Stavros Tornes

Acting · Directing · Production

Born January 1, 1932, Athens, Greece

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 Stopped at Empoli by Francesco Rossi, and Alonzanfan by the Taviani brothers. It is worth noting that he played the leading role in the television film Nausicaa by Agnès Varda. He also painted. After the fall of the dictatorship, he returned to Greece and filmed the film Balamos, which was screened at the 1982 Thessaloniki Film Festival. With co-screenwriter Charlotte van Gelder, he also directed the films Karkalou, Danilo Treles and A Heron for Germany. He died in July 1988 and was buried in the Caesarean Cemetery.

Filmography

• 2006Deserted and alone to make my pain go away
• 1994Stavros Tornes: The Poor Hunter of the South — archive footage
• 1988Heron for Germany — Polydoros, Producer, Director, Writer
• 1988Witches
• 1986Danilo Treles: The Famous Andalusian Musician — Fox Man, Director, Writer, Producer
• 1985Topos — Geropeismataris
• 1985Varieté — Old Man in the Corridor
• 1984Karkalou — Director, Screenplay, Producer
• 1983Misunderstanding
• 1983Πλατεία Ιπποδαμείας — Director, Writer
• 1982Balamos — Balamos, Director, Writer, Producer
• 1982For the Poet Nikos Kavvadias — Self, Director
• 1980City of Women — Party Guest (uncredited)
• 1980Exopragmatiko — Director, Writer, Cinematography
• 1979Christ Stopped at Eboli
• 1977Coatti — Screenplay, Editor, Director
• 1976Addio Anatolia — Director, Writer
• 1974Allonsanfan — Gioacchino
• 1974Kierion — George Morgan
• 1973Lucky Luciano — Man at Table (uncredited)
• 1971Nausicaa — Michel
• 1970Many Wars Ago — General's Aide (uncredited)
• 1968Thirean Matins — Producer, Director
• 1967Open Letter
• 1965The Roundup
• 1962Glory Sky — Production Manager
• 1962The Beauty of Roumeli
• 1961Fishermen and Fishing — narrator
• 1961Our Tears Have Dried Up
• 1961Sharp as a Needle — police officer
• 1960The Daywork of Happiness — Nikos
• 1960To mystiko tou kokkinou mandya