- Known For
- Crew
- Born
- May 13, 1935
- Place of Birth
- Athens, Greece
Fotis Metaxopoulos
Fotis Metaxopoulos (13 May 1935) is a Greek dancer, choreographer and dance teacher. He was born in Athens in 1935. At the age of five he lost his mother and his father took over his guardianship. At 19, he attended Palmer Schools with a view to working as a radio operator in the Merchant Navy. He was influenced by the film The Life of Rodolfo Valentino (1954) and decided to take up dancing. In the same year (1954), Angelos Grimanis, choreographer of the National Opera, was looking for dancers to compose a ballet that would tour Greece and Europe. Grimanis did not hire the then inexperienced Metaxopoulos, but introduced him to the Swiss dancer Myriam Choisy, who in turn encouraged him to take up dancing professionally. His first professional contact with dance was in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet at the National Garden Theater with choreography by Yannis Fleury. He continued his theat…
Filmography
movieOur... Kolotravas wants it.
2005 · Director
movieΤα... λαμόγια
2003 · Director
Πετσί και Κόκκαλη
movieΠετσί και Κόκκαλη
2001 · Director
movieMourlenium 2000
2000 · Director
movieSalome was a wonderful kisser.
2000 · Director
movieSimiTitanikos
1998 · Director
movieKarnavali sto trigono ton pappoudon
1991 · Dancer
movieΗ φλόγα
1988
Ο Ανδροκλής και τα λιοντάρια του
tvΟ Ανδροκλής και τα λιοντάρια του
1985
movieThe Countess of Corfu
1972 · dancer
movieBedlam My Love
1972 · Choreographer
movieThe Man Who Returned from the Heat
1972 · Choreographer
movieI Loved an Armchair
1971 · Choreographer
movieMy Aunt the Hippie
1970 · dancer
movieWhat Does Man Do To Live
1970 · dancer
movieThe firecracker
1970 · Dancer
movieTo Win the Lottery
1970 · Choreographer
movieA Tough Guy in the Salons
1969 · Choreographer
movieMy Boss Was a Fool
1969 · Χορευτής
movieWake up, you sucker...
1969 · Choreographer
movieThe Storyteller
1969 · Choreographer
movieThe Man from Karpazia
1969 · Choreographer
movieThe Father-in-Law
1968 · Choreographer
movieThe Right-Minded Madman
1968 · Choreographer
movieThe jealous woman
1968 · Choreographer
movieAssignment Skybolt
1968 · Choreographer
movieOur love
1968 · Choreographer
movieDoctor Z-Vengos
1968 · dancer
moviePenelope's Suitors
1968 · Choreographer
movieThe Brightest Bouzouki
1968 · Choreographer
movieA Rich Without Money
1967 · Choreographer
movieMy Dimitri... My Dimitri
1967 · dancer, Choreographer
movieThe Drunk of the Harbor
1967 · Choreographer
movieThe Big Fool
1967 · dancer, Choreographer
movieGerontokoros
1967 · dancer
movieThe Playful Girl
1967 · dancer
movieCrazy, Nuts and Vengos
1967 · Choreographer
movieBouzouki Strumming
1966 · Choreographer
moviePapatrechas
1966 · Choreographer
movieArtesta
1966 · Dancer, Choreographer
movieThe 201 Canaries
1964 · Alkiviadis
movieThe Twins
1964 · dancer
movieLazy like a dog
1963 · Choreographer
movieSomeone like It Cold...
1963 · dancer, Choreographer
movieScandals on the Island of Love
1963 · Choreographer
movieA Pitiful Don Juan
1960 · dancer
movieAli Pasas and Lady Frosyni
1959