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Despo Diamantidou
Born: 13th Jul 1916 Piraeus, Greece - Died 18th Feb 2004
Dept: Acting
Despoina "Despo" Diamantidou (Greek: Δέσπω Διαμαντίδου; 13 July 1916 – 18 February 2004) was a Greek actress. She appeared in more than seventy films from 1949 to 2003. She played Tatiana in Alan King's summer replacement sitcom, Ivan the Terrible starring Lou Jacobi, which aired on ABC from 21 August to 18 September 1976.
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Film and Tv Credits
Total number of credits listed: 58
Film: 53 (91%)
Television: 5 (9%)
Remaining genres not in graph: War
Filmography
Original title: Ο Χάρος Βγήκε Παγανιά
2003
Anna is the Jewish daughter of a Spanish mother and a Greek father. She has returned to her family's house in Greece ... view
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2003
A seaman finds himself out of work and stranded in a distant port. He shares a cheap room. They take turns sleeping, some in the morning, some at nigh ... view
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Original title: Δύσκολοι Αποχαιρετισμοί: Ο μπαμπάς μου
2002
Elias is a 10 year old boy living in Athens with his family in 1969 and has an interest in Jules Verne's stories and in astronomy. His father, with wh ... view
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Grandmother
Original title: Annas Sommer
2001
A widow reminisces on her life after returning to her family home in Greece. ... view
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María
Original title: Ακροπόλ
1996
1950s Athens. Prince, a self-made impresario and the owner of the "Acropole" review theater, fires one of his leading ladies when she shows up drunk o ... view
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Antoni's Mother
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Unknown/various (1 ep.)
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House Owner
Original title: Κραυγή Γυναικών
1978
Melina Mercouri plays Maya, a jet-setting Greek actress who returns to her homeland to undertake the role of Medea. Searching for inspiration and clue ... view
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Maria
1975
In czarist Russia, a neurotic soldier and his distant cousin formulate a plot to assassinate Napoleon. ... view
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Mother
1974
A close-knit Greek-American family, jeopardized when its Manhattan bakery goes up in flames, looks desperately for ways to solve the financial dilemma ... view
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Electra
1973
After being unknowingly inflicted with the bite of a werewolf while on a visit to Europe, White House press secretary Jack Whittier begins to turn int ... view
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Gypsy Woman
1971
A Brooklyn mobster and his gang try to rub out their rivals. ... view
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Mourner
1971
An eccentric woman meets an equally odd man at a group therapy session and they begin a relationship. ... view
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Group Member
1971
In Afghanistan, the ruthless sport of buzkashi is a game of great pride. When Uraz breaks his leg and loses a spirited match, he brings shame to his v ... view
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Uljan (uncredited)
1970
A single mother raises her son in impossible circumstances first in Leningrad, then Krakow, and then France, and is over-ambitious about him but never ... view
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Aniela
1970
In post-war Austria, an opportunistic young man begins working as a footman to a widowed countess and uses his sexual talents to better his station in ... view
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Bobby
Original title: Σύντομο διάλειμμα
1966
Yannis meets and falls in love with the leading actress of a play, Emma. She convinces him to propose one of his plays to the theater director. The di ... view
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Original title: Ντάμα σπαθί
1966
A model (Elena Nathanail) is on vacation with her sailor husband (Thodoros Roumpanis), and she falls in love with an employee (Spyros Fokas) who works ... view
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Marianthi
Original title: Στεφανία
1966
18 year old Stefania is brought to a juvenile reformatory for young prostitutes. The institution is actually a prison, and one of the worst and most s ... view
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Woman Guard
Original title: Όχι κύριε Τζόνσον
1965
A tomato juice seller of a major American company arrives in Greece to promote his company's product. ... view
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Mrs. President
Original title: Διχασμός
1965
A proud sponge-diver revolts against a cruel noblewoman, who exploits the islanders. When she finds out that her daughter is in love with him, she mar ... view
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The Lady
Original title: Η Δε Γυνή Να Φοβήται Τον Άνδρα
1965
When a man decides to marry the woman he's been living with, she stops being the silent patient person she was and claims to be the boss in the house. ... view
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Bebeka
Original title: Αδίστακτοι
1965
After his release from prison, Stathis visits a private investigator, Othonas, whom he had assigned many years ago to find his mother, who has been mi ... view
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Roza
Original title: Το Ρεμάλι της Φωκίωνος Νέγρη
1965
A ruthless young man puts on eye the estate of a girl and after he is presented as in love with her, he is trying to convince her to give him all the ... view
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Dora
Original title: Γάμος αλά... Ελληνικά
1964
Mina is dreaming of becoming a painter and Petros works in a company. They meet and fall in love during the carnival, but later lose contact. They mee ... view
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Mina's mother
1964
Arthur Simon Simpson is a small-time crook biding his time in Greece. One of his potential victims turns out to be a gentleman thief planning to steal ... view
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Voula
Original title: Τα Κόκκινα Φανάρια
1963
The inextricably intertwined stories of five sex workers who live in a brothel at Pireas harbor. ... view
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Madam Pari
Original title: Το Τεμπελόσκυλο
1963
A lazy and wasteful slacker who enjoys living off his hard-working brother reluctantly accepts to work as a debt collector. Now, he is in love, and fo ... view
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Despoina
Original title: Ο μπαμπάς μου κι εγώ
1963
A bankrupt cosmopolitan arrives with his daughter in Lagonisi, with the aim of finding a rich groom to guarantee financially. ... view
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Mrs. Papas
Original title: Προδομένη αγάπη
1962
Anna, who lives with her aunt, is afraid that Stratos, the man she loves, is cheating on her with another woman. She decides to leave for America, whe ... view
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Vicky
Original title: Ο Λουστράκος
1962
The small loustrakos Vasilis Maras alongside the school of fine on the streets of Athens to make money. The mother finds injustice in prison for the m ... view
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Maria's mother
Original title: Μην Ερωτεύεσαι Το Σάββατο...
1962
A streetwise investment broker, who has been tricked into accepting a counterfeit $100 bill by a statuesque con woman, falls in love with her. Against ... view
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woman at hospital
Original title: Ο θάνατος θα ξανάρθει
1961
Adapted from Nikos Foskolos’ theatrical play. On a terribly stormy night, in a secluded hotel, the owner, Brigadier Norton, is murdered. Prime suspe ... view
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Liza
Original title: Η Αλίκη στο Ναυτικό
1961
Aliki is in love with someone who serves his duty in the greek navy. Wanting to see him, she disguises as a navy soldier and gets aboard her lover's s ... view
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Aliki's mother
Original title: Η Χιονάτη Και Τα 7 Γεροντοπαλλήκαρα
1960
Alexia is a young woman who comes from the countryside and is in love with a rich man, Paris, who is studying abroad. Her stepmother treats her cruell ... view
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Aglaia
Original title: Μανταλένα
1960
Madalena is a tough seventeen-year-old who is forced to take on her father's ferry business after he dies. She has her many brothers and sisters to su ... view
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Giokari
Original title: Για Σένα Την Αγάπη Μου
1960
Maroula comes from Syros, established in Athens, to work as a servant in a wealthy home, but the hostess takes her off. So he is forced to seek refuge ... view
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Original title: Το Ραντεβού της Κυριακής
1960
Anthoula has lost her mother and her father is swept away by his new love, Martha, and moves away from Anthoula to live in Aphrodite's house. Aphrodit ... view
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Afroditi
Original title: Ποτέ την Κυριακή
1960
An American scholar in Greece sets about improving the local prostitute with whom he is infatuated. ... view
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Despo
Original title: Το Τελευταίο Ψέμα
1958
A daughter discovers her wealthy family is actually on the verge of bankruptcy and decides to charm a millionaire for his money in marriage. Soon she ... view
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Katy
Original title: Το Κορίτσι με τα Παραμύθια
1956
A young girl, who lives in a poor neighborhood with her little brother, falls in love with a rich young man. ... view
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Lida's mother
Original title: Η Δούκισσα της Πλακεντίας
1956
After leaving Nafplio, the first capital of the newly founded Greek Nation, the affluent French Duchess of Plaisance and ardent philhellene, Sophie de ... view
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Narrator
Original title: Το κορίτσι της γειτονιάς
1954
Spyros, an honest young man from a poor neighborhood, owns a small coffee shop. His only friends are the shoe shiner Tsichlas and the drunkard Barba-S ... view
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Kakia
Original title: Θανασάκης ο Πολιτευόμενος
1954
The young daughter (Anna Synodinou) of a well-off family comes back from Switzerland after completing her studies, married to a young scientist, Thana ... view
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Sofia
Original title: Τα παιδιά της Αθήνας
1949
A rich widower impregnates a poor young woman and dumps her. Her brother, member of a resistance group during the Occupation, tries to mend things up. ... view
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Eleni