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Thanasis Veggos

Thanasis Veggos

Actor · 1927 – 2011 · Piraeus, Greece

Thanasis Veggos (Greek: Θανάσης Βέγγος, 29 May 1926 – 3 May 2011) was a Greek actor and director born in Neo Faliro, Piraeus. He performed in around 130 films, predominantly comedies in the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s, starring in more than 50 among them. He is considered one of the best Greek comedy actors of all time. His famous comedic catchphrase was "Καλέ µου άνθρωπε" ("My good man"). Veggos' first appearance in a film was in Windfall in Athens, produced by Mihalis Kakogiannis, which premiered in Athens as Kiriakatiko Xsipnima on 11 January 1954. Nikos Koundouros gave him a role in Magiki polis in 1955. His first major role was in Psila ta heria Hitler ("Hands Up, Hitler"), 1962 and continued many more films. For his acting in What did you do in the war, Thanasi? (1971), the public of Thessaloniki °apotheosized° him and the movie won three awards at the Thessaloniki International Film Festival. He often played everyman characters struggling to get by, but he has also played anti-heroes, he has acted in pure dramas, and on stage in the comedies of Aristophanes. His characters were often self-named "Thanasis". He often worked with directors Panos Glykofridis and Giorgos Lazaridis. In 1995, Theo Angelopoulos cast Veggos and American actor Harvey Keitel in "Ulysses Gaze". In 1997, in the role of Dikaiopoli he appeared in a live performance at the ancient Epidaurus theater. In 2000, he survived a car accident involving a collision with a train. He later participated in advertisements promoting road safety. A documentary of his life, whose title translates as A Man for All Seasons, was made in 2004. He always did his own stunts including the most dangerous ones, like hanging from a rope tied to a balcony fifty feet above a pavement without anything to break his fall, walking through a glass door, or falling down a stone staircase head first. During the "Golden Sixties" of the Greek film industry he made his most popular comedy films such as the sequel of Secret Agent 000, Papatrehas, Enas trellos Vengos and many others, also with surrealist humor, most of them by his own company Θ-Β Comedies (Θ-Β Tainies Geliou) which founded in 1964. In 2008, Veggos was appointed Commander of the Order of the Phoenix by the President of Greece, Karolos Papoulias. On 3 May 2011, he died at 7:10 a.m. He had been hospitalized at the Red Cross hospital, in Athens, since 18 December 2010. He is survived by his wife Asimina and two sons. He will always be remembered in the more than 120 films and more recent documentaries that he starred in. The phrase "τρέχει σαν το Βέγγο" (English translation: "runs like Veggos") has been adopted into common usage in the Greek language since nobody has run more or faster than Veggos in his many slapstick comedies. (Source: Wikipedia)

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  • Movie7.5

    Ulysses' Gaze

    Το βλέμμα του Οδυσσέα

    1995 · 132 votes

  • Movie6.7

    For bread and love

    Για το ψωμί και τον έρωτα

    1959 · 3 votes

  • Movie7.6

    The Flight of the Swan

    2011 · 8 votes

  • Movie6.8

    Never on Sunday

    Ποτέ την Κυριακή

    1960 · 80 votes

  • Movie7.5

    I'll Make You Queen

    Θα Σε Κάνω Βασίλισσα

    1964 · 15 votes

  • Movie8.0
  • Movie6.7

    Who Thanasis!

    Ποιος Θανάσης!

    1969 · 12 votes

  • Movie6.0

    Madalena

    Μανταλένα

    1960 · 20 votes

  • Movie7.1

    Thou-Vou Bald Agent, Operation: Havoc

    Θου-Βου Φαλακρός Πράκτωρ, Επιχείρησις: Γης Μαδιάμ

    1969 · 21 votes

  • Movie7.5

    It's a Long Road

    Όλα Είναι Δρόμος

    1998 · 29 votes

  • Movie9.0
  • Movie5.5

    Experts on the Football Field

    Οι άσσοι του γηπέδου

    1956 · 2 votes

  • Movie4.7

    Thanasis in the country of Will

    Ο Θανάσης στη χώρα του Θα

    1988 · 3 votes

  • Movie9.0

    Μυρτιά

    1961 · 1 votes

  • Movie6.4

    With Heart & Soul

    Ψυχή Βαθιά

    2009 · 17 votes

  • Movie6.6

    Runaway Bride

    Η νύφη το 'σκασε

    1962 · 11 votes

  • Movie6.7

    An Unbelievable Sucker

    Ένα Ασύλληπτο Κορόιδο

    1969 · 6 votes

  • Movie6.6

    Min eidate ton Panai?

    Μην Είδατε τον Παναή;

    1962 · 10 votes

  • Movie7.8

    Papatrechas

    Ο Παπατρέχας

    1966 · 16 votes

  • Movie5.8

    The Madman of Greece

    Τρελός και πάσης Ελλάδος

    1983 · 5 votes

  • Movie7.1

    The Ogre of Athens

    Ο Δράκος

    1956 · 40 votes

  • Movie6.4

    Crazy, Nuts and Vengos

    Τρελλός, Παλαβός και Βέγγος

    1967 · 11 votes

  • Movie7.0

    The lucky pants

    Το τυχερό πανταλόνι

    1963 · 3 votes

  • Movie5.5

    The Tomboy

    Το Αγοροκόριτσο

    1959 · 4 votes

Series7

  • TV7.0

    About Winds and Waters

    Περί Ανέμων Και Υδάτων

    2000 · 4 votes

  • TV8.0

    Police Officer Thanasis Papathanasis

    Αστυνόμος Θανάσης Παπαθανάσης

    1990 · 1 votes

  • TV2.0
  • TV

    Paraskinio

    Παρασκήνιο

    1976

  • TV8.0
  • TV5.0
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