Yorgo Voyagis
Yorgo Voyagis (Greek: Γιώργος Βογιατζής) is a Greek actor born 6 December 1945 in Athens in Greece. He can be seen by many names in the credits of films like George Voyadjis or Yorgo Voyatzis.
Career as an actor
Voyagis' film debut was in Michael_Cacoyannis' Zorba the Greek (1964). He reappeared three years later in the Italian western Killer Kid.
Voyagis then starred in the film Chronicle of the Years of Fire by Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina (1975). In The Ballad of Mamluk Abdelhafidh Bouassida (1982), he played the titular role alongside Bekim Fehmiu and Irene Papas.
In the following years, his career was divided between television and film, from one country to another: from the French series X with Captain Pierre Malet, the film The Girl with the Drum of the U.S. George Roy Hill, opposite Diane Keaton, a telefilm Pasquale Squitieri an episode of Miami Vice and the movie Julia and Julia by Peter Del Monte, with Kathleen Turner featured. After a role alongside Klaus Kinski and Harvey Keitel, Voyagis interprets the kidnapper in Frantic by Roman Polanski. The same year, he appeared in the series The Fortunate Pilgrim by Mario Puzo, with Sophia Loren in dispensing head. The actor found Kinski in Nosferatu in Venice and Venice in Venice Red to Perier Etienne, in 1989, he also appeared in an episode of the American television series China Beach.
He also played in the horror film Vortice mortale and Detective Zaras, Paris Aristeidis hero in a series in 1991.
In 1997 he was Agamemnon in the blockbuster television Odyssey produced by Andrei Konchalovsky, and he participated as Claudia Cardinale and Guy Bedos, film Under the feet of women Rachida Krim. Since, among other things: a movie of adventure and fantasy directed by Pupi Avati in 2001 (as Raoul Bova, Edward Furlong, Stanislas Merhar and F. Murray Abraham ), Adrift by Guy Ritchie (in the role of captain) and Without Borders (2010) alongside George Corraface (of Greek origin) and Seymour Cassel .
Yorgo Voyagis remains active in Greece and Italy.
Filmography[1][2]
- 1964 : Zorba the Greek (Alexis Zorbas) by Michael Cacoyannis, Pavlo
- 1967 : Killer Kid by Leopoldo Savona, Pablo
- 1967 : To prosopo tis Medousas by Nikos Koundouros
- 1968 : Giarrettiera Colt by Gian Rocco, Carlos
- 1968 : L'età del malessere by Giuliano Biagetti
- 1969 : Cuore di mamma by Salvatore Samperi, Carlo
- 1970 : The Last Adventurers (The Adventurers) by Lewis Gilbert, El Lobo
- 1970 : The Last Valley (The Last Valley) by James Clavell, Pirelli
- 1975 : Orlando furioso ( TV series ) by Luca Ronconi
- 1975 : Chronicle of the Years of Fire by Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina, Ahmed
- 1977 : Jesus of Nazareth by Franco Zeffirelli, Joseph
- 1977 : The New Monsters (I nuovi mostri) by Mario Monicelli, Dino Risi and Ettore Scola, the terrorist
- 1978 : Nero veneziano by Ugo Liberatore, Dan
- 1981 : Un'assistente tutta pepe by Nando Cicero, Bel Ami
- 1981 : A girl really nice (L'amante da tutta scoprire) by Giuliano Carnimeo, Nicki
- 1982 : La Casa stregata by Bruno Corbucci, Omar
- 1982 : The Ballad of Mamluk (Sarab) by Abdelhafidh Bouassida, Mamluk
- 1982 : Eccezzziunale ... veramente by Carlo Vanzina, Slavo
- 1982 : Sesso e volentieri by Dino Risi, Lover of Pino
- 1983 : Captain X ( TV series ) by Bruno Gantillon, Ismet
- 1983 : O stohos by Nikos Foskolos , Tasos Seretis
- 1984 : The Little Drummer Girl by George Roy Hill , Joseph
- 1986 : The Boss ( TV series ) by Silverio Blasi
- 1986 : Naso di cane ( movie ) by Pasquale Squitieri , Achille Ammirato
- 1987 : Nel gorgo del peccato ( TV series ) by Frazzi Andrea and Antonio Frazzi
- 1987 : Miami Vice ( TV series , one episode) created by Anthony Yerkovich , Alexander Dykstra
- 1987 : Giulia e Giulia by Peter Del Monte , Goffredo
- 1988 : Grandi cacciatori by Augusto Caminito , Leader
- 1988 : Frantic by Roman Polanski , the Kidnapper
- 1988 : The Fortunate Pilgrim ( TV series ) by Stuart Cooper , Tony
- 1988 : The Bourne Identity by Roger Young , Carlos
- 1988 : Nosferatu in Venice (Nosferatu a Venezia) by Augusto Caminito , Dr. Barneval
- 1989 : China Beach ( TV series , one episode) created by John Sacret Young and William Broyles Jr. , Turner
- 1989 : Red Venice by Etienne Perier , Torelli
- 1990 : Courage Mountain by Christopher Leitch , Signor Bonelli
- 1991 : I agapi tis gatas ( TV series ) by Andreas Thomopoulos , Detective Zaras
- 1992 : L'ispettore Anticrimine ( TV series ) by Paolo Fondato
- 1993 : Vortice mortale by Ruggero Deodato , Yuri Petkov
- 1994 : Running Delilah by Richard Franklin , Alec Kasharian
- 1996 : Earth indigo ( TV Series ) by Jean Sagols , Alvarez Corea
- 1997 : Jeavaeri ( TV Series ) by Giorgos Kordelas Antonis
- 1997 : The Odyssey (The Odyssey) by Andrei Konchalovsky , Agamemnon
- 1997 : Under the feet of women by Rachida Krim , Moncef 1996
- 1999 : Guardami by Davide Ferrario , Father of Nina
- 2000 : ... Ystera, irthan oi Melisses ( TV series ) by Kostas Koutsomytis , Stathis Horafas
- 2000 : The Prince of Arabia (Der Prinz arabische) by Peter Deutsch and Karola Meeder , Prinz Mahib
- 2001 : I Cavalieri che fecero l'impresa by Pupi Avati , Isacco Sathas
- 2001 : Beautiful People by Nikos Panayotopoulos
- 2002 : L'inverno by Nina Di Majo , Gustavo
- 2002 : Lilly's Story by Robert Manthoulis George
- 2002 : Swept Away by Guy Ritchie , Captain
- 2003 : Leni ( TV series ) by Lambis Zaroutiadis Petros
- 2004 :Signora by Francesco Laudadio , Basilio
- 2004 : Arhipelagos ( TV series ) by Vasilis Karfis , Manola Stella and Nikos Zapatinas , Stratis
- 2006 : An m 'agapas ( TV series ) by Stratos Markidis
- 2007 : Yungermann ( TV series , 2 episodes), Ademar From Kresy
- 2009 : Without Borders by Nick Gaitatjis, Thanasis