Stefanos Stratigos was a Greek actor in film and television.

Biography

He was born in Athens

Athens

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 in 1923 and was the son of the actors Vasileios and Amalia Stratigos. His sisters were actors Aleka

Aleka Stratigou

Alexandra Stratigou was a Greek actress. She played in theatre and several films with a characteristic voice and played mostly in servant roles. She was the wife of Andreas Barkoulis. She died on January 1, 1989 and is buried in Peristeri. She was the brother of Stefanos and sister of Stella...

 and Stella

Stella Stratigou

Stella Stratigou was a Greek actress. She played in theatre and films. She died on October 9, 2005. She was the sister of Stefanos, Aleka and Rena.-Filmography:-References:...

 Stratigou. He had another sister named Rena. In which they resided early to the theatre and film. He attended the Drama School then known as the Royal Theatre of Greece

National Theatre of Greece

The National Theatre of Greece is based in Athens, Greece.-History:The theatre was originally founded in 1880 with a grant from King George I and Efstratios Rallis to give theatre a permanent home in Athens...

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He begna to play at his father's role and in comedies, tragedies, plays and dramas. After the theatrical crowds, he played with Vasilis Logothetidis' company,

He took part in Enas aprosklitos moussafiris (in which he made his debut on stage) The Trojan War, Rena is Locked Out, Santa Chiquita, Kyrios tou Maxim, etc. He also took part with other performers including Vassilis Argyropoulos, Chrysoula Doxa, Horn

Dimitris Horn

Dimitris Horn was a Greek theatrical and film performer. He is regarded probably as the greatest Greek actor of modern times.-Biography:...

-Lampeti in 1956 and 1957 in the work Vrochopios, Aristocratic Way, Iliopoulos company in which he took part from 1960 until 1962 in works of Alekos Sakellarios

Alekos Sakellarios

Alekos Sakellarios was a Greek writer and a director.He was born in Athens and began to learn journalism and acting at a young age. He wrote his first theatrical play in 1935 called The King of Halva...

, Christos Giannakopoulos, Dimitris Psathas

Dimitris Psathas

Dimitris Psathas was a famous modern Greek satirist and playwright. He was born in Trabzon of Pontos in 1907 and died in Athens in 1979.He went to Athens in 1923 and finished his studies whereby he devoted himself to both journalism and the theatre. In 1937, he published his first book Justice is...

, the play Exochikon kentron o eros, Mistress Vagoni in the company Vembo

Sofia Vembo

Sofia Vembo was a leading Greek singer and actress active from the interwar period to the early postwar years and the 50s. She became best known for her performance of patriotic songs during the Greco-Italian War, when she was dubbed the "Songstress of Victory".Her real name was Efi Bebo...

 (in Stournara 288

Stournara 288

Stournara 288 was a drama by Dinos Dimopoulos with Orestis Makris, Smaroula Giouli, Sofia Vembo, Dionysis Papagiannopoulos. It was bitter and nostalgic eyes on its alienation on Athens' neighbourhoods....

, Anthropoi kai palianthropou), Chatziskou, Samartzis.

With Horn-Lambeti in 1958, they played in the play I kiria me tis kamelies, in which he acted as Varville?. In 1963, he made his own company with his first wife Gely Mavropoulou. Lifted the work Red Lights with Al. Galanos, a play by Norman Krasna

Norman Krasna

Norman Krasna was an American screenwriter, playwright, and film director. He is best known for penning screwball comedies, melodrama, and early films noir. Krasna also directed three films during a forty-year career in Hollywood...

, a play by J. Patrick, and others, one of those he made even on stage.

He made a large a tour in 1965 in Northern Greece. His company featured Dionyssis Papayiannopoulos and played at the Alhambra Theatre. He played with the work by Gerassimos Stavros How I Am Going to Be Rich with Papayiannopoulos, Mavropoulos, Moschidis, Krevata

Marika Krevata

Marika Krevata of Stamatiou was a Greek actress of theatre and film.-Biography:Marika was the daughter of Stamatis Krevatas and Sofias . She was born in Athens in 1910. Krevata lost her father and her little sister Thaleia when she was 2...

, Negkas, Ria Deloutsi, Tsouka, etc. The play did not made any success, it was ended in two months and continued on with a play by Nikos Tsiforos

Nikos Tsiforos

Nikos Tsiforos was a Greek screenwriter and film director. He wrote 64 films between 1948 and 1970. He also directed 17 films between 1948 and 1961.-Biography:...

.

He made his worldwide tour and participated as a company leader with Nikos Xanthopoulos

Nikos Xanthopoulos

Nikos Xanthopoulos is a Greek actor, known for his roles in the sixties era Greek Drama Cinema. He was also a singer of Greek folk bouzouki, having released many albums and singles. He is known as "the child of the folk" mainly for his appeal in the lower working classes...

, Eleni Anoussaki, Vilma Kyrou, Giorgos Konstantinou and Kaiti Papanika, Giorgos Fountas

Giorgos Fountas

Giorgos Fountas was a Greek actor in film and television.He attended the Dramatic School at the Athens Odeum. He played football for some years for AEK Athens FC. He appeared for the first time in the theatre in Nyfiatiko tragoudi and his first film in 1944...

, Giannis Gkionakis, Thanassis Vengos, Martha Vourtsi, Vasilis Diamantopoulos

Vasilis Diamantopoulos

Vasilis Diamamtopoulos was a Greek actor. He was one of the founders of the Modern Theatre and was the first actor to appear live on Greek television in a single act that with his pants of Iakovos Kambanellis in 1966...

 and Petros Fyssoun

Petros Fyssoun

Petros Fyssoun He came to Greece as a child, and graduated from the Dramatic School of Art Theatre in 1954. Until 1956, he collaborated with the Art Theatre of Karolos Koun. From 1961 to 1965, he played lead roles for the National Theatre of Greece, and the same again in 1976-78 for the State...

 mainy with Modern Greek works. He participated in an American

United States

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 tour in 1984 along with Giannis Evangelidis and Sperantza Vrana

Sperantza Vrana

Sperantza Vrana was a Greek actress and writer.She was born as Elpida Homatianou in Messolongi on 6 February, either in 1926 or 1932. She wrote several books with the most famous autobiogrqaphy Tolmo . She died of a heart attack on 29 September 2009, aged either 77 or 83.-Film:-External links:...

 with the play by Giannis Dalianidis

Giannis Dalianidis

Giannis Dalianidis was a Greek director.His first film was Mousitsa, released in 1959, which was followed by a series of musicals. Between 1974 and 1981, he produced the television series Luna Park. In 2002, he was dubbed a "national film hero" at the International Thessaloniki Film...

 Ego psifizo agapi (I Vote for Love). In his last participation on the company, he performed during the mid 1980s

1980s

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He played in around 85 movies. He took part for the first time in film in the movie Koritsi tis tavernas (Κορίτσι της ταβέρνας) by G. Triantafylli. He also played in Fyntanaki (Φυντανάκι) from the same play by Pantelis Horn

Pantelis Horn

Pantelis Horn was a Greek naval officer and playwright, one of the few Greek writers of the early 20th century who devoted themselves solely to theatre. He produced works in the naturalist style....

, Koritsi me ta mavra (Κορίτσι με τα μαύρα) by Michalis Kakogiannis, I Odysseia enos xerizomenou]] (Η Οδύσσεια ενός ξεριζωμένου) by Apostolos Tegopoulos, Battle of Crete

Battle of Crete

The Battle of Crete was a battle during World War II on the Greek island of Crete. It began on the morning of 20 May 1941, when Nazi Germany launched an airborne invasion of Crete under the code-name Unternehmen Merkur...

by Vassilis Georgiadis, Papaflessa by Errikos Andreou, Anthropo me to garyfallo (Άνθρωπο με το γαρύφαλλο) by N. Tzima. nametrisi (Αναμέτρηση) by Karypidis in 1982, as well as Egklima sto Kolonaki (Έγκλημα στο Κολωνάκι), Santa Chiquita, O atsidas

O atsidas

O atsidas is a 1962 Greek comedy film directed by Giorgos Giannis Dalianidis and starring Dinos Iliopoulos, Zoi Laskari and Vangelis Protopappas.-Synopsis:...

(Ο ατσίδας), Gia mia houfta touristes (Για μια χούφτα τουρίστριες), etc.

He also acted in television (Police Stories, Eastern Winds). He was one of the popular characteristics in Greek theater and film, mainly in bitter and unhesitating roles. In his life, he was calm and mild loving man in all of the split acting. He wsa the only person that he liked his studies.

He died on Thursday April 6, 2006 at 8:30 in the morning at the Erythros Stavros Hospital (Red Cross) from breathing problems at the age of 83. He was buried on Saturday April 8 in Peristeri

Peristeri

Peristeri is a suburban municipality in Athens, Greece, located about 5 km NW of the downtown area. The municipality is bordered by the Cephissus/Cephissos River, Athinon Avenue , Chaidari in the west and Petroupoli in the northwest, with a size of around...

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