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His film career was successful: he starred in many films from the late 1950s until the early 1980s. His most commercial films have been melodramas with a social background, like
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roster during his school years. Acting came before him rather accidentally. As he himself had claimed, he decided to become an actor after reading books on theatre.
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theatrical and film actor. Kourkoulos is best known to Greek audiences for playing "Angelos
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