11 Facts About Thanasis Veggos

Thanasis Veggos was a Greek actor and director born in Neo Faliro, Piraeus.

Thanasis Veggos performed in around 130 films, predominantly comedies in the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s, starring in more than 50 among them.

Thanasis Veggos is considered one of the best Greek comedy actors of all time.

Vassilis Thanasis Veggos played an important part in the defense of the Piraeus power station when the Germans attempted to destroy it before departing in 1944, but precisely because of this was dismissed from his job in the post-war purge of leftists.

Thanasis Veggos himself was a member of EPON, the youth branch of the left-wing resistance movement EAM, and so served his compulsory military service as an inmate on the notorious prison island Makronisos from 1948 to 1950.

Thanasis Veggos often played everyman characters struggling to get by, but he has played anti-heroes, he has acted in pure dramas, and on stage in the comedies of Aristophanes.

Thanasis Veggos often worked with directors Panos Glykofridis and Giorgos Lazaridis.

Thanasis Veggos always did his own stunts including the most dangerous ones, like hanging from a rope tied to a balcony fifty feet above a pavement without anything to break his fall, walking through a glass door, or falling down a stone staircase head first.

In 2008, Thanasis Veggos was appointed Commander of the Order of the Phoenix by the President of Greece, Karolos Papoulias.

Thanasis Veggos was married to Asimina and they had two sons.

Thanasis Veggos played roles in televisual series in the 1990s and 2000s; these were mainly roles of an elder wise person, who gives his advice to the younger ones.