Spiros Focás

Actor

August 17, 1937 (86 years)

† November 10, 2023

Patras, Greece

Biography

Spiros Focás (born 17 August, 1937 - November 10, 2023) was a Greek actor who, in a career extending for over half-century, has appeared in over two hundred films (Rambo III, The Jewel of the Nile) and episodes of television series. Born in Patras, Greece's third-largest urban area and the regional capital of West Greece Periphery, Spiros Focás made his initial screen appearances at the age of 22, when he acted in four films produced in 1959. Among the directors for whom he worked are Luchino …

Filmography

7.5

Murder, She Wrote

Constantin Kesmek

An unassuming mystery writer turned sleuth uses her professional insight to help solve real-life homicide cases.

6.2

Rambo III

Masoud

Combat has taken its toll on Rambo, but he's finally begun to find inner peace in a monastery. When Rambo's friend and mentor Col. Trautman asks for his help on a top secret mission to Afghanistan, Rambo declines but must reconsider when Trautman is captured.

6.2

The Jewel of the Nile

Omar

Joan Wilder is thrust back into a world of murder, chases, foreign intrigue... and love. This time out she's duped by a duplicitous Arab dignitary who brings her to the Middle East, ostensibly to write a book about his life. Of course, he's up to no good, and Joan is just another pawn in his wicked game. But Jack Colton and his sidekick Ralph show up to help our intrepid heroine save the day.

6.5

White Palace

George

Max Baron is a Jewish advertising executive in his 20s who's still getting over the death of his wife. Nora Baker is a 40-something diner waitress who enjoys the wilder side of life. Mismatched or not, their attraction is instant and smoldering. With time, however, their class and age differences become an obstacle in their relationship, especially since Max can't keep Nora a secret from his Jewish friends and upper-crust associates forever.

4.0

Της Αγάπης Μαχαιριά

Antonis Stamatakis

No description available

8.0

Rocco and His Brothers

Vincenzo Parondi

When a impoverished widow’s family moves to the big city, two of her five sons become romantic rivals with deadly results.

8.0

Origins of the Mafia

La Monica

Journey back more than 400 years to 16th century Sicily, where the small Italian islands have fallen victim to corruption, intimidation, extortion, and brutality.

7.0

Happy Holiday

Nikos

No description available

5.6

Messalina

Lucius Maximus

Messalina was the Roman noblewoman who inveigled ageing emperor Claudio into marriage. Once ensconced on the throne, Messalina launched a reign of terror that shook the empire to its very foundations. The subject of countless film treatments, Rome's most villified empress is herein played by British actress Belinda Lee.

6.1

Shaft in Africa

Marco Sassari

Detective John Shaft travels incognito to Ethiopia, then France, to bust a human trafficking ring.

5.8

Holocaust 2000

Harbin

An executive in charge of a nuclear power plant in the Mid-East must stop his son-- who turns out to be the Anti Christ -- from blowing it up.

N/A

Ο Δραπέτης

Στέφος Πέργαμος

No description available

5.9

Flavia the Heretic

The French Duke

Puglia, southern Italy, around 1400. A convent is invaded by the Tarantula cult, whose fanatical and crazed members desecrate the sacred place by committing obscene and bloody acts.

6.4

Tre colonne in cronaca

Bassouri, il socio libanese

Chronicle of the dark maneuvers put into practice by a politician to seize an opposition newspaper. A Lebanese terrorist receives the order to kill a stockbroker, which triggers a series of blackmail and deception. A deputy commissioner and a journalist intend to shed light on all these murky matters, but the politician has no scruples and also knows how to move with extraordinary skill.

5.1

A Matter of Time

Mario Morello

During a press conference, international star Nina remembers simpler times, flashing back to her days as a maid in a run-down Italian hotel. As a young woman, Nina befriends Contessa Sanziani, an elderly woman who entertains Nina with memories of her vibrant, wealthy life with Count Sanziani. Inspired by her tales of success, young Nina fantasizes about her own adventures and seeks to find the same excitement in her life.

5.6

A Man for Burning

Jachino

Political activist Salvatore returns to his native Sicily and stirs up trouble among the peasants, urging them to confront the Mafia and demand the right to plough their own fields. The peasants refuse to help him, and Salvatore is marked by the Mafia as a troublemaker.

6.6

Mark Shoots First

Morini

Mark Terzi goes to Genoa to take on the case of a serial killer who calls himself "The Sphinx".

4.9

Stefania

Giorgos Daponte

18 year old Stefania is brought to a juvenile reformatory for young prostitutes. The institution is actually a prison, and one of the worst and most squalid of its kind. It's a real hell. Two dozens of ragged girls are crammed into a dormitory, locked by a thick iron door, two in each bed. Meals and work is carried out in other sections of the building, separated by iron bars. A young doctor shall investigate the newcomer. When they meet, they immediately recognize each other. It is Giorgos, the doctor that treated Stefania's mother a couple of years ago, and then had a little flirt with Stefania. He has been thinking of her ever since. He immediately falls in love with her, and wants to help her. Stefania is thinking about any possibility to get out from the prison. She flirts with the ugly yard guard Armandos, and with the truck driver coming with foodstuff, but in vain...

6.1

Corbari

Orlandi

The real story of the partisan Silvio Corbari (Giuliano Gemma). Silvio forms a band of partisans in Northern Italy, completely independent from the Italian organized resistance (CLN). Ines (Tina Aumont), leaves her husband to join the band and becomes Silvio's lover. Silvio seems to suceed in creating a free-zone, his personal republic, independent from Nazi-occupied Italy, in a little village called Tregnano.

4.2

Mistress

Paulo

A woman who's been having an affair with a married man who's been taking care of her. When he dies she finds herself with nothing. So she tries to rebuild her life but not without the stigma of being a kept woman following her.