Takis Emmanuel

Takis Emmanouil Greek Τάκης Εμμανουήλ 1933 26 August 2017 was a Greek actor with an international career in the field of cinema He was also a director and producer while in the last years of his life he was involved in literature He was born in 1933 in Messolonghi and his real name was Panagiotis Initially in Greece he studied acting at the Drama School of the Athens Conservatory with the teacher of the theater director Dimitris Rontiris Later in the period 19791981 he studied directing screenwriting and television production in Los Angeles At the age of 27 in 1960 he made his first appearance on stage in the tragedy Iphigenia in Tauris by Euripides performing the role of Geladaris The play was presented at the Ancient Theatre of Epidaurus by the Ancient Attic Theatre troupe of Malaina Anousaki Its theatrical appearances continued until 1965 In cinema it first appeared alongside the theatre in 1960 in the modular film The River by Nikos Koundouros Other films followed alongside renowned directors Nikos Koundouros Michalis Cacogiannis Takis Kanellopoulos Dinos Dimopoulos Dimis Dadiras etc and important actors Manos Katrakis Irini Papa Yannis Fertis Aleka Katseli Notis Pergialis Phaedon Georgitsis Eleni Zafiriou Niki Triantafyllidi Eleni Prokopiou Zannino Anestis Vlachos Lefteris Vournas Spyros Kalogirou Anthony Quinn Alan Bates Sotiris Moustakas etc The successes that most of the films in which he participated achieved both in Greece and abroad were his passport to an international career In 1968 he emigrated from Greece to perform abroad in America England Italy and Australia In 1982 he returned to Greece and founded his own production company