Spiros Focás
Spiros FOCAS ( Σπύρος Φωκάς; actually Xiros Andros, born August 17, 1937 in Patras ) is a Greek actor.
Life
FOCAS made his feature film debut at the age of 22 years and worked in the order in which he established himself as a character actor in international films, mainly in Italy with directors such as Luchino Visconti and Vincente Minnelli, but also for numerous genre - craftsmen as Ferdinando Baldi or Gianfranco Mingozzi. As one of the few actors of his home country that could also achieve international success, he was in Hollywood with interpretations for Romancing The Jewel of the Nile (1985) and Rambo III (1988 ) were employed.
After a first experience in Greece, he was quickly obliged to Italy, where he still played in 1959 two main roles in a social drama directed by Franco Rossi and a Peplum by Vittorio Cottafavi. Visconti then cast him for Rocco and his brothers, after which FOCAS resistant between sophisticated and adventurous films commercial entertainment such as the controversial Castigata - joined The chastened. From the mid- 1970s he was also next to a hardworking TV actor.
A pseudonym FOCAS ' was Clyde Garner.