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Manos Katrakis

Greek actor

Field	Value
name	Manos Katrakis
Μάνος Κατράκης
image	Katrakis.jpg
birth_name	Emmanuel Katrakis
birth_date	14 August 1908
birth_place	Kasteli, Kissamos, Cretan State
death_date
death_place	Athens, Greece
resting_place	First Cemetery of Athens
yearsactive	1928-1984
spouse
awards	San Francisco International Film Festival
Golden Gate Award
1961 Antigone
International Thessaloniki Film Festival
Greek Competition Award
1961 Synoikia to Oneiro

Μάνος Κατράκης Golden Gate Award 1961 Antigone International Thessaloniki Film Festival Greek Competition Award 1961 Synoikia to Oneiro

Emmanuel "Manos" Katrakis (; 14 August 1908 – 3 September 1984) was a Greek actor of theater and film.

Biography

Born in Kissamos, Cretan State, he was the youngest of five children of Haralambos Katrakis and Irini Katraki. When Manos was 10 years old, his family moved from Crete to Athens, where his father searched for work. His brother, Giannis, emigrated to North America. Manos played soccer during his youth for the Athinaikos football team and others.

Along with actor/director Kostas Leloudas, he acted in his first movie To Lavaro tou '21 in 1928. He later performed in the Ethniko Theatro (the National Theatre) in 1931. During the 1930s, he continued acting in theatrical plays (he was friends with the maestro Dimitris Mitropoulos). He married Anna Lori in 1943.

He took part in the resistance as a member of EAM/ELAS and after refusing to sign a declaration of repentance during the Greek Civil War of 1946–49, he was exiled to Makronisos, along with such other well-known figures as Yiannis Ritsos, Nikos Koundouros, Mikis Theodorakis and Thanasis Veggos.

In the 1950s he returned to Athens from Makronisos but there was little acting work. He was handed both small and big roles in plays and films. In 1954, he met the dancer Linda Alma (real name Eleni Malioufa). Since then they lived together until his death, while in 1979 they got married. Shortly before his death, he filmed his last and best movie Taxidi sta Kythira, the Journey to Kythera/Kythira, with director Theo Angelopoulos.

Death and legacy

Katrakis died at the age of 76 on 2 September 1984, from lung cancer; he had been an avid smoker for most of his life. He was survived by his wife, Linda Alma. Alma died in 1999 at the age of 72. In 2009 the Greek Post Office issued a €0,01 postage stamp in honor of Katrakis.

Selected filmography

To Lavaro tou '21 (1929) .... Dimos
Etsi kaneis, san agapiseis (1931)
O Agapitikos tis voskopoulas (1932) .... Liakos
Prosopa lismonimena (1946) .... Nikos Markidis (voice, uncredited)
Katadromi sto Aigaion (1946) .... Lt. Cdr. Giannis Raidis
Oi Germanoi xanarhontai... (1948) .... German soldier (uncredited)
Marinos Kontaras (1948) .... Marinos Kontaras
I Floga tis eleftherias (1952) .... narrator (voice)
Eva (1953) .... Alekos
O dromos me tis akakies (1954) .... Hristos Vranas
Magiki polis (1954) .... Narrator
Antigone (1961) .... Creon
Synoikia to Oneiro (1961) .... Nekroforas
Flogera kai aima (1961) .... Stathis Vlahopanagos
Electra (1963) .... tutor
Thriamvos (1962) .... Bournokos
Enas delikanis (1963) .... father
O Adelfos Anna (1963) .... Father Vasileios
The red lanterns (1963) .... Kapetan Nikolas
Athoa i enohi? (1963) .... Alekos
Prodosia (1964) .... Professor Viktor Kastriotis
Diogmos (1964)
Oi Epikindynoi (1964)
Enomenoi sti zoi kai sto thanato (1964) .... Captain Seratos
To Bloko (1965)
O Metanastis (1965)
Istoria mias zois (1965) .... Mikes Papadimas
Blood on the land (1966) .... father Hormovas
Sparagmos (1965)
O Epanastatis (1965)
Katigoro tous anthropous (1966) .... Elefterios Dimitropoulos
I Exodos tou Mesolongiou (1966)
Dakrya gia tin Ilektra (1966) .... Tassos Petridis
Tora pou fevgo ap' ti zoi (1966)
Sklavoi tis moiras (1966) .... Mr. Delipetrou
O Katatregmenos (1966) .... Labros Sarioglou
Mazi sou, gia panta (1966)
Erotas stin kafti ammo (1966) .... Nikolas
Eho dikaioma na s' agapo! (1966)
Aihmalotoi tou pepromenou (1966) .... Hristos
Aharisti (1966)
Kontserto gia polyvola (1967) .... General Dareios
Ti ki an gennithika ftohos (1967) .... Mr. Razis
O Labiris enantion ton paranomon (1967)
To Kanoni kai t' aidoni (1968)
I Leoforos tou misous (1968) .... Legatos
Xerizomeni genia (1968) .... Manthos
Tosa oneira stous dromous (1968) .... Mose Aron
Tha kano petra tin kardia mou (1968) .... Pantelis
Mia mera, o pateras mou (1968)
Katigoroumeni, apologisou (1968)
Jane Eyre (1968) .... Edward Rodgester
I Lygeri (1968) .... Konstadis Matrozos
I Kardia enos aliti (1968) .... Manos Sarris
As me krinoun oi gynaikes (1968) .... Angelos Bartis
Kynigimeni prosfygopoula (1969) .... Argyris
Prosfygas, O (1969) .... Thanasis Daoutis
Koureli tis zois (1969) .... Yiannis Romanis
Kakos, psyhros ki anapodos (1969) .... Alekos Valiris
I Thysia mias gynaikas (1969)
I Sfragida tou Theou (1969) .... Yiannis
I Ora tis alitheias (1969)
I Leoforos tis prodosias (1969) .... Brig. Gen. Gerakaris
Gia tin timi kai gia ton erota (1969) .... Pavlos
Filise me, prin fygeis gia panta (1969) .... Stavros Karapanos
Oratotis miden (1970) .... Horst Richter
Aftoi pou milisan me ton thanato (1970) .... Lykourgos Venetis
I Zougla ton poleon (1970) .... Lysias Sekeris
To Teleftaio fili (1970)
Ores agapis, ores polemou (1970)
Katigoro tous dynatous (1970) .... Labros Kontarinis
Esena mono agapo (1970) .... Vyronas Derkos
Katahrisis exousias (1971)
Me fovon kai pathos (1972) .... Alexandros Viaskos
I Aliki diktator (1972) .... Eleftherios (uncredited)
Horis syneidisi (1972) .... Kostas Dellis
Antartes ton poleon (1972) .... Fotis's father
Oi Prostates (1973) .... Petros Rallis
I Fonissa (1974) .... narrator (voice)
I Diki ton dikaston (1974) .... Theodoros Kolokotronis
Mado mavrogenous (1974)
Kravgi gynaikon (1978) .... Kreon
O Ilios tou thanatou (1978) .... Papa-Giannis
O Efialtis (1978)
Eleftherios Venizelos (1980) .... Petros
O Anthropos me to garyfallo (1980) .... Nikolaos Plastiras
Voyage to Cythera (1984) .... Spyros
Ta Hronia tis thyellas (1984) .... old man (final film role)

References

[https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0441463/bio?ref_=nm_ov_bio_sm IMDb profile], imdb.com; accessed 20 March 2016.
(2002-01-10). "Manos Katrakis: The man and his eventful life {{!}} eKathimerini.com".

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