Lykourgos Kallergis was a Greek

Greece

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 actor

Actor

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, director and politician

Politician

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. Kallergis was credited in more than five hundred acting roles in Greek television

Television

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, film

Film

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, radio

Radio

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 and stage

Stage

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 over a career that spanned more than sixty years. He also ventured into politics, serving as a deputy within the Greek Communist Party from 1977 until 1981. Kallergis later translated foreign language

Foreign language

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 plays into Greek

Greek language

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and becoming a director.

Lykourgos Kallergis died at the Giorgos Gennimatas hospital in Athens on August 27, 2011, at the age of 97.