Biography

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.
- IMDb mini biography by: landon

Now lives and works in his native Cyprus, acting and directing for the stage.

Returned in the early 1980s in Cyprus where he was acting and directing on theatre and television.

Attends his very first signing show at Birmingham.

Studied at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London.