Despo Diamantidou

Despo Diamantidou

Nacimiento : 1916-07-13, Piraeus, Greece

Muerte : 2004-02-18

Historia

Despoina "Despo" Diamantidou (Greek: Δέσπω Διαμαντίδου; 13 July 1916 – 18 February 2004) was a Greek actress. She appeared in more than seventy films from 1949 to 2003. She played Tatiana in Alan King's summer replacement sitcom, Ivan the Terrible starring Lou Jacobi, which aired on ABC from 21 August to 18 September 1976. Source: Article "Despo Diamantidou" from Wikipedia in english, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

Perfil

Despo Diamantidou
Despo Diamantidou

Películas

Ο Χάρος Βγήκε Παγανιά
Anna is the Jewish daughter of a Spanish mother and a Greek father. She has returned to her family's house in Greece
Skipper Straad
A seaman finds himself out of work and stranded in a distant port. He shares a cheap room. They take turns sleeping, some in the morning, some at night. Grief! When he will go back to sea? And there! The scent of woman drifts up to seduce him! He realizes he had shared his bed with a lady of the night.
Hard Goodbyes: My Father
Grandmother
1969. Elías, un niño de 10 años, hace un pacto con su padre para ver el primer aterrizaje del hombre en la luna. Pero el día del alunizaje su padre no regresa. Elías se rehúsa a aceptar la pérdida de su padre y está seguro de que volverá de uno de sus habituales viajes de negocios. Él crea un mundo imaginario en el cual su padre está vivo. La madre y la abuela de Elias preocupadas por la situación, lo llevan a la casa de verano. El día del aterrizaje en la luna, Elías se encuentra con su padre a su manera. Película ganadora de 2 premios en Locarno y 4 en Tesalónica.
Anna's Summer
María
A widow reminisces on her life after returning to her family home in Greece.
Acropol
Antoni's Mother
1950s Athens. Prince, a self-made impresario and the owner of the "Acropole" review theater, fires one of his leading ladies when she shows up drunk on opening night. In order to replace her, he turns to Lakis Loizos, an expert at comic female roles and an ex-wonder-child of movies, who now runs an agency for extras. At first, Lakis is surprised by the prince's proposal, but finally decides to try his luck on the stage of the legendary theater.
Varieté
House Owner
An actor's troupe puts up a variety show.
Το Κορίτσι Του Καμπαρέ
A Dream of Passion
Maria
Melina Mercouri plays Maya, a jet-setting Greek actress who returns to her homeland to undertake the role of Medea. Searching for inspiration and clues as to how a mother could kill the children she loves, Maya discovers Brenda (Ellen Burstyn), a bible-spouting American woman serving time in an Athens prison for that very crime.
La última noche de Boris Grushenko
Mother
Rusia, principios del siglo XIX. En un pueblo ruso, Boris Grushenko vive obsesionado con la muerte y con su prima Sonia, aunque ella prefiere a Iván, uno de los hermanos de Boris. Pero Iván se casa, y Sonia, por despecho, contrae matrimonio con un rico comerciante de pescado. Obligado por su familia, Boris se alista en el ejército para luchar contra la Francia napoleónica e, inexplicablemente, se convierte en un héroe de guerra. Y, a pesar de ser un pacifista convencido, llegará a tener en sus manos el destino de Europa.
Nicky's World
Electra
A close-knit Greek-American family, jeopardized when its Manhattan bakery goes up in flames, looks desperately for ways to solve the financial dilemma of repossession and property without destroying its heritage.
The Werewolf of Washington
Gypsy Woman
After being unknowingly inflicted with the bite of a werewolf while on a visit to Europe, White House press secretary Jack Whittier begins to turn into a deadly beast by night, terrorizing Washington D.C. and presenting a very deadly threat to the President.
Casi, casi una mafia
Mourner
Un ciclista de un equipo italiano se pierde por las calles de Nueva York. Tiene la mala suerte de enzarzarse en una discusión con algunos individuos de la mafia, por lo que se verá obligado a disfrazarse de cura para eludir el peligro
Made For Each Other
Group Member
An eccentric woman meets an equally odd man at a group therapy session and they begin a relationship.
Promise at Dawn
Aniela
A single mother raises her son in impossible circumstances first in Leningrad, then Krakow, and then France, and is over-ambitious about him but never gives in.
Corrupción de una familia
Bobby
Un joven seductor de 20 años, de pasado misterioso se traza un increíble plan para introducirse en la familia de la condesa Ornstein; seduce a los miembros de la aristocrática familia, enamora a la condesa, asesina sin escrúpulos cuando eso conviene a sus ambiciosos planes, traza los más descabellados proyectos corrompiendo todo lo que toca; pero nadie puede resistirse a su seductora presencia, a su exultante belleza y juventud, a su inmoral poder...
Queen of Clubs
Marianthi
A model (Elena Nathanail) is on vacation with her sailor husband (Thodoros Roumpanis), and she falls in love with an employee (Spyros Fokas) who works in the hotel where they are staying. She confesses her feelings to her husband, and he abandons her. The young woman hooks up with with the employee, who goes with her to Athens. There, their passion – and her crisis - will reach their peak.
I Stefania
Woman Guard
18 year old Stefania is brought to a juvenile reformatory for young prostitutes. The institution is actually a prison, and one of the worst and most squalid of its kind. It's a real hell. Two dozens of ragged girls are crammed into a dormitory, locked by a thick iron door, two in each bed. Meals and work is carried out in other sections of the building, separated by iron bars. A young doctor shall investigate the newcomer. When they meet, they immediately recognize each other. It is Giorgos, the doctor that treated Stefania's mother a couple of years ago, and then had a little flirt with Stefania. He has been thinking of her ever since. He immediately falls in love with her, and wants to help her. Stefania is thinking about any possibility to get out from the prison. She flirts with the ugly yard guard Armandos, and with the truck driver coming with foodstuff, but in vain...
Όχι κύριε Τζόνσον
Mrs. President
Make Me A Woman
The Lady
A proud sponge-diver revolts against a cruel noblewoman, who exploits the islanders. When she finds out that her daughter is in love with him, she marries her off to his friend, and now, the knives have the final say. Can reason prevail?
And the Woman Shall Fear Her Husband
Bebeka
When a man decides to marry the woman he's been living with, she stops being the silent patient person she was and claims to be the boss in the house. Her behaviour changes so much after the marriage that the husband gets so irritated as to ask for a divorce even a few hours later..
The Ruthless
Roza
After his release from prison, Stathis visits a private investigator, Othonas, whom he had assigned many years ago to find his mother, who has been missing from the time of the German Occupation. When he meets Othonas, however, they quarrel because the detective hadn’t worked seriously enough on the case. Afterwards, Stathis takes control of his old gang again and sets up a few new scams, selling dreams and hopes to simple people. He soon realizes that he has lost his old love, Vana, who, while he was in prison, had become involved with his second-in- command, Michalis. Nevertheless, his bitterness is softened by Stella, Vana’s sister, who works at the Red Cross. He falls for her, and she responds in kind.
The Punk Of Fokionos Negri
Dora
A ruthless young man puts on eye the estate of a girl and after he is presented as in love with her, he is trying to convince her to give him all the money she has
Γάμος αλά... Ελληνικά
Mina's mother
Mina is dreaming of becoming a painter and Petros works in a company. They meet and fall in love during the carnival, but later lose contact. They meet again without recognizing each other and eventually get married. However they have no idea how hard marriage is.
Το κορίτσι της Κυριακής
Topkapi
Voula
Elizabeth Lipp y su amante Walter Harper, se alían para realizar uno de los robos más sonados. Llevarse la maravillosa daga del museo de Topkapi, en Estambul, una gran riqueza de precio incalculable. Para el plan, cuentan con la ayuda del atolondrado Arthur y otros compinches que idearán un plan para deslizarse por el museo sin ser vistos. El único camino es entrar a través de la cúpula del edificio.
The Red Lanterns
Madam Pari
The inextricably intertwined stories of five sex workers who live in a brothel at Pireas harbor.
Το Τεμπελόσκυλο
Despoina
my father and i
Mrs. Papas
A bankrupt cosmopolitan arrives with his daughter in Lagonisi, with the aim of finding a rich groom to guarantee financially.
Προδομένη αγάπη
Vicky
Don't Fall in Love on a Saturday
woman at hospital
A streetwise investment broker, who has been tricked into accepting a counterfeit $100 bill by a statuesque con woman, falls in love with her. Against all logic, he refuses to turn her in to the police. Is there a future between them?
Ποτέ Δε Σε Ξέχασα
Head Seamstress
O loustrakos
Maria's mother
The small loustrakos Vasilis Maras alongside the school of fine on the streets of Athens to make money. The mother finds injustice in prison for the murder of Demetrias. With the persistence of the king, however, and the help of a lawyer, the Karelia, the mother of leaving prison.
Death Will Return
Liza
Adapted from Nikos Foskolos’ theatrical play. On a terribly stormy night, in a secluded hotel, the owner, Brigadier Norton, is murdered. Prime suspects: his daughter Elena, his second wife Liza, Liza’s niece and her fiancé, Norton’s physician, and the hotel staff. Inspector Fox and his assistant, policeman Petridis, are assigned the investigation of the crime. While the suspects’ questioning is under way, some more people arrive at the hotel: detective Tilemachos Christofis with his assistant Aliki, and lieutenant Karalis, a sworn enemy of the victim, complicating things even more.
Alice in the Navy
Aliki's mother
Aliki is in love with someone who serves his duty in the greek navy. Wanting to see him, she disguises as a navy soldier and gets aboard her lover's ship. Things get more complicated when she comes accross the ship's captain; her father!
Snow White and the 7 Old Boys
Aglaia
Alexia is a young woman who comes from the countryside and is in love with a rich man, Paris, who is studying abroad. Her stepmother treats her cruelly and forces her to escape from home. Alexia finds herself in an isolated area by chance, where she is discovered by seven brothers who live together in a nearby house. The seven bachelors put her up and treat her like a member of their own family.
Madalena
Giokari
Madalena is a tough seventeen-year-old who is forced to take on her father's ferry business after he dies. She has her many brothers and sisters to support, and there is no one else to do the job. So she rallies her defenses and sets out to give her rival in the ferry business a run for his money. But at the same time, the rival's handsome son is starting to look better and better. Madalena refuses to acknowledge her feelings for him -- though how long she can sustain that denial is the question.
Για Σένα Την Αγάπη Μου
Maroula comes from Syros, established in Athens, to work as a servant in a wealthy home, but the hostess takes her off. So he is forced to seek refuge in the house of three poor musicians whom he met on board: Flax, Tramp and Maneta. She thinks to return to her island, but they persuade her to stay with them and become a singer. Maroula falls in love with Lino, but at the same time her heart is beating for Mars (the son of the family who drove her, whom he has met by chance on the street). A little exaggeration makes her feel that Linus does not love her as much as he wants, so he recruits to Mars, but his mother does everything to separate them. Eventually he does. Linos comforts Maroula and even follows her in Syros, while Aris, who then decides to marry her, loses the ship.
Το Ραντεβού της Κυριακής
Afroditi
Nunca en domingo
Despo
Exitosa comedia con tintes dramáticos dirigida por Jules Dassin y protagonizada por su mujer, la cautivadora Melina Mercouri, que narra las relaciones entre una prostituta griega y un escritor americano que intenta alejarla del oficio.
Αμαρυλλίς
A matter of dignity
Katy
Hloi Pella es la hermosa hija de un distinguido empresario de Atenas, quien está al borde de la quiebra. La familia, orgullosa de su privilegiada posición social, sólo tiene una esperanza; que Hloi acepte la propuesta de matrimonio de un millonario grecoamericano, el problema es que ella está enamorada de otro hombre...
To Korítsi me ta Paramýthia
Lida's mother
The Duchess of Plakendia
Narrator
After leaving Nafplio, the first capital of the newly founded Greek Nation, the affluent French Duchess of Plaisance and ardent philhellene, Sophie de Marbois-Lebrun, moves to Athens with her young daughter, Eliza, circa 1834.
The Girl of the Neighbourhood
Kakia
Thanasis, the Politician
Sofia
The young daughter (Anna Synodinou) of a well-off family comes back from Switzerland after completing her studies, married to a young scientist, Thanasakis (Byron Pallis), who comes back to Greece determined to serve his country as a politician. With the financial support of his brother-in-law (Dinos Iliopoulos) he enters the election with no results. Soon though, another election is announced and he decides to run for a second time, again asking support from his brother-in-law who insists that a new campaign would be financial suicide for the family.
Youth of Athens
Eleni
A rich widower impregnates a poor young woman and dumps her. Her brother, member of a resistance group during the Occupation, tries to mend things up.