Thodoros Moridis

Thodoros Moridis was a Greek actor who made his first appearance in 1924 with the Aimilios Veakis - Christoforos Nezer troupe in the play "For Her Love". With them, he co-starred in Sophocles's "Oedipus Rex" among others. With the troupe of Kyveli, he played in "Madame X" (1927) and the following year in Euripides "Iphigenia in Tauris" with Eleni Halkousi, with whom he would collaborated again later. He was a key member of Vasilis Rotas's "Laiko Theatre" and in 1932 he collaborated for the first time with Marika Kotopouli while in 1936 he began his collaboration with Katerina Andreadi in whose troupe he remained until 1943, performing many important roles in major works of world drama (The Lady of the Camellias, The Merchant of Venice, Much Ado About Nothing, Hedda Gabler, Pygmalion, The Lady from the Sea, Nora, etc.). In Katerina's troupe he also met and loved Joly Garbi, with whom he was together for 60 years on stage and in life. This was followed by collaborations with the Manolidou - Veakis - Pappa troupe (1943-44) (The Shepherdess's Lover), with the "United Artists" (1945-46) (Julius Caesar, Enemies by Maxim Gorky, Brothers Karamazov, Von Dimitrakis etc.), with the "Thymeli Troupe", alongside Mimis Fotopoulos and Nikos Hatziskos, where he played Polonius in Hamlet (1955), with the "Greek People's Theater" of Manos Katrakis (The Last Temptation of Christ, The Idiot, Queen Amalia), alongside Antigoni Valakou, Mary Aroni (Manto Mavrogenous), and Elsa Vergi. From 1961 to 1983 he joined the power of the National Theatre, performing dozens of important roles in Ancient Greek and international drama (Ajax, Agamemnon, The Trojan Women, Philoctetes, Medea, Rosmersholm, O vasilikos, Demons, The Tempest, The Cherry Orchard, Mary Stuart etc.). Right after, he participated in The Master Builder,Dimitris Horn's last performance. This was followed by Strange Interlude with Alekos Alexandrakis and Nonika Galinea, Oedipus at Colonus with the "Empiric Troupe" of Alexis Minotis, collaborations with Danis Katranidis, Marietta Rialdi and Giorgos Mesalas. In the cinema, he participated in many films from 1948 to the 1970s as well as on television.