Vagelis Protopapas

Actor

January 1, 1917 — May 21, 1995 (78 years)
Vangelis Protopapas (Greek: Βαγγέλης Πρωτόπαπας, 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)

Filmography

1990
1988
Enas alla... leon · as Stathis Froutakis Sr.
1985
1985
1983
1982
1981
1980
1970
To theatro tis Defteras · as Θέμος
1962
The Wise Guy · as Grigoris
1961
The Tough Guy · as Kalogirou
1958
A Hero in His Slippers · as Sotiris Lymberiadis
1957
Trouble for Fathers · as Μικές
1956
The Lovers Arrive · as Markos Manolopoulos
1955
No Harm's Done · as Vangelis
1955
1954
A Young Miss... Aged 39 · as Kriton Stefanis
1954
The Swindlers · as Karameletis
1953
Santa Chikita · as Michalis
1952
A Ripple in the Pond · as Giorgos
1949
The Last Mission · as Interrogator
1948
Fallen Angels · as Interrogator
1948
1947
Marina · as Waiter