Thanasis Veggos
Personal Info
Known For Actor
Gender Male
Birthday 1927-05-29
Deathday 2011-05-03 (83 years old)
Place of Birth Piraeus, Greece
Also Known As Thanasis Vengos, Thanassis Veggos, Thanassis Vengos, Thanasis Vegos, Θανασης Βεγγος, Θανάσης Βέγγος
Thanasis Veggos
Biography
Thanasis Veggos (29 May 1926 – 3 May 2011) was a Greek actor and director born in Neo Faliro, Piraeus. He performed in around 130 films, predominantly comedies in the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s, starring in more than 50 among them. He is considered one of the best Greek comedy actors of all time. His famous comedic catchphrase was "Καλέ µου άνθρωπε" ("My good man"). Veggos' first appearance in a film was in Windfall in Athens, produced by Mihalis Kakogiannis, which premiered in Athens as Kiriakatiko Xsipnima on 11 January 1954. Nikos Koundouros gave him a role in Magiki polis in 1955. His first major role was in Psila ta heria Hitler ("Hands Up, Hitler"), 1962 and continued many more films. For his acting in What did you do in the war, Thanasi? (1971), the public of Thessaloniki °apotheosized° him and the movie won three awards at the Thessaloniki International Film Festival. He often played everyman characters struggling to get by, but he has also played anti-heroes, he has acted in pure dramas, and on stage in the comedies of Aristophanes. His characters were often self-named "Thanasis". He often worked with directors Panos Glykofridis and Giorgos Lazaridis. In 1995, Theo Angelopoulos cast Veggos and American actor Harvey Keitel in "Ulysses Gaze". In 1997, in the role of Dikaiopoli he appeared in a live performance at the ancient Epidaurus theater. In 2000, he survived a car accident involving a collision with a train. He later participated in advertisements promoting road safety. A documentary of his life, whose title translates as A Man for All Seasons, was made in 2004. He always did his own stunts including the most dangerous ones, like hanging from a rope tied to a balcony fifty feet above a pavement without anything to break his fall, walking through a glass door, or falling down a stone staircase head first. During the "Golden Sixties" of the Greek film industry he made his most popular comedy films such as the sequel of Secret Agent 000, Papatrehas, Enas trellos Vengos and many others, also with surrealist humor, most of them by his own company Θ-Β Comedies (Θ-Β Tainies Geliou) which founded in 1964. In 2008, Veggos was appointed Commander of the Order of the Phoenix by the President of Greece, Karolos Papoulias. On 3 May 2011, he died at 7:10 a.m. He had been hospitalized at the Red Cross hospital, in Athens, since 18 December 2010. He is survived by his wife Asimina and two sons. He will always be remembered in the more than 120 films and more recent documentaries that he starred in. The phrase "τρέχει σαν το Βέγγο" (English translation: "runs like Veggos") has been adopted into common usage in the Greek language since nobody has run more or faster than Veggos in his many slapstick comedies.
Known For
Actor
as a Father
as Κυρ-Κυριάκος
as Self
as Λύσσανδρος
as Linos
as Antonis
as Taxi Driver
as Thanasis
as Thanasis
as Thanasis Rodinos / Mother
as Thanasis Manaris / Sakis
as Thanasis Pitas
as Thanasis Koukouras
as Thanasis
as Thanasis Apaloheris
as Thanasis Trampas
as Thanasis Maganas
as Thanasis Mpesagiampesas
as Thanasis Chatziathanasopoulos
as Thanasis Papathanasis
as Thanasis
as Thanasis Vengos
as Thanasis / Athanasia / Lefteris
as Thanasis Delithanasis
as Thanasis Zevedaios
as Thanasis
as Thanasis
as Thanasis Karathanasis
as Thanasis Hatzifapas
as Thanasis Karathanasis
as Thanasis Hatzikarathanasis
as Thou-Vou
as Thanasis Hatzipapageorgakopoulokonstadinogiannopoulos
as Thanasis Trikorfos
as Thanasis
as Agathoklis
as Thou Vou (Athanasios Bobas)
as Thanasis
as Polydoros Lagos
as Thanasis
as Kanellos Karabatsas
as Thanasis Koutras
as Antonis Tsilivikis
as Polykarpos Kolovos
as Babis
as Frixos
as Thanasis Soukouroglou / Stamatis Soukouroglou / Boulis Hatzifrydis
as Stefanos Avgerinos
as Thanasis Birbilis
as Thanasis Foukaras
as Ιππόλυτος
as Errikos Delaportas
as Panagis Papapanagopoulos
as Harilaos
as Panagis
as Thanasis
as Mitros
as Frixos
as Thrasyvoulos
as Romeos
as Andreas
as Loukas
as Priest
as Petros Valdis
as Manolis
as Thymios
as Vrasidas
as Vangelis
as Partsaklis
as Karderinas
as Grigoris Ladias
as Detective Van Gray
as hotel owner
as Περιπτεράς
as Policeman
as receptionist
as Salesman
as Manetas
as Car Workshoper
as Thanasis
as Janitor
as Kotsos
as Spyros
as Polydoros
as Mitros
as Thomas Kalafatis
as Foivos
as Thomas
as Vangelis
as Ice Seller
as waiter
as Doctor
as Dr. Giannis Papadopoulos
as Waiter
as Harilaos
as Thodoros' assistant
as husband
as Sirios's assistant
as Papalaris
as Taxi Driver
as Policeman
as Sailor
as Spathis
as Thanasis
Producer
as Producer
as Producer
as Producer
as Producer
as Producer
as Producer
as Producer
as Producer
as Producer
as Producer
as Producer
as Producer
Director
as Director
as Director
as Director
as Director
as Director
as Director
as Director
as Director
as Assistant Director
Writer
as Writer