Giannis Gionakis

Born: 1922-09-18

Giannis Gionakis was a Greek actor in film and theater. Gionakis was born in Athens in 1922. He began his studies at the medical school, but was won over by acting and proceeded to study theatre at the Karolos Koun Dramatic School and the Greek Odeon. He became particularly well known for his comedic roles in movies, where he was associated with portrayals of kind but dim-witted people.


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Ρόδα Τσάντα Και Κοπάνα

as inspector
Released: 1982-07-17

A major hit in the Greek cinemas at the time, this comedy by Omiros Efstratiadis is about a...

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10 Days in Paris

as Miltos Zepa
Released: 1962-06-05

Two men intend to make a "secret" trip to Paris alone and live it up in order to escape the...

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Alice in the Navy

as Cadet
Released: 1961-02-20

Aliki is in love with someone who serves his duty in the greek navy. Wanting to see him, she...

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The yellow gloves

as Μπρίλης
Released: 1960-12-12

When it comes to his wife, Orestis is suspicious of everything, be it a moustachioed chauffeur...

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Αδέκαροι ερωτευμένοι

as Grigoris
Released: 1958-06-05

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Κορόιδο γαμπρέ

as Loulis
Released: 1962-12-17

Two fanciful friends earn a half-apartment in a lottery and are forced to cohabit, while they...

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Everything the People Wants

as Thanasis
Released: 1964-12-11

Thanasis (Giannis Gionakis) succumbs to the pressure of his wife (Kati Lambropoulou) and buys an...

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Poverty can be bearable while living well

as Giannis Pidihtos
Released: 1958-02-02

Two unfortunate friends are desperately looking for a job to survive and eventually marry their...

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Runaway Bride

as hotel owner
Released: 1962-11-19

In her delicate bridal gown and bent on finding her beloved, a determined would-be wife flees...

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Φτωχαδάκια και Λεφτάδες

as Savvas
Released: 1961-06-21

Intent on marrying into money, two antagonists will stop at nothing to seduce a young heiress,...

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Mousitsa

as Vourdoubas
Released: 1959-10-09

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Ο Πεθερόπληκτος

as Christos Petefroutis
Released: 1968-11-20

Xristos is married to the rich Rena. In fact the rich is his mother-in-law, who has big business...

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Dimos from Trikala

as Vagos
Released: 1962-03-25

Claiming that he and his brother, Dimos, are like two peas in a pod, a womanising husband puts...

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The Crooked Wood

as Nikos Maroulis
Released: 1969-03-26

Nikos, a grumpy and clumsy man, is the manager at a shoe factory and he's living with his wife...

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She's a Lunatic

as Pipis
Released: 1958-04-27

Jenny is a real crazy girl. Latest feat is an ad that asks for work, convenient to young and...

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Η Τύχη μου Τρελλάθηκε

as Zisis Karafantaris
Released: 1970-01-01

An employee can not marry the girl, because of financial problems and stalked by her brother. So...

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A Fool And A Hater

as Perlepes
Released: 1959-01-01

Thomas is a good but low intelligence man. He is in love with Urania, a widow, whose stingy...

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Ο Παπασούζας

as Παπα-Σεπτέμβρης
Released: 1983-01-01

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Another One for the Million

as Κοκός
Released: 1964-10-20

The honest and meticulous cashier, Savvas, works in a business and is often pressured by his...

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2,000 Sailors and One Girl

as uncredited
Released: 1959-07-08

Head over heels in love with a handsome seaman, a charming dancer plucks up the courage to sneak...

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Μπετόβεν και Μπουζούκι

as Filippas
Released: 1965-08-30

A dedicated classical music tutor who keeps burning bridges with everyone in the name of art is...

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Anakatosouras

as Cameo (uncredited)
Released: 1967-01-01

Thomas Karatoulpanis (Dinos Iliopoulos) is a naive employee at a car show in the Thessaloniki...

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Marriage Adventures

as uncredited
Released: 1959-01-01

Helena (Xenia Kalogeropoulou) returns to Greece after studying in Paris and on the ship home she...

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My Wife's Husband

as Panayotis Panayotidis
Released: 1962-01-01

By closing his pharmacy, Panagiotis Panagiotidis falls on a provocative stranger, Lulu, who...

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Η Αδελφή Μου Θέλει Ξύλο

as Spiros Dokos
Released: 1966-11-16

A mad man, Spyros, wants to marry Marianna, his lively sister. He wants to give her a dowry...

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Τρίτη και 13

as Sotiris Berketis
Released: 1963-07-31

A chain of bizarrely perfect and utterly extraordinary coincidences will convince a...

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Sharp as a Needle

as Lalakis Karras
Released: 1961-01-01

Tonis and Rena are loved, but their uncles have objections, as they are deadly competitors in...

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Wheel, Bag and Truants 3

as Irodis
Released: 1984-06-21

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A tramp's Christmas

as Theodosis
Released: 1962-01-01

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The Barber's Beauty

as Giannis Psalidas
Released: 1969-03-31

A barber tries to find husbands for his four sisters so that he can marry his fiancee.

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Ο Άνθρωπος που Έσπαγε Πλάκα

as Zaharias
Released: 1972-07-07

Lambros Konstantaras performs a wealthy gossip that has never worked, and all he has to do is...

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Μίνι Φούστα Και Καράτε

as Takis
Released: 1967-01-01

A tenant who wants to write an armed forces officer's biography falls head over heels with his...

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Aristides and his Girls

as uncredited
Released: 1964-05-31

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A Bird in the Hand Is Worth Two in the Bush

as Lakis Poures
Released: 1965-01-01

The daughter of a miser grocer react to their father's effort to marry with the man he approves....

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Four Brides and a Groom

as Petros Christopoulos
Released: 1958-01-01

father of four girls of marriageable age brings home a prospective suitor. One daughter agrees...

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The Greedy

as Hristos Hrysafis
Released: 1967-01-01

The daughter of a factory owner beats with her car, the unemployed and hungry Chris, and her...

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Above all... Coolness

as Tilemachos Drakos
Released: 1951-06-14

Two lazy friends (Mimis Fotopoulos and Ntinos Iliopoulos) find a job as ice-cream vendors to pay...

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The Uncle from Canada

as uncredited
Released: 1959-05-02

Waiting to get their lucky break, three penniless musicians, who are already five months behind...

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Taste from Greece

as Giannis
Released: 1980-01-01

Anthology film with a number of sketches that satirize modern Greece.

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The Four Aces

as Lilikos Bardamas
Released: 1970-12-24

An adaptation of "Romeo and Juliette" where the children of two rival shopkeepers fall in love...

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Όσο υπάρχουν γυναίκες

as uncredited
Released: 1959-01-01

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A Pitiful Don Juan

as uncredited
Released: 1960-01-01

A wealthy man is responsible for his friend’s daughter, who has come to Athens to study. The...

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The Child of the Street

as uncredited
Released: 1957-01-01

A girl, Vassula, learns shortly before marrying her lover, Richard, that the alleged father is...

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The Big Fool

as Ririkos
Released: 1967-01-01

Businessman Telis Birkas (Periklis Hristoforidis) decides to marry his daughter Antzela (Sasa...

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Don't Fall in Love on a Saturday

as Giacomo Mondiani
Released: 1962-01-01

A streetwise investment broker, who has been tricked into accepting a counterfeit $100 bill by a...

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Τρελοί Πολυτελείας

as Babis
Released: 1963-11-20

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Ησαΐα χόρευε

as Ilias
Released: 1966-01-01

Isaiah and Anargyros are partners and keep together a wedding bureaux office. Things are not...

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Athens by Night

as uncredited
Released: 1962-01-01

Wandering Athens by night. A grand parade with actors, singers, composers, orchestras,...

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Νυχτοπερπατήματα

as uncredited
Released: 1964-01-01

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Love Games

as Thanasakis
Released: 1960-11-28

A father is desperately trying to tame his young daughter, while she falls for a young man...

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The Tomboy

as Riris
Released: 1959-01-01

Refusing to realise that she has become a lovely sixteen-year-old woman, a gawky tomboy taunts...

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Κόσμος και Κοσμάκης

as Makis Karimis
Released: 1964-04-24

Yearning to make a fast buck, a suave swindler and his statuesque fiancée approach a factory...

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At Night The Entanglements

as uncredited
Released: 1957-01-01

The funny things that happen through the walking by the neighborhood night shift of a kind...

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Λαφίνα

as uncredited
Released: 1962-11-17

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Those Not Allowed to Love

as pianist
Released: 1951-01-29

Pavlos, a conservatory student dreaming of becoming a great artist of quality music, lives with...

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My Brother, the Lord

as Feidias
Released: 1966-01-01

A car electrician, Charis, spends all his money on tailors in order to give the appearance of a...

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Στέγνωσαν τα δάκρυα μας

as uncredited
Released: 1961-01-01

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Εξωτικές Βιταμίνες

as Dr. Fosteris
Released: 1964-01-01

A middle-aged womaniser takes in his distant cousin, who has fled from an arranged marriage, and...

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Jeep, Pavilion and Love

as Tonis
Released: 1957-02-18

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Η Κρεβατομουρμούρα

as Savvas Tsiviklis
Released: 1971-02-18

Lawyer Savvas Tsiviklis receives a gift from an old girlfriend, Kiki Petachtidou, who has just...

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Τροχονόμος Βαρβάρα

as Pachoumis Fourtounas
Released: 1981-01-01

Much to his surprise and not a moment too soon, the young long-term unemployed, Achilleas...

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Αλλού τα κακαρίσματα...

as Mikis Pilidis
Released: 1960-01-01

The revolution of an oppressed husband, whose wife locked him in the coop.

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Κορόιδο Ρωμιέ

as uncredited
Released: 1981-01-01

Potis and Fotis are partners in a supermarket. One cares about the company, while the other...

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Ευτυχώς χωρίς δουλειά

as uncredited
Released: 1963-01-01

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A Rich Without Money

as Giannis Bakouras
Released: 1967-11-06

A poor accountant, in order to raise money for his marriage, finds a second job in a luxury...

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O agathiáris kai i atsída

as Mihalis Tsoukalias
Released: 1971-01-01

A self-made owner of a soft-drink factory decides to give the entire plant to his naive nephew...

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Φτωχοί κομπιναδόροι

as uncredited
Released: 1962-01-01

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Hero Bunker

as uncredited
Released: 1972-01-01

Following the torpedoing of the destroyer Elli on August 15, 1940 on Tinos by an Italian...

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Γύφτικη Κομπανία

as uncredited
Released: 1983-01-01

When Tamtakos' house is brought down by the bulldozer a record company makes him a proposition...

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O tetraperatos

as Avgerinos
Released: 1966-01-01

A vibrant cafe owner struggles to attract the girl of his dreams. Who knows, with a bit of luck...

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Μια παπαδιά στα μπουζούκια

as uncredited
Released: 1983-09-05

Akakios, a local priest, embarks on a challenging mission to motivate youth. But his neglected...

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Άντζελα, ο πειρασμός

as Φρίξος
Released: 1988-03-02

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Ο Γαμπρός Μου, Ο Δικηγόρος!

as Sotiris
Released: 1962-01-01

A barber wants to marry his daughter to a scientist. He believes that he has found the proper...

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Ena agori... alloiotiko ap' t' alla

as uncredited
Released: 1971-01-01

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Eva Has Not Sinned

as Menelaos Touloubas
Released: 1965-11-13

A pretty and chubby woman, Eva, Fontas ex- wife, is now married to the neighborhood’s tavern...

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Ο Λαγοπόδαρος

as Loukas Chelmis
Released: 1964-01-01

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Seven Days of Lying

as Michél
Released: 1963-10-16

Lukas and Sotiris hate the work but are forced to make ends meet working as salesman of books....

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And All 14 Were Wonderful!

as Grigoris Sparos
Released: 1965-03-11

Four cousins inherit a rich uncle. In order to do this, however, they must first fulfill the...

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The Fairy Tale Girl

as uncredited
Released: 1956-01-12

A young girl, who lives in a poor neighborhood with her little brother, falls in love with a...

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To ploio tis haras

as Tom Lucas
Released: 1967-01-01

A large group of people with different temperaments, traveling from Piraeus to New York, with...

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Οι Προικοθήρες

as uncredited
Released: 1964-12-02

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The madness of the square celibacy

as Giorgos Agraniotis
Released: 1970-01-01

An unmarried lawyer (John Gionakis), sworn enemy of marriage, resides where else? In celibacy...

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Δουλειές με φούντες

as Alekos
Released: 1959-01-01

A provincial arrives in Athens, where he is approached by two mini-patrons in order to eat his...

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Ο Καλός Μας Άγγελος

as Iraklis
Released: 1961-03-02

After saving the beautiful but frivolous daughter of an austere businessman from an embarrassing...

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Οι σκανδαλιάρηδες

as uncredited
Released: 1963-01-10

Two unemployed men are linked by friendship and go through many adventures together.

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Το Στραβόξυλο

as Petros Markopoulos
Released: 1952-12-29

A fastidious family man torments his wife and his niece with his nagging. He opposes his niece's...

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Koutroulis` Wedding

as Manolis Koutroulis
Released: 1962-01-01

A tailor mistakenly considered an ambassador of a foreign country, which exploits the future...

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Giannis Messed Up

as Giannis
Released: 1964-04-02

A retired General sends his nephew, Giannis, to Athens so to settle into a job. One day, Giannis...

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Νυμφίος ανύμφευτος

as Eytyhios
Released: 1967-07-19

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Το Βλακόμουτρο

as Pashalis
Released: 1965-01-01

Two persons try to become rich using an... armchair.

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Ο αυτάκιας

as Officer Arhiromaios
Released: 1982-01-01

A penniless swindler loses an ear during a fight with an angry, cheated husband and receives a...

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Ο Iππότης της Λιγούρας

as Translator
Released: 1986-01-01

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I'm a man and... I'll have fun!

as uncredited
Released: 1960-01-01

A young girl, in an attempt to avoid the aspirations of her bosses, gets a job disguised as a man.

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Ο γύφτος και η Πόντια

as uncredited
Released: 1987-01-01

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Της Κακομοίρας

as uncredited
Released: 1987-01-01

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Ρόκυ Νο 0, το Νούμερο

as Jack London
Released: 1986-01-01

Young boxer tries to imitate Rocky Balboa as played by Sylvester Stallone.

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Ταρνανάς Εναντίον Τσιτσιολίνας

as κυρ-Γιάννης
Released: 1987-01-25

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Παπούτσι από τον τόπο σου

as uncredited
Released: 1946-12-09

After the end of WWII, a beautiful woman falls for a British soldier who abandons her when she...

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Οι μπουκαδόροι

as uncredited
Released: 1987-01-01

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Monday's Theater

as Λαυρέντης
First aired: 1972-01-03

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