Spiros Focás
Also Known As: Σπύρος Φωκάς, Σπυρος Φωκας, Spyros Fokas, Spiros Fokas
Biography: Spiros Focás (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 appearances at the age of 22, when he acted in four films produced in 1959. Among the directors for whom he worked are Luchino Visconti, Vincente Minnelli and Ferdinando Baldi. In 2011 he had been performing in Lords of Magic and was scheduled for another title, planned for 2012 release, The Family Inheritance. Description above from the Wikipedia article Spiros Focás, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Patras, Greece
Adult: No
Birthday: August 17, 1937
Age: 87 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: November 10, 2023
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Shaft in Africa
Overview: Detective John Shaft travels incognito to Ethiopia, then France, to bust a human trafficking ring.
Genres: Action Crime Adventure Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-06-14
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Rambo III
Overview: 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.
Genres: Action Adventure Thriller War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-05-24
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The Jewel of the Nile
Overview: 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.
Genres: Adventure Action Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-08-01
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Rocco and His Brothers
Overview: When a impoverished widow’s family moves to the big city, two of her five sons become romantic rivals with deadly results.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1960-10-07
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Moon Runway
Overview: A police comedy/fantasy adventure with witches, ghosts, beautiful fairies and a cop who tries to solve a mysterious murder.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy Mystery
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1994-11-01
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Love on the Hot Sand (The Runaway)
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Genres: Drama Adventure
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1966-01-01
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Hate Thy Neighbor
Overview: 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.
Genres: Western Action Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1968-07-26
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Η ζωή ενός ανθρώπου
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1968-01-01
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Hill 33
Overview: A small army outpost on an offshore island of the Aegean. Its mission – area surveillance and the collecting of information on the enemy.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1998-06-06
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Basta guardarla
Overview: Enrichetta, a young peasant girl who lives in a little village, joins Silver Boy as a dancer.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1970-12-27
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Condition Critical
Overview: Medical-center doctors discover the shocking source of a deadly virus spreading through Los Angeles.
Genres: Drama Mystery TV Movie
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1992-04-08
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Eighteen in the Sun
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1962-08-11
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Psycosissimo
Overview: Two bumbling actors get wrapped up in a scheme to murder a rich man's wife.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1961-02-11
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A Man for Burning
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1962-10-26
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The Serpent of Death
Overview: An archaelogist falls under the spell of a statue with a curse on it.
Genres: Horror Adventure Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-12-06
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The Fear
Overview: In this disturbing family drama, a prosperous middle-aged farmer takes up gambling and whoring at the expense of his devoted second wife. Meanwhile, his son the pervert becomes fascinated with the family's maid, a deaf-mute.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1966-02-28
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Messalina
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1960-03-12
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Η απολύτρωση
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1961-01-01
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Corbari
Overview: 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.
Genres: War
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1970-09-25
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Dead liqueur
Overview: In late-1950s Athens, a big sister and her twin brothers sneak in their grandfather's distillery to perform a strange rite. But, how important is the last drop of the rare "Dead Liqueur" to the experimenting adolescents' budding sexuality?
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1992-11-01
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Dangerous game
Overview: During his summer vacation in Mytilene, a young and lonely small-time clerk, Kostas, becomes bewitched by a femme fatale, Anna Parisi, a thirty-five-year-old German woman married to a wealthy local businessman.
Genres: Crime Mystery Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1982-10-09
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Vacation in Kolopetinitsa
Overview: 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 ...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1959-09-09
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White Palace
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-10-19
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Misunderstanding
Overview: Remake of Jean-Pierre Melville's "Le Doulos."
Genres: Action Crime Thriller
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1983-06-07
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Μπροστά στην αγχόνη
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1968-01-01
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Stefania
Overview: 18 year old Stefania is brought to a juvenile reformatory for young prostitutes. The institution is actually a prison, and one of the worst and most squalid of its kind. It's a real hell. Two dozens of ragged girls are crammed into a dormitory, locked by a thick iron door, two in each bed. Meals and work is carried out in other sections of the building, separated by iron bars. A young doctor shall investigate the newcomer. When they meet, they immediately recognize each other. It is Giorgos, the doctor that treated Stefania's mother a couple of years ago, and then had a little flirt with Stefania. He has been thinking of her ever since. He immediately falls in love with her, and wants to help her. Stefania is thinking about any possibility to get out from the prison. She flirts with the ugly yard guard Armandos, and with the truck driver coming with foodstuff, but in vain...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1966-03-20
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Zorro in the Court of England
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Genres: Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1970-02-28
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Mark Shoots First
Overview: Mark Terzi goes to Genoa to take on the case of a serial killer who calls himself "The Sphinx".
Genres: Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1975-12-22
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Queen of Clubs
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1966-06-12
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Holocaust 2000
Overview: 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.
Genres: Science Fiction Drama Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-11-25
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Flavia the Heretic
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama Horror
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1974-06-14
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The Smugglers
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1971-11-27
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Sonia
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1980-07-30
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Tre colonne in cronaca
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1990-03-09
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Black Tunnel
Overview: The attempt to kill a guy connected to the mob fails when he and his assassins get trapped in a mountain tunnel.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-01-01
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Family Killer
Overview: Stefano, son of the Mafia Don Angelino Ferrante, is killed by Gaspare Ardizzone (John Saxon) for refusing to sell some valuable land. The old don sends for Ferrante Santino Billeci from America, in the hope that he'll be able to help in getting revenge. But Gaspar, meanwhile, is becoming the most powerful and ruthless boss of the area...
Genres: Crime Thriller Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1973-02-23
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Egoism
Overview: A spoiled girl, Maria, does not care about anyone but herself and her good-natured. She relates eroticly to her sister's fiancé, Costas, to pay her the debts she has to do with her wasteful life.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1964-12-30
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The First Line
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 2014-11-27
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Barbecue Them!
Overview: Three marginals provoke the social establishment with their every act.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1981-10-05
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The treasure
Overview: A widow who inherits a debt-ridden inn spreads the word that somewhere inside it is a treasure hidden by the Occupation. At once potential and unlikely treasure hunters are killed to rent a room.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 2017-12-07
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Run with the Devil
Overview: The trials and tribulations of a group of artist friends and a gay gallery owner living in the Via Margutta neighbourhood of Rome. Stefano is a talented painter, devoted to his art but not interested in promoting himself, while many of his fellow artists are far more adept at selling their persona than creating art.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1960-08-16
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Λύγκος ο λεβέντης
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Genres: Drama Action Romance
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1959-01-01
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Lui per lei
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1972-01-01
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Bread for a Fugitive
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Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1967-05-25
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Business in Balkan
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1996-11-01
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Πάρτα Όλα
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 2003-01-01
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Σαπουνόπετρα: Το Χρήμα στο Λαιμό σας
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1995-10-20
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The Steps
Overview: An artist returns to Santorini, where she spent her childhood, to face the ghosts of her past and her present.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1966-01-01
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Βίτσια γυναικών
Overview: A young drifter working on a river barge disrupts his employers' lives while hiding the fact that he knows more about a dead woman found in the river than he admits.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 2000-10-13
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Ellinikon
Overview: In the abandoned airport of Ellinikon, a man's peaceful solitude is disrupted by bustling activity, and his ticket out might lead him right back to his starting place.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-09-29
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Αλέξανδρος και Αϊσέ
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: el
Release Date: 2001-11-01
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Death of a Friend
Overview: Two young people trickle, steal and exploit prostitutes.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1960-01-19
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L'ospite segreto
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2003-05-02
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Ο Χάρος Βγήκε Παγανιά
Overview: Anna is the Jewish daughter of a Spanish mother and a Greek father. She has returned to her family's house in Greece
Genres: Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 2003-11-22
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Watch Out! Red Light
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama Adventure
Original Language: el
Release Date: 2003-11-24
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A Matter of Time
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-10-07
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Bloody Twilight
Overview: Bloody Twilight (Greek: Matomeno iliovasilemma) is a 1959 Greek drama film directed by Andreas Labrinos. It was entered into the 1959 Cannes Film Festival.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1959-05-01
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Lily
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-06-14
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