Orestis Makris
Also Known As: Ορέστης Μακρής, Орестис Макрис
Biography: Orestis Makris (Greek: Ορέστης Μακρής; 30 September 1898 – 29 January 1975) was a Greek actor and tenor. Makris graduated from the Athens Conservatoire and first entered the scene as a tenor in the troupe of Rosalia Nika in 1925. He later joined the Papaioannou troupe, before moving to more comedic roles. Makris excelled in the portrayal of folk characters, especially the stock role of the "drunkard". Makris also participated in about forty movies, mostly as an over-strict father. He is considered one of the most significant modern Greek actors. He was decorated with the Order of the Phoenix. He died on 29 January 1975 in Athens and is buried at the First Cemetery in a family grave.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Chalkis, Euboea, Greece
Birthday: September 30, 1898
Deathday: January 30, 1975
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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The steps of life
Overview: At the top of his class, a diligent architecture student, and son of a poor bouzouki player dreams of a life different from the one his father has already planned for him. But, can a man renounce his origins to follow his passion?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1962-10-21
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The Drunkard
Overview: After losing his son in WW2, a poor cobbler has become a drunkard and laughing stock of the whole neighborhood, besetting his daughter. When his daughter falls in love with a rich young man, he tries in vain to hide his passion from the young man's family...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1950-01-23
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The Counterfeit Coin
Overview: Four stories, humorous, romantic or dramatic, are linked by a counterfeit gold sovereign. It is made by the honest engraver in the first story, seduced by the charms of a young widow, and it subsequently passes into the hands of a beggar and a prostitute, a wealthy miser and a newly married couple where the husband is a poor artist.
Genres: Comedy Romance Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1955-12-28
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Papadopoulou family
Overview: Young Alexis Vranas (Stefanos Linaios) returns to Athens form studying abroad and starts working for a major company. There, he will meet and fall in love with a secretary, Varvara Papadopoulos (Kakia Analyti).
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1960-01-01
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Το μεροκάματο του πόνου
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1964-02-03
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A girl different from the others
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1968-01-01
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The Auntie from Chicago
Overview: Charilaos (Orestis Makris), a retired officer with very strict and conservative principles, raises his four daughters with... military discipline, taking care of their culture, their appearance and their good behavior. Despite all his desire to marry them, he does not leave them anywhere alone, as a result of which no man approaches them. His wife, Efterpi (Eleni Zafiriou), as well as his friend and neighbor Xenophon (Pantelis Zervos), make remarkable efforts to convince him to change his tactics, but he insists on his very conservative behavior. But when the conversation reaches the well-to-do sister of Kalliopis (Georgia Vassiliadou) who has been living in Chicago, USA for years, everything turns upside down. She returns to Athens and undertakes to modernize the general's house, as well as help the four girls (and her nieces) to be rehabilitated.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1957-12-16
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Mrs. Midwife
Overview: The rivalry between a professional doctor and a midwife in a small Greek village.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1961-09-24
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Maiden's Cheek
Overview: Young teacher Floras arrives to teach a class at a girls’ high school in Athens. His students, daughters of rich Athenian families, are very spoilt making his and the other teachers work difficult. When he starts implementing discipline in his class, the girls use every means to get rid of him. But the most undisciplined, Lisa Papastavrou, falls in love with him.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1959-11-16
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Aristides and his Girls
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1964-05-31
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The despised
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Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1965-01-01
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Grousouzis
Overview: Agatocles, a grumpy and gruesome caffector, finds out a baby's out of his cafe and, to the surprise of everyone, decides to adopt it.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1952-11-03
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Thieves out!
Overview: When the general manager who possesses 70% of the shares of a steelworks learns that he is sick and has to go abroad to be cured, he hands his shares to Timoleon Adamantas (Orestis Makris), his brother, a teacher, with whom he hasn’t spoken for almost 30 years. Timoleon, being an honest and goodhearted man, aided by his brother’s secretary, Margarita (Martha Karagianni), with whom his son Andreas is in love, finds out a number of great administrative irregularities. Immediately, he throws out his brother’s number one assistant, Kleftodimos (Dionysis Papagiannopoulos) and Margarita as well and puts everything in order.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1961-01-03
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One Street Organ, One Life
Overview: An organ grinder (Orestis Makris) loses his wife from complications during birth. Distraught by her death, he refuses to take care of the baby and gives it to a family (Lavrentis Dianellos and Nitsa Tsaganea) to raise. The child (Jenny Karezi) is raised comfortably, and her natural father is too embarrassed to meet her - until she falls in love with a poor musician (Petros Fysoun), and her foster parents refuse to accept their relationship.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1958-11-28
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O Thymios takane thalassa
Overview: The Thimios leaves the village, the Vlachokerasia along with wife and children to come to the capital for a job. In the train station saves from suicide Liza, Brigadier daughter. In begging, however, occur to her father as Dr. Beliris, fiance Lisa. He will accept and confusion just getting started.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1959-06-14
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Snow White and the 7 Old Boys
Overview: Alexia is a young woman who comes from the countryside and is in love with a rich man, Paris, who is studying abroad. Her stepmother treats her cruelly and forces her to escape from home. Alexia finds herself in an isolated area by chance, where she is discovered by seven brothers who live together in a nearby house. The seven bachelors put her up and treat her like a member of their own family.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1960-12-26
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The Wizard of Athens
Overview: A musician-magician of noble heritage wins the hearts of women. When his darling leaves him for a rich man, he does everything in his power to win her back.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1931-10-21
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Stournara 288
Overview: Through the narration of a tenant of a block of flats on 288 Stournara street, we watch the everyday stories of people living in the city, their problems, their comic situations and their love affairs.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1959-01-19
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Ζητιάνος Μιας Αγάπης
Overview: A pop singer with a good heart and a lot of achievements, Manos, tenderly loves an orphan anthopolida, Annoula, which works several years in the center singing Manos, in order to finish high school. When he decides to leave Daisy's mistress and marry Anna, the girl's natural father, who was missing seventeen years in Canada, intervenes and claims her. He tries to redeem her stepfather and mistress, Mr Spyros, who, however, refuses. Anna is following her natural father in Thessaloniki. Mr. Spiros is in danger of dying from his fortune, and Manos gets sick by losing his voice. But everything is corrected by the return of the girl and the revelation that her father suddenly remembered it because she intended to put in the money her mother left.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1964-06-10
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Wronged
Overview: Angelica, a beautiful and talented girl, comes out of the orphanage and finds work in a secular center. The son of the owner, Alkis, urges her to become a singer and, of course, she is not late to become a star. Some day, however, he learns that the orphanage was visited by an elderly gentleman, Mr. Nicolas, looking for a little girl he had left there many years ago, who was called Angeliki. He immediately searches for him, finds him and so father and daughter get together. Meanwhile, she is sexually related to Alkis.Aaccident, however, causes Angeliki to be blinded so goes to America for treatment. The forced separation and the existence of another woman do not ultimately alienate the young couple and their love will prove to be superior to all obstacles.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1964-11-02
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Με Πόνο και με Δάκρυα
Overview: Alekos serves as captain of LOC in the area of Trikala. He loves Maria, which she keeps her relationship hidden from hers. When her father discovers it, he sends her to a monastery. Alekos is looking for her but can not find her. He leaves for the war, where after an injury he will lose his memory ...
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1965-11-17
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Horse and Carriage
Overview: An old chauffeur, after removing his rambling son, decides to live with his orphaned girl while facing the advent of the car that displaces the carts.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1957-02-04
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One Drachma Jasmine
Overview: Alexis and Anna-Maria fall in love each other after a car accident. Alexis is rich and Anna-Maria is studying music. Her grandfather, a renowned conductor, now plays music in tavernas to win his bread. A boy who sells jasmine helps the couple stay together in the difficult moments.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1960-11-17
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To Fintanaki
Overview: In a small courtyard of an Athenian neighborhood, the tenants become the owner of the cunning landlady who intervenes in their lives.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1955-11-19
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Κάθε Καημός Και Δάκρυ
Overview: With her father presumed dead during the German occupation in Athens and with an ailing mother, a poor secretary faces incarceration after a treasonous theft at the office. Only a kind friend can help her; however, is she truly guilty?
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1964-07-27
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At Night The Entanglements
Overview: The funny things that happen through the walking by the neighborhood night shift of a kind policeman.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1957-01-01
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Ο Καλός Μας Άγγελος
Overview: After saving the beautiful but frivolous daughter of an austere businessman from an embarrassing situation, a silver-tongued gentleman becomes indispensable to both the firm and her family. Is he, indeed, their good angel?
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1961-03-02
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The Island of Silence
Overview: "700 meters far from humans, and million meters far from humanity…" The study of the life of the lepers of Spinalonga with a dedication and affection that brighten the neo-realistic and documentaristic framework and style of the film. Plot: We watch romantic and emotional adventures, ideological and sentimental conflicts featuring the patients, doctors and several locals. The doctor Stathis Chtenas (Giorgos Kampanellis) is disappointed at the situation on the island and confesses to the teacher (Orestis Markris) that he wants to leave soon. Their life changes with the arrival of a young volunteer doctor, Angela (Nina Sgouridou), whose dynamic presence transforms life on the island. Stathis and Angela become a couple and make everything to improve life at Spinalonga. However, on the occasion of young Sifis’s (Tzannis Kourkoulakos) “escape” from the island, Stathis’s attitude changes.
Genres: Drama Documentary
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1958-08-14
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The Girl of the Neighbourhood
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Genres: Drama Music Romance
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1954-03-18
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The Abduction of Persephone
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1956-10-15
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Ο Πόνος του Μπεκρή
Overview: Trapped in a downward spiral of self-loathing, a once-successful merchant and now an alcohol-dependent loner tries to drown his sorrows, after the disappearance of his only son. Can the mysterious and kind new friend help him find him?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1966-01-01
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Τι κι αν γεννήθηκα φτωχός
Overview: The poor daughter of a once-famous musician sees her world turn upside down when she gets fired, and her beau, the son of a wealthy industrialist, finds himself without a place to live. Will his cruel father realise his grave mistake?
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1967-01-01
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Τα παληόπαιδα
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Genres: Crime Drama Action
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1963-01-01
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