Andréas Voutsinas
Actor · Died June 8, 2010, aged 77 · Khartoum, Sudan
Andreas Voutsinas (22 August 1930 – 8 June 2010) was a Greek actor and theatre director. In the English-speaking world, he was best known for his roles in three Mel Brooks films, The Producers (1967), The Twelve Chairs (1970) and History of the World, Part I (1981). Voutsinas was born on 22 August 1930 in Khartoum, since there was a sizeable community of Greek settlers in Sudan at the time. His parents came from the island of Cephalonia, Greece. They set up a pasta factory in the Anglo-Egyptian colony, "reputedly supplying spaghetti to Italian forces" during the Fascist invasion of Abyssinia. After the collapse of the business during WWII, Voutsinas moved with his mother to Athens, Greece. His father returned 2 years later. Voutsinas studied acting and costume design at the The Old Vic Τheatre School and drama and song at the Webber Douglas Academy in London, and, in 1957, joined the Actors Studio. Voutsinas directed more than 130 performances of classical and contemporary repertoire in London, Paris, New York, Canada and Greece. He worked as an actor and director on Broadway and acted in films by Jules Dassin and Luc Besson. Voutsinas, a life member of The Actors Studio since 1957, spent many years working in summer stock theater and as an assistant to Studio co-founder Elia Kazan, before he met Jane Fonda, with whom he got involved and whom he cast in the leading part in The Fun Couple, his Broadway directorial debut in 1963. Voutsinas later followed Fonda to Hollywood where he coached her in a number of movies. He then started working as a coach for many others, including Faye Dunaway and Warren Beatty. Following Fonda to Paris to coach her in Roger Vadim's Barbarella, he decided to found Le Theatre Des Cinquante, an acting workshop based on the principles of Lee Strasberg. Many famous French actors and actresses started attending his classes, and at the same time he successfully began directing plays for the French theatre. In 1967, Voutsinas became the original Carmen Ghia after befriending Mel Brooks's wife, Anne Bancroft. She recommended him to Brooks and said Voutsinas would be perfect for the part. Voutsinas had a role in another Brooks feature, History of the World, Part I, playing the role of "Bernaise" in the French Revolution scenes. It was not until the early 1980s that he eventually moved to his ancestral Greece, where he continued his career directing a wide range of repertoire from Tennessee Williams to Euripides, mainly for the State Theatre of Northern Greece in Thessaloniki. His productions were also staged during summer in the Athens Festival in Herodion, as well as in the Epidaurus Festival. He continued working between the two countries while he appeared in many French and Greek films, including Le Grand Bleu (1988) and Safe Sex (1999). Andreas Voutsinas taught acting at the State Theatre of Northern Greece from 2002 to 2009. After he suffered a stroke he founded his own drama school in Thessaloniki, the Higher Drama School Andreas Voutsinas. He was married to Artemis Papastrati from 1953 to 1964, they had one son Marios Voutsinas, who became an artist. ... Source: Article "Andreas Voutsinas" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA.
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Biography from TMDB.
- August 22, 1932
- June 8, 2010 (aged 77)
- Khartoum, Sudan
- Actor
- 7 on MovieCove · 23 credits in all
What are Andréas Voutsinas' films like?
Across their 5 MovieCove titles with a thematic analysis, their films lean Bonds and Power.
Themes
What they feel like to watch
A split, not a type: Ironic 1 · Wry 0 · Earnest 3
Light 4 · Serious 1 · Dark 0
Grounded 2 · Stylized 2 · Heightened 1
Gentle 2 · Charged 2 · Intense 1
A split, not a type: Steady 2 · Shifting 1 · Whiplash 2
Straight-faced 1 · Some laughs 0 · Funny 4
Slow burn 2 · Even-paced 2 · Relentless 1
Casual 4 · Engaged 1 · Full focus 0
Easy watch 4 · Affecting 1 · Heavy 0
Resolved 5 · Open-ended 0 · Ambiguous 0
Moods and endings
- Happy1
- Bittersweet2
- Ambiguous2
AI-generated from each title's plot synopsis and cast list, with extra plot summaries, reviews and Parents Guide notes for titles the model may not know, and the model's own knowledge of the ones it recognizes. Only analyzed titles count, so this covers part of the filmography; the feel axes count films only for now.
Where can I watch Andréas Voutsinas' films?
As of October 24, 2026, 1 of their 7 MovieCove titles stream on a subscription or free service.
Subscription and free streaming for Andréas Voutsinas' titles on MovieCove; rent and buy are not counted. Titles are listed by Midcredits score, highest first, at most 12 per service; a dashed chip is a producer credit or a minor one, such as a thanks. A service opens the browse page, which counts movies only, so its number can differ.
Filmography
23 credits, 7 with a MovieCove page; 4 appearances as themselves are hidden until asked for.
Parta ola (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2003)
Safe Sex(1999)
Midcredits score: 68th percentile of all films
I Prova tou Nyfikou (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1995)
Poisonous Women (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1993)
The Little Apocalypse (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1993)
Les Grandes Familles (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1989)
The Big Blue(1988)
Midcredits score: 91st percentile of all films
Les Nouveaux Tricheurs (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1987)
Pesto kai tha ginei (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1985)
Thieves After Dark(1983)
Midcredits score: 29th percentile of all films
Le Bonheur à Romorantin (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1983)
Midcredits score: 73rd percentile of all films
Les Charlots contre Dracula (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1980)
Madame Sourdis (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1979)
A Dream of Passion (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1978)
Monsieur Balboss (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1975)
Lovely Swine (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1973)
The Erotic Films of Peter De Rome (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1973)
The Second Coming (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1972)
Rum Runners(1971)
Midcredits score: 18th percentile of all films
A Little, a Lot, Passionately (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1971)
The Twelve Chairs(1970)
Midcredits score: 59th percentile of all films
The Producers(1967)
Midcredits score: 93rd percentile of all films
Career shape
Star power in the 82nd percentile of 239,109 people with a billed film role, over a full career of 23 titles from 1968 to 2003; peak year 1969.
Film career
Peak 1969 · fewer prominent film roles lately. Film roles by billing, audience size and rating; 25+ votes. A show carries a single first-air date, so shows are not on the curve.
- 1968Screen debut· The Producers
Counts from TMDB across their full career, self appearances out; a title counts in every role they held on it. The ring is the typical Midcredits score (the median percentile) of the role's titles that are on MovieCove, shown from 5 scored. Billing is TMDB cast order for roles with 25+ votes, billed in the top 30.
How do Andréas Voutsinas' films land?
Their typical MovieCove film has a Midcredits score in the 68th percentile, the median of all 7; across their 5 films with reception data, the typical film sits in the 60th percentile for acclaim.
- 75th and up2
- 50th to 74th3
- 25th to 49th1
- Below 25th1
Shape of the crowd
3 of their 7 titles are Crowd Pleasers.
- Universally Loved2
- Crowd Pleaser3
- Broadly Agreed1
- Mixed1
Reviewers score the acting 75/100 in their films, across 4 reviewed titles; fans 83, detractors 49. The element that speaks to their work as an actor.
Percentiles are each film's standing among all films on MovieCove; the typical film is the median, so one outlier cannot drag it. Percentiles and reviewer scores count the films IMDb credits them on, for now; the Midcredits score bands, the shape of the crowd and the two cards count their MovieCove titles, shows included (a show ranked among shows), appearances as themselves left out. A descriptor is the shape of a title's IMDb rating distribution against the catalog; "most divisive" needs a spread wider than half of all titles, and a card names only a principal credit: a craft role, and on a show a crew role or a run of episodes, never a courtesy credit or a one-off guest spot.
Who does Andréas Voutsinas work with?
People who share at least 2 of Andréas Voutsinas' MovieCove titles, grouped by what they did on them; Mel Brooks shares the most, 2.
Directors
- Mel BrooksShared titles: The Twelve Chairs (1970), The Producers (1967)See all 2 shared titles with Mel Brooks
Composers
- John MorrisShared titles: The Twelve Chairs (1970), The Producers (1967)See all 2 shared titles with John Morris
Producers
- Sidney GlazierShared titles: The Twelve Chairs (1970), The Producers (1967)See all 2 shared titles with Sidney Glazier
