Foivos Taxiarhis

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Acting

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0.4101

Gender

Male

Birthday

01-Jan-1926

Age

(100 years old)

Place of Birth

Fokida, Greece

Also Known As

Φοίβος Ταξιάρχης
Φοιβος Ταξιαρχης
Phoivos Taxiarchis
Foivos Taxiarchis
Fivos Taxiarhis

Foivos Taxiarhis

Biography

Phoivos Kollias (Φοίβος Κόλλιας) , known by his stage name Phoivos Taxiarchis (Φοίβος Ταξιάρχης , Kaloskopi, Phocis, 1926 - October 11, 2007) was a Greek actor. He made his debut in theater in 1951, in cinema in 1978 and on television in 1975. He was a Resistance fighter, and he played in the well-known television play Christ is Crucified Again, in which Alexis Golfis also played.

Credits

Γερακίνα (1958) Character: N/A
Maro, the daughter of shepherd Panos, is in love with his son, Liakos. They want to marry but his father does not agree.

Οι Νέοι Θέλουν να Ζήσουν (1965) Character: N/A
George and Effie, high school sweethearts from poor families, dream of becoming a teacher and a research physicist, respectively. Despite their teacher’s support, George fails his university exams and moves to Athens for work, finding only temporary construction jobs. Effie, pressured by her father’s financial struggles, agrees to marry a wealthy man to support her family, despite her love for George. Heartbroken by Effie’s marriage and facing unemployment, George decides to emigrate to Germany, ending their love story tragically.

Η φόνισσα (1974) Character: N/A
An adaptation of one of the greatest greek novellas ('The Murderess' by Alexandros Papadiamantis). Fragkogiannou (Maria Alkaiou), a hard-done by, deranged woman after a life full of hardship, recalls the past by her newborn girl grandchild’s crib. Her mother was a wicked woman and one of her sons was a criminal. Lost in a haze, she strangles the baby as she is concvinced that girls can cause their family only trouble. Later, she lets a little girl drown in a well, while she drowns three other little girls, one of whom is a newborn baby. This is her way of sparing children and parents of the inevitable suffering in life.

Η Νεράιδα και το Παληκάρι (1969) Character: Mayor
Fourtounakis’ daughter, Katerinio, is forced to get engaged with a brutal Cretan, Skandalakis. But the return of Manousos Vrontakis from Athens and his flirtation with the girl leads to a great romance, without them knowing that they belong to families who are longstanding enemies.

Η Κόρη Του Ήλιου (1971) Character: N/A
The plain of Thessaly, 1910. The tenant farmers suffer untold hardships, both from the Arvanites invaders who ravage and seize their possessions and from the chief landlord of the area Stratos Karatzas, who claims the lion’s share of their harvest. The dynamic daughter of one of the tenant farmers, Maya, who is about to get married to a young farmer, Lefteris, leads their struggle for better conditions and confronts Karatzas – as well as his niece Vgenio, who also wants Lefteris. The latter plots and succeeds to separate them. Lefteris leaves for the army and Karatzas persuades Maya to marry him. Lefteris is captured during an ambush set by the Turks, but in the end he is set free and returns to Maya’s arms forever.

Αστραπόγιαννος (1970) Character: N/A
The battle-scarred hero of the Greek Revolution, Giannos "Astrapogiannos", returns home after the end of the blood-soaked War of Independence, only to find himself in a new conflict, as he locks horns with a ruthless local Kodjabashis.

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