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…

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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Η ζωή ενός ανθρώπου

Η ζωή ενός ανθρώπου · 1968

Η ζωή ενός ανθρώπου

Business in the Balkans

Business in the Balkans · 1996

Business in the Balkans

MovieComedyDrama

Alexandros wants to open a bar in a district town so he travels to Romania to find young girls to work for him.The bar has unprecedented success but then something happens.

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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

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

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

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

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

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

Η ζωή ενός ανθρώπου

Η ζωή ενός ανθρώπου · 1968

Η ζωή ενός ανθρώπου

Business in the Balkans

Business in the Balkans · 1996

Business in the Balkans

MovieComedyDrama

Alexandros wants to open a bar in a district town so he travels to Romania to find young girls to work for him.The bar has unprecedented success but then something happens.

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

Sonia

MovieDramaRomance

The brief love story that Sonia lived in the summer with her teacher, an older man and married in the 60's. For the autumn, Tonio travels with his family abroad, leaving Sonia with his most intimate memories. Sonia has lived in Florence, Paris and has acquired the romanticism of the interwar years she has found in books, paintings and music of the time. He has chosen to live a life apart, of introspection, away from the crowds, but always in a sensational mood.

Tonio

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

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

Η απολύτρωση

Η απολύτρωση · 1961

Η απολύτρωση

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

Vacation in Kolopetinitsa

Vacation in Kolopetinitsa · 1959

Vacation in Kolopetinitsa

All the village society, but especially the President Thimios Tambourlas and the policeman Miltiadis Sourvos, welcome Mr. Toni and his wife Judy. They have come to spend their honeymoon in Kolopetinitsa and this is a great honor for the village. No one suspects that this is a pair of bandits who fled to the village until their robbery was forgotten ...

Alekos

Alexandros and Aishe

Alexandros and Aishe · 2001

Alexandros and Aishe

MovieDramaRomance

A Christian boy and a Muslim girl fall in a forbidden love in the town of Komotini. They decide to escape together, but the Turkish consul has another opinion.

Έρωτας στην καφτή άμμο

Έρωτας στην καφτή άμμο · 1966

Έρωτας στην καφτή άμμο

Στέφος Πέργαμος

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

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

Mistress

Mistress · 1987

MovieDramaTV Movie

A woman who's been having an affair with a married man who's been taking care of her. When he dies she finds herself with nothing. So she tries to rebuild her life but not without the stigma of being a kept woman following her.

Paulo

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)

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

Hill 33

Hill 33 · 1998

A small army outpost on an offshore island of the Aegean. Its mission – area surveillance and the collecting of information on the enemy.

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