Titos Vandis
| Titos Vandis | |
|---|---|
| Born | 7 November 1917 Salonika, Greece |
| Died | Script error: The function "death_date_and_age" does not exist. Athens, Greece |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Years active | 1953–2000 |
Titos Vandis (Greek: Τίτος Βανδής; 7 November 1917 – 23 February 2003) was a Greek actor who appeared in more than 100 films and television shows between 1953 and 2000.[1] He left Greece when a dictatorship took power and lived in the United States for 24 years.[2]
Vandis starred in the film Oi paranomoi (1958), which was entered into the 8th Berlin International Film Festival.[1] In 1972, he appeared in the Woody Allen film Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex* (*But Were Afraid to Ask) as an Armenian shepherd who was in love with a sheep.[3] In The Exorcist (1973), he had a small role as the uncle of protagonist Father Damien Karras.[4]
Vandis was a guest-star in 1976 on the NBC situation comedy The Practice, playing Nicolas in the episode "The Nose." On The A-Team, he guest-starred in the episode "Body Slam" (1985) alongside Hulk Hogan.[5]
Vandis appeared in over 250 plays before making his Broadway debut[6] in the Tony-nominated musical On A Clear Day You Can See Forever (1965). He created the role of Themistocles Kriakos, a Greek shipping magnate who believed in reincarnation and planned to leave his fortune to his future self.[7] Boston Globe critic Kevin Kelly wrote that Vandis played the role with "marvellous finesse" and that the character was "rather like Zorba as a businessman with $4 million."[8]
He later joined the cast of Man of La Mancha playing the role of Sancho Panza. Vandis was also in the original Broadway cast of Illya Darling (1967), a Tony-nominated musical[9] based on his film Never On Sunday (1960).[10]
Selected filmography
- Oi paranomoi (1958)
- Astero (1959)
- Never on Sunday (1960)
- Egklima sta paraskinia (1960)
- Topkapi (1964)
- Stiletto (1969)
- Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex* (*But Were Afraid to Ask) (1972)
- Genesis II (1973)
- The Exorcist (1973)
- Black Samson (1974)
- A Piece of the Action (1977)
- The Other Side of Midnight (1977)
- A Perfect Couple (1979)
- Young Doctors in Love (1982)
- National Lampoon's Movie Madness (1983)
- Fletch Lives (1989)
References
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External links
- Titos Vandis at the Internet Movie Database
- Titos Vandis at the Internet Broadway DatabaseLua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 28: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).
