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Stavros Tornes
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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…
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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.
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Deserted and alone to make my pain go away
Stavros Tornes: The Poor Hunter of the South
as archive footage
No Poster
Witches
No Poster
Heron for Germany
as Polydoros
Danilo Treles: The Famous Andalusian Musician
as Fox Man
Topos
as Geropeismataris
Varieté
as Old Man in the Corridor
Misunderstanding
Balamos
as Balamos
For the Poet Nikos Kavvadias
as Self
City of Women
as Party Guest (uncredited)
Christ Stopped at Eboli
Coatti
Kierion
as George Morgan
Allonsanfan
as Gioacchino
Lucky Luciano
as Man at Table (uncredited)
Nausicaa
as Michel
Many Wars Ago
as General's Aide (uncredited)
Open Letter
The Roundup
Glory Sky
The Beauty of Roumeli
Sharp as a Needle
as police officer
Our Tears Have Dried Up
Fishermen and Fishing
as narrator
The Daywork of Happiness
as Nikos
