
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)
Movies24
Movie7.5DramaHistoryAn exiled filmmaker finally returns to his home country where former mysteries and afflictions of his early life come back to haunt him once more.
Movie6.7DramaAn unemployed sailor gets a job at the yacht of a wealthy man, where he is tortured by his beautiful young wife and decides to leave his wife and son to leave with her.
Movie7.6DramaAlexis is an explosive personality, passionate about life, humanity, nature, love and beauty. That is until the breakneck rhythm, intensity, stress and convolutions of career and economic success shatter him, alienating him from everyone and everything he loves: even his children and his soul mate Maria. Alexis is jolted back to reality when the unbridled greed of the multinational conglomerate his company is involved in causes an unprecedented ecological catastrophe costing many human lives. The multinational's Golden Boy suddenly realizes that he is nothing more than a cog in the machine he had fought so passionately against in his youth. He is determined to rediscover himself, to reclaim his soul, to rebuild the dream with Maria - but he is completely trapped. He is caught in a web of intrigue that tightens like a vice driving him to an inevitably lethal conflict with the conglomerate.
The Flight of the Swan
2011 · 8 votes
Movie6.8ComedyRomanceAn American scholar in Greece sets about improving the local prostitute with whom he is infatuated.
Movie7.5ComedyAntonis Tsilivikis, a stingy construction contractor, neglects his home and wife Eleni and forces her to lie to her rich uncle in America, Peter, in order to continue to send a monthly financial aid. But when the uncle notices that he comes to Greece, and in order not to reveal the truth, Antonis disguises himself as a retired named Beizanis, who supposedly rents a room at their home...
Movie8.0ComedyMusicΧίλια Χρόνια Πριν - Βυζάντιο: Η Γιορτή των Καλενδών
1976 · 1 votes
Movie6.7ComedyA kindhearted owner of a shop falls in love with the girl he hires and, eventually, he finds out who tricks him and who really loves him.
Movie6.0DramaRomanceMadalena is a tough seventeen-year-old who is forced to take on her father's ferry business after he dies. She has her many brothers and sisters to support, and there is no one else to do the job. So she rallies her defenses and sets out to give her rival in the ferry business a run for his money. But at the same time, the rival's handsome son is starting to look better and better. Madalena refuses to acknowledge her feelings for him -- though how long she can sustain that denial is the question.
Movie7.1ComedyThou-Vou and his new partner, MAP31, accept three imaginary tasks from a cunning director who is only interested in filming the unsuspecting duo for his upcoming movie feature. Will the agents manage to squeeze success out of failure?
Thou-Vou Bald Agent, Operation: Havoc
Θου-Βου Φαλακρός Πράκτωρ, Επιχείρησις: Γης Μαδιάμ
1969 · 21 votes
Movie7.5DramaThree separate stories about lonely men from Northern Greece facing turning points in their lives. In "A Silver Coin on the Lips", a bereaved archaeologist works in the ruins of ancient Philippi and embarks on a journey to heal from a major loss; in "The Last of the Lesser Whites", a dedicated game warden helps ornithologists track an endangered lesser white-fronted goose along the Evros River Delta; and in "Vietnam", a dejected furniture wholesaler from Kilkis deals with a painful breakup by drinking in a loud, remote club, leading to an emotional collapse.
Movie9.0DramaΚαταδικασμένη και από το παιδί της
1955 · 1 votes
Movie5.5ComedyDramaThe everyday lives of some international football players before and after a big game.
Movie4.7Comedy
Movie9.0AdventureDramaΜυρτιά
1961 · 1 votes
Movie6.4DramaWarTwo brothers are fighting on opposite sides during the Greek Civil War.
Movie6.6ComedyIn her delicate bridal gown and bent on finding her beloved, a determined would-be wife flees from a dreadful marriage of convenience and enlists the help of a kind wandering salesman. Can anyone stand in the way of a woman in love?
Movie6.7ComedyThanasis and he will become barber, continuing the tradition of Chatzipapageorgakopoulokonstantinogiannopoulon in traditional shop in the neighborhood, without knowing that the court of the occupation, the German commander, Von Tzifren, has hidden a treasure. Thanasis is in love with Lisa's daughter Charoupoglou, rich neighborhood that made money held. Germany Von Tzifren is released ...
Movie6.6ComedyErotic tangles forced Fani and Panai to leave from Athens to Chalkida, there they await new adventures with women, which will result in marriage, but Panai will escape the wedding night.
Movie7.8ComedyPolydoros Lagos is a janitor in an ordinary Athens' block in the 1960s who's struggling to serve as many of the building's residents as possible in order to save some money to help his six sisters (and his aunt) get married, since this is the only way he can finally get married too.
Movie5.8ComedyThanasis works in the café he inherited from his father and hopes that his children will manage to complete their studies. This desire is based on his own dream of becoming a judge, which never happened due to his father's objections.
Movie7.1CrimeComedyOn New Year’s Eve, a timid bank clerk is mistaken for a notorious criminal mastermind who rules the streets of Athens. Embracing his mistaken identity comes with a price though, as his unwitting white lie begins to unravel.
Movie6.4ComedyThanasis, the waiter of country tavern "The seven brothers", is preparing to marry the Anthoula. Shortly before going to church but has an accident and suffers amnesia. While Anthoula, siblings and friends are waiting for him in the church, he wanders the streets unnecessarily.
Movie7.0ComedyA police officer arrests pitiable Thanasis, who admits to having stolen the trousers of a happy man in the hope of becoming happy himself, after being advised to do so by a Gypsy. He confesses that, in order to marry his girlfriend, he asked to borrow a pair of trousers, but no one would lend them to him, so he went ahead and stole a pair of trousers, but no one was willing to lend him. So he decided to steal one. The policeman assists him and finds the trouser holder and also works for Thanasis. So the latter can now marry his girlfriend and make a family.
Movie5.5ComedyRefusing to realise that she has become a lovely sixteen-year-old woman, a gawky tomboy taunts her bookish neighbour. But, the effervescent feelings of first love start to take over. Will she renounce her former self for love's sake?
Series7
TV7.0ComedyA romantic drama filmed mostly in Corfu and the television reappearance after many years of the much-loved Thanasis Vengou. Athena lives with her capricious sister in a mansion in Corfu. A "sailor" moves into the house next door, who, after spending all his years at sea, inherited this house in Corfu from his aunt. A tender friendship develops between them, which will however be shaken when Athena's stepdaughter falls in love with the "sailor's" son, who is a pilot, in Paris. Athena sounds the alarm because she learns that the pilot is a womanizer with two failed marriages to his credit and also because she does not want to ruin her daughter's engagement to Lelos, the son of a very wealthy businessman with hotels in Corfu.
TV8.0ComedyThanasis Vengos (police officer Thanasis Papathanasis), Stamatis Tzelepis (Stamatis Tritsimpidas), Vangelis Traiforos (Vangelis Batarias), Marina Roma (Litsa Tsakalou), Giorgos Stavropoulos (I) (Charilaos Stypas), Elena Tsatsaroni (Toula Benou), Orfeas Zachos (Commander Solon Souleles (1990-1991)), Giorgos Moutsios (Commander Evgenios Kalamportzos (1991-1992)), Mary Farmaki (Deputy Commander Koralia Santamouri (1991-1992)), Stefanos Delis, Giota Koutsoudaki (Boula Savoura, Klats TV journalist), Manos Pantelidis (Pipis Vlachospinopoulos, cameraman Klats TV), Dimitris Pantazis (Tsekouras), Kostas Politis (Stouraitis)
TV2.0DramaFamilyΈχω ένα μυστικό...
2008 · 2 votes
TVDocumentary
TV8.0DramaΈρωτας όπως έρημος
2003 · 3 votes
- TV5.0Documentary
Η Θεσσαλονίκη Της Νοσταλγίας Μας
2009 · 1 votes
- TVComedy
Βεγγαλικά
1988