Andréas Voutsinas

Andréas Voutsinas

Nascimento : 1932-08-22, Khartoum, Sudan

Morte : 2010-06-08

História

Andreas Voutsinas (22 August 1930 – 8 June 2010) was a Sudanese-Greek actor and theater director. In the English-speaking world, he was best known for his roles in three Mel Brooks films, The Producers (1967), The Twelve Chairs (1970) and History of the World, Part I (1981). Voutsinas was born on 22 August 1932 in Khartoum, since there was a sizeable community of Greek settlers in Sudan at the time. His parents hailed from the Ionian Island of Kefalonia. They set up a pasta factory in the Anglo-Egyptian colony, "reputedly supplying spaghetti to Italian forces" during the Fascist invasion of Abyssinia. After the collapse of the business during WWII, Voutsinas moved with his mother to Athens. Voutsinas studied acting and costume design at the Old Vic School and drama and song at the Webber Douglas Academy in London, and, in 1957, joined The Actors Studio. Voutsinas directed more than 130 performances of classical and contemporary repertoire in London, Paris, New York, Canada and Greece. He worked as an actor and director on Broadway and acted in films by Jules Dassin and Luc Besson. Voutsinas, a life member of The Actor's Studio since 1957, spent many years working in summer stock theater and as an assistant to Studio co-founder Elia Kazan, before he met Jane Fonda, with whom he got involved and whom he cast in the leading part in The Fun Couple, his Broadway directorial debut in 1963. Voutsinas later followed Fonda to Hollywood where he coached her in a number of movies. He then started working as a coach for many others, including Faye Dunaway and Warren Beatty. Following Fonda to Paris to coach her in Roger Vadim's Barbarella, he decided to found Le Theatre Des Cinquante, an acting workshop based on the principles of Lee Strasberg. Many famous French actors and actresses started attending his classes, and at the same time he successfully began directing plays for the French theater. In 1968, Voutsinas became the original Carmen Ghia after befriending Mel Brooks's wife, Anne Bancroft. She recommended him to Brooks and said Voutsinas would be perfect for the part. Voutsinas had a role in another Brooks feature, History of the World, Part I, playing the role of "Bernaise" in the French Revolution scenes. It was not until the early 1980s that he eventually moved to his ancestral Greece, where he continued his career directing a wide range of repertoire from Tennessee Williams to Euripides, mainly for the State Theater of Northern Greece in Thessaloniki. His productions were also staged during summer in the Athens Festival in Herodion, as well as in the Epidaurus Festival. He continued working between the two countries while he appeared in many French and Greek films, including Le Grand Bleu (1988) and Safe Sex (1999). Andreas Voutsinas taught acting at the State Theatre of Northern Greece from 2002 to 2009. After a stroke he founded his own drama school in Thessaloniki, Superior Drama School Andreas Voutsinas. Voutsinas died of a respiratory tract infection on 8 June 2010 at age 79, after several days of hospitalization in Henry Dunant Hospital in Athens. Source: Article "Andreas Voutsinas" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

Perfil

Andréas Voutsinas

Filmes

Πάρτα Όλα
The Making of 'The Producers'
Self
An hour-long making-of featurette which features interviews and anecdotes from the likes of Mel Brooks, Gene Wilder, Kenneth Mars, Lee "Ulla" Meredith, assistant director Michael Hertzberg, composer John Morris, choreographer Alan Johnson, production designer Charles Rosen, casting director Alfa-Betty Olsen, among others.
Safe Sex
director
A satire of life in modern Greece, presented through a series of different stories about sex. There are several couples and their relation with sex in parallel stories that come together in a hilarious way.
Imensidão Azul
Priest
Há um lugar em nosso planeta que é mais incomum do que qualquer outro - o menos conhecido e o mais misterioso. É um lugar semelhante ao espaço sideral, no qual as noções convencionais de tempo e espaço se diluem. É um lugar mágico e perigoso no qual o corpo humano, bem como seu espírito, precisa se adaptar. É o único lugar onde um homem chamado Jacques Mayol realmente se sente em casa. É o mar - a "Imensidão Azul". Jacques e Enzo são amigos desde a infância e compartilham uma paixão pelo esporte perigoso do mergulho livre. O mergulhador profissional Jacques optou por seguir os passos de seu pai, que morreu no mar quando Jacques era um menino. Para perplexidade dos cientistas, Jacques possui a habilidade notável de ajustar sua freqüência cardíaca e padrão de respiração, de modo que seus sinais vitais se assemelhem mais aos dos golfinhos do que dos homens. Existem 3 versões: 168 m = do diretor 132 m = original 118 m = curta
Les Nouveaux Tricheurs
Romanoff
Adolescents or young adults, Franck, Christine and the others meet, bond, leave each other. But the drama lurks.
Ladrões do Amanhecer
Jose
A crime story set in Paris about a Bonnie-and-Clyde couple -- how they got together and how they are pursued for a murder they never committed.
Le bonheur à Romorantin
Director
A História do Mundo: Parte I
Bearnaise
Uma versão barulhenta da história que prova que nada é sagrado - nem mesmo o Império Romano, a Revolução Francesa e a Inquisição Espanhola.
Les Charlots contre Dracula
Dracula
To Take Possession of Maleficient Powers, Dracula must take control of a lady in a Flee Market, Paris , France. But without wasting any time, her friends take on Dracula to save her from this terrible curse of Vampirism.
A Dream of Passion
Kostas
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.
Lovely Swine
Poussin, the pianist
Pierre used to be a top level football player but he quit. Now he is both a prestidigitator and a stool pigeon, benefiting from the protection of the chief inspector. In his dreams he is haunted by the horrors he saw (he took part in ?) during the Algerian War. Pierre lives with Marie, a young singer who performs at the same cabaret as him. Lately Marie has decided to start a career in the showbiz and Pierre is worried. Nothing alarming happens though, until a diabolical inspector, jealous of his superior, decides to manipulate Pierre. He also puts pressure on Poussin, Marie's pianist, and on Joseph, the night club's master of ceremony. What he wants is to compromise his superior and take his place. Will Pierre escape this ruthless trap?
The Erotic Films of Peter De Rome
In the late 1960s and early 1970s British-born New Yorker and unsung hero of gay underground filmmaking Peter de Rome produced a number of explicit, painstakingly crafted Super 8 films each of which took the viewer on an immersive sexual journey. In 1973, eight of these films were brought together as The Erotic Films of Peter de Rome producing one of the finest cinematic examples of the intersection of artistry and eroticism, in the tradition of Andy Warhol and Kenneth Anger.
The Second Coming
Part of BFI collection "The Erotic Films of Peter de Rome."
Rum Runners
Alvarez
During the prohibition era, Cornelius, a bootlegger, is on the run from the American coastguards. He comes across a silent film actress, Linda, on the set of a movie and falls in love with her.
Banzé na Rússia
Nikolai Sestrin
A Revolução Russa transforma um honrado milionário em miserável. Tentando reverter a situação, ele sai à procura de uma cadeira a qual esconde jóias valiosas deixadas por sua sogra.
Primavera Para Hitler
Carmen Ghia
Max Bialystock (Zero Mostel) é um produtor teatral em uma maré de má sorte, que namora mulheres idosas com dinheiro para conseguir financiamento para suas novas peças. Entretanto, Max realmente acredita ter descoberto uma grande jogada quando conhece Leo Bloom (Gene Wilder), um contador que ao conversar com ele expõe a tese de que um fracasso pode ser mais lucrativo que um sucesso, bastando que se venda o espetáculo para diversas pessoas e fazer de tudo para que ele seja um retumbante fracasso, com sua temporada durando apenas um dia, pois assim não existirá lucro e todo o dinheiro que foi investido irá parar no bolso daquele que vendeu os direitos da peça. Após uma certa relutância, Leo se une a Max para montarem o pior musical que a Broadway já viu: "Primavera para Hitler". História refilmada em Os Produtores (2005).
Jane
Self
Documentary focusing on 25 year-old actress Jane Fonda as she and her director Andreas Voutsinas prepare a stage play called The Fun Couple for Broadway.