Acting

Spiros Focás

Born August 17, 1937 · Patras, Greece

Died November 10, 2023 · aged 86

Spiros Focás (Greek: Σπύρος Φωκάς, born 17 August, 1937 - November 10, 2023) was a Greek actor who, in a career extending for over half-century, has appeared in over two hundred films (Rambo III, The Jewel of the Nile) and episodes of television series. Born in Patras, Greece's third-largest urban area and the regional capital of West Greece Periphery, Spiros Focás made his initial screen appear…

Known For

Rocco and His Brothers

Rocco and His Brothers · 1960

Rocco and His Brothers

MovieDramaRomance

When a impoverished widow’s family moves to the big city, two of her five sons become romantic rivals with deadly results.

The Jewel of the Nile

The Jewel of the Nile · 1985

The Jewel of the Nile

MovieAdventureAction

Joan Wilder is thrust back into a world of murder, chases, foreign intrigue... and love. This time out she's duped by a duplicitous Arab dignitary who brings her to the Middle East, ostensibly to write a book about his life. Of course, he's up to no good, and Joan is just another pawn in his wicked game. But Jack Colton and his sidekick Ralph show up to help our intrepid heroine save the day.

Rambo III

Rambo III · 1988

MovieActionAdventure

Combat has taken its toll on Rambo, but he's finally begun to find inner peace in a monastery. When Rambo's friend and mentor Col. Trautman asks for his help on a top secret mission to Afghanistan, Rambo declines but must reconsider when Trautman is captured.

White Palace

White Palace · 1990

MovieDramaRomance

Max Baron is a Jewish advertising executive in his 20s who's still getting over the death of his wife. Nora Baker is a 40-something diner waitress who enjoys the wilder side of life. Mismatched or not, their attraction is instant and smoldering. With time, however, their class and age differences become an obstacle in their relationship, especially since Max can't keep Nora a secret from his Jewish friends and upper-crust associates forever.

Flavia the Heretic

Flavia the Heretic · 1974

Flavia the Heretic

MovieDramaHorror

Puglia, southern Italy, around 1400. A convent is invaded by the Tarantula cult, whose fanatical and crazed members desecrate the sacred place by committing obscene and bloody acts.

Eighteen in the Sun

Eighteen in the Sun · 1962

Eighteen in the Sun

An Italian variation on the Frankie & Annette-Gidget beach party movies that were all the rage in North America in the early 60s. Nicole Molino (Catherine Spaak) and Nicola Molino (Gianni Garko) are not related to one another. In fact, they don’t even know each other until both are inadvertently assigned the same hotel room on the island of Ischia. Nicole isn’t interested in any hanky-panky, so Nicola reluctantly promises to keep his hands to himself.

Holocaust 2000

Holocaust 2000 · 1977

MovieScience FictionDrama

An executive in charge of a nuclear power plant in the Mid-East must stop his son-- who turns out to be the Anti Christ -- from blowing it up.

Shaft in Africa

Shaft in Africa · 1973

Shaft in Africa

MovieAdventureCrime

Detective John Shaft travels incognito to Ethiopia, then France, to bust a human trafficking ring.

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Rocco and His Brothers

Rocco and His Brothers · 1960

Rocco and His Brothers

MovieDramaRomance

When a impoverished widow’s family moves to the big city, two of her five sons become romantic rivals with deadly results.

Vincenzo Parondi

The Jewel of the Nile

The Jewel of the Nile · 1985

The Jewel of the Nile

MovieAdventureAction

Joan Wilder is thrust back into a world of murder, chases, foreign intrigue... and love. This time out she's duped by a duplicitous Arab dignitary who brings her to the Middle East, ostensibly to write a book about his life. Of course, he's up to no good, and Joan is just another pawn in his wicked game. But Jack Colton and his sidekick Ralph show up to help our intrepid heroine save the day.

Omar

Rambo III

Rambo III · 1988

MovieActionAdventure

Combat has taken its toll on Rambo, but he's finally begun to find inner peace in a monastery. When Rambo's friend and mentor Col. Trautman asks for his help on a top secret mission to Afghanistan, Rambo declines but must reconsider when Trautman is captured.

Masoud

White Palace

White Palace · 1990

MovieDramaRomance

Max Baron is a Jewish advertising executive in his 20s who's still getting over the death of his wife. Nora Baker is a 40-something diner waitress who enjoys the wilder side of life. Mismatched or not, their attraction is instant and smoldering. With time, however, their class and age differences become an obstacle in their relationship, especially since Max can't keep Nora a secret from his Jewish friends and upper-crust associates forever.

George

Flavia the Heretic

Flavia the Heretic · 1974

Flavia the Heretic

MovieDramaHorror

Puglia, southern Italy, around 1400. A convent is invaded by the Tarantula cult, whose fanatical and crazed members desecrate the sacred place by committing obscene and bloody acts.

The French Duke

Eighteen in the Sun

Eighteen in the Sun · 1962

Eighteen in the Sun

An Italian variation on the Frankie & Annette-Gidget beach party movies that were all the rage in North America in the early 60s. Nicole Molino (Catherine Spaak) and Nicola Molino (Gianni Garko) are not related to one another. In fact, they don’t even know each other until both are inadvertently assigned the same hotel room on the island of Ischia. Nicole isn’t interested in any hanky-panky, so Nicola reluctantly promises to keep his hands to himself.

Johnny

Holocaust 2000

Holocaust 2000 · 1977

MovieScience FictionDrama

An executive in charge of a nuclear power plant in the Mid-East must stop his son-- who turns out to be the Anti Christ -- from blowing it up.

Harbin

Shaft in Africa

Shaft in Africa · 1973

Shaft in Africa

MovieAdventureCrime

Detective John Shaft travels incognito to Ethiopia, then France, to bust a human trafficking ring.

Marco Sassari

Basta guardarla

Basta guardarla · 1970

Basta guardarla

Enrichetta, a young peasant girl who lives in a little village, joins Silver Boy as a dancer.

Fernando

The Smugglers

The Smugglers · 1971

Alfred

Messalina

Messalina · 1960

MovieDramaHistory

Messalina was the Roman noblewoman who inveigled ageing emperor Claudio into marriage. Once ensconced on the throne, Messalina launched a reign of terror that shook the empire to its very foundations. The subject of countless film treatments, Rome's most villified empress is herein played by British actress Belinda Lee.

Lucius Maximus

Mark Shoots First

Mark Shoots First · 1975

Mark Shoots First

Mark Terzi goes to Genoa to take on the case of a serial killer who calls himself "The Sphinx".

Morini

Hate Thy Neighbor

Hate Thy Neighbor · 1968

Hate Thy Neighbor

MovieWesternAction

Ken Dakota's search for the murderer of his brother, killed by bandit Gary Stevens, at the behest of land owner Chris Malone. Dakota attempts to bring the men responsible for his brothers death to justice.

Ken Dakota

The Serpent of Death

The Serpent of Death · 1990

The Serpent of Death

MovieHorrorAdventure

An archaelogist falls under the spell of a statue with a curse on it.

Stavros (as Spiros Focás)

Queen of Clubs

Queen of Clubs · 1966

A model (Elena Nathanail) is on vacation with her sailor husband (Thodoros Roumpanis), and she falls in love with an employee (Spyros Fokas) who works in the hotel where they are staying. She confesses her feelings to her husband, and he abandons her. The young woman hooks up with with the employee, who goes with her to Athens. There, their passion – and her crisis - will reach their peak.

Alexandros

The First Line

The First Line · 2014

Two Athenian attorneys pursue litigation for the return of the Parthenon Marbles. As the bronze statue of Athena Promakhos used to stand guard in front of the Parthenon, both must find the courage to stand in defense of what they love.

Folis

A Matter of Time

A Matter of Time · 1976

A Matter of Time

MovieDramaFantasy

During a press conference, international star Nina remembers simpler times, flashing back to her days as a maid in a run-down Italian hotel. As a young woman, Nina befriends Contessa Sanziani, an elderly woman who entertains Nina with memories of her vibrant, wealthy life with Count Sanziani. Inspired by her tales of success, young Nina fantasizes about her own adventures and seeks to find the same excitement in her life.

Mario Morello

Tre colonne in cronaca

Tre colonne in cronaca · 1990

Tre colonne in cronaca

Chronicle of the dark maneuvers put into practice by a politician to seize an opposition newspaper. A Lebanese terrorist receives the order to kill a stockbroker, which triggers a series of blackmail and deception. A deputy commissioner and a journalist intend to shed light on all these murky matters, but the politician has no scruples and also knows how to move with extraordinary skill.

Bassouri, il socio libanese

A Bullet Through the Heart

A Bullet Through the Heart · 1966

A Bullet Through the Heart

MovieDramaMystery

Francesco, a young Sicilian aristocrat, scars an aging gangster who has set out to take away his property. The gangster vows to obtain vengeance, and Francesco is forced to flee across Greece with his girl friend, pursued by his antagonist's vicious henchmen.

Navarra

Watch Out! Red Light

Watch Out! Red Light · 2003

Watch Out! Red Light

MovieDramaAdventure

The occupation of students just before the Panhellenic effervescence inducing s`ena public high school in Piraeus. On the first day of the Panhellenic found dead in the toilets George, with a syringe stuck in the arm. All his friends swear that their informal leader never took drugs. The investigations are difficult and the youth does not show any willingness to cooperate.

Pateras tou Giorgou

Corbari

Corbari · 1970

The real story of the partisan Silvio Corbari (Giuliano Gemma). Silvio forms a band of partisans in Northern Italy, completely independent from the Italian organized resistance (CLN). Ines (Tina Aumont), leaves her husband to join the band and becomes Silvio's lover. Silvio seems to suceed in creating a free-zone, his personal republic, independent from Nazi-occupied Italy, in a little village called Tregnano.

Orlandi

Condition Critical

Condition Critical · 1992

Condition Critical

MovieDramaMystery

Medical-center doctors discover the shocking source of a deadly virus spreading through Los Angeles.

Luca

A Man for Burning

A Man for Burning · 1962

A Man for Burning

Political activist Salvatore returns to his native Sicily and stirs up trouble among the peasants, urging them to confront the Mafia and demand the right to plough their own fields. The peasants refuse to help him, and Salvatore is marked by the Mafia as a troublemaker.

Jachino

Lily

Lily Miniver is an eccentric, intrepid young woman whose job as associate curator at the prestigious Jeffersonian Museum in Washington, D.C. takes her around the globe. When a unique Aztec necklace, on loan from the British Museum, is slightly tarnished, she quickly deduces that it's a fake, and she is sent to London by her boss to determine how a substitute necklace showed up at the Jeffersonian.

Ziaukus

Murder, She Wrote

Murder, She Wrote · 1984

Murder, She Wrote

SeriesMysteryCrime

An unassuming mystery writer turned sleuth uses her professional insight to help solve real-life homicide cases.

Constantin Kesmek

Της Αγάπης Μαχαιριά

Της Αγάπης Μαχαιριά · 2006

Της Αγάπης Μαχαιριά

Antonis Stamatakis

Origins of the Mafia

Origins of the Mafia · 1976

Origins of the Mafia

SeriesCrimeDrama

Journey back more than 400 years to 16th century Sicily, where the small Italian islands have fallen victim to corruption, intimidation, extortion, and brutality.

La Monica

Happy Holiday

Happy Holiday · 1993

SeriesComedyDrama

Nikos