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Aliases: Christos Tsaganeas , Χρηστος Τσαγανεας , Χρήστος Τσαγανέας

Gender: Male

Place of birth: Braila, Romania

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Movie Involvements: 14

TV Involvements: 0


Most Famous Work

Biography

Christos Tsaganeas was born in Braila, Romania on July 2, 1906. He came from a wealthy Greek and aristocratic family and from a young age he showed great love for the theater. His parents, however, had demanded that he finish some university school, and that's why when he graduated from the Greek high school in Romania, they sent him to Athens for academic studies. He initially enrolled in Medicine but soon dropped out and went to Law from which he never got a degree. The reason for this event was his acquaintance and love for the actress Nitsa Vitsori, seven years older than him, for whose sake he abandoned his studies and began to appear in the theater. When Nitsa divorced her first husband, Giorgis Vitsoris, Tsaganeas not only married her but also enrolled in the Drama School of the National Theater to get a proper foundation and an acting degree. For this career choice, he had several fights with his parents, with whom he finally broke up and cut off his funding. Another version cites his participation in the political movement of the Archio-Marxists, in which his wife Nitsa also participated, as the reason for the elimination. This development led him, for some time, to live on a boat in the port of Piraeus while he was forced to take part in performances of itinerant troupes, which at that time were underestimated. "There are few theaters, few theater squares, many practitioners", as he used to say. During the German-Italian occupation he actively participated in the National Resistance through the ranks of the EAM together with his wife Nitsa. During the December 1944, his name was involved in the execution of the actress Eleni Papadakis by OPLA. As a member of the board of the National Militia of the EAM Theater, he had put his signature - together with his colleagues, Emilio Veakis, Theodoros Moridis, Spyros Patrikios and Panos Karavousiano - for the death sentence of Eleni Papadakis, who had been accused of dowry. A year later, Christos Tsaganeas was in danger of losing his life in the armed attack against the then president of SEH, Spyros Patrikios.

Most Famous Work

Murder Backstage
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7

Murder Backstage

(1960) Pavlos Stefanou
My Dimitri... My Dimitri
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6

My Dimitri... My Dimitri

(1967) Gerasimos Karras
Betrayed love
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6

Betrayed love

(1962) Impresario
Wrong Path
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6

Wrong Path

(1933) Dimos
Crime in Kolonaki
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7

Crime in Kolonaki

(1959) Kostas Floras
Ένας Μάγκας στα Σαλόνια
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5
Fallen Angels
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6

Fallen Angels

(1948) Hristos Terakis
Το συρτάκι της αμαρτίας
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7

Acting

Year Character Movie/Tv
1971 Makromihaleas
N/A
N/A
N/A
1970 Androklis Hardoupis
1969 Gerasimos Nikolaou
1968 Theodoros
Ambassador
Babis
N/A
Kriton Stefanis
1967 Gerasimos Karras
N/A
ceremony man
N/A
1966 Patroklos Sokratidis
Pel Pap
Filonas
Ilias
N/A
1965 Marios Peresiadis
Kleopas Hatzigeorgiou
1964 Fokion Karyadis
Mr. Petridis
Pafsanias Karatsoukalas
N/A
1963 doctor
N/A
1962 Pantelis
Charalabos
Impresario
Theofanis Delakis
Mikes Zargantis
1961 Leonidas Dekrisis
Doctor
1960 Pavlos Stefanou
Nikiforos
Mr. Ploutidis
1959 school headmaster
Iordanis Mouratoglou
Kostas Floras
N/A
1958 Bank Manager
N/A
1955 Benardis
Giavrousis
Lavrentios Kalyvas
1954 program manager
1952 N/A
1948 Hristos Terakis
madman
1933 Dimos
Year Character Movie/Tv

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