Acting
Jul 3, 1974
Adelaide, Australia
Yorgos Pirpassopoulos
Acting
Biography
George Pyrpasopoulos (Greek: Γιώργος Πυρπασόπουλος - Adelaide, July 14, 1974) is a Greek actor, director and presenter. He was born in 1974 in Adelaide, Australia and came to Greece at the age of two. He studied acting in Athens and at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts in London. He started acting on television as a teenager and since then has had many appearances in television, cinema and theater. He is one of the founding members of the Hellenic Film Academy, while in 2012 he was president of the Greek Actors' Association.
Feature Films (29)
On 17th of November 1973, the Junta ordered the military to intervene in order to stop the 3 days demonstrations against the regime. Armored tanks surrounded the Polytechnic University of Athens and one of them entered the premises by bringing down the main gate. We are inside that armorded tank and we follow the events the very last minutes before bringing down the gate.
The Student
Threatened by his debtors, rocked by a broken heart and driven by greed, a charming gambler arrives at a middle-of-nowhere tavern in search of a case of gold. Instead, he attracts the attentions of the grumpy tavern owner's unhappy wife, whose affection complicates his plan and perpetuates his spell of misfortune.
Γκίνες
“Wild Duck” is the story of Dimitris, a telecommunications engineer who’s forced to shutter his business after running up a considerable debt with a local loan shark. He and his buddy Nikos, another telecommunications expert working for a big outfit, decide to get to the bottom of a big scandal. Their research leads them to a certain apartment, whose tenant Panagiota becomes the focus of their attention. Dimitris is now facing some major dilemmas and a trip to his hometown will help him clear his head and look at himself under a different light.
Wild Duck
Six goodbyes and a welcome. The very ending of dramatic, melodramatic and funny scenes of everyday life.
Goodbye
The swan song of the Honorary Director of the Eugenides Planetarium Dionysios Simopoulos was to be the last unpublished musical work of the late and world-renowned composer Vangelis Papathanasiou. On the occasion of the New Digital Planetarium's 20th anniversary, this show looks back on its previous productions, with unreleased music by Vangelis and narrated by Dionysios Simopoulos. A tribute to Science and Art by two creators whose friendship and mutual appreciation is more than evident in this work.
We are Stardust
A satire of life in modern Greece, presented through a series of different stories about sex. There are several couples and their relation with sex in parallel stories that come together in a hilarious way.
Safe Sex
A director decides to make a film about an old friend, musician, who died from drugs years ago and became known to the general public after his death. The present and the past confused in the mind of the director and the influences in his work.
Love Me Do
In the near-future metropolis of Athens, suicide is illegal and citizens have no other desire but to die. Following the film’s heroes to their chase of one last desire, a great deal of tragicomic surprises come the way.
Whack
A college student seeks to set things traight with his mother, that abandonned him as a child as she fled with his uncle to America.
The Wing of the Fly
In late-1960s Athens, a student forms a strong friendship with a group of young dreamers, against the backdrop of the military dictatorship.
End of an Era
An American tourist in Greece finds himself on the run after a tragic accident plunges him into a political conspiracy that makes him a target for assassination.
Beckett
A fishing trip in the Aegean Sea among a sextet of friends becomes the perfect setting for a relentless contest of male dominance. Everything can spark a fierce competition; but, only one can wear the precious chevalier. Who will it be?
Chevalier
Television & Series (18)
The series follows the lives and loves of three 30-something professionals in modern day Athens. Elli (Faidra Douka) is a junior executive in a record company, having to deal with a highly demanding bitch-of-a-boss. Following the end of a serious relationship, Elli is worried about never having a chance to marry or have kids. Her search for new partners mostly results in the entry of weirdos in her life. Mitsaki (Mirto Alikaki) is a radio producer with a love-hate-relationship with her own boss. A life-long party girl with a tendency towards short-lived relationships and an aversion to taking any short of responsibility, Mitsaki has to come to grips with the idea of growing up. Billy (Giorgos Pyrpassopoulos) is a reporter with a rather unsteady love-life. He is a homosexual, but tends to be turned-off by the quirks of his various partners and has yet to fully commit to a relationship.
