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Vagelis Protopapas
Tinos, Greece
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. Hi…
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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)
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1991
Μια Απίθανη Γιαγιά
TV show Χρόνης
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1990
Προσοχή! Μας βάλανε μπόμπα...
Movie President
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1989
Champion
Movie Haralambos
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1989
Hungry and a gentleman
Movie
- 1989
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1989
Καμαριέρα χωρίς καριέρα
Movie
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1989
I Rita... kai to Ritaki
Movie Evripidis Daponte
- 1988
- 1988
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1988
One But... Leon
Movie Stathis Froutakis Sr.
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1988
Σιγανοπαπαδιά
Movie
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1988
Μπρος στρατός και πίσω τρέλλα
Movie Leonidas
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1987
Σας έπιασα στα πράσα
Movie
- 1987
- 1987
- 1987
More credits
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1986
Alles ton protimoun gouli
Movie Ντίνος
- 1986
- 1986
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1986
Erastis horis gynaika
Movie Παρασκευάς
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1985
Ο Ανδροκλής και τα λιοντάρια του
TV show
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1985
Rena, ta resta sou!
Movie
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1983
I Really Play the Man
Movie Nectarios
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1983
Anyone Else for Heaven?
Movie Father
- 1982
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1981
The Big Nostril
Movie
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1980
Taste from Greece
Movie
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1972
Monday's Theater
TV show Θέμος
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1966
The Hunchback
Movie
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1963
Marriage Lads
Movie
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1962
The Wise Guy
Movie Grigoris
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1962
Koutroulis` Wedding
Movie Strovilis
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1962
Κατηγορούμενος... ο Έρως
Movie Defence attorney
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1961
The Tough Guy
Movie Kalogirou
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1958
A Hero in His Slippers
Movie Sotiris Lymberiadis
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1957
Trouble for Fathers
Movie Μικές
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1956
Jealous like a Cat
Movie Markos Manolopoulos
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1955
The Counterfeit Coin
Movie Dinos
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1955
No Harm's Done
Movie Vangelis
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1954
A Young Miss... Aged 39
Movie Kriton Stefanis
