Acting

Takis Emmanuel

Born January 4, 1933 · Messolonghi, Greece

Died August 26, 2017 · aged 84

Takis Emmanouil (Greek: Τάκης Εμμανουήλ, 1933 - 26 August 2017) was a Greek actor, with an international career in the field of cinema. He was also a director and producer, while in the last years of his life he was involved in literature. He was born in 1933 in Messolonghi and his real name was Panagiotis. Initially, in Greece, he studied acting at the Drama School of the Athens Conservatory, wi…

Known For

The Golden Voyage of Sinbad

The Golden Voyage of Sinbad · 1973

The Golden Voyage of Sinbad

MovieActionAdventure

Sinbad and his crew intercept a homunculus carrying a golden tablet. Koura, the creator of the homunculus and practitioner of evil magic, wants the tablet back and pursues Sinbad. Meanwhile, Sinbad meets the Vizier who has another part of the interlocking golden map, and they mount a quest across the seas to solve the riddle of the map.

Lion of the Desert

Lion of the Desert · 1981

Lion of the Desert

MovieHistoryWar

Resistance leader Omar Mukhtar opposes Italian colonization before World War II. The brutal guerrilla war against Italian General Rodolfo Graziani and the Fascist forces of Benito Mussolini highlights the struggle for Libyan independence and the harsh tactics utilised by the colonisers.

Play Dirty

Play Dirty · 1969

MovieWarAdventure

During World War II in North Africa, a group of British commandos disguised as Italian soldiers must travel behind enemy lines and destroy a vital Nazi oil depot.

Zorba the Greek

Zorba the Greek · 1964

Zorba the Greek

An uptight English writer traveling to Crete on a matter of business finds his life changed forever when he meets the gregarious Alexis Zorba.

Glory Sky

Glory Sky · 1962

During the cold spring of 1941, with Greece already under German occupation, a long-suffering squad of war-battered soldiers receives orders from the headquarters in Athens to fall back, leaving behind the Albanian Front. As the men retreat through the snow-covered landscapes of the bomb-scarred Greek countryside, the terrifying certainty that nothing will ever be the same again crushes their weary human souls.

The River

The River · 1960

This films tells four different stories, all connected by the banks of a river.

Oedipus the King

Oedipus the King · 1968

Oedipus the King

This classic Greek tale tells how a noble youth accidentally marries his own mother, kills his own father and ends up paying a terrible price for invoking the wrath of the Gods.

The Magus

The Magus · 1968

MovieMysteryDrama

A teacher on a Greek island becomes involved in bizarre mind-games with the island's magus (magician) and a beautiful young woman.

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The Golden Voyage of Sinbad

The Golden Voyage of Sinbad · 1973

The Golden Voyage of Sinbad

MovieActionAdventure

Sinbad and his crew intercept a homunculus carrying a golden tablet. Koura, the creator of the homunculus and practitioner of evil magic, wants the tablet back and pursues Sinbad. Meanwhile, Sinbad meets the Vizier who has another part of the interlocking golden map, and they mount a quest across the seas to solve the riddle of the map.

Achmed

Lion of the Desert

Lion of the Desert · 1981

Lion of the Desert

MovieHistoryWar

Resistance leader Omar Mukhtar opposes Italian colonization before World War II. The brutal guerrilla war against Italian General Rodolfo Graziani and the Fascist forces of Benito Mussolini highlights the struggle for Libyan independence and the harsh tactics utilised by the colonisers.

Bu-Matari

Play Dirty

Play Dirty · 1969

MovieWarAdventure

During World War II in North Africa, a group of British commandos disguised as Italian soldiers must travel behind enemy lines and destroy a vital Nazi oil depot.

Kostas Manou

Zorba the Greek

Zorba the Greek · 1964

Zorba the Greek

An uptight English writer traveling to Crete on a matter of business finds his life changed forever when he meets the gregarious Alexis Zorba.

Manolakas

Glory Sky

Glory Sky · 1962

During the cold spring of 1941, with Greece already under German occupation, a long-suffering squad of war-battered soldiers receives orders from the headquarters in Athens to fall back, leaving behind the Albanian Front. As the men retreat through the snow-covered landscapes of the bomb-scarred Greek countryside, the terrifying certainty that nothing will ever be the same again crushes their weary human souls.

Giagos

The River

The River · 1960

This films tells four different stories, all connected by the banks of a river.

Oedipus the King

Oedipus the King · 1968

Oedipus the King

This classic Greek tale tells how a noble youth accidentally marries his own mother, kills his own father and ends up paying a terrible price for invoking the wrath of the Gods.

Chorus

The Magus

The Magus · 1968

MovieMysteryDrama

A teacher on a Greek island becomes involved in bizarre mind-games with the island's magus (magician) and a beautiful young woman.

Kapetan

Cannon for Cordoba

Cannon for Cordoba · 1970

Cannon for Cordoba

MovieActionAdventure

In 1912, during the Mexican Revolution, the border between Texas and Mexico is on flames due to savage raids by Mexican bandits who call themselves freedom fighters, so the US government entrusts to General Pershing the capture of General Héctor Córdoba, the most notorious among them.

Campo

Amok

MovieAdventureDrama

Ten women hide out on an deserted island in the Ageian after an prison break where seven men, led by an ex-Nazi, arrive on the island to search for a buried treasure and force the women to dig for them, until one strong-willed woman, named Sarah, decides to plot a revolt.

Electra

Electra · 1962

MovieActionHistory

Living in exile after the death of their father, the grown children of a murdered and usurped king converge to exact eye-for-an-eye revenge.

Pylades

That Lucky Touch

That Lucky Touch · 1975

That Lucky Touch

MovieComedyCrime

A European arms dealer meets a liberated woman journalist, who is writing a story about the ridiculous things men do with the armaments during a NATO war games meeting.

Arab Sheik

Young Aphrodites

Young Aphrodites · 1963

Young Aphrodites

MovieDramaRomance

200 BC. During a merciless drought, the brute nature of man and the delicate essence of woman become inextricably intertwined, as the omnipotence of the carnal instinct demands the total surrender of the flesh.

Tsakalos

Hell Boats

Hell Boats · 1970

A war drama of motor torpedo boats which did much unsung work in WW2, but the naval battles merely provide an exciting story in which an even more special romantic drama is wrapped up.

The barker

The barker · 1964

A union leader is corrupted by the owner of a factory and appointed as its CEO.

Mihalis

Έρωτας στην καφτή άμμο

Έρωτας στην καφτή άμμο · 1966

Έρωτας στην καφτή άμμο

Άγαλος

Caddie

MovieRomanceDrama

Proud and classy Caddie Marsh is forced to get a job as a barmaid and raise two children on her own after her husband walks out on her.

Peter

N.P. - The Secret

N.P. - The Secret · 1972

N.P. - The Secret

MovieDramaScience Fiction

An engineer invents a revolutionary machine capable of automating all industrial production, thereby eliminating the need for human labor. His groundbreaking innovation, intended to free humanity from work, instead leads to his abduction and brainwashing by unknown forces. He is then left to wander the city, stripped of his memories and identity.

Leali

Bloody earth

Bloody earth · 1967

MovieDramaRomance

The daughter of a powerful husband in a mountainous village in Greece is being forced to marry a wealthy villager while loving a poor lad. Her beloved will leave the village, giving an oath to return and marry her.

Kostas

Ου Κλέψεις

Ου Κλέψεις · 1965

Ου Κλέψεις

Petrakas

The Nets of Shame

The Nets of Shame · 1965

The Nets of Shame

The poor fishermen of a small village in the Evros region are trying to set up a cooperative so that they can resist the relentless exploitation of the merchants who buy their catch for a pittance. Leading the effort is an educated young man, Stefanos, who strives to encourage the fishermen to overcome their hesitation.

Promised Woman

Promised Woman · 1976

Antigone arrives in Sydney from Greece to have an arranged marriage with Telis, but is rejected by him as he expected a younger woman. Telis's older brother, Manolis, sympathizes with Antigone.

Manolis

The Steps

The Steps · 1966

MovieDramaRomance

An artist returns to Santorini, where she spent her childhood, to face the ghosts of her past and her present.

Hristo

He And She

He And She · 1967

MovieHorrorThriller

He is a pure child of nature. She comes from the sinful city. They find themselves together in unspoiled nature, but soon she grows bored. Suddenly she finds herself guilty of treason in the court of ordinary people, and he erupts primitively.

Who Pays the Ferryman?

Who Pays the Ferryman? · 1977

Who Pays the Ferryman?

Who Pays the Ferryman? was a television series produced by the BBC in 1977. The title of the series refers to the ancient religious belief and mythology of Charon the ferryman to Hades. In ancient times it was the custom to place coins in or on the mouth of the deceased before cremation so that the deceased could pay the ferryman to go to Hades. The eight-part series was written by Michael J. Bird.

Levkas Man

Levkas Man · 1981

Levkas Man is a 1981 mini series about a doctor who goes to the Greek island of Levkas to prove a theory about prehistoric man. It was shot on location in Greece. Paul Gerrard is a man in search of his missing father - a wayward archaeologist who has disappeared from Greece.

Kotiades