Paul Stassino(1930-2012)
- Actor
- Writer
Phaedros Stassinos was a Greek-Cypriot actor whose international stage
name was Paul Stassino. He was born in Cyprus but at age 17 left for the
U.K. to study at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London. Spent
most of his acting career in Britain. He appeared in British TV dramas
such as Danger Man (1960) and The Saint (1962). Best known performance was in the
James Bond film Thunderball (1965) when he played two parts, Major François
Derval and Angelo Palazzi. Other roles include "Le Pirate" in That Riviera Touch (1966), and the first officer of the Colombian ship Paloma in
Tiger Bay (1959). Left the U.K in the seventies to manage a casino in
Athens, Greece. In the 1980s returned to his homeland of Cyprus. He
had three children from two marriages: two from his British first wife,
who live in the U.K. and one, from his Greek second wife, who lives in Greece.
