Giorgos Zambetas

Born: 1925-01-25

Giorgos Zampetas (Pronounced 'Zabetas', Greek: Γιώργος Ζαμπέτας, sometimes romanized as George Zambetas / George Zabetas / Giorgos Zabetas; 25 January 1925 – 10 March 1992) was a Greek bouzouki musician. He was born in Athens, where he also died, but his origins were from the island of Kythnos. He was one of the most recognized Greek musicians of all times, working in the Greek cinema of those years with stars such as Aliki Vouyouklaki. He appeared in many Greek film productions, and his compositions used in many, one of the most famous being "Siko Horepse Sirtaki". He also worked with famous Greek composers, such as Manos Hadjidakis in 1959, and there after collaborated with various leading Greek musicians such as Theodorakis, Stavros Xarchakos and many others.


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The Grouch

as singer
Released: 1969-07-27

A nephew of three strange uncles loves a girl, but his uncles are against the marriage. A...

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Ο Εξυπνάκιας

as musician
Released: 1966-01-01

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Groom from London

as singer
Released: 1967-04-17

Betty has become engaged, for her father’s sake, with a hard working and kind young man, Kostas,...

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The Woman Driver

as Mitsos
Released: 1964-11-07

Mary and Nikos are a happily married couple whose life turns upside down when Mary’s friend,...

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Company of Miracles

as musician
Released: 1962-11-14

A God-fearing young man refuses to sell his, rich in ore, pasture to a mining company. So an...

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Ο τρελός τα 'χει 400

as singer
Released: 1968-10-21

A wretch employee wins a lot of money in the lottery and loses his mind. When he comes out of...

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Don't Fall in Love on a Saturday

as musician
Released: 1962-01-01

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

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Spend the first of the month

as singer
Released: 1965-01-01

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A Rich Without Money

as singer
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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Ξύπνα καημένε Περικλή

as singer
Released: 1969-01-01

To make his frivolous nephew see the error of his ways, a shipowner takes under his wing his...

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Get Up, Dance Sirtaki

as musician
Released: 1967-01-01

With his pockets crammed with cash, a countryman in Athens becomes the target of a plotting...

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Taste from Greece

as singer
Released: 1980-01-01

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

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Young and old in action...

as bouzouki player
Released: 1963-11-25

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Ο Πεθερόπληκτος

as singer
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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O boufos

as singer
Released: 1968-06-14

An engineer is working hard without any substantial effect and he is not taking seriously the...

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Η Παιχνιδιάρα

as singer
Released: 1967-01-01

The Mikes family is wealthy son is in love with a poor girl, Katy. The Mikes afraid that his...

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Penelope's Suitors

as singer
Released: 1968-01-01

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Five Thousand Lies

as singer
Released: 1966-10-17

A professor asks two poor students of law to steal, for a fee, a rare figurine from the house of...

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Electricity... Water... Telephone, Plots with Installments

as singer
Released: 1966-08-27

Two friends get involved in a scam involving selling of land plots.

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Descended from Heaven

as singer
Released: 1965-03-01

The late Pericles gets permission from God to return to earth and help his family, who has gone...

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The Twins

as singer
Released: 1964-01-01

By a cruel fate, a pair of newborn twin brothers get separated, and one of them becomes a...

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O megalokarharias

as singer
Released: 1957-01-01

Vangelis is a lazy guy who's trying to earn some money to marry his beloved, but he is captured...

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To Be or Not To Be

as Singer
Released: 1966-08-14

After his business' bankrupcy, Giorgos Alexiou decides to commit suicide. Rosa, his cousin's...

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The Giant of Kypseli

as Singer
Released: 1968-01-01

Nikos is a short hairpin chandler, which has very high opinion of himself. Flirts shamelessly...

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Ο Παραμυθάς

as singer
Released: 1969-01-01

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Το συρτάκι της αμαρτίας

as uncredited
Released: 1966-01-01

Greek melodrama about a woman shunned by her family.

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The Drunk of the Harbor

as uncredited
Released: 1967-05-26

A sailor, whose life has been destroyed in every way, is drunk all the time. By chance, he...

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The Virgin Mary's Miracle

as Singer
Released: 1965-02-02

For the past six years, a desperate mother and her husband have been trying to locate their only...

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Τρία Κορίτσια απ'την Αμέρικα

as singer
Released: 1964-01-01

A wealthy couple of Greek-Americans arrive in Greece with their three daughters, who meet three...

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Αστέρια στο βούρκο

as Singer
Released: 1963-01-01

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Παράνομοι πόθοι

as Singer
Released: 1966-02-14

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Φτωχός, αλλά τίμιος

as Singer
Released: 1965-01-01

A poor young man, who bears the surname of a rich shipowner, meets and falls in love with a rich...

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Our Old Friends

as uncredited
First aired: 1982-11-16

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