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Georgia Vasileiadou

1897 - 1980 (age 83) • Acting

Georgia Vasileiadou (Greek: Γεωργία Βασιλειάδου; 1897 – 12 February 1980) was a Greek actress. She appeared in more than forty films from 1930 to 1977. She was born in Athens in the Kypseli area in 1897 into a family of ten children. Her real name was Georgia Athanasiou, but she changed it to Vasiliadou when she decided to pursue singing and acting. She was forced to leave school early to work in a shop and help support her large family, after the sudden death of her father, who was a cavalry officer, after falling from a horse. She made her first artistic appearance in 1923 as a member of the Olympia Theater chorus, in Giuseppe Verdi's Ernani, rather coincidentally when she began her studies at the Gennadius School in 1923 and then appeared in various operas. She worked in major theater groups of the time with Kyveli, Marika Kotopouli, Dimitris Myrat, performing various roles. In the mid-1930s, she decided to stop, after a marriage that was unfortunate. She then met Sofia Vembo, who promised to help her. The man who discovered her and gave her the opportunity to have a great career was Alekos Sakellarios, so at the age of forty-two, Georgia Vassiliadou made a new dynamic start and with her innate talent immediately conquered the audience. Alekos Sakellarios offered her a role in 1939 in The Married Girls, which became the occasion for the beginning of a second, but better known career - this time as a world-loving comedian, the "most beautiful ugly" of Greek cinema, as she was described. Her company Finos Film produced her great successes such as: The Beauty of Athens, The Aunt from Chicago, Clearchos, Marina and the Shorty and many others. She took part in the television series Christ is Crucified Again. In the collections When Actors Sing 1 & 2, Vasiliadou can be heard in the songs "O kyr-Mentios" by Takis Morakis from the film The Treasure of the Retired and "Apokriatiko Gaitanaki". She lived in Maroussi and had a daughter, Fotini Apostolidou, from her first marriage, while in 1945 she married her second husband, Kostas Gambaros, with whom she lived together until her death. In recent times, she suffered from bronchial asthma. Her health deteriorated and she was hospitalized at Evangelismos. She died on 12 February 1980. She was buried two days later, in the presence of a small crowd, at the 1st Cemetery of Athens.

Known For

The Auntie from Chicago

68%

Kalliopi

1957

The Bridegrooms of Eftyhia

63%

Eftyhia Tarniani

1962

The Coffee Reader

79%

Kalliopi

1956

Klearhos, Marina and the short one

69%

Marina Zougala

1961

Mrs. Midwife

79%

Kalliopi Moustaki (the midwife)

1961

The Beauty of Athens

64%

Aristea Karabi

1954

The Germans Strike Again

74%

Marigo

1948

Madame Mayor

69%

Aspasia Zorbala

1960

1821 at the Cinema

(archive footage)

2021
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O Hristos xanastavronetai

80%

Μανταλένα

1975

The Lady Kiosk Owner

90%

Georgia

1970

The Baroness and Prokopis

100%
1970

Η Σμυρνιά

100%

Efthalia

1969

Η Λυγερή

90%
1968

So Many Dreams on the Streets

80%
1968

Tallywoman: Operation Groom

55%

Evanthia

1966

Meletis of the Flying Squad

48%

Melpo

1966

The Matchmaker

70%

Georgia

1966

The Wedding Dance

41%

Kallirroi

1966

A Bird in the Hand Is Worth Two in the Bush

57%

Katina / Catherine Poure

1965

They ere all... Fools!

59%

Pagona Sousami

1964

I Loved and I Suffered

55%

Domna

1963

Thymios in the Land of Striptease

90%
1963

My Nephew Manolis

63%

Aspasia Papakatsika

1963

We without money

50%

mad woman

1963

The Bridegrooms of Eftyhia

63%

Eftyhia Tarniani

1962

Michalios of the 14th Regiment

60%

Maianthi Karadimou

1962

The Miserable

60%

Foteini

1962

Έξυπνοι και Κορόιδα

90%
1962

The Watermelon

38%

Matina

1962

The Greek woman and love

50%

Afroditi

1962

Klearhos, Marina and the short one

69%

Marina Zougala

1961

Mrs. Midwife

79%

Kalliopi Moustaki (the midwife)

1961

Madame Mayor

69%

Aspasia Zorbala

1960

The Treasure of the Beatitude

76%

Theoni

1959

The Unwilling Nanny

70%

Loulou

1959

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