Stavros Tornes

Birthday: 1932-01-01
Deathday: 1988-07-26
Birthplace: Athens, Greece
Gender: Male
Owned By: Unowned

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.

Credits

	Year	Title	Character
	2006-11-01	Deserted and alone to make my pain go away
	1994-09-26	Stavros Tornes: The Poor Hunter of the South	archive footage
	1988-02-17	Witches
	1988-01-01	Heron for Germany	Polydoros
	1986-01-01	Danilo Treles: The Famous Andalusian Musician	Fox Man
	1985-10-01	Topos	Geropeismataris
	1985-01-18	Varieté	Old Man in the Corridor
	1983-06-07	Misunderstanding
	1982-10-07	Balamos	Balamos
	1980-03-28	City of Women	(uncredited)
	1979-02-23	Christ Stopped at Eboli
	1977-09-26	Coatti
	1974-11-25	Kierion	George Morgan
	1974-09-06	Allonsanfan	Gioacchino
	1973-10-19	Lucky Luciano	Man at Table (uncredited)
	1971-01-01	Nausicaa	Michel
	1970-09-17	Many Wars Ago	General's Aide (uncredited)
	1967-06-21	Open Letter
	1965-12-06	The Roundup
	1962-08-31	Sky
	1962-01-01	The Beauty of Roumeli
	1961-01-01	Sharp as a Needle	police officer
	1961-01-01	Our Tears Have Dried Up
	1961-01-01	Fishermen and Fishing	narrator
	1960-05-02	The Daywork of Happiness	Nikos
	1960-01-01	To mystiko tou kokkinou mandya