Takis Hristoforidis

Takis Hristoforidis

Acting

January 1, 1914 — January 17, 1973
Constantinople, Ottoman Empire [now Istanbul, Turkey]
43 movies

Biography

Takis Christoforidis (Istanbul 1914-Athens 1973) was a Greek actor and cousin of fellow actor Pericles Christoforidis. He played mainly secondary comic roles and became known through the role of the nervous or the mad doctor, who had a tic. Actor (member of the Greek National Theatre Association since 1937) scion of the well-known Christoforidis theatrical family. At the beginning of his career he collaborated with prose troupes and with the National Theatre (1936-41). Thus, in the period 1939-...

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The child of the square
6.7

An unemployed man (Kostas Chatzichristos), prone to endless amusements, economically sucks his uncle (Periklis Christoforidis) in order to satisfy his desires. His despair, when his uncle decides to stop the economic benefits, will lead him to sell some furniture of the house. He sells four armchairs and then he learns that in one of them were hidden precious jewels of the aunt. He looks desperately to find and to get them back, but he only discovers three of them, and in these there is no trace of jewelry. To find the fourth and lucky one, whose traces are completely ignored, he accepts partnered with a friend (Takis Christoforidis). He is transformed into an organized, consistent and good working man, and falls in love with his sister's partner (Stella Stratigou) and discovers that the fourth chair was held by his uncle, who set up this whole story to motivate him and make him active.

The child of the square

1961
Lisa, Tosca of Athens
5.6

Lisa (Xenia Kalogeropoulou) runs away from her father at the Athens airport because she does not want to marry a rich man from Paris whom her father has chosen for her. She hitchhikes to the city, where she meets Giorgos (Kostas Kakkavas) a handsome driver. Then, she runs away from him as well and tries to find her mother’s brother (Iordanis), whom she has never seen before. Her father publishes her photo in the newspapers and offers a reward of one hundred thousand drachmas to anyone who finds her. Lisa is now afraid that everyone can identify her, and so, in order to hide, she mingles with a group of tourists. However, she is unaware that her uncle is their guide. Giorgos has followed her in order to find out the reason she left him so suddenly, takes her in his car one more time, and they spend the night together.

Lisa, Tosca of Athens

1959
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