ACTOR
Georges Corraface
- Known for
- Escape from L.A. (1996), Christopher Columbus: The Discovery (1992), Super-héros malgré lui (2021)
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Georges Corraface is an actor best known for Escape from L.A., Christopher Columbus: The Discovery and Super-héros malgré lui.
All facts (20)
- #001
Georges Corraface has performed in English, French, Greek, Spanish, German, Kurdish, Turkish and Russian, as well as in a wide variety of accents.
- #002
Three days before shooting began, Georges Corraface replaced Timothy Dalton in the lead role of Christopher Columbus: The Discovery (1992).
- #003
Marlon Brando wanted Georges Corraface to play the villain in "Bullboy", an original screenplay that Sean Penn was to direct.
- #004
Georges Corraface's ancestors belonged to the Di Carafa family of the Kingdom of Naples and Sicily. They first settled on the Greek island of Kefalonia in 1497.
- #005
Georges Corraface speaks Greek, English and French.
- #006
After being screen-tested by David Lean for the lead role in Nostromo, an adaptation of Joseph Conrad's masterpiece "Nostromo", Georges Corraface was under contract and remained on hold for four years. Steven Spielberg was initially set to produce the film, then Serge Silberman took over, but it was never made because Sir David Lean fell ill and died.
- #007
Because he was working on various theatre and film productions around the world at the time, Georges Corraface had to join more than 20 gyms to stay in shape to play the 19th-century dockworker Nostromo.
- #008
Georges Corraface was born in Paris to a Greek family of musicians who had emigrated after the Second World War.
- #009
In 2003, Georges Corraface appeared in A Touch of Spice (2003), which broke the Greek box-office record. It is the only Greek film to have been sold to 35 countries over several decades.
- #010
Before making the film version, Georges Corraface joined Peter Brook's company for the famous 11-hour "Mahabharata", with which he toured the world for three years. He then continued with "The Tempest", which won the Molière award.
- #011
Georges Corraface was later tested for the role of Zorro when Robert Rodriguez was directing The Mask of Zorro (1998).
- #012
His grandfather Georges Chorafas was a violinist and a famous children's song composer.
- #013
Georges Corraface has presided over the International Thessaloniki Film Festival, held annually, from 2005 to 2010.
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In 2013 and 2014, Georges Corraface sang with Philippos Pliatsikas and Babis Stokas of the famous rock band Pyx Lax in a series of concerts in Brussels, Paris and Athens.
- #015
In September 2005, Georges Corraface was appointed President of the Thessaloniki International Film Festival by the Greek Ministry of Culture.
- #016
While preparing to play a vagrant in Jean-Louis Milesi's Camille des Lilas et les voleurs d'enfants (2005), Georges Corraface asked his dentist to remove his bridge and walked the streets of Paris in character for days; he managed to conceal his identity at a time when he had become extremely popular in France after a series of hits on French television such as The Red Summer (2002) and Alex Santana, négociateur (2002).
- #017
In 1976, Georges Corraface gave up theatre for three years, took odd jobs, hitchhiked across Europe and the United States, and recited his lyrics at events he described as "pre-rap-free-jazz-punk".
- #018
Georges Corraface is a motorcycle Grand Prix fan and was himself an expert racing-circuit driver.
- #019
Georges Corraface performed a car stunt in Meine Tochter gehört mir (1992).
- #020
Georges Corraface trained in theatre at the National Conservatory of Dramatic Art in Paris under the famous experimental director Antoine Vitez. One of the scandalous performances he gave as Phaedra in Jean Racine's classic sparked such a debate between the conservatives (les classiques) and the progressives (les modernes) of the French theatre world that the Conservatory was briefly closed.
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