Biography
Given birth to Jules Angelle Lamparez, the metal guitarist who become referred to as Papa Cairo was a distinctive player around the metal acoustic guitar in Cajun music along with the vocalist presented on fiddler Chuck Guillory’s 1949 strike single “Big Tx. Since Cairo’s device was less popular in Cajun music compared to the fiddle or accordion, he also branched into steel-happy organizations such as Traditional western swing and nation, appearing for a while like a sideman to Tx honky tonker Ernest Tubb. Cairo virtually lived around the phases of dancehalls and saloons within the ’40s and ’50s, when performers such as for example Guillory and Leroy “Happy Fat” LeBlanc had been driving high. He performed throughout Louisiana and Tx as an associate of Chuck Guillory & His Tempo Males. He also fronted his personal units like a Slot Arthur-based Western golf swing unit that, for a while anyway, highlighted a vocalist called George Jones, who go on to be one of nation music’s biggest superstars. Another biggie nation star includes a different type of romantic relationship with Cairo. Being a previous Guillory Rhythm Youngster, country superstar Marty Robbins certainly understood all that band’s materials. Thus, it’s possible that there surely is truth in Cairo’s allegation that Robbins pilfered lots the pedal metal player wrote for the Tempo Young boys, entitled “YOU MERELY Wait and find out.” Guillory documented this amount at the same group of periods that had created the 1949 strike “Big Tx.” Cairo promises that Robbins composed his own edition of this tune, retitling it “Very Phrases.” Cairo also caused Jimmie C. Newman, Rufus Thibodeaux, Harry Choates, and something of the very most commercially effective Cajun works, Doug Kershaw. Once the Arhoolie label begun to organize periods involving historical Cajun players who have been still kicking out the jams within their old years, Cairo was known as in to participate both Fiddle Ruler of Cajun Golf swing offering Harry Choates and Guillory’s task Grand Tx. Cairo’s playing and performing both received positive mentions in testimonials for the last mentioned documenting. Early recordings by this musician, to which all submitting rights have got lapsed or are mired within a legal morass, are really likely to arrive on bootleg-oriented compilations like the two-disc Cajun collection on Disky. He also offers managed to get onto a Japanese-produced compilation of Traditional western swing around the Tishomongo label.
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Died November 13, 1999, Crowley, Louisiana, United States
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Starred in two different versions of "The Odyssey": Odissea (1968) as Penelope, and The Odyssey (1997) as Anticleia. |
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Irene Papas appeared with Anthony Quinn in 7 films starting as far back as 1954. The films are "Attila" (1954), The Guns of Navarone" (1961), "Zorba the Greek"(1964), "A Dream of Kings" (1969), the Mexican produced, Spanish languaged and filmed in Rome short film "El asesinato de Julio Cesar" (1972), "The Messenger" (1977), and "The Lion of the Desert" (1981). |
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Confirmed in an interview that she had an affair with Marlon Brando, a close friend until his death. |
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Member of the Anna-Marie Foundation's board of directors along with members of the Greek royal family. |
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Owns houses in Greece, Spain and Italy. |
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Provided the (somewhat breathless) vocals on track 5 disc 2 (named only with a infinity symbol) of the Aphrodite's Child 1971 concept album "666", music for which was composed by Vangelis Papathanassiou. The keyboards on the album were played by Vangelis and the bass and some of the vocals were played and sung by Demis Roussos. |
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She was a dear friend of Katharine Hepburn, with whom she starred in The Trojan Women (1971). Hepburn once said that she is "one of the best actresses in the history of cinema". |
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Federico Fellini was a huge admirer of her work. |
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She was discovered by Elia Kazan. |
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Like the other Greek actress of international fame, Melina Mercouri, she has recorded some records (now available as CDs), which have gained the status of classics in Greece and are very popular around the Greek Orthodox Easter. The names of the records are 'Odes' and 'Rapsodies', containing 15 traditional songs and hymns of the Greek Orthodox church. The songs and hymns have been re-arranged by the Oscar-winning composer Vangelis. She has also recorded songs of Mikis Theodorakis, but this particular record has been out of stock for many decades, although it had been said that it would be published in 2004 again. |
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She has no intention of returning to Greece to play in theatre, because she has suffered from continuous negative criticisms. She starred as the Greek heroine of 1821 (when Greek fought the Turks) in the film Bouboulina (1959). She was a personal friend of the Greek prime-minister Andreas Papandreou. |
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2002: She was named "Europe's woman", a title given to women who offer a lot to European civilization. In her speech, she sang a Greek folklore song |
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Festival tribute at the Créteil International Women's Film Festival, France. [2000] |
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Aunt of Aias Manthopoulos |
15 |
Aunt of Manousos Manousakis |
Actress
Actress
Title | Year | Status | Character |
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Um Filme Falado |
2003 |
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Helena |
Short Cuts |
2002 |
TV Series |
Pensioner #1 |
...kai to treno paei ston ourano |
2001 |
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Podzimní návrat |
2001 |
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Captain Corelli's Mandolin |
2001 |
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Drosoula |
Yerma |
1998 |
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Vieja pagana |
Anxiety |
1998 |
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Mother |
The Odyssey |
1997 |
TV Series |
Anticleia |
Party |
1996 |
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Irene |
Jacob |
1994 |
TV Movie |
Rebekah |
L'ispettore anticrimine |
1993 |
TV Mini-Series |
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Un amore rubato |
1993 |
TV Movie |
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Pano, kato kai plagios |
1993 |
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Maria (as Eirini Pappa) |
Lettera da Parigi |
1992 |
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Gina |
Les cavaliers aux yeux verts |
1990 |
TV Movie |
Anasthasie Rouch |
Island |
1989 |
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Marquise |
Le banquet |
1989 |
TV Movie |
Diotime |
Ocean |
1989 |
TV Mini-Series |
Aurelia Perdomo |
A Mala de Cartão |
1988 |
TV Mini-Series |
Maria Amélia |
Un bambino di nome Gesù |
1987 |
TV Movie |
Old Maria |
High Season |
1987 |
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Penelope |
Cronaca di una morte annunciata |
1987 |
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Angela's mother |
Sweet Country |
1987 |
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Mrs. Araya |
The Assisi Underground |
1985 |
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Mother Giuseppina |
Into the Night |
1985 |
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Shaheen Parvici |
All'ombra della grande quercia |
1984 |
TV Mini-Series |
Elena |
Afghanistan pourquoi? |
1983 |
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Cultural attaché |
Il disertore |
1983 |
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Mariangela |
Eréndira |
1983 |
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Grandmother Amadis |
Les tribulations de Manuel |
1982 |
TV Movie |
Erinaki |
Sarâb |
1982 |
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Mamluk's Mother |
L'assistente sociale tutto pepe |
1981 |
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'La Signora' |
Lion of the Desert |
1980 |
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Mabrouka |
Blood Wedding |
1980 |
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La mère |
Un'ombra nell'ombra |
1979 |
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Raffaella |
Bloodline |
1979 |
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Simonetta Palazzi |
Cristo si è fermato a Eboli |
1979 |
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Giulia Venere |
L'uomo di Corleone |
1977 |
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Iphigenia |
1977 |
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Klytaimnistra (as Eirini Papa) |
The Message |
1976 |
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Hind |
Moses the Lawgiver |
1974-1975 |
TV Mini-Series |
Zipporah |
Bambina |
1974 |
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Raimonda Spina |
Sutjeska |
1973 |
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Borina majka |
El asesinato de Julio César |
1972 |
Short |
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Don't Torture a Duckling |
1972 |
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Dona Aurelia Avallone |
Piazza pulita |
1972 |
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Donna Mimma |
Roma bene |
1971 |
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Elena Teopoulos |
The Trojan Women |
1971 |
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Helen |
Un posto ideale per uccidere |
1971 |
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Barbara Slater |
N.P. |
1971 |
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Housewife |
Anne of the Thousand Days |
1969 |
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Queen Katherine |
A Dream of Kings |
1969 |
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Caliope |
Z |
1969 |
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Hélène (as Irène Papas) |
Ecce Homo |
1968 |
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Anna |
The Brotherhood |
1968 |
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Ida Ginetta |
Odissea |
1968 |
TV Mini-Series |
Penelope |
Beyond the Mountains |
1967 |
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Ajmi |
We Still Kill the Old Way |
1967 |
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Luisa Roscio |
The Steps |
1966 |
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Roger la Honte |
1966 |
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Julia de Noirville (as Irène Papas) |
Zeugin aus der Hölle |
1966 |
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Lea Weiss |
Zorba the Greek |
1964 |
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Widow |
The Moon-Spinners |
1964 |
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Sophia |
Electra |
1962/I |
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Elektra |
Antigoni |
1961 |
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Antigone |
The Guns of Navarone |
1961 |
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Maria |
Bouboulina |
1959 |
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Laskarina Bouboulina (as Eirini Pappa) |
I limni ton stenagmon |
1959 |
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Frosyni |
Psit... koritsia! |
1959 |
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Eleni (as Eirini Pappa) |
Climax! |
1958 |
TV Series |
Maxanne York |
La spada imbattibile |
1957 |
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The King's Musketeers |
1957 |
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Tribute to a Bad Man |
1956 |
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Jocasta Constantine |
The Three Musketeers |
1956 |
TV Series |
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The Missing Scientists |
1955 |
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Gina |
Attila |
1954 |
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Grune |
Theodora, Slave Empress |
1954 |
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Faidia |
Vortice |
1953 |
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Clara |
The Man from Cairo |
1953 |
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Yvonne Lebeau |
The Unfaithfuls |
1953 |
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Luisa Azzali |
Una di quelle |
1953 |
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Monica |
Nekri politeia |
1951 |
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Lena (as Eirini Pappa) |
Hamenoi angeloi |
1948 |
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Liana (as Eirini Papa) |
Soundtrack
Soundtrack
Title | Year | Status | Character |
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Atop the Fourth Wall |
2013 |
TV Series 1 episode |
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The Third Solution |
1988 |
performer: "40 braves, menousis, moiroloi" |
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Tribute to a Bad Man |
1956 |
performer: "They Are Giving My Sweetheart Away" |
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Self
Self
Title | Year | Status | Character |
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La nit al dia |
2007 |
TV Series |
Herself - Guest |
Living Famously |
2003 |
TV Series documentary |
Herself |
Film Genre |
2002 |
TV Series documentary |
Herself |
Continuarà... |
1999 |
TV Series |
Herself |
Cinema 3 |
1992 |
TV Series |
Herself |
Jocs de nit |
1992 |
TV Series |
Herself - Guest |
Arribada de la flama olímpica a Empúries |
1992 |
TV Movie |
Herself |
Over Easy |
1979 |
TV Series |
Herself |
Les rendez-vous du dimanche |
1978 |
TV Series |
Herself - Guest |
The Paul Ryan Show |
1977 |
TV Series |
Herself |
The David Frost Show |
1969 |
TV Series |
Herself - Guest |
Sacha show |
1969 |
TV Series |
Herself |
The Ed Sullivan Show |
1969 |
TV Series |
Herself - Audience Bow |
The Merv Griffin Show |
1968 |
TV Series |
Herself - Guest |
Girl Talk |
1967 |
TV Series |
Herself |
Two Girls on the Town |
1961 |
Short |
Herself / Narrator |
MGM Parade |
1956 |
TV Series |
Herself |
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Archive Footage
Won awards
Won awards
Year | Award | Ceremony | Nomination | Movie | Award shared with |
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2005 |
Taormina Arte Award |
Taormina International Film Festival |
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1993 |
Distinguished Achievement Award |
Hamptons International Film Festival |
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1972 |
NBR Award |
National Board of Review, USA |
Best Actress |
The Trojan Women (1971) |
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1962 |
Greek Competition Award |
Thessaloniki Film Festival |
Best Actress |
Ilektra (1962) |
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1962 |
Hellenic Association of Film Critics Award |
Thessaloniki Film Festival |
Best Actress |
Ilektra (1962) |
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1961 |
Greek Competition Award |
Thessaloniki Film Festival |
Best Actress |
Antigoni (1961) |
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Nominated awards
Nominated awards
Year | Award | Ceremony | Nomination | Movie | Award shared with |
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1989 |
AFI Award |
Australian Film Institute |
Best Actress in a Lead Role |
Island (1989) |
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