Giorgos Fountas was a phenomenon of his kind
Thirteen years have passed today since the death of Giorgos Foundas, which for moviegoers was an authentic popular idol. He stood out, not only for the way he acted, but also for the way he hugged and kissed his co-stars on screen.
Finos Film with a post on her social media and a video with clips from the movies “Too Late for Tears” and “Goodbye Life” honors the remarkable actor.
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“Giorgos Fountas was a phenomenon of his kind. He performed with an explosive temperament great roles of hard and frivolous men who succumb to their passions, while he had the gift of winning the viewer and identifying with their anxieties, winning fanatical fans.
His talent went beyond the borders of our country and he was distinguished for roles in great films such as “Stella”, “The Girl in Black”, “Never on Sunday”, “Red Lights” and “Zorbas”. Giorgos Fountas left us on November 28, 2010“, she says in her post.
Giorgos Fountas was born on June 3, 1924, in Mavrolithari, Fokida. When he was young, he came with his large family to Athens and lived in Rizoupoli. After finishing primary school, he started working at his father’s dairy in Psirri, threshing Athens with a bicycle. He attends night school, plays boxing and football at AEK, although he will later become known as a fan of Panathinaikos.
The cinema always fascinated him and when he was given the opportunity he took part in the tests of the film by Giorgos Tzavellas “Applause” (1943). He won a small role, getting his baptism of fire on the big screen. He then studied acting at the Drama School of the Athens Conservatory, with the leading Greek actor Emilios Veakis as his teacher.
Fantaros makes his first theatrical appearance at the “Peroke” theater, with “The Wedding Song” by Notis Pergialis. He then collaborated with the Moussouri troupe and the Katerina troupe. At the beginning of 1951, he met Fino and played in “Dead State” by Frixos Iliadis, which was screened at the Cannes Film Festival and made the protagonist, Irini Pappa, known to the international audience.
In the same year he participates in the emblematic neo-realist drama of Grigoris Grigoriou “Bitter Bread” and in 1954 he stars in “Magic City” by Nikos Koundouros, where he becomes more widely known.
A stop in his career is the love drama of Michalis Kakogiannis “Stella” (1955). The “Go away, Stella, I’m holding a knife!” line he uttered to his co-star Melina Merkouris remains a classic. The film won the “Golden Globe” for best foreign film and Giorgos Fountas is starting to become known abroad.
A special year was 1963, when “Red Lights” by Vassilis Georgiadis arrived one step ahead of the Foreign Film Oscar (losing it to “Octomisi” by Fellini). In the same year, he met the slender dancer Chrysoula Zoka (1931-2015). He falls head over heels in love with her and marries her in a second marriage. Panos’ son comes to complete their happiness. He had two more children from his first marriage.
In 1973, he made his television debut with the series “Possession”, which was the first international co-production of Greek television. In the following years, he starred in two television series (“Christ is crucified again”, “Galini”), which were shown on public television and left an era.
Giorgos Fountas died on November 28, 2010, at the age of 86. In the last decade of his life he suffered from Alzheimer’s disease.
Source :Skai
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