Mihalis Giannatos
Michalis Giannatos (Greek: Μιχάλης Γιαννάτος; 11 July 1941 – 17 September 2013), alternatively spelled as Michael Yannatos, was a Greek actοr. Ηe was born in (Istanbul), Turkey. He left the city for Greece in 1964 during the long expulsion of Istanbul Greeks. He studied in Konstantinos Demopoulos' school of drama and first appeared as a professional actor in Georgios Zervoulakos' film Oi stigmatismenoi (Greek: Οι στιγματισμένοι) in 1966. When still a student, he participated in the theatrical play Capetan Michalis (Greek: Καπετάν Μιχάλης) next to Manos Katrakis. During his long cinematic career, he appeared in close to 100 films, television series and plays. He was a regular in Theodoros Angelopoulos films since he was one of the director's favorite actors. After Megalexandros (Greek: Μεγαλέξανδρος) in 1981, Angelopoulos was always calling him to play in his movies. He was fluent in five languages; Greek, Turkish, French, Italian and Spanish. Due to that, he appeared in many international productions, including Midnight Express, Captain Corelli's Mandolin, Munich and more.
Midnight Express
as Court TranslatorBilly Hayes is caught attempting to smuggle drugs out of Turkey. The Turkish courts decide to...
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Munich
as Hotel Aristides PorterDuring the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich, eleven Israeli athletes are taken hostage and murdered...
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A Touch of Spice
as Grandpa's friend"A Touch of Spice" is a story about Fanis, a young Greek boy growing up in Istanbul, whose...
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Captain Corelli's Mandolin
as KokoliosWhen a fisherman leaves to fight with the Greek army during World War II, his fiancée falls in...
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Landscape in the Mist
as uncreditedTwo Greek children embark on a journey to search for their father, who supposedly live in Germany.
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Eternity and a Day
as Ticket InspectorAn ailing Greek man attempts to take a young, illegal Albanian immigrant home.
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Ulysses' Gaze
as Albanian Film Library Manager (uncredited)An exiled filmmaker finally returns to his home country where former mysteries and afflictions...
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The Beekeeper
as uncreditedFollowing the wedding of his daughter, stone-faced beekeeper Spyros makes an annual journey from...
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Pretty Smart
as The TurkIn this adolescent-oriented drama, a young woman is forced to attend a posh finishing school in...
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The Suspended Step of the Stork
as ShopkeeperA reporter notices an old man in a border town who may be an important Greek politician who...
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The Weeping Meadow
as ZisisThe first part of an incomplete trilogy telling the story of the greek people. The film begins...
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My Family and Other Animals
as Porter / WaiterAn English family relocates to sunny Greece in the months before WWII.
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The Wind
as PolicemanMystery writer Sian Anderson leaves her boyfriend John for three weeks of intense writing in the...
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Opa!
as HectorA modern day treasure hunt for a mystical relic that turns into a love story for all time.
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Voyage to Cythera
as police officerAn old communist returning to Greece after 32 years in the Soviet Union is disillusioned with...
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Kamikazi, agapi mou
as FotiouStathis loves bikes, Rena wants to dance all the time and Aleksis goes crazy for rock music....
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Alexander the Great
as DragoumanosAlexander, a tribal warlord and former political prisoner, kidnaps British tourists, holding...
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Anna's Summer
as Seller in the photo shopA widow reminisces on her life after returning to her family home in Greece.
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The Next One
as CaptainAn astronaut's widow and her young son meet a stranger from the future on a Greek island.
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Misunderstanding
as uncreditedRemake of Jean-Pierre Melville's "Le Doulos."
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Skipper Straad
as uncreditedA seaman finds himself out of work and stranded in a distant port. He shares a cheap room. They...
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The Lady and the Tramp
as uncreditedRena’s father insists on marrying her off to the son of a shipowner. Rena, however, doesn’t even...
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Bordello
as uncreditedCrete 1897. Greek rebels gained their freedom by fighting in the mountains. An allied fleet of...
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Someone Else's America
as Grčki agentThis tale takes place in a bar. The Spanish Alonso and his blind mother run this place. Bay, who...
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The Serpent of Death
as Greek PolicemanAn archaelogist falls under the spell of a statue with a curse on it.
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Vengos the Crazy Kamikaze
as TamtikosA breadwinner, Thanasis Trampas, decides to open a shop renting motorbikes. When the local...
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Taste from Greece
as VangelisAnthology film with a number of sketches that satirize modern Greece.
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A Walk in the Sun
as WaiterTore Andersson is a depressed 43 year old sport journalist living in Stockholm. His girlfriend...
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What Did You Do in the War, Thanassi?
as italian officerA wild tale of mistaken identity set during the Nazi occupation of Greece and starring the great...
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The Lost Treasure of Hursit Pasha
as GeneralOn 29 January 1993 eighty prisoners escaped from an Athens prison. Well, in actual fact one...
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The Wicked World of Thanasis
as uncreditedSeven short stories of everyday madness starring Thanasis Vengos.
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Filming Under Pressure
as SelfA doc made during the nightmarish filming of The Suspended Step of the Stork at Florina.
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1922
as uncreditedBased on the book by Ilias Venezis "The Number 31328", the film by Nikos Koundouros unfolds...
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Carefree... Nut
as uncreditedIn this color comedy Thanasis trying for years to leave illegally for America to make his life...
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The Bubble
as UncleMakis , a man with difficulties in the stock market, falls for Roula , who is the mistress of a...
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The Policeman of the 16th Precinct
as ManosElias of the 16th Precinct follows three friends – Elias, Thomas and Vangelis – who face...
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Αλέξανδρος και Αϊσέ
as uncreditedA Christian boy and a Muslim girl fall in a forbidden love in the town of Komotini. They decide...
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Τα Παιδιά της Πιάτσας
as bakerBabis (Nikos Rizos), after his release, finds it difficult to balance between the groups with...
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Τράνζιτο
as uncreditedAn extreme passion that overturns the balance and changes the life course of a woman. Anna is a...
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The Man Who Ran a Lot
as Lefteris ZevedaiosThanasis Zevedaios (Thanasis Vengos) has a shop with watches and running but not enough! Time...
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Orpheus Descending
as uncreditedEurydice is a singer in a group that plays in country fairs. The group is not successful and...
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Μπουζάνκα αλά... ελληνικά
as PanagosA Naive man from the countryside, affected by the famous Italian cine star Lado Bouzanka and his...
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Thanasis in the land of the cuff
as uncreditedThe movie is about dictatorships in Greece – first, the Metaxas regime (1936-1940), and then the...
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America
as Coffee Shop OwnerA man sees a poster of an old movie that he claims to have acted in
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Dictator calls Thanasis
as uncreditedThe adventures of a photographer, who undertook to take a photographs of exiled dictator from...
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Kata lathos astynomikos
as uncreditedThe classic comedy, Alekos Sakellarios, Christos Giannakopoulos, "Ilias the 16th", which was...
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Mia stigmi 2 zoes
as Ανέστης ΣυκάςPetros and Orestis are twin brothers. Orestis was put up for adoption when he was just a baby...
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