Giannis Voglis

Yannis Voglis was born in 1937, in Athens, Greece. He studied acting at the Pellos Katselis' Drama School and made his stage debut in 1961 in Bertolt Brecht's "The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui" directed by Karolos Koun. Among others, his prolific work includes significant Greek stage plays, Maxim Gorky's "Enemies" and the title roles in Henrik Ibsen's "Peer Gynt", William Shakespeare's "Coriolanus" and Sophocles's "Philoctetes" together with memorable performances in his international screen work such as in Vasilis Georgiadis' Blood on the Land (1965) and Koritsia ston ilio (1968), Jules Dassin's A Dream of Passion (1978) and Peter and Paul (1981).