George Foundas
Also Known As: Giorgos Foundas, Giorgos Fountas , Γιώργος Φούντας , Йоргос Фунтас, Йоргос Фундас, Гиоргос Фундас
Biography: Giorgos Fountas (Greek: Γιώργος Φούντας; February 13, 1922 – November 28, 2010) was a Greek actor in film and television. Fountas attended the Dramatic School at the Athens Odeum. He appeared for the first time in the theatre in Nyfiatiko tragoudi ("Bridal Song") and his first film in 1944. He was awarded at the Thessaloniki Film Festival in 1966 and 1967 for his participation in his films With the Shine in the Eyes and Fever on the Road. He remained popular and he is best remembered for his role in the movie Stella with Melina Mercouri. He also appeared on several TV roles
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Mavrolithari, Folkida
Birthday: February 13, 1924
Deathday: November 28, 2010
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Gender: Male
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Zorba the Greek
Overview: An uptight English writer traveling to Crete on a matter of business finds his life changed forever when he meets the gregarious Alexis Zorba.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1964-12-14
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Jealousy
Overview: A successful businessman suspects that his wife is having an affair with his best friend. Sadly, it will take more than a decade to unearth the truth, as his daughter thirsts for answers and closure. But, were they, indeed, lovers?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1963-12-31
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Never on Sunday
Overview: An American scholar in Greece sets about improving the local prostitute with whom he is infatuated.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1960-05-24
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Stella
Overview: The story of a young, wild woman who doesn't want to compromise and settle down. Stella is a restless, rebellious Greek woman who plays with men and enjoys her life as much as she can. But when she meets a young footballer, things get mixed up. She loves him but she loves her freedom too. So it's about time she made an important choice.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1955-04-04
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The Red Lanterns
Overview: The inextricably intertwined stories of five sex workers who live in a brothel at Pireas harbor.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1963-12-02
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A Girl in Black
Overview: Against the backdrop of a cloudless summer, love's unforeseen complications will entwine an Athenian writer, a morosely beautiful daughter, and a scorned local suitor. And then, calamity strikes. Can love redeem the sad girl in black?
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1956-06-08
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Λεβέντες της θάλασσας
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Original Language: el
Release Date: 1997-11-28
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Ο μεγάλος ένοχος
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1970-01-01
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Dawn on the Third Day
Overview: The inhabitants of Praxos, a mountain village in an occupied country, organize their own resistance to the oppressor. Faced with reprisals, they decide that every hour a man will cross the bridge that is the population's only supply route. The action, which results in the death of all those taking part, continues until dawn on the third day.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1962-01-26
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17 Bullets for an Angel
Overview: Iro Konstantopoulou was thirteen years old when the Germans invaded Greece. Despite her age, however, she got involved with the resistance. When she was arrested for the first time, her rich father managed to set her free, and she fell in love with a young doctor who took care of her injuries following torture. A little before the withdrawal of the Germans, she participated in the blowing up of a train that was transporting ammunition, and she was arrested again, but this time no one could save her. She was executed at the Chaïdari camp, along with forty-nine other prisoners.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1981-01-12
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Trouba '67
Overview: A dark atmosphere pervades this film in true noir fashion. So does the feeling that our principals are trapped. They fight their way against economic forces and their status in life, and love might conquer all.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1967-02-13
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Anakatosouras
Overview: Thomas Karatoulpanis (Dinos Iliopoulos) is a naive employee at a car show in the Thessaloniki International Trade Fair. Because of his modest personality he is constantly criticised by his mother-in-law, his uncle and his boss. The only one who supports him is his wife. But the appearance of a doppelganger who buys extravagant gifts in his name causes a ruckus. Thomas is an amateur singer and participates in the Thessaloniki Song Festival winning the first prize. This is when everyone realises that there are two people who look alike.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1967-01-01
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The barker
Overview: A union leader is corrupted by the owner of a factory and appointed as its CEO.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1964-11-01
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Serenity
Overview: Originally edited in two versions. Version I, 70 minutes; version II, 90 minutes. (The only known existing version is not Markopoulos’s edit and contains additional titles, music and voice-over added later than 1961. 65 minutes.) Filmed in Mytilene and Annavysos, Greece, 1958. Existing copy on video, J. and M. Paris Films, Athens.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1961-06-25
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The Lagoon of Desire
Overview: Greece's submission for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1957.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1957-08-01
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Bitter Bread
Overview: A poor builder tries, with the help of his wife, to raise his three children. When he gets killed in an accident at the construction site, his oldest son undertakes the responsibility of providing for the family, facing all difficulties.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1951-04-15
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The Magic City
Overview: A look at poverty in post-war Athens. Kosmas, a young man living in the slums, constantly tries to make ends meet, hoping for a better day. Because of debts, he gets tangled up in smuggling. His morals are tested and he tries to find a way out.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1955-07-18
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Emergency exit
Overview: When Daisy saves the life of police officer Markos she is immediately promoted to the drug department of the police. Markos falls in love with her and they start going out until he asks her to marry him. That's exactly when she meets a junkie named Tasos Bekiris and falls in love with him. When he is murdered by a mysterious woman all the clues lead to Daisy who tries to prove her innocence. As she discovers, this woman is in charge of a drug-smuggling racket and she is also planning to import a huge quantity of heroin in Athens. Daisy kills her and arrives at their meeting place along with Markos.
Genres: Thriller Action Crime Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1980-11-24
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Scream
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Genres: Drama Mystery Crime
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1964-11-08
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Θα σε περιμένω πάντα
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1954-06-15
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The Sunday girl
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1964-10-24
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The Scum
Overview: A string of miscalculated choices and the longing of a fresh start will drag Magda of the slums deeper and deeper into a tireless personal nightmare.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1963-10-07
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The Asphalt Fever
Overview: A police constable tries to find blood during the night for his wife to be born. When he finally finds a blood donor, he will have to deal with a frenzy runaway, who holds hostage children in a school car.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1967-09-21
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Με Τη Λάμψη Στα Μάτια
Overview: During the German occupation, the Nazis plan to execute 30 men in retaliation for the death of a German soldier at the hands of the partisans. Among the men are three brothers (Giorgos Fountas, Anestis Vlachos and Giannis Fertis). The villagers ask the German officer (Zoras Tsapelis) to spare the life of one of the brothers. He accepts on the condition that their father (Lavrentis Dianellos) selects the one to remain alive.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1966-06-14
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Ο Αντάρτης Του Βάλτου
Overview: 1868, Thessaly. Thanasis Vardas stalked by a Turkish-Albanian gang and forced to leave the 5 year old son Giorgis in a monastery in Meteora. Fifteen years later, when Thessaly was liberated and incorporated into the Greek state, Giorgis, big anymore, leaving the monastery. Flying robes and becomes engaged to the daughter of a fellow Turk-Albanians but always lurking and wanting at all costs a medallion held, on which is engraved the point where the lost treasure of Ali Pasha is hidden. The conflict with them is inevitable.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1969-03-13
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Applause
Overview: Alfa (Attik) runs an itinerant theatrical troupe and can see that a young woman, Nora (Zinet Lakaz), is very talented. Indeed, Nora turns into a great actress. However, when she does not reciprocate his love, he turns her away. After this, Alfa falls on hard times, while Nora achieves great popular success.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1944-12-04
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Ο Ψαρόγιαννος
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1966-06-10
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Treason Avenue
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Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1969-05-08
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The Refugee
Overview: The adoptive son of a lawyer, with the help of a girl who loves him, healed from amnesia, which was caused because of a childhood trauma. He remembers that he has a twin brother. When he discovers, he sees with surprise that his brother has become a successful lawyer, but who will draw him to court, accusing him of burglary.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1969-01-01
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Η Ζαβολιάρα
Overview: A fisherman's daughter is secretly in love with a strong man who works for her father; however, after a nearly-fatal accident, the crew will have to venture into the isle's notoriously dangerous waters. Will they return in one piece?
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1960-04-04
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Open Sea
Overview: On an island in the Aegean, a young girl, when he learns of the authoritarian father that is illegitimate, he tries to commit suicide by falling from the cliff into the sea, but is saved from a wreck in the desert shore Marine
Genres: Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1954-01-01
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Take Me Away, My Love
Overview: Graceful Sofia falls in love with Alkis, a charming young writer. They make plans for the future; but, one day, her boss, Memas, enters the picture: a tough guy who owns a cabaret in Trouba, and wants Sofia back.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1960-01-01
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Just for One Night
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Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1958-01-01
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The Girl From Mani
Overview: For Her Love Has Become A Desperate Dream.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-01-01
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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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Betrayed love
Overview: Anna, who lives with her aunt, is afraid that Stratos, the man she loves, is cheating on her with another woman. She decides to leave for America, where she will spend a year with another aunt. When she returns to Athens, her aunt will try to marry her off to a rich young man, but she is still in love with Stratos.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1962-06-06
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The stigmatized
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Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1966-02-04
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The mother's curse
Overview: After the murder of a brutal landowner, and six long years of incarceration, unarmed Tasos returns to his village, only to face the deceased's murderous brothers. Is Tasos willing to honour his promise to his late mother?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1961-01-01
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The Dawn of Triumph
Overview: A group of resistance fighters during the Occupation, collaborates with a lieutenant who comes to Greece from the headquarters of the Middle East, aiming to blow up a German ship.
Genres: War Adventure
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1960-11-14
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The lover of the shepherdess
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Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1955-01-01
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Mavri Gi
Overview: A young emerald miner is in love with a girl but doesn't ask her to marry him because he cannot support her financially.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1952-01-01
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Too Late for Tears
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Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1968-01-01
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Αντίο Ζωή
Overview: A woman who lives happily with her husband and child discovers that she is suffering from cancer and tries to ensure their happiness after her death, without learning anything about the truth…
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1960-03-29
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Ανεμοστρόβιλος
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1964-02-02
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Η μεγάλη θυσία
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1962-02-06
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Γερακίνα
Overview: Maro, the daughter of shepherd Panos, is in love with his son, Liakos. They want to marry but his father does not agree.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1958-01-01
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Πόθοι στα Στάχυα
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Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1960-10-31
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Dead City
Overview: Dead City (Greek: Nekri politeia) is a 1951 Greek drama film directed by Frixos Iliadis. It was entered into the 1952 Cannes Film Festival.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1951-12-03
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Experts on the Football Field
Overview: The everyday lives of some international football players before and after a big game.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1956-03-12
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Ο άνεμος του μίσους
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1954-04-26
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