpoulos, an otherwise decent family man and director of the house Frabalas & Co. belong
1966-06-14
During the German occupation, the Nazis plan to execute 30 men in retaliation for the death of a Ger
1957-01-01
The funny things that happen through the walking by the neighborhood night shift of a kind policeman
1957-12-02
A good-natured paterfamilias who is struggling to make ends meet rests his hopes on his successful e
1959-05-31
After returning from a masquerade, much to his surprise, a wandering textile salesman stumbles upon
1948-01-05
4 years after the Nazi occupation in Greece, the Greeks are involved in a Civil War and they are kil
1957-01-01
Vangelis is a lazy guy who's trying to earn some money to marry his beloved, but he is captured by t
1955-12-28
Four stories, humorous, romantic or dramatic, are linked by a counterfeit gold sovereign. It is made
1958-11-28
An organ grinder (Orestis Makris) loses his wife from complications during birth. Distraught by her
1968-12-30
Rena’s father insists on marrying her off to the son of a shipowner. Rena, however, doesn’t even wan
1972-03-20
A young woman arrives in Athens with her dog after the death of her father, the head of a bouzouki b
1971-09-22
The life and work of the hero of 1821 Papaflessas that during the liberation struggle of the Greeks
1967-02-01
A young doctor, Spyros, falls in love with a poor singer, Eleni, who is under the extortionist urge
1964-01-01
A self-assured and extremely rich business entrepreneur who is convinced that money is everything ha
1971-01-01
In Vienna 1820, the Manto Mavrogenous encounters a group of Greek students and talk of revolution to
1968-10-03
A woman with pathological jealousy makes her husband's life so difficult that he risks losing both h
1961-01-01
In the pre-revolutionary years, a young shepherd follows Kitsos and his men into the mountains to fi
1969-11-09
1970-09-21
The battle-scarred hero of the Greek Revolution, Giannos "Astrapogiannos", returns home after the en
1958-11-06
A veteran general, living poorly but honestly with his wife and his daughter, is visited by his futu
1969-01-01
Anestis is a nice guy but he doesn't have the courage to react when others bother him. When one of h
1970-01-01
In 19th century Thessaly, a Turkish bandit and his gang kidnap a Greek woman. Her brother, however,
1968-01-01
Nikos is a short hairpin chandler, which has very high opinion of himself. Flirts shamelessly with t
1973-01-01
Maria, the daughter of Barbie Lambrou is dumb village we all laugh. The new village teacher Gregory,
1967-01-01
1962-01-01
A super market owner opposes the affair of his daughter with a new employee at his business.
1968-01-01
1958-02-15
A recently fired cook poses as a misogynist to get a job in the mansion of an unrepentant woman-hate
1961-01-01
1966-01-01
1969-01-01
Spiros is working to the laundry of the captain Nikola but wants to be an actor, gi` self whenever i
1968-01-01
1966-01-01
An unemployed man poses as a housekeeper to stay afloat; but, his fiancée starts to suspect somethin
1969-01-01
To make his frivolous nephew see the error of his ways, a shipowner takes under his wing his bookish
1966-01-01
1968-01-01
1957-01-01
In love with the village's belle, a passionate nineteen-year-old suitor from Volos and his two frien
1967-01-01
A poor young man, working hard, manages and becomes a captain on a ship of the shipowner, in whose h
1965-01-01
1970-01-01
1965-01-01
A shoe shiner works hard to support his poor and suffering mother, whom his father has heartlessly a
1972-01-01
Aris, a race car driver, meets a guy who looks strikingly similar to him. With obvious curiosity, he
1970-01-01
During the years of the German Occupation, Dimitris Korres, commander of a police station, is consid
1967-01-01
1961-03-11
Two ambitious junior employees from different social backgrounds, an aspiring author and the elegant
1970-01-01
Two poor young people, Martha and Manos, have grown up together and are in love, but the financial p
1968-01-01
Christina and her mother have as neighbors a man who dreams of singing and the son of a wealthy fami
1967-01-01
A captain trusts his only son in the hands of a girl, for which he believes is one that correspond.
1967-01-01
1971-01-01
1970-10-22
1969-01-01
A nice but poor medical student, Petros, lives in a poor courtyard with a down-and-out musician, Ant
1965-01-01
Two childhood friends are steered apart by their parents
1969-01-01
1972-01-01
Souliotes learn that Ali pasha is planning to attack. Photos Tzavellas and his men are ready to defe
1965-01-01
1968-09-18
1962-04-28
Having found, after many years, the man she loved and their daughter, a woman hesitates to reveal he
1965-01-01
A young man, Spiros, abandons his beloved without knowing that she is pregnant. The girl remarries,
1966-01-01
A worker, engaged to the owner of the factory where he works, at his mother's request, begins a rela
1972-01-01
1965-01-01
A professional wrestler coming from the wrong side of the tracks aspires to wear the prestigious cha
1966-01-01
A rich young man is in love with a dancer, whom she marries against the will of his parents.
1959-01-01
Mrs. Mina is fed up with her husband Laki's excessive kindness, patience, and stoicism. She can no l
1966-01-01
Charis is a district attorney, and his wife Liana is a dancer in a night club. Liana finds out that
1973-01-01
The young orphan Aliki is entrusted by her grandfather to the care of a wealthy childless couple. Se
1964-01-01
Akis abandons Mary, the poor girl he loves, without knowing that she is expecting his child. When he
1972-01-01
The amateur singer, Magdalo, plucks up the courage to leave her small village in search of a well-pa
1967-01-01
Liza, a beautiful young woman and daughter of businessman Leonidas Stergiou, is in love with Christo
1970-01-01
During the reign of Otto, the beautiful daughter of a local lord is kidnapped. Her fiancé tries to t
1961-01-01
Exarhos is persuaded by his two lazy brothers to sell their shipyard, and they buy a factory in whic
1972-01-01
The Peace and Betty are twins and look like as two drops of water but their characters are completel
1971-01-01
Shipowner Karanikas, who has been searching for his lost daughter for years, finally finds her with
1960-05-11
Liza, a cheeky and mischievous young girl who works in a bookstore, is a fanatical admirer of a grea
1964-01-01
Despite the objections of his wife Sophia, Stelios decides embarks. It is the only way to escape the
1971-09-22
1975-02-26
1967-10-01
When the forces of the German occupation undertake a series of serious defeats in the Resistance, su
1964-02-17
Aris, Nikos Kourkoulos, is released from prison after three years, and he turns up at Troumpa, a slu
1965-01-01
A ruthless young man puts on eye the estate of a girl and after he is presented as in love with her,
1970-01-01
1960-10-25
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1967-01-01
The daughter of a powerful husband in a mountainous village in Greece is being forced to marry a wea
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