Known For
Acting
Born
Jan 01, 1917
Died
May 21, 1995
Place of Birth
Tinos, Greece
Credits
46 titles
Vagelis Protopapas
Biography
Vangelis Protopapas (Greek: Βαγγέλης Πρωτόπαπας, Tinos 1917 - May 21, 1995) was a Greek actor. He was originally from Messolonghi and was the son of a senior judicial officer. His father, Dimitrios Protopapas, a first-instance judge and member of parliament, intended him to be a lawyer, but in his first year of law school he decided to pursue a career as an actor, studying at the National Theatre School where he enrolled in 1937. He interrupted his studies in 1938 for military service, and graduated in 1942, with honors in the top ten. He was a friend of Dimitris Horn, with whom he graduated together, of the director Alexis Solomos, as well as of Melina Mercouri. He had important roles in the films A Hero in Slippers (1958), Santa Chikita (1953), The Fake Pound (1955), The Jealous Cat (1956), Miss 39 (1954), etc., all with Vasilis Logothetides, with whom he was closely friends, but also in the television series Police Officer Thanasis Papathanasis (1990), Androcles and His Lions (1985), etc. He was also the Director of the Municipal Theater of Argos. He participated in many television and radio series. E. Protopappas was also a painter, and left behind several works. (Source: Wikipedia)
Known For
Filmography
Μια Απίθανη Γιαγιά
Χρόνης
Thanasis, o vomvistis
President
Champion
Haralambos
Hungry and a gentleman
Καμαριέρα χωρίς καριέρα
Ο χαρτοπαίκτης και το χαμίνι
I Rita... kai to Ritaki
Evripidis Daponte
A Madhouse Named "Hellas"
Thanasis in the country of Will
One But... Leon
Stathis Froutakis Sr.
Σιγανοπαπαδιά
Μπρος στρατός και πίσω τρέλλα
Leonidas
Σας έπιασα στα πράσα
Το κορίτσι του υποπλοιάρχου
Η ... Μικρομεσαία των Μπάτσων Σχολή
Τράβα μου μια ...φωτογραφία
Alles ton protimoun gouli
Ντίνος
The Yannis who became Tzonis
O proikothiras kai to manouli
Erastis horis gynaika
Παρασκευάς
Ο Ανδροκλής και τα λιοντάρια του
Rena, ta resta sou!
I Really Play the Man
Nectarios
Anyone Else for Heaven?
Father
Το ξεκίνημα της φωτιάς: Ρόκκος Χοϊδάς
The Big Nostril
Taste from Greece
Monday's Theater
Θέμος
The Hunchback
Marriage Lads
The Wise Guy
Grigoris
Koutroulis` Wedding
Strovilis
Κατηγορούμενος... ο Έρως
Defence attorney
The Tough Guy
Kalogirou
A Hero in His Slippers
Sotiris Lymberiadis
Trouble for Fathers
Μικές
Jealous like a Cat
Markos Manolopoulos
The Counterfeit Coin
Dinos
No Harm's Done
Vangelis
A Young Miss... Aged 39
Kriton Stefanis
The Swindlers
Karameletis
Santa Chikita
Michalis
A Ripple in the Pond
Giorgos
Greedy for Everything
Margaras
The Germans Strike Again
Zisis
Marina
Waiter