Vagelis Protopapas

Biography

Vangelis Protopapas (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

Monday's Theater

The Counterfeit Coin

Μια Απίθανη Γιαγιά

Jealous like a Cat

The Germans Strike Again

Santa Chikita

Trouble for Fathers

I Really Play the Man

All Movies (42)

• Thanasis, o vomvistis1990 · as President
• Champion1989 · as Haralambos
• Hungry and a gentleman1989
• I Rita... kai to Ritaki1989 · as Evripidis Daponte
• Καμαριέρα χωρίς καριέρα1989
• Ο χαρτοπαίκτης και το χαμίνι1989
• A Madhouse Named "Hellas"1988
• Thanasis in the country of Will1988
• One But... Leon1988 · as Stathis Froutakis Sr.
• Σιγανοπαπαδιά1988
• Μπρος στρατός και πίσω τρέλλα1988 · as Leonidas
• Σας έπιασα στα πράσα1987
• Τράβα μου μια ...φωτογραφία1987
• Το κορίτσι του υποπλοιάρχου1987
• Η ... Μικρομεσαία των Μπάτσων Σχολή1987
• Alles ton protimoun gouli1986 · as Ντίνος
• The Yannis who became Tzonis1986
• O proikothiras kai to manouli1986
• Erastis horis gynaika1986 · as Παρασκευάς
• Rena, ta resta sou!1985
• Anyone Else for Heaven?1983 · as Father
• I Really Play the Man1983 · as Nectarios
• The Big Nostril1981
• Taste from Greece1980
• The Hunchback1966
• Marriage Lads1963
• The Wise Guy1962 · as Grigoris
• Koutroulis` Wedding1962 · as Strovilis
• Κατηγορούμενος... ο Έρως1962 · as Defence attorney
• The Tough Guy1961 · as Kalogirou
• A Hero in His Slippers1958 · as Sotiris Lymberiadis
• Trouble for Fathers1957 · as Μικές
• Jealous like a Cat1956 · as Markos Manolopoulos
• The Counterfeit Coin1955 · as Dinos
• No Harm's Done1955 · as Vangelis
• A Young Miss... Aged 391954 · as Kriton Stefanis
• The Swindlers1954 · as Karameletis
• Santa Chikita1953 · as Michalis
• A Ripple in the Pond1952 · as Giorgos
• Greedy for Everything1952 · as Margaras
• The Germans Strike Again1948 · as Zisis
• Marina1947 · as Waiter

All TV Shows (4)

• Μια Απίθανη Γιαγιά1991 · as Χρόνης
• Ο Ανδροκλής και τα λιοντάρια του1985
• Το ξεκίνημα της φωτιάς: Ρόκκος Χοϊδάς1982
• Monday's Theater1972 · as Θέμος