Melina MercouriFilmography

Born:: October 18, 1923 in Athens, Greece
Occupation:: Actor
Biography:: Vibrant, intensely free-spirited Greek actress Melina Mercouri was the daughter of a prominent Athenian politician. Much against the desires of her parents, she became an actress in her teens, enrolling in the National Theater of Greece and entering films in 1955. In 1960 she gained international...Read More

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Keine Zufallige Geschichte

Actors: Jules Dassin, Melina Mercouri

Synopsis: Director Charlotte Kerr interviewed Melina Mercouri (1923-1994) and her husband Jules Dassin for this documentary on their careers and their strong, long-lasting personal relationship. Kerr also uses film clips from the couple's work and includes discussions on the years in which Dassin was Read More

1984
A Dream of Passion

Actors: Melina Mercouri, Ellen Burstyn, Andréas Voutsinas, Despo Diamantidou, Dimitris Papamichael

Synopsis: The husband and wife team of director Jules Dassin and actress Melina Mercouri, who first enjoyed international success with the comedy Never on Sunday, collaborated for the last time on this powerful drama. Maya (Melina Mercouri) is a famous actress who is returning to the stage for a production Read More

1978
Nasty Habits

Actors: Glenda Jackson, Melina Mercouri, Geraldine Page, Sandy Dennis, Anne Jackson

Synopsis: An all-star female cast (Glenda Jackson, Melina Mecouri, Geraldine Page, Sandy Dennis, Anne Jackson, Anne Meara, and Dame Edith Evans) enliven this satirical treatment of the Nixon Watergate scandal, Nasty Habits -- based on Muriel Sparks's novella The Abbess of Crewe. When a dying abbess (Dame Read More

1976
Once Is Not Enough

Actors: Kirk Douglas, Alexis Smith, David Janssen, George Hamilton, Melina Mercouri

Synopsis: In this high-suds potboiler based on the best-selling novel by Jacqueline Susann, Mike Wayne (Kirk Douglas) is a past-his-prime movie producer who lives to make his college-age daughter January (Deborah Raffin) happy. January is also very fond of her father, perhaps more so than would seem healthy Read More

1975
The Rehearsal

1974
La Promesse de L'Aube

Actors: Melina Mercouri, Didier Haudepin, Assi Dayan, Francois Raffoul, Fernand Gravey

Synopsis: Nina (Melina Mercouri) is a former silent-film star from Russia who abandons her career to care for her son. She is a single mother -- the boy's father is a famous actor who wants nothing to do with either Nina or her child. She joins an acting troupe where she impersonates a famous French fashion Read More

1970
Gaily, Gaily

Actors: Beau Bridges, Melina Mercouri, Brian Keith, George Kennedy, Hume Cronyn

Synopsis: Ben Hecht's reminiscences from his youth as a cub reporter in 1910 Chicago makes an uneasy transition to the screen in this Norman Jewison production. During the Galena, Illinois, Independence Day celebration of 1910, Ben Young (Beau Bridges) determines that it is time to seek his fortune and sets Read More

1969
10:30 p.m. Summer

Actors: Melina Mercouri, Romy Schneider, Peter Finch, Julián Mateos

Synopsis: Passion, whether sex or violence, is the root of conflict in this film which follows as the alcoholic Mercouri and her husband Finch travel with their daughter and Schneider across Spain. Being married does not stop Finch from fooling around with other women, however, and an affair flares up Read More

1966
A Man Could Get Killed

Actors: James Garner, Melina Mercouri, Sandra Dee, Robert Coote

Synopsis: This late-'60s spy spoof also borrows a page from late-'50s Alfred Hitchcock, with its everyday man becoming embroiled in the violent and baffling world of international espionage. When American businessman William Beddoes (James Garner) is traveling in Lisbon, he's mistaken for an English spy Read More

1966
Los Pianos Mecanicos

Actors: Melina Mercouri, Hardy Kruger, James Mason, Didier Haudepin, Renaud Verley

Synopsis: French novelist Henri-Francois Rey adapted his novel Les Pianos Mecaniques with director Juan Antonio Bardem for this French/Italian/Spanish co-production, set in Spain. Vincent (Hardy Kruger) is recovering from a nervous breakdown in a seaside village on the Costa Brava. He enters into an affair Read More

8/26/65
Topkapi

Actors: Melina Mercouri, Peter Ustinov, Maximilian Schell, Robert Morley, Akim Tamiroff

Synopsis: After years of enduring movie lampoons of his 1955 crime-caper classic Rififi, director Jules Dassin topped them all with his own spoof, Topkapi. It's a rather disreputable crew that teams for the elaborate jewel theft masterminded by Maximillian Schell. Sexy Melina Mercouri (Mrs. Dassin) is Read More

1964
The Victors

Actors: George Hamilton, George Peppard, Eli Wallach, Vince Edwards, James Mitchum, Rosanna Schiaffino, Romy Schneider

Synopsis: An epic and unusual anti-war drama about WWII, writer-director Carl Foreman's heavily ironic saga is loosely based on the novel The Human Kind by Alexander Baron. It follows the adventures of an American infantry platoon based in Sicily that participates in the invasion of France, marches into Read More

1963
Phaedra

Actors: Melina Mercouri, Anthony Perkins, Raf Vallone, Elizabeth Ercy, Olympia Papadouka

Synopsis: Inspired by Euripedes' tragedy Hippolytus and set in modern times, this allegorical tale centers on the love triangle between a fabulously wealthy Greek shipping magnate, his lonely second wife, and his first-born son. The affair between the wife and her stepson begins soon after she arrives in Read More

1962
II Giudizio Universale

Actors: Vittorio Gassman, Renato Rascel, Fernandel, Akim Tamiroff

Synopsis: An episodic, funny, though uneven spoof of human manners and foibles, this comedy by Vittorio de Sica begins in Naples when a disembodied voice announces to the city's residents "The Last Judgment will begin at 6:00 p.m." Naturally, not all are immediately willing to accept this statement -- but Read More

1961
Never on Sunday

Actors: Melina Mercouri, Jules Dassin, Georges Foundas, Titos Vandis, Mitsos Liguisos

Synopsis: In this globally acclaimed comedy drama, eccentric, tough, and carefree Ilya (Melina Mercouri) is one of those characters who makes her mark on film history, and who made an internationally known star out of Mercouri. Ilya is a prostitute in the port of Piraeus with a definite sense of social and Read More

1960
The Law

Actors: Gina Lollobrigida, Pierre Brasseur, Marcello Mastroianni, Melina Mercouri, Yves Montand, Raf Mattioli

Synopsis: Jules Dassin, blacklisted during the McCarthy era, directs this routine, ostensibly romantic tale that really courts an underlying theme of the misuse of power. Based on a popular French novel and set in a small Mediterranean town, the story involves a small group of men and the woman several of Read More

1/25/59
The Gypsy and the Gentleman

Actors: Melina Mercouri, Patrick McGoohan, June Laverick, Lyndon Brook

Synopsis: Greek actress Melina Mercouri made her English-language film debut in The Gypsy and the Gentleman. Mercouri plays tempestuous gypsy girl Belle, while the "gentleman" is Sir Paul Deverill (Keith Michell). Escaping an arranged marriage, Sir Paul weds the bewitching Belle,who intends to take him for Read More

1958
Celui Qui Doit Mourir

Actors: Jean Servais, Fernand Ledoux, Pierre Vaneck, Melina Mercouri

Synopsis: Filmed on the island of Crete and set in the early 1920's, when Greece was occupied by the Turks, Jules Dassin's Celu Qui Doit Mourir (He Who Must Die) tells the story of a small village's efforts to stage their Passion Play, an event that occurs once every seven years. The leading citizens Read More

5/4/57
Stella

Actors: Melina Mercouri, Aiekos Alexandrikis, Sophia Vembo

Synopsis: Earlier reports that Greek filmmaker Michael Cacoyannis' Stella was based on Olive Higgins Prouty's Stella Dallas were derived from misleading contemporary reviews. In fact, all that that Cacoyannis film has in common with the Prouty novel is the fact that both are centered around a strong Read More

1955