Nassos Kedrakas
Greek actor
Athanasios (Nassos) Kedrakas (Greek: Νάσος Κεδράκας; November 21, 1915 – August 25, 1981) was a Greek actor.
Biography
Kedrakas studied at the National Theatre School, where he enrolled into law school at the University of Athens in 1942. During the 1940s, he was active in a climactic company of Enomenon kallitechnon (United Playwrights) and in the Greek Resistance. He played several times at the National Theatre. Characteristically he was a role in the movie I degyni na fovitai ton andra in which he played as Mike, the drugstore friend Giorgos Konstantinou. He died on August 25, 1981 at the age of 66 from cardiac arrest.
Proses and sketches during the 1940s
Kedrakas took part in art and played in proses and sketches. In 1940-1949, which he was written by Mimis Traiforos, O Romios (The Romans by Christos Efthymiou and Nassos Kedrakas) (sketch).
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