Mimis Fotopoulos

Born: 1913-04-20

Dimitris "Mimis" Fotopoulos (Greek: Δημήτρης (Μίμης) Φωτόπουλος; 8 April 1913 – 29 October 1986) was a Greek actor, writer, poet, and artist. He was born in Zatouna, Gortynia, Arcadia. He studied at the Dramatic School of National Theatre (Δραματική Σχολή του Εθνικού Θεάτρου). He also studied at the Philosophical School at the University of Athens until his second year in 1933. He headed a theatrical company from 1952 and an actor from 1960. He died on 29 October 1986 in Athens, from a heart attack, aged 73.


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Ρόδα Τσάντα Και Κοπάνα

as Aristeidis Havales
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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The Counterfeit Coin

as Beggar
Released: 1955-12-28

Four stories, humorous, romantic or dramatic, are linked by a counterfeit gold sovereign. It is...

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The Coffee Reader (Kafetzou)

as Spyros Tsardis
Released: 1956-10-29

In a poor neighborhood of Athens, next to the coffee shop of Spyros (Mimis Fotopoulos) is a...

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The yellow gloves

as Λέανδρος
Released: 1960-12-12

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

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Snow White and the 7 Old Boys

as Vrasidas
Released: 1960-12-26

Alexia is a young woman who comes from the countryside and is in love with a rich man, Paris,...

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The Hurdy-Gurdy

as Petrakis
Released: 1955-12-12

Two poor portable barrel piano players ramble through Greek countryside and play in fairs. They...

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Φτωχαδάκια και Λεφτάδες

as Fondas Bardousis
Released: 1961-06-21

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

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Fanouris and His Kin

as Φανούρης Σκαρβέτσος
Released: 1957-12-02

A good-natured paterfamilias who is struggling to make ends meet rests his hopes on his...

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One Night in Heaven

as Antonis
Released: 1951-06-30

Ms. Byzantiou is a passionate writer who stays at the hotel “Paradise” together with other...

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Ο Σταμάτης και ο Γρηγόρης

as Stamatis Bastakas
Released: 1962-09-19

Opposite as black and white, the successful lawyers and business partners, tardy Stamatis and...

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Descended from Heaven

as Periklis Birbiropoulos
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 Little Mouse

as Loukis
Released: 1954-02-15

Loukis, after a successful break-in, manages to escape the police chase thanks to a younf flower...

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The Unknown

as Δημητράκης
Released: 1954-06-06

Madame X (Greek title: I Agnostos) is a 1954 Greek drama film directed by Orestis Laskos. It is...

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The Unwilling Nanny

as Alekos Lazanis
Released: 1959-05-31

After returning from a masquerade, much to his surprise, a wandering textile salesman stumbles...

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Τα Παιδιά της Πιάτσας

as Dochtoras
Released: 1979-06-13

Babis (Nikos Rizos), after his release, finds it difficult to balance between the groups with...

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Theodore and the gun

as Thodoros
Released: 1962-10-15

An anachronistic and paleolithic father tries to find a good, honest husband for his daughter.

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Vacation in Kolopetinitsa

as Miltiadis Sourvos
Released: 1959-09-09

All the village society, but especially the President Thimios Tambourlas and the policeman...

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The Germans Strike Again

as Nikos
Released: 1948-01-05

4 years after the Nazi occupation in Greece, the Greeks are involved in a Civil War and they are...

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The Beauty of Athens

as Notis Douros
Released: 1954-03-13

A streetwise guy, according to a will, has to marry an extremely ugly old lady to get the money...

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Bloody Christmas

as Looter
Released: 1951-03-12

Returning to Athens after the end of the World War II, Captain Nikolas finds out what happened...

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The Magic City

as uncredited
Released: 1955-07-18

A look at poverty in post-war Athens. Kosmas, a young man living in the slums, constantly tries...

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Another One for the Million

as Σάββας
Released: 1964-10-20

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

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Grousouzis

as Babis
Released: 1952-11-03

Agatocles, a grumpy and gruesome caffector, finds out a baby's out of his cafe and, to the...

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Κολωνάκι Διαγωγή Μηδέν

as Diamantis Karanabasis
Released: 1967-11-16

When an open-hearted folk man, a butcher of the profession, buys an apartment to stay with his...

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Μπετόβεν και Μπουζούκι

as Menios Dalbasis
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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One Hundred Thousand Pounds

as Kleomenis Finins
Released: 1948-03-17

The daughter of a Greek expatriate from Australia, Pagona a.k.a. Peggy (Ketty Panou), after the...

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Gold and Tin

as Patroklos Baratelas
Released: 1962-01-01

A super market owner opposes the affair of his daughter with a new employee at his business.

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Μήτσος ο Ρεζίλης

as Iordanis
Released: 1984-01-01

Gender-bender comedy directed by Omiros Efstratiadis.

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Wanted honest

as Narrator / Beggar
Released: 1963-04-11

A sometimes blind and sometimes mute homeless panhandler becomes the pivotal point in a modular...

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Laterna, Poverty and Carnation

as Πετράκης
Released: 1957-04-01

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Wheel, Bag and Truants 3

as Aristeidis Havales
Released: 1984-06-21

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Οι χαραμοφάηδες

as uncredited
Released: 1961-01-01

Exarhos is persuaded by his two lazy brothers to sell their shipyard, and they buy a factory in...

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Fallen Angels

as Loukas Manopoulos
Released: 1948-12-22

To help her sick mother, a girl is hired for what she believes to be a simple delivery service....

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The Driver

as Vagos
Released: 1953-02-02

A poor taxi driver works hard in order to pay off his car and to marry his fiancee.

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Bad, Cold, and Cantankerous

as Vasilis
Released: 1969-01-01

Financially hard-pressed, a good-hearted coffee-shop owner asks his twin brother and famous...

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Above all... Coolness

as Mikis
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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Ο Εμίρης και ο κακομοίρης

as uncredited
Released: 1964-11-07

An Arab monarch arrives in Athens accompanied by his wife and his beautiful daughter, who falls...

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Taste from Greece

as Father
Released: 1980-01-01

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

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The Four Aces

as Antonis Lebesis
Released: 1970-12-24

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

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Τρελοί Πολυτελείας

as Kyriakos
Released: 1963-11-20

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Ο Μαγκούφης

as Vasilakis
Released: 1959-01-01

A bachelor by conviction not watch the girl who works at the shop cashier is in love with him,...

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An Italian in Greece

as Konstadinos Makrygiannis
Released: 1958-01-01

Charming, affluent--with his father's money--and self-assured, a frivolous son who can have any...

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The Tower of Knights

as uncredited
Released: 1952-01-01

A down-to-earth grocer yields to pressure and decides to follow his wife's advice to put to good...

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Μη βαράτε όλοι μαζί

as uncredited
Released: 1962-01-01

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Να ζήσουν τα φτωχόπαιδα

as Vangelis
Released: 1959-01-01

A wealthy man, Tonis , in love with a poor girl, wants to marry her despite the objections of...

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A Bird in the Hand Is Worth Two in the Bush

as Pythagoras Konstadineas
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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The 4 Stairs

as Vrasidas
Released: 1951-01-16

Surrounded by wealth, an impecunious young lady leaves home and the suave man of her dreams to...

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Aspasia's dollars

as Lalakis
Released: 1967-01-01

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Heartbreak in the Slums

as uncredited
Released: 1965-03-05

An entire social microcosm lies hidden in plain sight in a decrepit Athenian courtyard of a...

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Τροχονόμος Βαρβάρα

as Patroklos Arhondakis
Released: 1981-01-01

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

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Αλλαγή... και το λουρί της μάνας

as uncredited
Released: 1982-01-01

An ex-criminal wants to change his life but the Mafia wants him back.

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Come to Uncle

as Fotis Giores
Released: 1950-12-06

Antonis is the nephew of the good-hearted grocer Harilaos Toukouras. He is slothful and lazy but...

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Marriage lads

as uncredited
Released: 1963-11-11

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Aristotelis the Lightweight

as Orestis Barboutsoglou
Released: 1970-07-08

A pasta-factory owner, Aristotelis Kolokythas, after two unsuccessful marriages in the past, is...

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Apaches of Athens

as Karkaletsos
Released: 1950-01-23

Costas is known as the "Prince". Now that he has learned of the arrival of the Greek-American...

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The Godson

as Colonel Menelaos Karapistolis
Released: 1952-11-15

During the Balkan Wars, Vivika Zaharouli, sick and tired of the goings-on of her womanizer...

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Και Ο Πρώτος Ματάκιας

as hotel owner
Released: 1982-07-08

An unruly voyeurism, Simos, works in a hotel as a bourgeois. A gang of burglars has put in the...

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Ο Μισογύνης

as uncredited
Released: 1958-02-15

A recently fired cook poses as a misogynist to get a job in the mansion of an unrepentant...

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Απόκληροι της κοινωνίας

as uncredited
Released: 1965-01-01

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Κομάντος και μανούλια

as uncredited
Released: 1982-01-01

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No Harm's Done

as Stelios Molfetas
Released: 1955-02-15

Lalakis is married with Poppe. He goes on a trip to Salonique by train, with his mistress,...

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Golfo-Girl of the Mountains

as Giannos
Released: 1955-11-09

Spiridon Peresiadis (1864 - 1918) was one of the best writers of the dramatic idylls and...

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O megalokarharias

as Vangelis Polychroniou / Lalakis Birbilis
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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Women want beat

as Vlasis
Released: 1962-01-01

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Eva Has Not Sinned

as Ksenofontas
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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Ρόδα Τσάντα και Κοπάνα 2

as Aristeidis Havales
Released: 1983-10-12

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Ο χαζομπαμπάς

as manager
Released: 1967-12-01

A married couple is having a son and they do everything to raise it right.

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Ένα Καράβι Παπαδόπουλοι

as Vangelis
Released: 1966-01-01

A couple of rich Greek-Americans travels from New York to Piraeus with their five nephews, who...

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Cloudy horizons

as Kotsos
Released: 1968-01-01

To settle her affairs, a kind woman arrives in Athens, only to realise that the administrator of...

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What Does Man Do To Live

as Tryfonas
Released: 1970-01-01

Leandros is a night club owner who is trying to avoid imprisonment by searching for money to pay...

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Agent Kitsos calls Gastounis

as Ahilleas
Released: 1967-07-12

As he slips into something more pastoral chic to boost sales in an Athenian travel agency, a...

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Η Νάνσυ την... ψώνισε!

as Meletis
Released: 1960-01-01

Like a true diva, an aspiring painter renounces her mundane given name, and instead of it, she...

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On Course

as Mitsos
Released: 1985-10-02

A young man, Kostas, together with two friends, sets for a journey on a sailboat, looking for...

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The firecracker

as Vasilis
Released: 1970-01-01

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To ploio tis haras

as Stelios
Released: 1967-01-01

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

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The Daywork of Happiness

as Miltos
Released: 1960-05-02

Two young people are trying to make their common life although have to face the obstacle of an...

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Two Crazy and crafty, clever and cunning person

as uncredited
Released: 1970-01-01

Philemon and Pausanias are two wretches, friends and roommates in the same chamber, which are...

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Ο Καλός Μας Άγγελος

as Antonis Charis
Released: 1961-03-02

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

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Storm at the Lighthouse

as Memas
Released: 1950-12-31

Lighthouse keeper Captain Bochalis, whose wife abandoned him years ago, lives in a remote...

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Wandering

as uncredited
Released: 1979-11-15

A lawyer, offspring of a bourgeois family of Greek-Egyptians, tries to find the traces of a...

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Μια νταντά και τέζα όλοι

as Pelopidas
Released: 1971-01-01

A kind-hearted man from the Greek province falls deeply in love with the beautiful daughter of...

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Έμπαινε Μανωλιό

as Captain Nikolas
Released: 1970-01-01

Manolios decides to quit working on a ship and return to Crete so he can marry his beloved one,...

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Για μια τρύπια δραχμή

as Alekos
Released: 1968-01-01

To convince his wealthy uncle to keep sending his monthly cheques, a poor man lies about his...

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Θα Σε Κλέψω, Μ' Ακούς;

as Vangelis
Released: 1982-01-01

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Μασάζ για όλα τα γούστα

as uncredited
Released: 1987-01-01

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Γκολ στον έρωτα

as Pantelis
Released: 1954-01-01

A barber owes a lot of money to his landlady, who shows great patience and understanding, hoping...

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Μαντάμ Σουσού

as uncredited
Released: 1948-01-01

Sousou is a poor Greek woman who behaves like an aristocrat causing trouble to her honest...

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Ένας Πρωτάρης Στο Κολλέγιο!

as uncredited
Released: 1984-01-01

A country kid enters a physical education college that prepares future champions. Rookie as he...

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A Thousand Cubic Meters of Madness

as uncredited
Released: 1983-03-03

A frivolous husband who longs for a fast 1000cc sports bike decides to sell the family business....

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Greedy for Everything

as Fanouris Karababas
Released: 1952-02-08

The avaricious Athenian, Fanouris Karababas, forbids his daughter to marry her beloved and...

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Ένας χίππυς με τσαρούχια

as uncredited
Released: 1970-01-01

Kitsos leaves behind his village to create a better future in Athens, Greece. He rescues Helen...

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Δύο Έξυπνα Κορόιδα

as Salat
Released: 1971-01-27

Two jobless bosom buddies have a chance encounter with an Arab billionaire and his sad daughter...

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Ο Καου-Μπόυς του Μεταξουργείου!!

as uncredited
Released: 1971-01-01

Kitsos, a charming countryman from Gastouni, visits Athens to secure a dowry for his sister....

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Monday's Theater

as Πελοπίδας
First aired: 1972-01-03

Greek television series

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Monday's Theater

as Δον Καμίλο
First aired: 1972-01-03

Greek television series

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Τα παλιόπαιδα τ' ατίθασα

as Αφηγητής
First aired: 1980-02-29

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Ο Θείος μας ο Μίμης

as Μίμης
First aired: 1984-11-15

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The garden with the statues

as Barba-Kyriakos
First aired: 1981-01-10

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