Occupation Actor Movies Caravan Serai | Years active 1963–present | |
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Born 8 December 1940 ( 1940-12-08 ) Piraeus, Greece Died 30 June 2012, Athens, Greece Similar Giorgos Konstantinou, Vasilis Tsivilikas, Nora Valsami | ||
Thymios Karakatsanis (Piraeus, 8 December 1940 – Athens, 30 June 2012) was a Greek actor with notable career at theatre. He was born in Piraeus on 8 December 1940. He studied at Art Theatre of Karolos Koun. His first professional role was at the play Thyrida of Tardieu in 1963. He appeared in a few films at cinema but he became well known mainly from his roles at plays of Aristophanes. He played the role of Lysistrata three times. He appeared a lot of times at theatre of Ancient Epidavros. In 1978, he made the group New Greek Stage and he presented famous plays starting from the play Von Dimitrakis of Dimitris Psathas. In 1987 he won the theatre award for the play Death of a Salesman of Arthur Miller. At the same period he also worked as radio presenter. The play Death of a Salesman was his last role. He died on 30 June 2012 at the age of 72 years.