Giorgos Zambetas
Biography
Giorgos Zampetas (Pronounced 'Zabetas', Greek: Γιώργος Ζαμπέτας, sometimes romanized as George Zambetas / George Zabetas / Giorgos Zabetas; 25 January 1925 – 10 March 1992) was a Greek bouzouki musician. He was born in Athens, where he also died, but his origins were from the island of Kythnos. He was one of the most recognized Greek musicians of all times, working in the Greek cinema of those years with stars such as Aliki Vouyouklaki. He appeared in many Greek film productions, and his compositions used in many, one of the most famous being "Siko Horepse Sirtaki". He also worked with famous Greek composers, such as Manos Hadjidakis in 1959, and there after collaborated with various leading Greek musicians such as Theodorakis, Stavros Xarchakos and many others.
Known For & Full Filmography43 Titles
Movie - 1966, 2h 15m • as singer
An outstanding performance featuring brilliant storytelling, high stakes drama, and unforgettable character arcs.
Movie - 1969, 2h 15m • as singer
A nephew of three strange uncles loves a girl, but his uncles are against the marriage. A resourceful aunt takes the case and helps the couple.
Movie - 1966, 2h 15m • as singer
A professor asks two poor students of law to steal, for a fee, a rare figurine from the house of a collector. After the successful outcome of the theft, the professor dies from joy, and the two students decide to return the figurine to its owner. There they meet his daughters, to whom they tell numerous lies. In the end, it is revealed that the whole thing was part of a wager between the professor and the collector, and the two students fall in love with the latter's daughters.
Drama Series - 1982, 16 episodes • Main Cast Role
An outstanding performance featuring brilliant storytelling, high stakes drama, and unforgettable character arcs.
Movie - 1967, 2h 15m • as singer
A poor accountant, in order to raise money for his marriage, finds a second job in a luxury hotel where he accepts to change his name and life with a rich playboy who wants to try if women want him for his money .
Movie - 1963, 2h 15m • as singer
Aristides Papakatsikas welcomes two nephews to his home, the wealthy Manolis from America and the poor Manolis from Amaliada, whom he has never met in person. The two nephews, following a suggestion from Manolis in America, agree to switch roles so that the wealthy Manolis can understand the sincerity of his uncle's intentions.
Movie - 1965, 2h 15m • as singer
The late Pericles gets permission from God to return to earth and help his family, who has gone astray after his death. Invisible to all but present everywhere, he is able to eavesdrop on what's going on: his youngest daughter lives it up with some Teddy boys, his eldest do not intend to marry her fiancé, his son has become a crook, and his wife a gambler.
Movie - 1966, 2h 15m • as Singer
This is one of the many variations on the Romeo and Juliet myth, in which young love reunites two children, Dimitris and Myrto, whose families hate each other to death. Myrto's father caused Dimitris' father to be financially ruined and, although both men are dead, the hatred of Dimitris' mother, Theophile, does not seem to fade. This time, the feeling between the two young people blooms again under the sun of Chalkidiki, where Myrto and her aunt Eleni are going on vacation. Dimitris does not seek any revenge and his interest in Myrto is sincere and guileless. The feeling is mutual, while the passions and hatreds of the past fade away under the blue sky and the hot sun...
Movie - 1966, 2h 15m • as musician
A smart young man is forced to pretend to be stupid in order to get a job in the office of a strict businessman, whose daughter he is in love with. By pretending to be stupid, he manages to save the businessman from making major mistakes, winning his sympathy.
Movie - 1967, 2h 15m • as musician
With his pockets crammed with cash, a countryman in Athens becomes the target of a plotting compatriot and a beautiful singer who want to rinse him for every penny. But, he's already in love with the girl next door. Can he win this bet?
Movie - 1962, 2h 15m • as musician
A God-fearing young man refuses to sell his, rich in ore, pasture to a mining company. So an agent of this company creates a scam of a so-called miracle in order to convince him.
Movie - 1964, 2h 15m • as Singer
An outstanding performance featuring brilliant storytelling, high stakes drama, and unforgettable character arcs.
Movie - 1966, 2h 15m • as Singer
An outstanding performance featuring brilliant storytelling, high stakes drama, and unforgettable character arcs.
Movie - 1966, 2h 15m • as singer
Two friends get involved in a scam involving selling of land plots.
Movie - 1964, 2h 15m • as Mitsos
Mary and Nikos are a happily married couple whose life turns upside down when Mary’s friend, Lilly, borrows their new car. When Lilly crashes the car, she asks Mary to cover for her so that her husband doesn’t find about her new affair. The case of the car crash is brought to court, and Mary is accused. Things get so complicated that not even Lilly’s confession can solve the misunderstanding.
Movie - 1967, 2h 15m • as singer
Betty has become engaged, for her father’s sake, with a hard working and kind young man, Kostas, who works at a store selling electrical appliances that belongs to Betty’s father, Mr. Periklis. The latter values Kostas and truly wants to make him his son-in-law. Kostas saves the life of a sensitive girl, Mary, who tries to commit suicide because her English lover deserted her. Later on, he is persuaded to impersonate a rich Englishman in order to help Mary deal with her father, Mr. Kyriakos, who is trying to force her to marry someone against her will.
Movie - 1965, 2h 15m • as Singer
An outstanding performance featuring brilliant storytelling, high stakes drama, and unforgettable character arcs.
Movie - 1968, 2h 15m • as singer
Kitsos from Gastouni comes to Athens and gets a job at the souvlaki restaurant owned by Dimos from Roumeli. He falls in love with his boss's daughter, Zeta, but she does not reciprocate his feelings. After a heated argument with Dimos, he quits and leaves. He opens his own souvlaki restaurant and is very successful. His terrified competitors try everything they can to learn his secret and even go so far as to recruit the beautiful Suzy to seduce him.
Movie - 1965, 2h 15m • as Singer
An outstanding performance featuring brilliant storytelling, high stakes drama, and unforgettable character arcs.
Movie - 1965, 2h 15m • as singer
A debt collector persistently pursues a spendthrift young man who owes a lot of money to the company he works for. Although he finds her unbearable at first, he soon falls in love with her.
Movie - 1966, 2h 15m • as Singer
After his business' bankrupcy, Giorgos Alexiou decides to commit suicide. Rosa, his cousin's wife who stand to benefit form his death, hires a private detective to keep an eye on him in case he changes his mind. Minas, Giorgos' employee, becomes Giorgos' guardian angel preventing the suicide at the last minute.
Movie - 1968, 2h 15m • as singer
A wretch employee wins a lot of money in the lottery and loses his mind. When he comes out of the mental hospital, he finds out that things at his home have changed radically.
Movie - 1965, 2h 15m • as Singer
For the past six years, a desperate mother and her husband have been trying to locate their only daughter who is in the clutches of a ruthless wandering Romani musician. Will the miracle-working Virgin Mary reunite her with her family?
Movie - 1967, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
A sailor, whose life has been destroyed in every way, is drunk all the time. By chance, he discovers the current owner of the villa that used to belong to him.
Movie - 1980, 2h 15m • as singer
Anthology film with a number of sketches that satirize modern Greece.
Movie - 1965, 2h 15m • as Singer
An outstanding performance featuring brilliant storytelling, high stakes drama, and unforgettable character arcs.
Movie - 1962, 2h 15m • as musician
A streetwise investment broker, who has been tricked into accepting a counterfeit $100 bill by a statuesque con woman, falls in love with her. Against all logic, he refuses to turn her in to the police. Is there a future between them?
Movie - 1969, 2h 15m • as singer
Dimitris Lazarou is an incurable storyteller. He works as a ground attendant for Olympic Airways, but his big dream is to become a pilot. With his cousin, who is considered the best pilot in the company, as his role model, he never fails to reap the rewards of his cousin's achievements. However, this habit of his will soon get him into trouble...
Movie - 1964, 2h 15m • as Singer
An outstanding performance featuring brilliant storytelling, high stakes drama, and unforgettable character arcs.
Movie - 1957, 2h 15m • as singer
Vangelis is a lazy guy who's trying to earn some money to marry his beloved, but he is captured by the police who confused him with a wanted man. Eventually, the true crook is arrested and Vangelis returns to his beloved.
Movie - 1968, 2h 15m • as singer
An engineer is working hard without any substantial effect and he is not taking seriously the persistent remarks of his wife on this. When a businessman, on the one hand, and his company's executives, on the other hand, will try to lure him to serve their conflicting interests in the construction of a new road, the engineer reacts.
Movie - 1969, 2h 15m • as singer
To make his frivolous nephew see the error of his ways, a shipowner takes under his wing his bookish secretary to give her a complete makeover, bent on making him notice her. But, can the new and improved lady win the philanderer's heart?
Movie - 1968, 2h 15m • as singer
Xristos is married to the rich Rena. In fact the rich is his mother-in-law, who has big business abroad. In Greece the mother-in-law gives the hotel's managment to Xristos but also loads to him all the work. Desperate, he decides to slam the yoke and kill her ...
Movie - 1964, 2h 15m • as singer
By a cruel fate, a pair of newborn twin brothers get separated, and one of them becomes a pampered Casanova, while the other, lands a job at the factory of his unknown sibling's stepdad. Will the polar opposite twins reunite?
Movie - 1967, 2h 15m • as singer
The Mikes family is wealthy son is in love with a poor girl, Katy. The Mikes afraid that his father would not approve their love, so Katy puts forwards a plan to win the favor of the candidate's father in law.
Movie - 1965, 2h 15m • as Singer
A poor young man, who bears the surname of a rich shipowner, meets and falls in love with a rich heir. She does not believe that this is a coincidence and their relationship is built on a lie.
Movie - 1964, 2h 15m • as singer
A wealthy couple of Greek-Americans arrive in Greece with their three daughters, who meet three young men- pretending to be rich- and fall in love with them.
Movie - 1968, 2h 15m • as singer
Trying to marry off his sister Penelope so that he can finally marry his beloved, Odysseus accidentally gets involved with a gang. Meanwhile, his sister's beloved, who comes from America for her sake and knows her only through their correspondence, meets Odysseus dressed as a woman and mistakes him for his sister.
Movie - 1966, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
Greek melodrama about a woman shunned by her family after being raped by her sister's husband.
Movie - 1963, 2h 15m • as bouzouki player
Antonis and Marianna are in love and, although they are no longer young, they plan to get married. The only problem is how to break the news to their children, Elina and Giorgos, who are studying abroad. Elina sends a telegram saying that she will soon be returning to Greece, and Antonis and Marianna think they will make her like Marianna so that they can gradually tell her the truth. However, they do not know that she is returning with George...
Movie - 1968, 2h 15m • as Singer
Nikos is a short hairpin chandler, which has very high opinion of himself. Flirts shamelessly with the towering diva region, Clara, which has also been put on the eye and the irresistible charmer in the same area, Alekos, but she plays with both. The giggly maid mother of Clara, the Zambetas, is madly in love with Nick, but he snubbed the fanfare. One night the bouzouki, the Zambetas meets George Zambetas, who immediately recognized her talent and showcases a star of popular music, thereby becoming sought after bride
Movie - 1966, 2h 15m • as Singer
The rich Petros and Eleni, who has a strict brother, have a relationship that is going through a difficult time due to their family environment and especially his mother. He goes to the army, his traces are lost, and she is thrown out by her own brother and finds herself on the street. A promoter (Vangelis Seilinos) exploits her and she becomes a stripper in a cabaret. After a while, he appears, the couple is back together, but she does not tell him what job she does. Until a friend tells the young man the truth and takes him to the cabaret...
Movie - 1963, 2h 15m • as Singer
An outstanding performance featuring brilliant storytelling, high stakes drama, and unforgettable character arcs.