Acting
Georgia Vasileiadou
Georgia Vasileiadou (Greek: Γεωργία Βασιλειάδου; 1897 – 12 February 1980) was a Greek actress. She appeared in more than forty films from 1930 to 1977. She was born in Athens in the Kypseli area in 1897 into a family of ten children. Her real name was Georgia Athanasiou, but she changed it to Vasiliadou when she decided to pursue singing and acting. She was forced to leave school early to work in a shop and help support her large family, after the sudden death of her father, who was a cavalry officer, after falling from a horse. She made her first artistic appearance in 1923 as a member of the Olympia Theater chorus, in Giuseppe Verdi's Ernani, rather coincidentally when she began her studies at the Gennadius School in 1923 and then appeared in various operas. She worked in major theater groups of the time with Kyveli, Marika Kotopouli, Dimitris Myrat, performing various roles. In the mid-1930s, she decided to stop, after a marriage that was unfortunate. She then met Sofia Vembo, who promised to help her. The man who discovered her and gave her the opportunity to have a great career was Alekos Sakellarios, so at the age of forty-two, Georgia Vassiliadou made a new dynamic start and with her innate talent immediately conquered the audience. Alekos Sakellarios offered her a role in 1939 in The Married Girls, which became the occasion for the beginning of a second, but better known career - this time as a world-loving comedian, the "most beautiful ugly" of Greek cinema, as she was described. Her company Finos Film produced her great successes such as: The Beauty of Athens, The Aunt from Chicago, Clearchos, Marina and the Shorty and many others. She took part in the television series Christ is Crucified Again. In the collections When Actors Sing 1 & 2, Vasiliadou can be heard in the songs "O kyr-Mentios" by Takis Morakis from the film The Treasure of the Retired[3] and "Apokriatiko Gaitanaki". She lived in Maroussi and had a daughter, Fotini Apostolidou, from her first marriage, while in 1945 she married her second husband, Kostas Gambaros, with whom she lived together until her death. In recent times, she suffered from bronchial asthma. Her health deteriorated and she was hospitalized at Evangelismos. She died on 12 February 1980.[5] She was buried two days later, in the presence of a small crowd, at the 1st Cemetery of Athens.
Filmography
Browse movies and TV shows featuring Georgia Vasileiadou
The Treasure of the Beatitude
Theoni finds a strange way to gain some money, in order to pay her bills , by renting rooms in her rickety hous...
The Auntie from Chicago
Charilaos (Orestis Makris), a retired officer with very strict and conservative principles, raises his four dau...
The Beauty of Athens
A streetwise guy, according to a will, has to marry an extremely ugly old lady to get the money of the inherita...
The Coffee Reader (Kafetzou)
In a poor neighborhood of Athens, next to the coffee shop of Spyros (Mimis Fotopoulos) is a coffee shop that ha...
The Happy Beginning
Three young musicians and three female singers strive for success, competing each other. But love gets in their...
Mrs. Midwife
The rivalry between a professional doctor and a midwife in a small Greek village.
So Many Dreams on the Streets
Two ambitious young employees land a job at the small store of an avaricious man, intending to stay there no mo...
We without money
A poor young man leaves the city that lives and works to go to Athens. On the way he will meet one mad, who fal...
The Unwilling Nanny
After returning from a masquerade, much to his surprise, a wandering textile salesman stumbles upon an abandone...
The Germans Strike Again
4 years after the Nazi occupation in Greece, the Greeks are involved in a Civil War and they are killing each o...
One Night in Heaven
Ms. Byzantiou is a passionate writer who stays at the hotel “Paradise” together with other eccentric tenants. W...
1821 at the Cinema
In 1821, in Cinema, he records the cinematic representations of the Revolution from the first decades of the 20...
Bouboulina
The life and action of Laskarina Bouboulina. Captain Lascarina decides to organize the revolution in Spetses an...
I Loved and I Suffered
After a momentary lapse of judgment, an impecunious husband finds himself behind bars, losing both his freedom...
Madame Mayor
On the square of a village on a beautiful greek island there are two competing tavernas. One belongs to Aspasia...
Goal in Love
A barber owes a lot of money to his landlady, who shows great patience and understanding, hoping that one day h...
The Miserable
A bachelor by conviction not watch the girl who works at the shop cashier is in love with him, despite all the...
Astero
This immensely successful remake of the 1929 foustanella classic was directed by Dinos Dimopoulos and quickly e...
Horse and Carriage
An old chauffeur, after removing his rambling son, decides to live with his orphaned girl while facing the adve...
Klearhos, Marina and the short one
The Clearchos order to escape the unbearable and domineering wife Marina and found a lively geitonisa of Iro, w...
They ere all... Fools!
The whole male population of Katochori is in love with the niece of former president Katsikaris. The village is...
The 4 Stairs
Surrounded by wealth, an impecunious young lady leaves home and the suave man of her dreams to spread her wings...
Those Not Allowed to Love
Pavlos, a conservatory student dreaming of becoming a great artist of quality music, lives with his fiancée Kai...
Grousouzis
Agatocles, a grumpy and gruesome caffector, finds out a baby's out of his cafe and, to the surprise of everyone...
Greedy for Everything
The avaricious Athenian, Fanouris Karababas, forbids his daughter to marry her beloved and behaves cruelly to h...
Michalios of the 14th Regiment
A guileless peasant with a heart of gold enlists in the prestigious Hellenic Special Forces and finds himself n...
Πιάσαμε την καλή
A jobless and kind countryman moves to Athens, only to lose yet another job. However, the lottery ticket in his...
The Sculptor's Dream
A sculptor dreams about his work coming to life and having various adventures.
The Matchmaker
Georgia Vasiliadou claims to be a simple housewife. And an inveterate matchmaker! She spies on everyone and eve...
Η Σμυρνιά
Mrs. Efthalia, a woman with origin from Smyrna, is an active citizen of an Athenian neighborhood: she deals wit...
Η περιπτερού
A good-hearted taxi driver dreams of living comfortably and rich. In her attempt to help people, she upsets her...
The Wedding Dance
Isaiah and Anargyros are partners and keep together a wedding bureaux office. Things are not going well lately,...
The Bridegrooms of Eftyhia
The film focuses on the Tarniatis brothers, with the brother trying to marry his sister (Georgia Vasileiadou),...
The Greek woman and love
Revolving around the modern Greek woman and her perspective on love in general, not one, but twenty-one brief a...
The Watermelon
Bursting with excitement before meeting a blonde hottie and her equally good-looking companion, a lascivious me...