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Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1930-11-22

Place of Birth

Athens, Greece

Kostas Rigopoulos

Biography

Kostas Rigopoulos (Greek: Κώστας Ρηγόπουλος; 22 November 1930 – 14 January 2001) was a Greek actor. Rigopoulos was born in Athens in November 1930 and graduated from the National Theatre of Greece Drama School in 1953. He appeared on stage for the first time at the Kyveli Theater, playing an Oscar Wilde role. It was there that he met the 18-year-old actress Kakia Analyti, whom he later married. Together they had a daughter, Zoi Rigopoulou, who became an actress as well. Later on, he appeared alongside other renowned actors and actresses, including Lambeti, Katerina, Katrakis and Horn. From 1962, he ran his own theater company with his wife, at the Diana Theatre; a year later, they established their own theatre, the Analyti Theatre. Rigopoulos also appeared on cinema; he won the Honorary Award at the Thessaloniki International Film Festival for his role at Pantelis Voulgaris' film To proxenio tis Annas (Το προξενιό της Άννας, "Anna's Arranged Marriage"). He also appeared on television, participating at the Greek TV series Axiomatikos Ypiresias (Αξιωματικός Υπηρεσίας), Viva Katerina (Βίβα Κατερίνα) and Hamoyelaste parakalo (Χαμογελάστε παρακαλώ). In 1988, he presented the game show Essis ti lete (Εσείς τι λέτε). Apart from Greek, Rigopoulos also spoke English and French. Later in his life, he lived alone in Palaio Faliro, southwest of Athens. He died from a major stroke.

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O ios tou patera

O ios tou patera

Και Εύθυμη και Χήρα

Και Εύθυμη και Χήρα

24 Hours of Liveliness

24 Hours of Liveliness

Louisa Ragozzi, exhausted by her husband's antics, whom she caught red-handed with her typist, pretends to have amnesia and does not recognize him. She asks their servant Petros to throw him out of the house. Her husband is worried and seeks the help of a famous psychiatrist, who tries to help Louisa regain her memory. However, he must proceed discreetly, because the "psychopath" thinks that the doctor is her husband!

Anna's Engagement

Anna's Engagement

A lower-class maid navigates the social world of the upper-crust family she works for.

Love Written in Blood

Love Written in Blood

A mountain adventure set in the mountains of Crete. The fiancé of a beautiful girl is killed on their engagement day by an unknown assailant. Shortly before he dies, the hero implores his beloved to find his killer and avenge his death. She promises to do so and does everything in her power to keep her vow, with the help of a young man who is in love with her.

Οι κολασμένοι

Οι κολασμένοι

I stole my wife

I stole my wife

A self-assured and extremely rich business entrepreneur who is convinced that money is everything has a chance encounter with a feisty young lawyer who couldn't care less about his financial status. In the end, can money buy love?

Sidewalk

Sidewalk

Angelina is a prostitute. Her only friends are her colleague Nana and coachman Minas. George suddenly enters her life and confesses his love to her. Angelina begins to believe that her life can change, not suspecting that George has approached her on behalf of the drug dealer Nino.

Agents 005 Against Goldenfoot

Agents 005 Against Goldenfoot

Two James Bond fans, Kosmas and Damianos Bouralas, own a wine bar and hold a 5% stake in an industry. Mikes Pararas, who owns 47.5% of the same industry, is a wealthy man who, together with his partner Telis Hatzineftis, exploits and mistreats the employees and steals from the company. The arrival of the owner of the other 47.5%, Rita Pavlidi, will help the two friends take control of the business, after Chrysopodaros' misdeeds are revealed.

Ο τσιφούτης

Ο τσιφούτης

Divorce, Greek Style

Divorce, Greek Style

A furious and overworked lawyer spends all her time at her office, dealing with her clients' problems and cases, and so she has no time to see her husband. In order to shake her up and make her see sense, he decides to cheat on her and starts dating one of his wife's voluptuous clients, who wants to divorce her husband because he neglects her. She then tries to do the same thing to make her husband jealous and come back to her. And she succeeds...

Βραδιά Επιθεώρησης

Βραδιά Επιθεώρησης

Οικογένεια Βλαμένου

Οικογένεια Βλαμένου

Τα νιάτα θέλουν έρωτα

Τα νιάτα θέλουν έρωτα

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