Giannis Vogiatzis
Actor · 1934 – 2023 · Athens, Greece
Yannis Vogiatzis (Greek: Γιάννης Βογιατζής, Athens, 20 December 1934 – 15 May 2023) was a Greek singer who was active in theatre, cinema and radio. He began his singing career at Joseph Korinthiou's talent shows at the Pagrati Grove. He was one of the most popular names of the 1960s. From 1958 to 1962 he was the official singer of the palaces. In 1970 he underwent surgery for polyps and after three years he stopped singing. He continued singing since 1978. He was awarded 1st prize twice at the Thessaloniki Greek Song Festival, in 1963 with the song "A Bird Flew" (by Kostas Klavvas and Alexis Alexopoulos) and in 1970 with the song "My Brothers, Rogues, Birds" (by Tolis Voskopoulos and Ilias Lymberopoulos). In 1966 he sang "Omorfi Poli" at the Park Theater on Alexandra Avenue, in the performance of the same name (lyrics: Akos Daskalopoulos, music: Mikis Theodorakis).
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Movie9.5ComedyA professor asks two poor students of law to steal, for a fee, a rare figurine from the house of a collector. After the successful outcome of the theft, the professor dies from joy, and the two students decide to return the figurine to its owner. There they meet his daughters, to whom they tell numerous lies. In the end, it is revealed that the whole thing was part of a wager between the professor and the collector, and the two students fall in love with the latter's daughters.
Movie7.0ComedyKitsos from Gastouni comes to Athens and gets a job at the souvlaki restaurant owned by Dimos from Roumeli. He falls in love with his boss's daughter, Zeta, but she does not reciprocate his feelings. After a heated argument with Dimos, he quits and leaves. He opens his own souvlaki restaurant and is very successful. His terrified competitors try everything they can to learn his secret and even go so far as to recruit the beautiful Suzy to seduce him.
Movie6.5ComedyA naive provincial, Kitsos, who lives in Athens, accepts to work as a doorman in the apartment building where his old friend Aris lives, in order to help him marry the owner's daughter, Poly. Because the latter is quite a difficult character, Kitsos is forced to play the fool. Then, he discovers that Poly is in love with another resident of the apartment building, the famous singer Yannis Vogiatzis. Poly's father assigns Kitsos to monitor his daughter, because he suspects something, while his maid manages to charm him, and marry him, and the apartment building is disturbed by his incredible antics.
Movie5.0ComedyA poor young man leaves the city that lives and works to go to Athens. On the way he will meet one mad, who falls in love with him , and a young women falling in love.
Movie7.8ComedyMika is a young woman living in a crazy ... family. Her mother, Pasta Flora, is alienated, her little sister is uncontrollable, and her father is a good, but cowardly, man. She's engaged to Mikis but the day before their wedding she goes to Venice and marries Andreas, who, after meeting her family, he undertakes to make sense of them.
MovieComedyRomanceKyriakos has spent his entire career working for the Greek Customs Service. Day and night, holidays and weekdays, he has become the fear and terror of the airport and the pursuer of every smuggler who dares to enter. He is Cerberus. His personal life is non-existent. Unmarried and alone, his only love is his duty...
Movie6.2ComedyA hopeful Miss Europe 1966 and her girlfriends fall for an aircraftman and his friends. To be together, they take advantage of their commander's adoration for the famous actress, Rena Vlahopoulou. Who says no to a rendezvous with love?
Movie5.6ComedyAntonis and Marianna are in love and, although they are no longer young, they plan to get married. The only problem is how to break the news to their children, Elina and Giorgos, who are studying abroad. Elina sends a telegram saying that she will soon be returning to Greece, and Antonis and Marianna think they will make her like Marianna so that they can gradually tell her the truth. However, they do not know that she is returning with George...
Movie8.3ComedyA tenant who wants to write an armed forces officer's biography falls head over heels with his beautiful niece instead. As his friend falls in love with the same girl, they all meet with his sour landlady. But, can one put love on hold?
Movie6.8ComedyA wealthy family is on a cruise. A rich young man falls in love with the family's maid and mistakes her for the businessman's daughter. A singer falls in love with the real daughter, and when he arrives with the rich young man at the businessman's house to ask for the rich daughter's hand in marriage, a misunderstanding arises with funny twists and turns.