Andréas Voutsinas

Andreas Voutsinas (22 Agustus 1930 – 8 Juni 2010) adalah seorang aktor dan sutradara teater Yunani. Di dunia berbahasa Inggris, ia terkenal karena perannya dalam tiga film Mel Brooks, The Producers (1967), The Twelve Chairs (1970) dan History of the World, Part I (1981). Voutsinas lahir pada tanggal 22 Agustus 1930 di Khartoum, karena terdapat komunitas pemukim Yunani yang cukup besar di Sudan pada saat itu. Orang tuanya berasal dari pulau Cephalonia, Yunani. Mereka mendirikan pabrik pasta di koloni Anglo-Mesir, "konon memasok spageti ke pasukan Italia" selama invasi Fasis ke Abyssinia. Setelah bisnisnya bangkrut selama Perang Dunia II, Voutsinas pindah bersama ibunya ke Athena, Yunani. Ayahnya kembali 2 tahun kemudian. Voutsinas belajar akting dan desain kostum di The Old Vic Τheatre School dan drama dan lagu di Webber Douglas Academy di London, dan, pada tahun 1957, bergabung dengan Actors Studio. Voutsinas mengarahkan lebih dari 130 pertunjukan repertoar klasik dan kontemporer di London, Paris, New York, Kanada dan Yunani. Dia bekerja sebagai aktor dan sutradara di Broadway dan berakting dalam film karya Jules Dassin dan Luc Besson. Voutsinas, anggota seumur hidup The Actors Studio sejak 1957, menghabiskan bertahun-tahun bekerja di teater saham musim panas dan sebagai asisten salah satu pendiri Studio Elia Kazan, sebelum dia bertemu Jane Fonda, yang dengannya dia terlibat dan berperan sebagai pemeran utama dalam The Fun Couple, debut penyutradaraannya di Broadway pada tahun 1963. Voutsinas kemudian mengikuti Fonda ke Hollywood di mana dia melatihnya di sejumlah film. Dia kemudian mulai bekerja sebagai pelatih untuk banyak orang lainnya, termasuk Faye Dunaway dan Warren Beatty. Mengikuti Fonda ke Paris untuk melatihnya di Barbarella karya Roger Vadim, dia memutuskan untuk mendirikan Le Theater Des Cinquante, sebuah lokakarya akting berdasarkan prinsip Lee Strasberg. Banyak aktor dan aktris Perancis terkenal mulai menghadiri kelasnya, dan pada saat yang sama ia berhasil mulai mengarahkan drama untuk teater Perancis. Pada tahun 1967, Voutsinas menjadi Carmen Ghia yang asli setelah berteman dengan istri Mel Brooks, Anne Bancroft. Dia merekomendasikannya ke Brooks dan mengatakan Voutsinas akan cocok untuk peran itu. Voutsinas berperan dalam fitur Brooks lainnya, Sejarah Dunia, Bagian I, memainkan peran "Bernaise" dalam adegan Revolusi Perancis. Baru pada awal 1980-an dia akhirnya pindah ke leluhurnya Yunani, di mana dia melanjutkan karirnya mengarahkan berbagai repertoar dari Tennessee Williams hingga Euripides, terutama untuk Teater Negara Yunani Utara di Thessaloniki. Produksinya juga dipentaskan selama musim panas di Festival Athena di Herodion, serta di Festival Epidaurus. Dia terus bekerja antara kedua negara sambil tampil di banyak film Prancis dan Yunani, termasuk Le Grand Bleu (1988) dan Safe Sex (1999). Andreas Voutsinas mengajar akting di Teater Negara Yunani Utara dari tahun 2002 hingga 2009. Setelah menderita stroke, ia mendirikan sekolah dramanya sendiri di Thessaloniki, Sekolah Drama Tinggi Andreas Voutsinas. Ia menikah dengan Artemis Papastrati dari tahun 1953 hingga 1964, mereka memiliki seorang putra Marios Voutsinas, yang menjadi seorang seniman. ... Sumber: Artikel "Andreas Voutsinas" dari Wikipedia dalam bahasa Inggris, berlisensi CC-BY-SA.

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.