Giannis Gionakis
Popularity:0.3569
Known For:Acting
Birthday:1922-09-18
Place of Birth:Athens, Greece
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Also Known As:Γιαννης Γκιωνακης, Ioannis Gionakis, Γιάννης Γκιωνάκης, Yannis Gionakis, Giannis Gkionakis

Wheel Bag and Kopana (1982)
A major hit in the Greek cinemas at the time, this comedy by Omiros Efstratiadis is about a bunch of teenagers who make things difficult for their...

Alice in the Navy (1961)
Aliki is in love with someone who serves his duty in the greek navy. Wanting to see him, she disguises as a navy soldier and gets aboard her lover's...

The Crooked Wood (1969)
Nikos, a grumpy and clumsy man, is the manager at a shoe factory and he's living with his wife and his niece. Everyone regards him as a curmudgeon,...

Marriage Adventures (1959)
Helena (Xenia Kalogeropoulou) returns to Greece after studying in Paris and on the ship home she meets Dinos (Dinos Iliopoulos). An attraction...

The Big Fool (1967)
Businessman Telis Birkas (Periklis Hristoforidis) decides to marry his daughter Antzela (Sasa Kastoura) with a nice guy, his accountant Dinos (Dinos...

Anakatosouras (1967)
Thomas Karatoulpanis (Dinos Iliopoulos) is a naive employee at a car show in the Thessaloniki International Trade Fair. Because of his modest...

I'm a man and... I'll have fun! (1960)
A young girl, in an attempt to avoid the aspirations of her bosses, gets a job disguised as a man.

A Fool And A Hater (1959)
Thomas is a good but low intelligence man. He is in love with Urania, a widow, whose stingy husband Sotiris is over a year dead, as the ship he was...

10 Days in Paris (1962)
Two men intend to make a "secret" trip to Paris alone and live it up in order to escape the stranglehold of their wives.

Dimos from Trikala (1962)
Claiming that he and his brother, Dimos, are like two peas in a pod, a womanising husband puts the blame on him when his wife discovers a...

Mousitsa (1959)
Alice is a girl who can't hold down a job. When she hears about a typist position at a newspaper, she hopes she'll finally succeed. But things get...

2,000 Sailors and One Girl (1959)
Head over heels in love with a handsome seaman, a charming dancer plucks up the courage to sneak into the naval base after her beloved is given...

The Uncle from Canada (1959)
Waiting to get their lucky break, three penniless musicians, who are already five months behind in the rent, resort to a reckless fabrication to...

The Grouch (1952)
A fastidious family man torments his wife and his niece with his nagging. He opposes his niece's double-dating with his partner and a client of his.

Poverty can be bearable while living well (1958)
Two unfortunate friends are desperately looking for a job to survive and eventually marry their loved ones.

Poor Bums (1961)
Intent on marrying into money, two antagonists will stop at nothing to seduce a young heiress, renouncing their sweethearts just to get a greater...

Seven Days of Lying (1963)
Lukas and Sotiris hate the work but are forced to make ends meet working as salesman of books. In one visit, Luke would accept a proposal from the...

Deluxe Crazy (1963)
Faidon is rich but lazy and ungrateful, complaining all day long. Everything in his life will change when he hosts a couple of friends at his villa.

Tuesday the 13th (1963)
A chain of bizarrely perfect and utterly extraordinary coincidences will convince a superstitious civil engineer that his impoverished long-lost...

Another One for the Million (1964)
The honest and meticulous cashier, Savvas, works in a business and is often pressured by his wife’s siblings to embezzle money from his job and...

World and Kosmakis (1964)
Yearning to make a fast buck, a suave swindler and his statuesque fiancée approach a factory owner and his wife who thirsts to break into the...

Aristides and his Girls (1964)
Aristides, a widowed professor, lives with his housekeeper Eudokia and his three daughters, whom he has raised with strict principles. But what...

Giannis Messed Up (1964)
A retired General sends his nephew, Giannis, to Athens so to settle into a job. One day, Giannis discovers that a stolen suitcase which has given him...

Everything the People Wants (1964)
Thanasis (Giannis Gionakis) succumbs to the pressure of his wife (Kati Lambropoulou) and buys an old car that turns out to be a shame. Until he can...

Fortune Hunters (1964)
Two friends, street vendors, pretend to be tourists, hoping to find a wealthy bride. They end up, along with another friend, at a posh hotel where,...

The Barber's Beauty (1969)
A barber tries to find husbands for his four sisters so that he can marry his fiancee.

The Four Aces (1970)
An adaptation of "Romeo and Juliette" where the children of two rival shopkeepers fall in love and try to reconcile their fathers.

A Bird in the Hand Is Worth Two in the Bush (1965)
The daughter of a miser grocer react to their father's effort to marry with the man he approves. When her uncle from America and her older sister...

Athens by Night (1962)
Wandering Athens by night. A grand parade with actors, singers, composers, orchestras, attractions and generally performing artists of the night, in...

Better the Devil You Know (1946)
After the end of WWII, a beautiful woman falls for a British soldier who abandons her when she becomes pregnant. Now, she finds no meaning in life;...

My Luck Went Crazy (1970)
An employee can not marry the girl, because of financial problems and stalked by her brother. So decide, together with the son of his boss, facing...

The Greedy (1967)
The daughter of a factory owner beats with her car, the unemployed and hungry Chris, and her father from the obligation to recruit staff. Life...

The madness of the square celibacy (1970)
An unmarried lawyer (John Gionakis), sworn enemy of marriage, resides where else? In celibacy Square. His uncle from abroad (Dionysis...

My Brother, the Lord (1966)
A car electrician, Charis, spends all his money on tailors in order to give the appearance of a "lord". He constantly fights with his brother,...

Koutroulis` Wedding (1962)
A tailor mistakenly considered an ambassador of a foreign country, which exploits the future father in law to present him as a groom on frivolous...

National Lampoon's Crazy holiday (1985)
Peter, a lively and wacky young, along with the equally crazy friends, erecting tents on a beach next to a luxury hotel, which makes a holiday of the...

To ploio tis haras (1967)
A large group of people with different temperaments, traveling from Piraeus to New York, with the ocean liner "Olympia". On the trip they will meet...

Sharp as a Needle (1961)
Tonis and Rena are loved, but their uncles have objections, as they are deadly competitors in the field of swimwear marketing. Rena's uncle promotes...

O tetraperatos (1966)
A vibrant cafe owner struggles to attract the girl of his dreams. Who knows, with a bit of luck and sharp wits, life can sometimes be a bed of roses.

O agathiáris kai i atsída (1971)
A self-made owner of a soft-drink factory decides to give the entire plant to his naive nephew as a present. Now, as two women vie for his attention,...

Agents 005 Against Goldenfoot (1965)
Two James Bond fans, Kosmas and Damianos Bouralas, own a wine bar and hold a 5% stake in an industry. Mikes Pararas, who owns 47.5% of the same...

The Wedding Dance (1966)
Isaiah and Anargyros are partners and keep together a wedding bureaux office. Things are not going well lately, and Isaiah's wife, Kallirroi, is in...

Jobs with Tassels (1959)
A provincial arrives in Athens, where he is approached by two mini-patrons in order to eat his money.

Sucker Groom (1962)
Two fanciful friends earn a half-apartment in a lottery and are forced to cohabit, while they like the same girl and want to marry her. So one tries...

My Wife's Husband (1962)
By closing his pharmacy, Panagiotis Panagiotidis falls on a provocative stranger, Lulu, who leads him to a beach for swimming and then drives him...

Wheel, Bag and Truants 3 (1984)
Aris, Billias, and the rest of the students decide to return to school with the excuse of earning their high school diplomas without any favors this...

The Man Who Broke the Ice (1972)
Lambros Konstantaras performs a wealthy gossip that has never worked, and all he has to do is make fun and jokes to others. But when he suddenly...

Taste from Greece (1980)
Anthology film with a number of sketches that satirize modern Greece.

Runaway Bride (1962)
In her delicate bridal gown and bent on finding her beloved, a determined would-be wife flees from a dreadful marriage of convenience and enlists the...

A Rich Without Money (1967)
A poor accountant, in order to raise money for his marriage, finds a second job in a luxury hotel where he accepts to change his name and life with a...

Love Games (1960)
A father is desperately trying to tame his young daughter, while she falls for a young man during their vacation In the island of Aegina, near...

Those Not Allowed to Love (1951)
Pavlos, a conservatory student dreaming of becoming a great artist of quality music, lives with his fiancée Kaiti in a small room, hosted by...

The Fairy Tale Girl (1956)
A young girl, who lives in a poor neighborhood with her little brother, falls in love with a rich young man.

Unmarried Groom (1967)
A kind-hearted teacher saves a girl from suicide and takes her into his home. However, he is newly married and the next day he leaves with his wife...

And All 14 Were Wonderful! (1965)
Four cousins inherit a rich uncle. In order to do this, however, they must first fulfill the terms that each uncle has laid down in his covenant.

Four Brides and a Groom (1958)
father of four girls of marriageable age brings home a prospective suitor. One daughter agrees to see him but the rest are trying to persuade the....

Γύφτικη Κομπανία (1983)
When Tamtakos' house is brought down by the bulldozer a record company makes him a proposition for a new band.

Above all... Coolness (1951)
Two lazy friends (Mimis Fotopoulos and Ntinos Iliopoulos) find a job as ice-cream vendors to pay their back rent. When they start giving ice-cream to...

At Night The Entanglements (1957)
The funny things that happen through the walking by the neighborhood night shift of a kind policeman.

The yellow gloves (1960)
When it comes to his wife, Orestis is suspicious of everything, be it a moustachioed chauffeur or a lost pair of bumblebee-yellow gloves. But, are...

She's a Lunatic (1958)
Jenny is a real crazy girl. Latest feat is an ad that asks for work, convenient to young and unmarried entrepreneur office Candidate bosses and...

The Harefoot (1964)
Petros Pelekis is shaken when he receives a letter from America informing him that the feud between his family and the Patakas family continues, and...

Mini Skirt and Karate (1967)
A tenant who wants to write an armed forces officer's biography falls head over heels with his beautiful niece instead. As his friend falls in love...

Traffic Cop Varvara (1981)
Much to his surprise and not a moment too soon, the young long-term unemployed, Achilleas Taleporos, realises that his striking resemblance to his...

Jeep, Pavilion and Love (1957)
Tassos is a kiosk owner who is in love with Foula. He has a constant fear of vehicles speeding past his kiosk. His friend Vangelis wants to help him...

The Devil and His Tail (1962)
A charming woman who feels that her husband has grown tired of her and is no longer as interested in her sexually as he once was tries to rekindle...

My Groom, the Lawyer! (1962)
A barber wants to marry his daughter to a scientist. He believes that he has found the proper candidate in the face of a trainee lawyer.

Eva Has Not Sinned (1965)
A pretty and chubby woman, Eva, Fontas ex- wife, is now married to the neighborhood’s tavern owner, Menelaos, who gives her a hard time being...

The Bedroom (1971)
Lawyer Savvas Tsiviklis receives a gift from an old girlfriend, Kiki Petachtidou, who has just returned from the Congo. The gift is two small wooden...

The Father-in-Law (1968)
Xristos is married to the rich Rena. In fact the rich is his mother-in-law, who has big business abroad. In Greece the mother-in-law gives the...

My Sister Deserves a Beating (1966)
A mad man, Spyros, wants to marry Marianna, his lively sister. He wants to give her a dowry apartment, but his money is not enough for that. So he...

All Men Are the Same (1966)
Polyxeni becomes enraged when she finds her husband flirting with their maid. After dismissing the girl, she leaves her husband and goes to live at...

Beethoven and Bouzouki (1965)
A dedicated classical music tutor who keeps burning bridges with everyone in the name of art is unwilling to reconcile with his successful bouzouki...

Rokakias tin imera... to vrady kamariera (1984)
Babis, who is crazy about rock music, gives a performance with his band "Jelings Band" to his fellow villagers. However, they don't like disco and...

Roda, tsanta & kopana 2 (1983)
A rich kid comes to Havale High School with his servant for the new school year and, of course, becomes the butt of the other students' jokes, until...

Of the Poor Woman (1987)
Complications in life are common. But when they occur in different eras, the situation spirals out of control. A subversive comedy, with songs by...

As Long as There Are Women (1959)
Three friends are searching for the woman of their dreams. Three different women approach love, marriage, and their future in different ways.

The Tomboy (1959)
Refusing to realise that she has become a lovely sixteen-year-old woman, a gawky tomboy taunts her bookish neighbour. But, the effervescent feelings...

Lovers Without a Dime (1958)
Three poor men who have lost their jobs decide to swindle a wealthy Greek-American who returns to his homeland in search of his nephew.

Our Good Angel (1961)
After saving the beautiful but frivolous daughter of an austere businessman from an embarrassing situation, a silver-tongued gentleman becomes...

Hero Bunker (1972)
Following the torpedoing of the destroyer Elli on August 15, 1940 on Tinos by an Italian submarine, war was declared, and the Italians attacked the...

Elsewhere the Cackling (1960)
The revolution of an oppressed husband, whose wife locked him in the coop.

Exotic Vitamins (1964)
A middle-aged womaniser takes in his distant cousin, who has fled from an arranged marriage, and she decides to use a potent love potion to seduce...

Don't Fall in Love on a Saturday (1962)
A streetwise investment broker, who has been tricked into accepting a counterfeit $100 bill by a statuesque con woman, falls in love with her....

Ρόκυ Νο 0, το Νούμερο (1986)
Young boxer tries to imitate Rocky Balboa as played by Sylvester Stallone.

A Pitiful Don Juan (1960)
A wealthy man is responsible for his friend’s daughter, who has come to Athens to study. The girl messes up his life and soon falls in love...

Ο αυτάκιας (1982)
A penniless swindler loses an ear during a fight with an angry, cheated husband and receives a bionic device that allows him to hear otherwise...

The Stupid Face (1965)
Two persons try to become rich using an... armchair.

Tarnanas enantion Tsitsiolinas (1987)
Three detectives, Tryfon Psachidis, Tarnanas, and Lalakis, undertake to catch Theodoros' wife, Lili, in the act with her lover, Angelos. After a...

Antzela, o peirasmos (1988)
Two high-end jewelry designers in a deadly feud. A wealthy shipowner who wants to secure his social status. A suspicious anarchist whose motives no...

Papasouzas (1983)
A priest, wanting to attract young people to the church, is determined to do everything he can to win them over. He frequents their hangouts and buys...

A Papadia in Bouzouki No. 2 (1985)
Returning from a trip, Father Akakios sees that his neighborhood has been filled with discos and soccer fields, projects of the mayor. Unable to...

Mia papadia sta bouzoukia! (1983)
Akakios, a local priest, embarks on a challenging mission to motivate youth. But his neglected wife Margarita starts frequenting the city's...

A Tramp's Christmas (1962)
A man from Thessaloniki travels to Athens to punish the swindler who cheated his kind-hearted father. However, he falls in love with a girl and when...

The Child of the Street (1957)
A girl, Vassula, learns shortly before marrying her lover, Richard, that the alleged father is actually her uncle. The latter, when the natural...

Ena agori... alloiotiko ap' t' alla (1971)
Marina, a poor, hard-working girl, works as an accountant at a fashion house to support not only herself but also her mother and her lazy brother,...

Doste tin tsonta sto lao!.. (1983)
Two police officers are desperately trying to track down the leaders of an illegal pornographic film production ring, with their only clue being the...

Fortunately Unemployed (1963)
A poor man, Angelis Katsavidis, and his hard-of-hearing friend Stratos leave their village and come to Athens in search of a better life. Their local...

The Mischief-Makers (1963)
Two unemployed men are linked by friendship and go through many adventures together.

Koroido Romie (1981)
Potis and Fotis are partners in a supermarket. One cares about the company, while the other prefers to party with a wasteful lady. But, a beautiful...

Our Tears Have Dried Up (1961)
Dimitris and Maria postpone their wedding, as the declaration of war will separate them. Dimitris will fight on the front lines and later join the...

Δημόσιος κίνδυνος Νο:1... ...και κάτι! (1985)

Monday's Theater (1972)
Greek television series