Kostas Voutsas

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Kostas Voutsas (Greek: Κώστας Βουτσάς; 31 December 1931 – 26 February 2020) was a Greek actor, director, and writer. He was born in Athens. He made his stage and screen debut in 1953. In 1961 his breakthrough came when the Greek film director Giannis Dalianidis gave him a leading role in his melodrama O Katiforos. He soon became one of the best and most popular comic in Greece during the 1960s and 1970s. He also starred in like Aristophanes' The Wasps and Molière's Le bourgeois gentilhomme.[1]

He was the voice of Carl Fredricksen in the Disney-Pixar's Greek dub version of Up.

Voutsas died of a respiratory tract infection on 26 February 2020 at an Athens hospital, aged 88.[2][3]

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