Dinos Iliopoulos(1913-2001)
- Actor
- Writer
- Director
Born in 1913 (or 1915, according to some sources), in Alexandria,
Egypt, but raised in Marseille, France. His family moved in Athens in
1935. He studied acting at the Drama School of Giannoulis Sarantidis
and made his stage debut in a 1944 Athens production of
Leo Lenz's "Lady I Love You." In 1946, he
became a stage sensation starring opposite
Marika Kotopouli in
Carlo Goldoni's "A Servant of Two Masters"
(as Truffaldino). He never left the stage for the next fifty years,
appearing with great success in ancient
(Aristophanes' "Thesmophoriazouses") and
modern Greek comedies
(Dimitris Psathas' "Thanasakis o
politevomnenos", Alekos Sakellarios'
and Hristos Giannakopoulos' "O
filos mou o Lefterakis"), musicals ("Irma la Douce", "Some like It
Hot") etc. He also became one of the all-time greats of the Greek
cinema, starring in about 90 films. He died of lung infection in 2001.
