Stavros Tornes
Stavros Tornes (Greek: Σταύρος Τορνές) was a Greek film actor and director. Tornes was born in 1932 in Athens. He studied at the Ioannidis School in 1957 and worked as an assistant director and as an actor in films of the 1950s and 1960s. In 1967 he directed his first short film "Theraikos orthros" together with Kostas Sfikas. During the dictatorship he went to Italy where he participated in a group of exiles, fighting against the military junta. In 1973 he secretly visited Greece and filmed the documentary Students. In Italy (Rome) he appeared in many films, such as Many Wars Ago and Christ Stopped at Empoli by Francesco Rossi, and Alonzanfan by the Taviani brothers. It is worth noting that he played the leading role in the television film Nausicaa by Agnès Varda. He also painted. After the fall of the dictatorship, he returned to Greece and filmed the film Balamos, which was screened at the 1982 Thessaloniki Film Festival. With co-screenwriter Charlotte van Gelder, he also directed the films Karkalou, Danilo Treles and A Heron for Germany. He died in July 1988 and was buried in the Caesarean Cemetery.
Known For
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- 2006 · Deserted and alone to make my pain go away as
- 1994 · Stavros Tornes: The Poor Hunter of the South as archive footage
- 1988 · Witches as
- 1988 · Heron for Germany as Polydoros
- 1986 · Danilo Treles: The Famous Andalusian Musician as Fox Man
- 1985 · Topos as Geropeismataris
- 1985 · Varieté as Old Man in the Corridor
- 1983 · Misunderstanding as
- 1982 · Balamos as Balamos
- 1982 · For the Poet Nikos Kavvadias as Self
- 1980 · City of Women as (uncredited)
- 1979 · Christ Stopped at Eboli as
- 1977 · Coatti as
- 1974 · Kierion as George Morgan
- 1974 · Allonsanfan as Gioacchino
- 1971 · Nausicaa as Michel
- 1970 · Many Wars Ago as General's Aide (uncredited)
- 1967 · Open Letter as
- 1965 · The Roundup as
- 1962 · Sky as
- 1962 · The Beauty of Roumeli as
- 1961 · Our Tears Have Dried Up as
- 1961 · Sharp as a Needle as police officer
- 1961 · Fishermen and Fishing as narrator
- 1960 · The Daywork of Happiness as Nikos
- 1960 · To mystiko tou kokkinou mandya as