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Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1945-02-05

Place of Birth

Thessaloniki, Greece

Giorgos Kotanidis

Biography

Giorgos Kotanidis (23 May 1945, Drama - 28 January 2020, Athens) was a Greek actor, director and writer. Until the age of twelve, he lived in Drama, the birthplace of his parents who had come as refugees from Pontus. He studied at the Drama School of the National Theatre, abandoning his studies at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. He was one of the creators of the Free Theatre in Allos Pagratiou and later during his theatrical career he collaborated with many troupes and directors, playing theatrical roles of all kinds. He also played several roles in Greek and international cinema, as well as on television. Politicized and integrated into the Left, he participated in the student movement. For his action against the dictatorship, he was repeatedly imprisoned and tortured. (Source: Wikipedia)

Known for

Για Μια Θέση στον Ήλιο

Για Μια Θέση στον Ήλιο

Captain Corelli's Mandolin

Captain Corelli's Mandolin

When a fisherman leaves to fight with the Greek army during World War II, his fiancée falls in love with the local Italian commander.

Βοήθεια γειτόνοι

Βοήθεια γειτόνοι

Φιλί Ζωής

Φιλί Ζωής

Manto Mavrogenous

Manto Mavrogenous

Prodosia

Prodosia

When the Greeks

When the Greeks

At the turn of the twentieth century a young merchant is abducted by a group of brigands who are sheltered in a remote mountainous area of Greece aiming to extract ransom from his wealthy family. The young man develops a kind of sympathy to the arch-brigand and realizes that the underground life and moral code of his kidnappers actually represent a more genuine expression of “New Hellenism” than his bourgeois well-being.

God Loves Caviar

God Loves Caviar

The true-life, stranger-than-fiction tale of eighteenth-century Greek pirate turned merchant Ioannis Varvakis, who rose from humble beginnings to become the head of one of the largest mercantile empires in Europe.

Like sisters

Like sisters

Eva and Christina are two modern women, around thirty-five, inseparable friends since they were eighteen. They have studied acting, but are out of the theater, each for their own reasons. Christina lives with her 14-year-old daughter, Aliki, whom she had at a very young age from her marriage to her teacher, famous leading actor, Yannis Zervas, a marriage which, however, ended ingloriously ten years ago. She works as a waitress in an "in" bar, "Ephemeron", where the artistic world gathers, in order to be able to make ends meet. However, in her personal life she has been happy, as she lives a passionate love with her younger brother, Lambis, a student at the Drama School and her colleague at the bar. Eva, locked in the golden cage of a socially successful, but essentially unsuccessful, marriage to the great lawyer Minas Christopoulos, is busy raising the two children she had with him and her mother. Her deep desire is to return to the theater....

Λίστα γάμου

Λίστα γάμου

Living Dangerously

Living Dangerously

On the morning of the World Cup final, Karamanos, an employee of the Greek Telecommunications Organization (TOE), connects his commander's personal computer to a devilishly complex and explosive device. He threatens to blow up the floor and the satellite dishes above if he is not allowed to appear on the national network 10 minutes before the football match to denounce all the wrongs that plague the lives of Greek citizens and make them victims of a partisan and corrupt state.

Μια γυναίκα από το παρελθόν

Μια γυναίκα από το παρελθόν

Πλάκα μου κάνεις!

Πλάκα μου κάνεις!

Τα χαμένα γράμματα

Τα χαμένα γράμματα

Hardbodies 2

Hardbodies 2

A film crew is travelling from America to Greece to produce a movie. Before their work is done they will have to face many unusual situations, along with numerous opportunities for the actresses to take their clothes off.