Mimis Fotopoulos
Date of birth: 1913-04-20
Place of birth: Zatouna, Arkadia, Greece
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Μιμης Φωτοπουλος, Μίμης Φωτόπουλος
Biography
Dimitris "Mimis" Fotopoulos (Greek: Δημήτρης (Μίμης) Φωτόπουλος; 8 April 1913 – 29 October 1986) was a Greek actor, writer, poet, and artist. He was born in Zatouna, Gortynia, Arcadia. He studied at the Dramatic School of National Theatre (Δραματική Σχολή του Εθνικού Θεάτρου). He also studied at the Philosophical School at the University of Athens until his second year in 1933. He headed a theatrical company from 1952 and an actor from 1960. He died on 29 October 1986 in Athens, from a heart attack, aged 73.
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Δυο κοθώνια στο ναυτικό!
1952-01-01
The Counterfeit Coin
1955-12-28
Four stories, humorous, romantic or dramatic, are linked by a counterfeit gold sovereign. It is made
One Hundred Thousand Pounds
1948-03-17
The daughter of a Greek expatriate from Australia, Pagona a.k.a. Peggy (Ketty Panou), after the deat
Wheel Bag and Kopana
1982-07-17
A major hit in the Greek cinemas at the time, this comedy by Omiros Efstratiadis is about a bunch of
Theodore and the gun
1962-10-15
An anachronistic and paleolithic father tries to find a good, honest husband for his daughter.
The yellow gloves
1960-12-12
When it comes to his wife, Orestis is suspicious of everything, be it a moustachioed chauffeur or a
The Hurdy-Gurdy
1955-12-12
Two poor portable barrel piano players ramble through Greek countryside and play in fairs. They meet
The Beauty of Athens
1954-03-13
A streetwise guy, according to a will, has to marry an extremely ugly old lady to get the money of t
The Little Mouse
1954-02-15
Loukis, after a successful break-in, manages to escape the police chase thanks to a younf flower sel
A Hippie With Slippers
1970-01-01
Kitsos leaves behind his village to create a better future in Athens, Greece. He rescues Helen but s
The Coffee Reader (Kafetzou)
1956-10-29
In a poor neighborhood of Athens, next to the coffee shop of Spyros (Mimis Fotopoulos) is a coffee s
Poor Bums
1961-06-21
Intent on marrying into money, two antagonists will stop at nothing to seduce a young heiress, renou
The Unwilling Nanny
1959-05-31
After returning from a masquerade, much to his surprise, a wandering textile salesman stumbles upon
Vacation in Kolopetinitsa
1959-09-09
All the village society, but especially the President Thimios Tambourlas and the policeman Miltiadis
Stamatis and Grigoris
1962-09-19
Opposite as black and white, the successful lawyers and business partners, tardy Stamatis and hasty
Laterna, Poverty and Carnation
1957-04-01
Pavlaras and Petrakis have spent the money that Kaiti's father gave them two years ago and continue
Wanted honest
1963-04-11
A sometimes blind and sometimes mute homeless panhandler becomes the pivotal point in a modular stor
Marriage Lads
1963-11-11
Fotis and Kosmas are partners in a country resort. They are not so concerned with their work as they
Deluxe Crazy
1963-11-20
Faidon is rich but lazy and ungrateful, complaining all day long. Everything in his life will change
Another One for the Million
1964-10-20
The honest and meticulous cashier, Savvas, works in a business and is often pressured by his wife’s
The Unknown
1954-06-06
Madame X (Greek title: I Agnostos) is a 1954 Greek drama film directed by Orestis Laskos. It is base
Grousouzis
1952-11-03
Agatocles, a grumpy and gruesome caffector, finds out a baby's out of his cafe and, to the surprise
Golfo-Girl of the Mountains
1955-11-09
Spiridon Peresiadis (1864 - 1918) was one of the best writers of the dramatic idylls and mountain ad
Taste from Greece
1980-01-01
Anthology film with a number of sketches that satirize modern Greece.
The Four Aces
1970-12-24
An adaptation of "Romeo and Juliette" where the children of two rival shopkeepers fall in love and t
A Bird in the Hand Is Worth Two in the Bush
1965-01-01
The daughter of a miser grocer react to their father's effort to marry with the man he approves. Whe
Madame Sousou
1948-01-01
Sousou is a poor Greek woman who behaves like an aristocrat causing trouble to her honest husband an
The Miserable
1959-01-01
A bachelor by conviction not watch the girl who works at the shop cashier is in love with him, despi
No Harm's Done
1955-02-15
Lalakis is married with Poppe. He goes on a trip to Salonique by train, with his mistress, pretendin
Two Crazy and crafty, clever and cunning person
1970-01-01
Philemon and Pausanias are two wretches, friends and roommates in the same chamber, which are consta
The ship of happens
1967-01-01
A large group of people with different temperaments, traveling from Piraeus to New York, with the oc
The Big Shark
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
Gold and Tin
1962-01-01
A super market owner opposes the affair of his daughter with a new employee at his business.
Snow White and the 7 Old Boys
1960-12-26
Alexia is a young woman who comes from the countryside and is in love with a rich man, Paris, who is
Descended from Heaven
1965-03-01
The late Pericles gets permission from God to return to earth and help his family, who has gone astr
Bad, Cold, and Cantankerous
1969-01-01
Financially hard-pressed, a good-hearted coffee-shop owner asks his twin brother and famous actor fo
Μήτσος ο Ρεζίλης
1984-01-01
Mitsos, the son of a coffee shop owner and matchmaker, runs a marriage bureau and earns his living b
Apaches of Athens
1950-01-23
Costas is known as the "Prince". Now that he has learned of the arrival of the Greek-American Parali
Wheel Bag and Kopana 2
1983-10-12
A rich kid comes to Havale High School with his servant for the new school year and, of course, beco
Wheel, Bag and Truants 3
1984-06-21
Aris, Billias, and the rest of the students decide to return to school with the excuse of earning th
The Magic City
1955-07-18
A look at poverty in post-war Athens. Kosmas, a young man living in the slums, constantly tries to m
Kolonaki Conduct Zero
1967-11-16
When an open-hearted folk man, a butcher of the profession, buys an apartment to stay with his famil
The Daywork of Happiness
1960-05-02
Two young people are trying to make their common life although have to face the obstacle of an autho
Eva Has Not Sinned
1965-11-13
A pretty and chubby woman, Eva, Fontas ex- wife, is now married to the neighborhood’s tavern owner,
Bloody Christmas
1951-03-12
Returning to Athens after the end of the World War II, Captain Nikolas finds out what happened to hi
The Driver
1953-02-02
A poor taxi driver works hard in order to pay off his car and to marry his fiancee.
Long live the poor children
1959-01-01
A wealthy man, Tonis , in love with a poor girl, wants to marry her despite the objections of his fa
Heartbreak in the Slums
1965-03-05
An entire social microcosm lies hidden in plain sight in a decrepit Athenian courtyard of a humble m
Beethoven and Bouzouki
1965-08-30
A dedicated classical music tutor who keeps burning bridges with everyone in the name of art is unwi
The Emir and the poor man
1964-11-07
An Arab monarch arrives in Athens accompanied by his wife and his beautiful daughter, who falls in l
Kitsos Mini and Souvlaki
1968-01-01
Kitsos from Gastouni comes to Athens and gets a job at the souvlaki restaurant owned by Dimos from R
Fanouris and His Kin
1957-12-02
A good-natured paterfamilias who is struggling to make ends meet rests his hopes on his successful e
The Godson
1952-11-15
During the Balkan Wars, Vivika Zaharouli, sick and tired of the goings-on of her womanizer husband,
Above all... Coolness
1951-06-14
Two lazy friends (Mimis Fotopoulos and Ntinos Iliopoulos) find a job as ice-cream vendors to pay the
The goody dad
1967-12-01
A married couple is having a son and they do everything to raise it right.
An Italian in Greece
1958-01-01
Charming, affluent--with his father's money--and self-assured, a frivolous son who can have any woma
Come to Uncle
1950-12-06
Antonis is the nephew of the good-hearted grocer Harilaos Toukouras. He is slothful and lazy but he
On Course
1985-10-02
A young man, Kostas, together with two friends, sets for a journey on a sailboat, looking for someth
What Does Man Do To Live
1970-01-01
Leandros is a night club owner who is trying to avoid imprisonment by searching for money to pay the
The Germans Strike Again
1948-01-05
4 years after the Nazi occupation in Greece, the Greeks are involved in a Civil War and they are kil
Our Good Angel
1961-03-02
After saving the beautiful but frivolous daughter of an austere businessman from an embarrassing sit
And the First Matakias
1982-07-08
An unruly voyeurism, Simos, works in a hotel as a bourgeois. A gang of burglars has put in the eye o
Traffic Cop Varvara
1981-01-01
Much to his surprise and not a moment too soon, the young long-term unemployed, Achilleas Taleporos,
Agent Kitsos calls Gastounis
1967-07-12
As he slips into something more pastoral chic to boost sales in an Athenian travel agency, a poor co
Fallen Angels
1948-12-22
To help her sick mother, a girl is hired for what she believes to be a simple delivery service. That
The 4 Stairs
1951-01-16
Surrounded by wealth, an impecunious young lady leaves home and the suave man of her dreams to sprea
Aristotelis the Lightweight
1970-07-08
A pasta-factory owner, Aristotelis Kolokythas, after two unsuccessful marriages in the past, is now
Άγγελος με χειροπέδες
1952-01-01
Greedy for Everything
1952-02-08
The avaricious Athenian, Fanouris Karababas, forbids his daughter to marry her beloved and behaves c
Don't All Knock Together
1962-01-01
Sprogitis, a clumsy goofball with a good heart, constantly finds himself embroiled in the most unlik
One Night in Heaven
1951-06-30
Ms. Byzantiou is a passionate writer who stays at the hotel “Paradise” together with other eccentric
Enter Manolio
1970-01-01
Manolios decides to quit working on a ship and return to Crete so he can marry his beloved one, Leni
Aspasia's dollars
1967-01-01
The Street Smarts
1979-06-13
Babis (Nikos Rizos), after his release, finds it difficult to balance between the groups with the gu
The Misogynist
1958-02-15
A recently fired cook poses as a misogynist to get a job in the mansion of an unrepentant woman-hate
Goal in Love
1954-01-01
A barber owes a lot of money to his landlady, who shows great patience and understanding, hoping tha
A Nanny and a Maid, Everyone
1971-01-01
A kind-hearted man from the Greek province falls deeply in love with the beautiful daughter of his s
The firecracker
1970-01-01
Women want beat
1962-01-01
Αλλαγή... και το λουρί της μάνας
1982-01-01
An ex-criminal wants to change his life but the Mafia wants him back.
Θα Σε Κλέψω, Μ' Ακούς;
1982-01-01
Απόκληροι της κοινωνίας
1965-01-01
A Thousand Cubic Meters of Madness
1983-03-03
A frivolous husband who longs for a fast 1000cc sports bike decides to sell the family business. How
The Tower of Knights
1952-01-01
A down-to-earth grocer yields to pressure and decides to follow his wife's advice to put to good use
Ένας Πρωτάρης Στο Κολλέγιο!
1984-01-01
A country kid enters a physical education college that prepares future champions. Rookie as he is, h
Cloudy horizons
1968-01-01
To settle her affairs, a kind woman arrives in Athens, only to realise that the administrator of her
Nancy bought it!
1960-01-01
Like a true diva, an aspiring painter renounces her mundane given name, and instead of it, she prefe
Massage gia ola ta gousta
1987-01-01
Inspector Charilaos and Detective Mitsos, the brains of the vice squad, undertake to solve a murky c
A Ship Full of Papadopoulos
1966-01-01
A couple of rich Greek-Americans travels from New York to Piraeus with their five nephews, who are u
Two Clever Fools
1971-01-27
Two jobless bosom buddies have a chance encounter with an Arab billionaire and his sad daughter who
For a Lousy Drachma
1968-01-01
To convince his wealthy uncle to keep sending his monthly cheques, a poor man lies about his marital
Commando and Manoulias
1982-01-01
A 35-year-old reservist is called up for retraining in new weapons. He has been engaged for nine yea
The Wastrels
1961-01-01
Exarhos is persuaded by his two lazy brothers to sell their shipyard, and they buy a factory in whic
Storm at the Lighthouse
1950-12-31
Lighthouse keeper Captain Bochalis, whose wife abandoned him years ago, lives in a remote lighthouse
Wandering
1979-11-15
A lawyer, offspring of a bourgeois family of Greek-Egyptians, tries to find the traces of a relative
Ο Καου-Μπόυς του Μεταξουργείου!!
1971-01-01
Kitsos, a charming countryman from Gastouni, visits Athens to secure a dowry for his sister. Instead
Behind the Curtain: Dinos Iliopoulos
1979-03-28
The episode of the documentary series Paraskinio, produced in 1979, dedicates its first part to two
Behind the Curtain: Mimis Fotopoulos
1976-09-28
Episode from the documentary series Paraskinio, dedicated to Mimis Fotopoulos, who speaks about his
Κέρατο στο κέρατο
1982-01-01
Οι ατσίδες του σούπερ μάρκετ
1985-01-01