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Stathis Giallelis (born 21 January 1941) is a Greek actor who, in the early 1960s, won brief international renown as the star of Elia Kazan's Academy Award-nominated epic America, America, a role which brought him the Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year – Actor, as well as a nomination for Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama. Stathis Giallelis' entire prominence revolves around his central role in America, America. He appears in nearly every scene of the 174-minute film and gives what some critics described at the time as a "towering performance". He has... MORE

Stathis Giallelis (born 21 January 1941) is a Greek actor who, in the early 1960s, won brief international renown as the star of Elia Kazan's Academy Award-nominated epic America, America, a role which brought him the Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year – Actor, as well as a nomination for Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama. Stathis Giallelis' entire prominence revolves around his central role in America, America. He appears in nearly every scene of the 174-minute film and gives what some critics described at the time as a "towering performance". He has not, however, faced a camera since 1980 and his biographical details remain sketchy. The date of his birth is generally accepted as correct, although two sources indicate 1939 as the year. All listings agree that he was born in Greece, but none specify the location. The medium-height, slightly built Giallelis was twenty-one years old in mid-1962, upon Elia Kazan's arrival in Greece to meet the future star of his long-planned cinematic representation of his uncle's life in 1890s Anatolia and the eventual fulfillment of his determined dream of immigrating to the United States. Kazan wanted an unknown LESS