Cast

Thanasis Veggos

Acting

Cast

Thanasis Veggos

Known for

Acting

Born

1927-05-29

From

Piraeus, Greece

Died

2011-05-03

Also known as Thanasis Vengos, Thanassis Veggos, Thanassis Vengos

Biography

Thanasis Veggos (Greek: Θανάσης Βέγγος, 29 May 1926 – 3 May 2011) was a Greek actor and director born in Neo Faliro, Piraeus. He performed in around 130 films, predominantly comedies in the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s, starring in more than 50 among them. He is considered one of the best Greek comedy actors of all time. His famous comedic catchphrase was "Καλέ µου άνθρωπε" ("My good man"). Veggos' first appearance in a film was in Windfall in Athens, produced by Mihalis Kakogiannis, which premiered in Athens as Kiriakatiko Xsipnima on 11 January 1954. Nikos Koundouros gave him a role in Magiki polis in 1955. His first major role was in Psila ta heria Hitler ("Hands Up, Hitler"), 1962 and continued many more films. For his acting in What did you do in the war, Thanasi? (1971), the public of Thessaloniki °apotheosized° him and the movie won three awards at the Thessaloniki International Film Festival. He often played everyman characters struggling to get by, but he has also played anti-heroes, he has acted in pure dramas, and on stage in the comedies of Aristophanes. His characters were often self-named "Thanasis". He often worked with directors Panos Glykofridis and Giorgos Lazaridis. In 1995, Theo Angelopoulos cast Veggos and American actor Harvey Keitel in "Ulysses Gaze". In 1997, in the role of Dikaiopoli he appeared in a live performance at the ancient Epidaurus theater. In 2000, he survived a car accident involving a collision with a train. He later participated in advertisements promoting road safety. A documentary of his life, whose title translates as A Man for All Seasons, was made in 2004. He always did his own stunts including the most dangerous ones, like hanging from a rope tied to a balcony fifty feet above a pavement without anything to break his fall, walking through a glass door, or falling down a stone staircase head first. During the "Golden Sixties" of the Greek film industry he made his most popular comedy films such as the sequel of Secret Agent 000, Papatrehas, Enas trellos Vengos and many others, also with surrealist humor, most of them by his own company Θ-Β Comedies (Θ-Β Tainies Geliou) which founded in 1964. In 2008, Veggos was appointed Commander of the Order of the Phoenix by the President of Greece, Karolos Papoulias. On 3 May 2011, he died at 7:10 a.m. He had been hospitalized at the Red Cross hospital, in Athens, since 18 December 2010. He is survived by his wife Asimina and two sons. He will always be remembered in the more than 120 films and more recent documentaries that he starred in. The phrase "τρέχει σαν το Βέγγο" (English translation: "runs like Veggos") has been adopted into common usage in the Greek language since nobody has run more or faster than Veggos in his many slapstick comedies. (Source: Wikipedia)

Thanasis Veggos

Thanasis Veggos

Biography

Crazy, Nuts and Vengos

Hands Up, Hitler

Experts on the Football Field

Who Thanasis!

Desires in the Straw

He's a Mad Mad Veggos

Χίλια Χρόνια Πριν - Βυζάντιο: Η Γιορτή των Καλενδών

Ulysses' Gaze

Μυρτιά

An Unbelievable Sucker

I'll Make You Queen

It's a Long Road

The Enigma

Madalena

Champion

One Vengos for All Jobs

Thanasis, o vomvistis

The Hustler

Thou-Vou Bald Agent, Operation: Havoc

O Ippolytos kai to violi tou

The Underdog

Come on People

The Wicked World of Thanasis

School for Chauffeur Ladies

Bed for Five

The Wooden Shoe, the Gun and the Bow Tie

Runaway Bride

Happy Bums

The Man Who Ran a Lot

The lucky pants

The Dawn of Triumph

Dictator calls Thanasis

Min eidate ton Panai?

Doctor Z-Vengos

Thanasis in the country of Will

Lost dreams

Blind Angel

Holidays in Vietnam

A Water Mrs. Baggelio

The Uncle from Canada

Καταδικασμένη και από το παιδί της

Thanasis and the Cursed Serpent

Crazy of all Greece

Holidays in Aegina

The Bus Conductor

The Flight of the Swan

The Fairy Tale Girl

The Charlatan

Just for One Night

Never on Sunday

The Jar

The King of Gaffes

Diamanto

Karagiozis, the Wronged One of Life

What Did You Do in the War, Thanassi?

Papatrechas

The Policeman of the 16th Precinct

Help! Vengos Visible Agent '000'

Maria Pentagiotissa

The Wise Guy

Vengos the Crazy Kamikaze

Mimikos and Mary

Lisa and the Other Woman

A Girl in Black

Jack of All Trades, Master of None

Thieves Rejoice Only Once

The Ogre of Athens

With Heart & Soul

Erotic Stories

Sharp as a Needle

Quiet Days in August

The Magic City

Thanasis, Take Your Gun

The Dervish Boys

Which Way to the Septic Tank?

The Tomboy

Three Ladies and me