Alekos Tzanetakos

Alekos Tzanetakos

Acting

January 1, 1937 — April 11, 2010
Athens, Greece
81 movies

Biography

Alekos Tzanetakos (Greek: Αλέκος Τζανετάκος, 1937–2010) was a Greek film actor and screenwriter. He was born in Maniatika, Piraeus, in 1937. He studied at the Karolos Koun School of Theatre Arts and the Lykourgos Stavrakos Higher Film School. He made his theatre debut in 1957 with the troupe of Alekos Sakellarios and Christos Giannakopoulos in the play "Our People", while with the Thessaloniki Regional Theatre of Kostas Hatziskos he also appeared in classical repertoire roles. He first appeared...

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Welcome Dollar
7.1

Philip (Giorgos Constantinou), a shy and dignified accountant and English teacher, lives with his mother (Zoli Garbi) and his two siblings in the same house. His and his mother's meager income, just enough to support them all. His younger brother (Alekos Tzanetakos) remains unemployed and lazy rather out of conscience, while his older brother, Kimon (Orpheus Zachos), dreams of being re-elected prefect and refuses, although a qualified accountant, to work, considering the positions demeaning and irrelevant offered to him. His tragic financial situation will be further burdened by their imminent forced move to another house. It is also the first color Greek film, edited entirely in Greece. It is based on the play "The 6th American Fleet" by Alek Sakellarios and Christos Giannakopoulos, who also wrote the screenplay, while Sakellarios directed the film.

Welcome Dollar

1967
Ship Owner Without Wanting To
3.0

Manolis Sideris is a charming young man, a first-class "ladies' man." One day in Syntagma, the hangout of ladies' men, while he manages to "pick up" a flight attendant named Daisy, pretending to be a shipowner, he happens to be watched by the real shipowner Manolis Karnezis, known for his Daisy, pretending to be a shipowner, he is spotted by the real shipowner Manolis Karnezis, known for his pranks, who admires his talent. For fun, he lends him his name, his car, his chauffeur, and his mansion, as well as money for Daisy's whims. Manolis begins to live the high life and seems to be in his element, but the situation is turned upside down by the dynamic intervention of Karnezis' wife, Elena, who, alerted by her maid, cuts short her vacation and returns home furious. When the deception is revealed, Karnezis promises his wife that he will not play any more pranks, and Daisy agrees to marry Sideris.

Ship Owner Without Wanting To

1971
The cleaners

When Flora realizes that there is no way she can marry Kyriakos, with the three and twenty she saves per month, she decides to commit a robbery. That is, just enough to cover the wedding expenses. In this way, she also lures Kyriakos into this illegal act. However, the children are unlucky, because as soon as they enter the target they have chosen to rob, they are trapped in the building's elevator and stay there all night. When they are finally released in the morning, they are confronted by the store's employees and customers and are forced to immobilize them with their weapons in order to leave. However, the misfortune continues because the cleaning lady, who locked the door, lost the keys and so they have to wait for the locksmith. However, instead of the locksmith, the police arrive...

The cleaners

1987
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