Kostas Voutsas(1931-2020)
- Actor
- Director
- Autor
Kostas Voutsas was born in Athens, in 1931. He studied at the Drama
School of the Macedonian Conservatory of Thessaloniki and made his
stage and screen debut in 1953. His breakthrough came in 1961, when
Giannis Dalianidis gave him a key
part in his phenomenally successful youth melodrama
Spoiled Rotten (1961). He soon became one of
the best and most popular comic actors of his generation and created
personal groups, starring in many Greek comedies by top play-writers
and classics like Aristophanes' "Sfikes"
(as Philokleon), Molière's "Le bourgeois
gentilhomme" (title role) etc. He also starred in about 60 movies,
mostly comedies and musicals of the 'golden era' of Greek commercial
cinema and received a Lifetime Achievement Award at the Thessaloniki
Film Festival in 1984.