Andréas Voutsinas

Andréas Voutsinas

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.

  • Titel: Andréas Voutsinas
  • Popularitet: 1.55
  • Kendt for: Acting
  • Fødselsdag: 1932-08-22
  • Fødselssted: Khartoum, Sudan
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  • Også kendt som: Andreas Voutsinas, Ανδρέας Βουτσινάς
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Andréas Voutsinas Film

  • 1988
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    The Big Blue

    The Big Blue

    7.5 1988 HD

    Siden deres barndom har Jacques og Enzo konkurreret i at dykke længst og dybest, og som voksne fortsætter de denne dyst. Enzo er blevet...

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  • 1968
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    Forår for Hitler

    Forår for Hitler

    7.087 1968 HD

    Broadwayproduceren Max Bialystock har en plan. Sammen med revisoren Leo Bloom vil han sætte et stort stykke op, som forskellige investorer skal...

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  • 1970
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    Svigermors penge

    Svigermors penge

    6.282 1970 HD

    I 1920ernes Rusland leder en præst, en tidligere nobelmand og en svindler efter 12 stole, som tilsammen indeholder en skat skjult under...

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  • 1987
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    Les Nouveaux Tricheurs

    Les Nouveaux Tricheurs

    2 1987 HD

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  • 1978
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    Κραυγή Γυναικών

    Κραυγή Γυναικών

    5.5 1978 HD

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  • 1980
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    Les Charlots contre Dracula

    Les Charlots contre Dracula

    4.6 1980 HD

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  • 1984
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    Les Voleurs de la nuit

    Les Voleurs de la nuit

    4.7 1984 HD

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  • 1971
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    Un peu, beaucoup, passionnément...

    Un peu, beaucoup, passionnément...

    1 1971 HD

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  • 1975
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    Monsieur Balboss

    Monsieur Balboss

    1 1975 HD

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  • 1973
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    Bel ordure

    Bel ordure

    6 1973 HD

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  • 1993
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    La Petite Apocalypse

    La Petite Apocalypse

    5.6 1993 HD

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  • 1971
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    Boulevard du Rhum

    Boulevard du Rhum

    4.5 1971 HD

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  • 1962
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    Jane

    Jane

    6.5 1962 HD

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  • 1999
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    Safe Sex

    Safe Sex

    6.6 1999 HD

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  • 1973
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    The Erotic Films of Peter De Rome

    The Erotic Films of Peter De Rome

    9 1973 HD

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  • 1972
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    The Second Coming

    The Second Coming

    5 1972 HD

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  • 2003
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    Πάρτα Όλα

    Πάρτα Όλα

    1 2003 HD

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  • 2002
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    The Making of 'The Producers'

    The Making of 'The Producers'

    7.2 2002 HD

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  • 1981
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    Mel Brooks skøre verdenshistorie

    Mel Brooks skøre verdenshistorie

    6.779 1981 HD

    Fra tidernes morgen og indtil en fjern fremtid følger vi verdenshistoriens gakkede udvikling ifølge Mel Brooks. Vi opdager sandheden om...

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  • 1979
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    Madame Sourdis

    Madame Sourdis

    1 1979 HD

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  • 1983
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    Le Bonheur à Romorantin

    Le Bonheur à Romorantin

    1 1983 HD

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  • 1987
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    Sacrée soirée

    Sacrée soirée

    6.2 1987 HD

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  • 1987
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    Matin Bonheur

    Matin Bonheur

    1 1987 HD

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  • 1995
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    Η Πρόβα του Νυφικού

    Η Πρόβα του Νυφικού

    5 1995 HD

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