Christos Politis

Christos Piatoulakis Heraklion 27 December 1942 Athens 5 January 2026 known artistically by the pseudonym Christos Politis was a Greek actor of theater television and cinema He worked in the theater from 19661967 to 19971998 in more than 45 theater productions while in the cinema mainly from 1968 to 1974 participating in 18 films He worked on television from 1973 to 2005 starring in 8 television series He was born on 27 December 1942 in Heraklion Crete where he grew up originally from the village of Kavousi Rethymno He was a graduate of the Drama School of the National Theater 1965 He first appeared in the troupe of Yannis Fertis Xenia Kalogeropoulou in the play Ten Little Negroes 19651966 and was followed by the troupe of Titika Nikiforakis Nikos Hatziskos in the plays Too Bad for Nothing 1968 and Tea and Sympathy 1969 while he collaborated with the troupe of Kostas Mousouris and the National Theatre He worked in theatre from 1966 to 1998 participating in over 45 theatre productions and in cinema from 1968 to 1974 participating in 18 films He worked in television from 1973 to 2005 starring in 8 television series with the best known being the series Lampsi by Nikos Foskolos He first appeared in cinema with a very small role in 1968 in Nikos Foskolos film Avenue of Hate and with a leading role in 1969 in the films Saint Nektarios The Protector of the Poor In 1969 he also won the Best Supporting Actor award at the Thessaloniki Film Festival for his performance in the film The Girl of 17 He then collaborated mainly with film producer James Parris He reappeared in cinema in 2022 after many decades of abstinence participating in the film Broadway by Christos Massalas He first appeared on television in 1973 in the series The Nets of Terror Among other things he participated in the series Queen Amalia with Al Vougiouklakis and Dimitris Papamichael 1975 and Aphrodite with Nora Valsami 1977 In the 1980s he had few participations in television programs In 1991 he reappeared on television with N Foskolos daily series I Lampsi a collaboration that established him in the consciousness of the television audience as Iago Drako a role he performed for 14 years until the summer of 2005 His participation in Lampsi was one of his last artistic activities During the 1970s and 1980s he participated in several theatrical productions for radio and television and in two video productions in the late 1980s He died on January 5 2026 at the age of 83