The great actor Giannis Fertis died.
THE Giannis Fertis died today, Sunday, at the age of 86, as was announced by his family.
Yiannis Fertis was born in April 1938 and graduated from the Karolos Koun School of Theater Arts in 1958. He first appeared in the theater in 1959 in the play “The Age of Night” by Iakovos Campanellis. This was followed by works such as “Chickens” by Aristophanes, “Eurydice” by Jean Anouille, “Sweet Bird of Youth” by Tennessee Williams, “Dangerous Turn” by John Presley, “Five Finger Exercise” by Peter Shafer and others. He co-founded the People’s Experimental Theater and appeared in Serge Rezvani’s Captain Cell, Captain Esso and Bertolt Brecht’s The Mother. From 1967 and for a decade, as troupe leader with Xenia Kalogeropoulou, he staged important plays such as “The Seagull” by Anton Chekhov, “Aphrodite and the Detective” by Peter Shafer, “My Poor Marik” by Alexei Arbuzov, “The Serious Mr. Ernest” by Oscar Wilde, “The Pleasure of Honesty” by Luigi Pirandello, “Man, Beast and Virtue” by Luigi Pirandello, “The Teacher by Bertolt Brecht” and “Vampires” by Henrik Ibsen.
In the late 1970s he starred with Aliki Vougiouklakis in Jan de Hardog’s “Bridal Bed”, with the Karezi-Kazaku troupe in Garson Kanin’s “Our Lady of the Dollars” and with Manos Katrakis and Melina Merkouris in the play “Companionship with Brecht” by Bertolt Brecht. In the 1980s he staged with his own troupe at the Athena theater “Sweet Bird of Youth” by Tennessee Williams, co-starring Melina Mercouri, “Bend” by Martin Sherman, “The End of Mrs. Cheney” by F. Lonsday with co-starring Mimi Denise, Pierre de Maribaud’s The Game of Love, John Osborne’s Angry Youth, Tom Stoppard’s The Truest, Amadeus and Peter Shafer’s Black Comedy, Dangerous Liaisons of Christopher Hampton.
In the late 1980s, he starred in Georges Fedot’s Paradise Hotel, Carlo Goldoni’s Landlady, Neil Simon’s New Page, and participated in the revues Laughter, Hellas, Cows and Ozal’s Dance …tumor”. In the early 1990s he collaborated with the Amphitheater of Spiros Evangeliatos and performed Vucek by Georg Buchner (1990) and Hamlet by William Shakespeare (1991 and 1992).
The 1993-1995 period was followed by his collaboration with the Russian director Yuri Lyubimov in “The Seagull” by Anton Chekhov, “The Borrowers” by August Strindberg and “The Cherry Orchard” by Chekhov. In 1997, he performed Moliere’s Don Juan in a production of DIPETHE Volos, while he also starred in other performances. In 2000 he collaborated again with the Amphitheater performing Johann Goethe’s Faust. In the period 2000-2001 he starred in the play “The Miracle Worker” by Brian Friel at the Simple Theater for which he received the Emilios Veakis Interpretation Award. In 2003, he again collaborated with the “Karols Kuhn” Art Theater and starred in the play “Personal Agreement” by Ronald Harwood, which was a great commercial and artistic success for two seasons, while he also participated in the musical tribute performance of the students of the Theater School Art by Karolos Koun and Manos Hadjidaki “Let the hymn to the gods go” directed by Athanasia Karagiannopoulou.
In 2004 he starred in Chekhov’s Three Sisters, directed by Nikita Milivojevich and in 2007 he starred in Joseph Conrad’s The Return, where he was honored for his performance with the Audience Theater Award. In 2008 he starred in “The Return of the Old Lady” by Friedrich Durenmatt and in 2009 in “The Cherry Orchard” by Chekhov at the Kefallinia Street Theater directed by Stathis Livathinos. In 2010 he played in the award-winning play “The God of Slaughter” by Yasmina Reza and in the period 2011-2013 in the play “The Road Passes Through” by Iakovos Campanellis, while in 2012 he performed August Strindberg’s Father. In the period 2014-2015 he performed Anton Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya. In 2016 he starred in the play “From Silence to Spring” by Leonidas Prousalides, in the two years 2017-2018 in “Heroes” by Gerard Siblera directed by Nikita Milivojevic, where he was honored for his performance with the Audience Theater Award 2018 and 2019 in Marilia Saber’s award-winning work “Torres A True Cowboy”.
The contribution of Yiannis Fertis to the Ancient Theater, Greek cinema (he starred in more than 30 films) and television (he played in more than 15 series, with the most important ones being “The Teacher with the Golden Eyes” and “The Notary” in 1979) was significant. ), while he had “lent” his particularly expressive voice to many advertisements for television and radio.
He also sang – “San me kortaas” remains unforgettable, a duet he made in 1971 with Aphrodite Manou and was used as a soundtrack for the film “That Summer” – while he participated in songs and as a narrator. As for example in 1972 in the song “Ti na thymitho tis na vaurilos” by Giorgos Dalaras, but also in the tracks “Tragoudi tou palio kairo” and “Eleni” by Manolis Mitsias from the album Argonautes.
His first wife was the actress Xenia Kalogeropoulou, the second the actress Mimi Denisi, while since 2001 he was married to the actress Marina Psaltis.
He was married to Xenia Kalogeropoulou, Mimi Denisi while since 2001 his wife was the actress Marina Psalti. His funeral will take place at the First Cemetery on a date and time that have not yet been announced.
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