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Greek Actor Spiros Focás Has Died 

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Spyros Fokas was born Spyros Androutsopoulos in Patras on 17 August 1937.

Focás made his first appearance in 1959. He first appeared in Andreas Lambrino's film Bloody Twilight in 1959. The film was screened at the 1959 Cannes Film Festival and was the starting point for his international career.

After this distinction, being also a graduate of Kostis Michalidis drama school, Spyros Focás did not take long to take the risk and go to Italy, to the studios of Cinecittà, where he took advantage of the auditions and the opportunities presented to him. Thus, he participated in international productions, such as in the films A Matter of Time by Vincente Minnelli and Rocco and His Brothers by Luchino Visconti, alongside Katina Paxinou.

Throughout his film career, he successfully acted in over 30 films, most of them in Italy and United States, and it is worth mentioning that he became particularly well-known and loved, also from his appearances in well-known theatres abroad. His presence on Greek television was also an important end, starring in many drama series.

Focás had four marriages. While he had no biological children, he was the stepfather of the daughter of his fourth wife, Lillian, to whom he had been married since 2013.

Spiros Focás died in a rehabilitation center in Eleusis, where he had been receiving treatment since the previous summer, on 10 November 2023. He was 86.

Selected filmography

Matomeno iliovasilemma (1959) - Giannos

Lygos, o leventis (1959) - Tasos Lygos

Diakopes stin Kolopetinitsa (1959) - Alekos

Death of a Friend (1959) - Bruno

Messalina (1960) - Lucio Massimo

Rocco and His Brothers (1960) - Vincenzo Parondi

Apolytrosis (1961) - Ilias

Psycosissimo (1961) - Pietro, l'autista

Run with the Devil (1960) - Marco Belli

Eighteen in the Sun (1962) - Johnny

A Man for Burning (1962) - Jachino

Anima nera (1962)

Egoismos (1964) - Kostas

A Bullet Through the Heart (1966) - Navarra

The Fear (1966) - Nikos

I Stefania (1966) - Giorgos Daponte

Queen of Clubs (1966) - Alexandros

Ta skalopatia (1966)

Erotas stin kafti ammo (1966) - Stefos Pergamos

Psomi gia ena drapeti (1967) - Giovanni

Hate Thy Neighbor (1968) - Ken Dakota

I zoi enos anthropou (1968) - Hristos Sgouros

Ekeinoi pou xeroun n' agapoun (1968) - Petros

Brosta stin aghoni (1968) - Timos

Zorro in the Court of England (1969) - Pedro Suarez / Zorro

Corbari (1970)

Basta guardarla (1970) - Fernando

Lover of the Great Bear (1971) - Alfred

Lui per lei (1972)

I Kiss the Hand (1973) - Luca Ferrante

Shaft in Africa (1973) - Sassari

Flavia the Heretic (1974) - the French Duke

Mark Shoots First (1975) - Morini

Ta paidia touy zevedaiou (1975)

A Matter of Time (1976) - (uncredited)

Holocaust 2000 (1977) - Harbin

I anametrisi (1979)

H stigmh ths alitheias (1979)

Diamantia (1979)

Sonia (1980) - Tonio

Souvliste tous! Etsi tha paroume to kouradokastro (1981) - Iasonas

To mithistorima ton tessaron (1981)

Ta diamantia den lene psemmata (1981)

Oi tyhodiohtes (1981) - Petros Georgiou

Anametrisi (1982) - Petros Parisis

I parexigisi (1983) - Nikos

The Jewel of the Nile (1985) - Omar

Fout Bol (1985)

Black Tunnel (1986) - Colonel Jack Roth

Rambo III (1988) - Masoud

Tre colonne in cronaca (1990) - Anthony Bassouri - il socio di Leporino

White Palace (1990) - George (uncredited)

The Serpent of Death (1990) - Stavros

To pethameno liker (1992) - Triandafillos

O drapetis tou feggariou (1994)

Sapounopetra: To hrima sto Laimo sas (1995)

Karagioz Dream (1996)

Biznes sta Valkania (1997)

Ntaiana i prigipissa tou laou (1999)

Vitsia gynaikon (2000) - Marios Venieris

Alexandros kai Aishe (2002)

Sti skia tou Lemmy Caution (2002)

L'ospite segreto (2003) - Uncle

O haros vgike pagania (2003)

Min pernas, anavei kokkino (2003)

Parta ola (2003)

448 BC: Olympiad of Ancient Hellas (2004) - Empedocles

A Simple Love Story (2007)

I diathiki tou ierea Ioanni Meslier (2009)

Bring them back (2010)

Promakhos (2014) - Fotis

Vakxes (2015)

Raw Trip (2016) - Sheriff

O Thisavros (2017)

Outlanders 2018 (2018)

The Club () - Mr. Martino