On This Day

1913: Greek forces liberated Serres during the Second Balkan War.

1970: Aris won the Greek Football Cup for the only time in their history by defeating PAOK 1-0.

1988: US Military Attache, Wiliam Nordeen, was assassinated by a booby-trapped car in Kifissia. The Revolutionary Organisation 17 November claimed responsibility.

Deaths: Theodora (548), Byzantine empress, wife of Justinian I; Archbishop Makarios II of Cyprus(1950); Lambros Konstantaras (1985), actor

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Lambros Konstantaras (13 March 1913 – 28 June 1985) was a Greek comic actor of theater and film. He appeared in 80 films between 1940 and 1981. He was brother of actress Michiko Konstantaras and father of former New Democracy MP Dimitris Konstantaras who gave him two grandchildren, Pauline in 1974 and Lambros 1979. Born in Plutarch Road 13 in Kolonaki and died in “Asklepieion” Voula. Earlier (1978 and 1983) had suffered two strokes.

Konstantaras had a rare sense of the theatrical year. Living the emotion filled pauses and silences. He knew the value of active speech, how to operate the words as sounds that mobilize the body and push the action. That played drama, comedy, comedy and farce without distinction of authority resulting from the perfect possession of expressive means.

The large audience probably knew him from his film successes, usually dominated by the image of exuberant, ripe “bon viver”. Still, you may recognize him on his excellent balafaries and improvisational of estrus. But behind it all easy, in terms of art, illustration, there was Konstantaras for the perfect technique, dramatic stuff, French charm and relentless professionalism.