Giorgos Fountas

Giorgos Fountas (Greek: Γιώργος Φούντας; 3 June 1925 – 28 November 2010) was a Greek actor in film and television.

Biography Fountas was born on 3 June 1925 in Mavrolithari, Phocis. He attended the Dramatic School at the Athens Odeum. He appeared for the first time in the theatre in Nyfiatiko tragoudi ("Bridal Song") and his first film in 1944. He was awarded at the Thessaloniki Film Festival in 1966 and 1967 for his participation in his films With the Shine in the Eyes and Fever on the Road. He remained popular and he is best remembered for his role in the movie Stella with Melina Mercouri where he pronounced one quote, which was satirized in the movie Straight Story in 2006. He died on 28 November 2010, in a hospital in Athens where he had been hospitalized for the last few days, at age 85. In the last years of his life, he suffered from Alzheimer's disease.

Giorgos fountas at cine.gr (in Greek) Sources from the movie Red Lights, at the Film Library of Greece Archived July 21, 2011, at the Wayback Machine (in Greek)