Kostas Voutsas

Voutsas was born in Athens in 1931 He studied drama at the Drama School of the Macedonian Conservatory of Thessaloniki and made his stage and screen debut in 1953 In 1961 his breakthrough came when Giannis Dalianidis a Greek film director gave him a leading role in his phenomenally successful youth melodrama O Katiforos He soon became one of the best and most popular comic actors of his generation and created personal groups starring in many Greek comedies by top playwrights and classics like Aristophanes The Wasps as Philokleon Molieres Le bourgeois gentilhomme title role etc He has always been more committed to being a theatrical actor In an interview at Athens daily newspaper To Vima he said Playing in movies has helped me a lot but I was always committed to the theatre and that was my highlight He was a major actor in Finos Films and went on to star in about 60 movies mostly comedies and musicals of the golden era of Greek commercial cinema