Mihalis Giannatos
Michalis Giannatos (Greek: Μιχάλης Γιαννάτος; 11 July 1941 – 17 September 2013), alternatively spelled as Michael Yannatos, was a Greek actοr.
Ηe was born in (Istanbul), Turkey. He left the city for Greece in 1964 during the long expulsion of Istanbul Greeks.
He studied in Konstantinos Demopoulos' school of drama and first appeared as a professional actor in Georgios Zervoulakos' film Oi stigmatismenoi (Greek: Οι στιγματισμένοι) in 1966. When still a student, he participated in the theatrical play Capetan Michalis (Greek: Καπετάν Μιχάλης) next to Manos Katrakis.
During his long cinematic career, he appeared in close to 100 films, television series and plays. He was a regular in Theodoros Angelopoulos films since he was one of the director's favorite actors. After Megalexandros (Greek: Μεγαλέξανδρος) in 1981, Angelopoulos was always calling him to play in his movies.
He was fluent in five languages; Greek, Turkish, French, Italian and Spanish. Due to that, he appeared in many international productions, including Midnight Express, Captain Corelli's Mandolin, Munich and more.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 0.2854 |
| Birthday | 1941-07-11 |
| Place of Birth | Constantinople, Turkey |
| Also Known As | Μιχάλης Γιαννάτος , Michalis Giannatos, Mihail Giannatos, Michael Jannatos, Mihalis Yanatos, Michael Yannatos, Michalis Yannatos, Mihalis Yannatos, Μιχαλης Γιαννατος, |
2001
Captain Corelli's Mandolin
5.959/567
When a fisherman leaves to fight with the Greek army during World War II, his fiancée falls in love with the local Italian commander.
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Captain Corelli's Mandolin
1996
Orpheus Descending
8/2
Eurydice is a singer in a group that plays in country fairs. The group is not successful and Eurydice gets convinced by a rich farmer to follow him to...
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Orpheus Descending
2005
Το όνειρο του Ίκαρου
0/0
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Το όνειρο του Ίκαρου
1987
Pretty Smart
4.833/24
In this adolescent-oriented drama, a young woman is forced to attend a posh finishing school in the Mediterranean. She vents her anger by rebelling ag...
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Pretty Smart
2005
Munich
7.134/2982
During the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich, eleven Israeli athletes are taken hostage and murdered by a Palestinian terrorist group known as Black Septem...
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Munich
1995
Τράνζιτο
10/1
An extreme passion that overturns the balance and changes the life course of a woman. Anna is a successful journalist with impeccable image and perfec...
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Τράνζιτο
1991
The Suspended Step of the Stork
6.85/60
A reporter notices an old man in a border town who may be an important Greek politician who disappeared mysteriously years ago.
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The Suspended Step of the Stork
1988
Landscape in the Mist
7.638/221
Two Greek children embark on a journey to search for their father, who supposedly lives in Germany.
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Landscape in the Mist
2003
A Touch of Spice
6.662/133
"A Touch of Spice" is a story about Fanis, a young Greek boy growing up in Istanbul, whose grandfather, a culinary philosopher and mentor, teaches him...
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A Touch of Spice
1983
Caution, Danger!
8.5/2
A brutal father, shaped by the right-wing deep state, forces his two sons and daughter into deadly ambushes to rob passing cars.
Bound by an incestuo...
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Caution, Danger!
1983
Misunderstanding
9/1
Dimitris Lembessis gets out of prison, pays his friend Stratos a visit and kills him. With Ilias he organizes a big jewel heist. During the operation...
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Misunderstanding
2005
My Family and Other Animals
6.442/26
Escaping the dreary wet weather of 1930s England, an eccentric family uproot and ship themselves to the sunnier climes of the Greek island of Corfu.
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My Family and Other Animals
1999
The Flower of the Lake
7/2
1900, Kastoria, Western Macedonia. Greeks, Turks, Jews, and other nationalities live together under the Ottoman Empire, amid the despair, instability,...
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The Flower of the Lake
2004
The Weeping Meadow
7.539/103
The story follows a family of refugees from the early twentieth century through to the Civil War. Through movements, separations, and reunions, person...
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The Weeping Meadow
1995
Someone Else's America
6.944/9
This tale takes place in a bar. The Spanish Alonso and his blind mother run this place. Bay, who is Alonso's friend live here too. This story tells so...
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Someone Else's America
1980
Alexander the Great
6.815/27
Alexander, a tribal warlord and former political prisoner, kidnaps British tourists, holding them for ransom until Britain and the Greek puppet govern...
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Alexander the Great
1986
The Beekeeper
7.021/71
Following the wedding of his daughter, stone-faced beekeeper Spyros makes an annual journey from the north of Greece to the south, traveling along wit...
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The Beekeeper
1971
What Did You Do in the War, Thanassi?
6.308/13
A wild tale of mistaken identity set during the Nazi occupation of Greece and starring the great Thanasis Vengos. Thanasis is called upon, during the...
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What Did You Do in the War, Thanassi?
1986
The Wind
5.18/25
Mystery writer Sian Anderson leaves her boyfriend John for three weeks of intense writing in the isolated Greek town of Monemvassia. Upon her arrival...
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The Wind
2003
To the Inn
0/0
Zissos and Apostolos are two Greeks living in a city in the Ottoman East in the early 20th century. A load of pounds will throw them into wandering an...
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To the Inn
2002
By Accident Policeman
7/1
The classic comedy, Alekos Sakellarios, Christos Giannakopoulos, "Ilias the 16th", which was performed in the summer of 2002 at the theater "Minoa" en...
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By Accident Policeman
1985
Bordello
5.5/12
Crete 1897. Greek rebels gained their freedom by fighting in the mountains. An allied fleet of French, English, Italian and Russian warships anchored...
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Bordello
1980
Vengos the Crazy Kamikaze
5.625/8
A breadwinner, Thanasis Trampas, decides to open a shop renting motorbikes. When the local bikers begin to bother him, he turns into a kamikaze to dea...
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Vengos the Crazy Kamikaze
1973
The Warriors of Peace
7/1
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The Warriors of Peace
1973
Dictator calls Thanasis
5.25/4
The adventures of a photographer, who undertook to take a photographs of exiled dictator from South America and eventually found chased without knowin...
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Dictator calls Thanasis
1971
Carefree... Nut
5/5
In this color comedy Thanasis trying for years to leave illegally for America to make his life because due to financial can not pay fares, but always...
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Carefree... Nut
1984
Voyage to Cythera
7.009/56
An old communist returning to Greece after 32 years in the Soviet Union is disillusioned with the state of things.
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Voyage to Cythera
1976
Thanasis in the land of the cuff
7/2
The movie is about dictatorships in Greece – first, the Metaxas regime (1936-1940), and then the Colonels’ Junta (1967-74). In Part One, the Metaxas r...
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Thanasis in the land of the cuff
1979
The Wicked World of Thanasis
5.75/4
The film presents seven short stories of everyday madness: parking in Athens. Thanasis, the soccer referee. Thanasis, the projectionist at a porn thea...
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The Wicked World of Thanasis
1973
The Charlatan
9/1
An immigrant in Germany works hard to support his father and sister, who live in Greece. When he is forced to return home, he discovers that he has no...
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The Charlatan
1973
The Man Who Ran a Lot
6/5
Thanasis Zevedaios (Thanasis Vengos) has a shop with watches and running but not enough! Time and the clocks have become obsessed after running nonsto...
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The Man Who Ran a Lot
1978
A Walk in the Sun
4.5/6
Tore Andersson is a depressed 43 year old sport journalist living in Stockholm. His girlfriend has left him so he decides to take a vacation in Cyprus...
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A Walk in the Sun
1978
1922
5.692/13
Based on the book by Ilias Venezis "The Number 31328", the film by Nikos Koundouros unfolds through the personal tragedies of three characters, the As...
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1922
1998
Eternity and a Day
7.8/212
Famous writer Alexander contracts a terminal illness. He receives a letter from his wife describing a summer day 30 years ago, and leaves his seaside...
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Eternity and a Day
1968
The Lady and the Tramp
5.714/21
Rena’s father insists on marrying her off to the son of a shipowner. Rena, however, doesn’t even want to hear about it, so she runs away and disguises...
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The Lady and the Tramp
1980
Taste from Greece
6.5/2
Anthology film with a number of sketches that satirize modern Greece.
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Taste from Greece
2001
Anna's Summer
5.286/7
A widow reminisces on her life after returning to her family home in Greece.
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Anna's Summer
1995
Ulysses' Gaze
7.426/122
An exiled filmmaker finally returns to his home country where former mysteries and afflictions of his early life come back to haunt him once more.
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Ulysses' Gaze
1996
The Lost Treasure of Hursit Pasha
4/6
On 29 January 1993 eighty prisoners escaped from an Athens prison. Well, in actual fact one convict escaped, a guy named Vassilis, for his beloved in...
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The Lost Treasure of Hursit Pasha
1978
Midnight Express
7.4/1883
Billy Hayes is caught attempting to smuggle drugs out of a country. The courts decide to make an example of him, sentencing him to more than 30 years...
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Midnight Express
2002
The Bubble
5.286/7
Makis , a man with difficulties in the stock market, falls for Roula , who is the mistress of a big tycoon , which Makis has invested in. Makis become...
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The Bubble
2008
The Policeman of the 16th Precinct
5.1/14
Elias of the 16th Precinct follows three friends – Elias, Thomas and Vangelis – who face considerable financial hurdles with their debts rivalling the...
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The Policeman of the 16th Precinct
1975
Bouzanka à la... Greek
8/1
A Naive man from the countryside, affected by the famous Italian cine star Lado Bouzanka and his ladiesman ways, travels to Athens in order to act in...
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Bouzanka à la... Greek
1990
Η εκδίκηση του Πατέρα
7/1
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Η εκδίκηση του Πατέρα
1983
Kamikazi, agapi mou
5.975/20
Stathis loves bikes, Rena wants to dance all the time and Aleksis goes crazy for rock music. They are three crazy siblings. One of them, Stathis, does...
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Kamikazi, agapi mou
1979
The Street Smarts
5.25/8
Babis (Nikos Rizos), after his release, finds it difficult to balance between the groups with the guys and jobber of Piraeus, and the strict surveilla...
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The Street Smarts
1986
Ένας Τρελός... Τρελός Ονειροπαρμένος
0/0
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Ένας Τρελός... Τρελός Ονειροπαρμένος
1999
America
10/1
A man sees a poster of an old movie that he claims to have acted in
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America
1987
Hamos sto Aigaleo City
0/0
Tamtakos has a goat, Sardanafalos, and exploits its reproduction with the goats of the area. However, he falls into the trap of the tax authorities, w...
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Hamos sto Aigaleo City
1982
The Bleeding Statues
10/1
A group of minors escape from a reformatory and lock themselves in a museum on an island, threatening to destroy the statues if their demands are not...
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The Bleeding Statues
1987
O efialtis
0/0
Dimitris Apostolou is a successful lawyer and former minister. He lives peacefully with his wife and daughter, leading an uneventful family life. Tass...
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O efialtis
2001
Alexandros and Aishe
8/1
A Christian boy and a Muslim girl fall in a forbidden love in the town of Komotini. They decide to escape together, but the Turkish consul has another...
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Alexandros and Aishe
1990
The Serpent of Death
3.6/5
An archaelogist falls under the spell of a statue with a curse on it.
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The Serpent of Death
1988
A Madhouse Named "Hellas"
7.333/3
Thanasis lives in today's conditions, where Greece is a madhouse. A police sergeant after many years of impeccable service, he anxiously awaits his lo...
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A Madhouse Named "Hellas"
1982
Trip to the Capital
8/1
Manolis finishes his military service and stays in the capital, at his uncle's house (Kostas Kazakos). He finds a job and tries to build a life for hi...
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Trip to the Capital
1991
Filming Under Pressure
0/0
A doc made during the nightmarish filming of The Suspended Step of the Stork at Florina.
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Filming Under Pressure
2005
Hotel Αστέρια
0/0
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Hotel Αστέρια
2005
Opa!
6/12
A modern day treasure hunt for a mystical relic that turns into a love story for all time.
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Opa!
2003
Skipper Straad
8/1
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...
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Skipper Straad
1984
The Time Traveller
4.143/7
An astronaut's widow and her young son meet a stranger from the future on a Greek island.
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The Time Traveller
1989
Αθώος ή ένοχος;
7/1
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Αθώος ή ένοχος;
1991
Master of the Shadows
7.667/3
Shadow puppetry is not only part of the heritage of East Asia; Greece had its own traditional form of this popular art. In this leisurely drama, set i...
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