Thanasis Veggos

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Movies

120

Born: May 29, 1927 – May 3, 2011
From: Piraeus, Greece
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Biography

Thanasis Veggos (Greek: Θανάσης Βέγγος, 29 May 1926 – 3 May 2011) was a Greek actor and director born in Neo Faliro, Piraeus. He performed in around 130 films, predominantly comedies in the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s, starring in more than 50 among them. He is considered one of the best Greek comedy actors of all time. His famous comedic catchphrase was "Καλέ µου άνθρωπε" ("My good man"). Veggos' first appearance in a film was in Windfall in Athens, produced by Mihalis Kakogiannis, which premiered in Athens as Kiriakatiko Xsipnima on 11 January 1954. Nikos Koundouros gave him a role in Magiki polis in 1955. His first major role was in Psila ta heria Hitler ("Hands Up, Hitler"), 1962 and continued many more films. For his acting in What did you do in the war, Thanasi? (1971), the public of Thessaloniki °apotheosized° him and the movie won three awards at the Thessaloniki International Film Festival. He often played everyman characters struggling to get by, but he has also played anti-heroes, he has acted in pure dramas, and on stage in the comedies of Aristophanes. His characters were often self-named "Thanasis". He often worked with directors Panos Glykofridis and Giorgos Lazaridis. In 1995, Theo Angelopoulos cast Veggos and American actor Harvey Keitel in "Ulysses Gaze". In 1997, in the role of Dikaiopoli he appeared in a live performance at the ancient Epidaurus theater. In 2000, he survived a car accident involving a collision with a train. He later participated in advertisements promoting road safety. A documentary of his life, whose title translates as A Man for All Seasons, was made in 2004. He always did his own stunts including the most dangerous ones, like hanging from a rope tied to a balcony fifty feet above a pavement without anything to break his fall, walking through a glass door, or falling down a stone staircase head first. During the "Golden Sixties" of the Greek film industry he made his most popular comedy films such as the sequel of Secret Agent 000, Papatrehas, Enas trellos Vengos and many others, also with surrealist humor, most of them by his own company Θ-Β Comedies (Θ-Β Tainies Geliou) which founded in 1964. In 2008, Veggos was appointed Commander of the Order of the Phoenix by the President of Greece, Karolos Papoulias. On 3 May 2011, he died at 7:10 a.m. He had been hospitalized at the Red Cross hospital, in Athens, since 18 December 2010. He is survived by his wife Asimina and two sons. He will always be remembered in the more than 120 films and more recent documentaries that he starred in. The phrase "τρέχει σαν το Βέγγο" (English translation: "runs like Veggos") has been adopted into common usage in the Greek language since nobody has run more or faster than Veggos in his many slapstick comedies. (Source: Wikipedia)

Works

120 films

Experts on the Football Field

19565.5

Crazy, Nuts and Vengos

19676.4

He's a Mad Mad Veggos

19656.9

The Enigma

19989.0

Ulysses' Gaze

19957.4

Hands Up, Hitler

19626.6

I'll Make You Queen

19647.6

Madalena

19606.2

School for Chauffeur Ladies

19646.8

Holidays in Vietnam

19716.3

Bed for Five

19894.0

Min eidate ton Panai?

19626.6

It's a Long Road

19987.5

The Flight of the Swan

20117.6

Never on Sunday

19606.9

The Policeman of the 16th Precinct

19597.8

Runaway Bride

19626.6

A Water Mrs. Baggelio

19597.7

The Hustler

19647.3

The Jar

19626.3

O Ippolytos kai to violi tou

19636.0

Just for One Night

19584.0

The Madman of Greece

19835.5

Holidays in Aegina

19585.4

An Unbelievable Sucker

19696.7

Karagiozis, the Wronged One of Life

19596.5

The Underdog

19606.1

Μυρτιά

19619.0

Jack of All Trades, Master of None

19637.0

Χίλια Χρόνια Πριν - Βυζάντιο: Η Γιορτή των Καλενδών

19768.0

Help! Vengos Visible Agent '000'

19677.8

The Uncle from Canada

19594.3

The Charlatan

19739.0

Προσοχή! Μας βάλανε μπόμπα...

199010.0

Blind Angel

19605.3

One Vengos for All Jobs

19706.0

Champion

19897.0

The Dawn of Triumph

19606.7

Thou-Vou Bald Agent, Operation: Havoc

19697.2

The Fairy Tale Girl

19565.5

Papatrechas

19667.8

The Wicked World of Thanasis

19796.6

Lost dreams

19616.4

Who Thanasis!

19696.7

The Wooden Shoe, the Gun and the Bow Tie

195710.0

The lucky pants

19637.0

Thanasis and the Cursed Serpent

19825.1

Happy Bums

19587.5

Καταδικασμένη και από το παιδί της

19559.0

Liar Wanted

19617.7

The Bus Conductor

195810.0

Diamanto

19617.0

Dictator calls Thanasis

19736.2

The Man Who Ran a Lot

19736.7

Eftyhos... trellathika!

19614.8

The Ogre of Athens

19567.1

Doctor Z-Vengos

19687.3

With Heart & Soul

20096.7

Thanasis in the country of Will

19884.7

Lisa and the Other Woman

19616.4

Come on People

19676.5

Wandering Jews

19597.0

The Magic City

19556.0

A Girl in Black

19566.4

The King of Gaffes

19625.3

Poverty can be bearable while living well

19587.8

Thanasi tightened your belt even more

19806.7

Carefree... Nut

19715.8

Love Games

19604.5

Who Is Margarita?

19615.8

What Did You Do in the War, Thanassi?

19716.6

The Wise Guy

19627.3

The Papadopoulou Family

19605.7

Mousitsa

19594.3

Three Ladies and me

19606.3

Sharp as a Needle

19614.7

Blossoming Almond Tree

19594.0

Quiet Days in August

19915.3

The mother's curse

19617.7

Of Fortune The Written

19578.5

The Tomboy

19595.5

Out Poverty and Good Heart

19645.7

The Madman

19637.3

Erotic Stories

19594.9

Marlon Brando Has Nothing On Him

19637.2

The Big Cannon

19816.7

Marriage Adventures

19596.8

To didymo tis symforas

19894.5

Desires in the Straw

19608.0

Vengos the Crazy Kamikaze

19806.1

Odd Jobs

19627.6

The Dervish Boys

19605.0

Every Cloud Has a Silver Lining

19587.3

Thanasis the Optimist

19895.5

The Bald Student

19796.3

A mistake in love

19617.0

Mitros and Mitrousis in Athens

19604.1

The Twins

19646.1

Hooray for Madness

19624.7

With Many Children

19647.4

The Wastrels

19615.4

Thanasis, Juliet and the sausages

19706.1

Thanasis, Take Your Gun

19727.4

A Madhouse Named "Hellas"

19887.3

Mimikos and Mary

19585.6

The Poor Demons

19647.0

The Proud

19627.0

Oi 900 tis Marinas

19615.7

Which Way to the Septic Tank?

19786.1

Sunday's Date

19607.0

Thieves Rejoice Only Once

19605.7

Astronauts

19626.0

Restless youth

1963

Maria Pentagiotissa

19573.4

Steps

1996

For You My Love

19607.0

Groom for Crying

19625.5

Thanasis in the land of the cuff

19768.0

An All-Weather Man

2004

The Girl Has Got an Uncle

19575.5