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Tonto Papadopoulos

Presenter, Producer, Writer, Director, Editor, Financier, Dolly Grip

Great Britain , London
tontopapadopoulos@gmail.com

Visits in the last week

9

Total of visits

1397

Current Work Details

What I do

I present, I write, I make love in the afternoon.

Company

Papadopoulos Productions Limited

Website

under construction

Where I work

I run my own company or organisation

Technical Skills

Final Cut, Conflict Resolution, Tantric Sex & BBQ

Availability

Paid Work or Collaboration

Training

1991-1994

American Academy of American Anchormen East,
News Anchor, M.A. in Reading Out Loud From a Teleprompter

1987-1991

Princeton University,
Private Revisionist Yellow Journalism, Dolly Parton Gravity Award '90

Shooters Q&A

Films I wish I had made

Lady & The Tramp, The Great Dictator, Shane, Torremolinos '73, Angel Exterminador, Black Cat White Cat, The Party, The Man With The Golden Arm, Play It Again Sam, Airbag, Pickpocket, Steamboat Willie

I cried watching

The Circumcision, Shaft in Athens, The Railway Children Die, Love Story II: The Resurrection.

I left the cinema during

A Coughing Bout

Directors I love

Russ Meyer, Blake Edwards, Sidney Lummet, Billy Wilder, Herzog, Luis Bunuel, Kusturica, Tanovic, John Huston, Nick Roeg, John Ford, Fellini, Mel Brooks, de Palma, Orson Welles, John Landis, Kubrick, early Woody Allen, Hitchcock, Levinson, Clouzot, Truffeaut, Abrahams & Zucker, early Polanski. Never Godard.

Actors I admire

Curly & Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Oliver Reed, Sidney Poitier, Trevor Howard, Glen Ford, Jean Gabin, Natalie Wood, Catherine Deneuve, Anthony Quinn, Richard Burton, Albert Finney, Gene Wilder, Lucille Ball, Dirk Bogard, Peter O'Toole, Sean Connery, James Garner, Jack Lemmon, Jacky Gleason, Willem Defoe, Alec Guiness, Gene Hackman, Spencer Tracy, Goldie Hawn, Tony Curtis, Burt Lancaster, Marcello Mastroianni, Robert Mitchum, Rex Harrison, Henry Fonda, Michael Caine, Zero Mostel, Claudia Cardinale, Telly Savalas, Ralph Richardson, Diane Keaton, Denholm Elliot, Marlon Brando, Dudley Moore, Chris Walken, Brigitte Bardot, David Niven, Lee Marvin, Woody Allen, Dustin Hoffman, James Stewart, James Mason, Tipi Hedren, Hedy Lamarr, Rod Steiger, Frank Sinatra (crap singer, great actor), William Holden, Steve Macqueen, Robert Young, Edward G Robinson, Robert Redford, John Wayne, Klaus Kinski, Cary Grant, Lino Ventura, Shirley Maclaine, Alec Baldwin, Peter Sellers, Cloris Leachman, Ben Gazzara, Peter Lorre, Chevy Chase, Barak Obama.

Writers I respect

Enid Blyton, Herge, Paddy Chayefsky, Kingsley Amis, Iceberg Slim, Kafka, Charles Bukowski, Art Buchwald, Lord Byron, Tom Wolfe, Gore Vidal, J. P. Donleavy, P. J. O'Rourke, Turgenev, Pushkin, Gogol, Carlos Castaneda, Joseph Conrad, Jean Giraudoux, Andre Gide, Albert Camus, James Mitchener, Thomas Mann, Philip Roth, Kurt Vonnegut Jr., O. Henry, Marshall Macluhan, Rod Serling, Reginald Rose, William Golding, JL Borges, Maupassant, GG Marquez, Hemmingway, John Fowles, Douglas Coupland, Hunter S. Thompson, E.B.

My desert island discs

Bach Goldberg Variations, Wanda Landowska recording; Lole y Manuel's Todo Es De Color; Leftism.

Books I have given my friends

Tao of Physics, Pimp, Pygmy, Flicker, Cloud Atlas, The Magus, Dispatches, Pere Goriot, Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee, The Freak Brothers (comic book).

My death row meal

Oysters

The best thing I own

The big helicopter on my yacht

More about me

Mr Papadopoulos' profile is managed by Richard Rude. ruderichard@hotmail.com

My Work & Credits

  • Artista!

    My role: Cinematographer

    Production company
    Papadopoulos Productions Limited
    Category
    Short
  • play

    Schwung! America's favorite anti-Viagra

    My role: Writer

    Format
    DVCam/Mini-DV
    Production company
    Papadopoulos Productions Limited
  • TV default

    Dubplate Drama

    My role: Suzana's Father

  • Film default

    La Maison du Bonheur

    My role: Chef Credilem

    Format
    35mm
    Production company
    Claude Berri for Pathe Films
    Category
    Feature

My Actor Details

Casting Details

 

Appearance

Playing Range

35-45

Sex

Male

Ethnicity

White / Caucasian

Hair colour

Brown

Eye colour

Brown

Height

5'10"

Build

Light

Location

Based in

London & Switzerland

Country of origin

US & Greece (dual national)

Willing to work in

any location

Skills

Native Accent

American (soft, mid-Atlantic)

UK Accents

really, really bad Dick van Dyke cockney

US Accents

All, including Chicano

International Accents

French (native speaker), Spanish, Italian, Slavonic, or simply Generic Eurotrash

Languages

English, French, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, Other

Singing Skills

Baritone

Dance Skills

Other

Musical Skills

Guitar, Clarinet

Perform Nude

Never

Vehicle Licenses

Car, Motorbike

Extra Skills

Combat Skills, Circus Skills, Comedy, Horse Riding, Improvisation, Voice Over

Photos

Collaborators