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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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Kourkoulos headed companies and his own theatre in Athens and Thessaloniki, and played leading roles in:
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Kourkoulos died at the Errikos Dynan Hospital, Athens, on 30 January 2007, after a long battle with
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theatrical and film actor. Kourkoulos is best known to Greek audiences for playing "Angelos
Kreouzis" in
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He was awarded twice at the
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