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Thodoros Moridis

1903 - 2003 (age 100) • Acting

Thodoros Moridis (Greek: Θόδωρος Μορίδης, Limassol, 1905 – Athens, 22 December 2003) was a Greek Cypriot actor. Born in the city of Limassol in Cyprus, Thodoros Moridis made his debut in 1924 with the Emilios Veakis - Christopher Nezer troupe in the play For Her Love. With them, he also co-starred in Sophocles' Oedipus Tyrannus, among others. With the Cybele troupe, he played in Agnosto (1927) and the following year in Iphigenia en Tavroiis with Eleni Chalkousi, with whom he collaborated again in Bogris's The Engagement. He was a key figure in Vasilis Rotas' "People's Theatre" and in 1932 he collaborated for the first time with Marika Kotopouli - he later continued in her theatre which also housed the "Karolos Koun" Art Theatre, while in 1936 he began his collaboration with Mrs. Katerina, in whose troupe he remained until 1943, performing many important roles in major works of world drama (The Lady with the Camellias, The Merchant of Venice, Much Ado About Nothing, Enda Gambler, Pygmalion, The Lady of the Sea, Nora, etc.). In Katerina's troupe he met and loved Jolie Garbi and married her, with whom he was together for 60 years on stage and in life. This was followed by collaborations with the Manolidou - Veakis - Pappas troupe (1943-44) (The Shepherdess' Lover), with the "United Artists" (1945-46) (Julius Caesar, Enemies of Maxim Gorky, The Brothers Karamazov, Von Dimitrakis, etc.), with the "Thymelikos Troupe", with Mimis Fotopoulos, with Nikos Hadziskos, where he performed Polonius in Hamlet (1955), with the "Hellenic People's Theatre" of Manos Katrakis (Christ Recrucified, The Idiot, Queen Amalia), with Antigone Valakou, Mary Aroni (Manto Mavrogenous), with Elsa Vergi. From 1961 to 1983 he joined the National Theatre, performing dozens of important roles in ancient drama and in the world drama (Aias, Agamemnon, Trojans, Philoctetes, Medea, Rosmersholm, The King, The Demoniac, The Tempest, The Cherry Orchard, Mary Stuart, General Secretary, etc.). Immediately afterwards he participated in Master Solnes, Dimitris Horn's last performance. This was followed by The Strange Intermezzo with Alexandrakis - Galineus, Oedipus at Colonus with the "Empirical Troupe" of Minotis, collaborations with Danis Katranidis, Marietta Rialdi, George Messalas. In cinema he participated in many films from 1948 to the 1970s (Lost Angels, Red Rock, The Duchess of Placentia, Golfo, Heartbeats at the Desk, Zousa the Monk Without Love, Electra - a filmed performance from Epidaurus in 1961 directed by Takis Mouzenidis with Anna Synodinou, etc.), as well as in television (Police Stories, The Garden with Statues, etc.). He died on December 22, 2003, at the age of 98. He died at the Attiko Hospital where he was hospitalized and became known in the media on January 2, 2004. He was the husband of actress Tzolys Garbi. She was buried in Marathon, as had happened with Jolie Garbi.

Known For

Maiden's Cheek

70%

Themistoklis Papastavrou

1959

Throbs at the Desk

66%

Mr. Oikonomidis

1963

Madalena

62%

Giorgaras Giokaris

1960

The Cicada and the Ant

53%

Vrasidas

1958

The Woman Who Dreamed

73%

Uncle

1988

Giakoumis, A Roman Heart

70%

Iordanis

1970

The Girl of the Taverna

28%
1952

The Heart of a Tramp

63%

Αργύρης Δελησταύρου

1968

The Woman Who Dreamed

73%

Uncle

1988

Hecuba

Talthybius

1987

Πόντιος Πιλάτος

Unknown

1987

The garden with the statues

70%

Kyrios Anastasiou

1981

Eleftherios Venizelos: 1910-1927

64%

Emmanouil Benakis

1980

Lemon grove

Unknown

1978

Οιδίπους τύρρανος

Κορίνθιος αγγελιοφόρος

1974

The sun-born

90%
1971

Ο αήττητος

80%
1971

The Mistress of the Plain

80%
1971

I lived a monk without love

90%
1971

I Love Only You

90%

Zafeiris' professor

1970

Giakoumis, A Roman Heart

70%

Iordanis

1970

The Slave Girl

70%
1970

Refugee Girl on the Run

65%
1969

A Man with a Conscience

65%
1969

Slum, my love

80%
1969

Rag of life

80%
1969

The Cry of an Innocent

70%
1969

Μαριώ, η κατατρεγμένη βοσκοπούλα

90%
1969

The Odyssey of an Uprooted Man

72%
1969

The last goodbye

70%

Dr. Kostas

1969

Η μεγάλη ανάσταση

70%
1969

Αργυρώ η προδομένη τσελιγκοπούλα

70%
1968

The Heart of a Tramp

63%

Αργύρης Δελησταύρου

1968

Κατηγορούμενη απολογήσου

70%
1968

Ζήσε για την αγάπη μας

70%
1968

The one that didn't bend

90%
1968

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