The actor, writer and radio producer Konstantinos Tzoumas passed away today at the age of 78.
The well-known actor had been battling cancer for several years.
He was born in 1944 in Piraeus and grew up in Pasalimani and Athens as a member of a bourgeois family. At 15 he lost his mother and at 18 he began studying acting at the Theodosiades School. While attending dance classes at the school of Zuzous Nicolaides, in the early 1970s he moved to New York with the intention of becoming a dancer. He may not have succeeded in becoming a dancer, but he stayed four years in Manhattan gaining a lot of experience.
He returned to Athens in 1975 where he performed in films and performances of his generation that left a mark. In Nikos Nicolaides' two most characteristic ones "Sweet Gang" and "The Rags are still singing", in Nikos Zervos' "Dracula of Exarchia", in George Panousopoulos' "Apenanti", in Kostas Ferris' "Rebetiko", but also in "Happy day", in "Eleftherios Venizelos 1910-1927" and "Acropolis" by Pantelis Voulgaris. In the latter as a co-star with Lefteris Vogiatzis. His film career ended in 2017 with Stavros Tsiolis' "Women who passed by here".
In the theatre, starting with "Waiting for Godot", successes followed in which he always made his personal mark in whatever role he was assigned: "Domestic News", "Fausta" (he played Ritsaki), "89,90 Fm Stereo", "The Two Orphans", "La Nonna", "A New Red", "My Friend Lefterakis", and in recent years "I don't ..." by Vassilis Alexakis, "K. P. Cavafy's Autobiography" composed by Yannis Falconis and "Dangerous Cooking" by Andreas Staikos. The large television audience got to know him through his extraordinary appearances in the comedy series "The Unacceptable", "The Three Graces", "The Men and the Not" and "Two Strangers". He recently participated in the first Greek series to come within a whisker of Netflix, "Eteros Ego."
He had also lent his voice to several animated films, most notably his role as "Hades" in the film "Hercules: Beyond Myth" by Disney.
His morning radio show "Café Society" on En Lefko station was also popular. When he published his three books, "Miraculously" (2008), "Complete Unknown" (2009) and "Pandemonium" (2010), he began to give a barrage of interviews, skyrocketing his popularity thanks to a decontextualized speech.
He said, commenting on himself: "The ostensible contains a performance. You put on a performance for others to show that you are something other than what you think you are, because you can't stand what you are. Too many beautiful things, though, started out as something pretend, only to end up as something substantial."
Source: Proto Thema
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