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Stavros Tornes

Born
Jan 1, 1932 · Aged 56
Died
Jul 26, 1988
Place of birth
Athens, Greece
Gender
Male
Movie credits
27
TV credits
0
Directing credits
10
Also known as (3)
  • Σταύρος Τορνές
  • Σταυρος Τορνες
  • Stavros Tornes

Biography

Stavros Tornes (Greek: Σταύρος Τορνές) was a Greek film actor and director. Tornes was born in 1932 in Athens. He studied at the Ioannidis School in 1957 and worked as an assistant director and as an actor in films of the 1950s and 1960s. In 1967 he directed his first short film "Theraikos orthros" together with Kostas Sfikas. During the dictatorship he went to Italy where he participated in a group of exiles, fighting against the military junta. In 1973 he secretly visited Greece and filmed the documentary Students. In Italy (Rome) he appeared in many films, such as Many Wars Ago and Christ…