Christos Tsaganeas was born in Braila, Romania on July 2, 1906. He came from a wealthy Greek and aristocratic family and from a young age he showed great love for the theater. His parents, however, had demanded that he finish some university school, and that's why when he graduated from the Greek high school in Romania, they sent him to Athens for academic studies. He initially enrolled in Medicine but soon dropped out and went to Law from which he never got a degree. The reason for this event was his acquaintance and love for the actress Nitsa Vitsori, seven years older than him, for whose sake he abandoned his studies and began to appear in the theater. When Nitsa divorced her first husband, Giorgis Vitsoris, Tsaganeas not only married her but also enrolled in the Drama School of the National Theater to get a proper foundation and an acting degree. For this career choice, he had several fights with his parents, with whom he finally broke up and cut off his funding. Another version cites his participation in the political movement of the Archio-Marxists, in which his wife Nitsa also participated, as the reason for the elimination. This development led him, for some time, to live on a boat in the port of Piraeus while he was forced to take part in performances of itinerant troupes, which at that time were underestimated. "There are few theaters, few theater squares, many practitioners", as he used to say. During the German-Italian occupation he actively participated in the National Resistance through the ranks of the EAM together with his wife Nitsa. During the December 1944, his name was involved in the execution of the actress Eleni Papadakis by OPLA. As a member of the board of the National Militia of the EAM Theater, he had put his signature - together with his colleagues, Emilio Veakis, Theodoros Moridis, Spyros Patrikios and Panos Karavousiano - for the death sentence of Eleni Papadakis, who had been accused of dowry. A year later, Christos Tsaganeas was in danger of losing his life in the armed attack against the then president of SEH, Spyros Patrikios.
Wrong Path
(Dimos)
We Have Only One Life
(Bank Manager)
Something Hot
(Mr. Petridis)
Σέργιος και Άννα
Theodore and the gun
(Pantelis)
Vacation in Kolopetinitsa
(Iordanis Mouratoglou)
If Luck Favors You
(Fokion Karyadis)
Greek Pride
(Kriton Stefanis)
Joe, the Amazing
(Lavrentios Kalyvas)
Μαντάμ Σουσού
Αγνούλα
The Miss Of The Mister
(Theofanis Delakis)
Death Will Return
(Doctor)
Το συρτάκι της αμαρτίας
(Filonas)
Murder Backstage
(Pavlos Stefanou)
Ένας Μάγκας στα Σαλόνια
(Gerasimos Nikolaou)
Doctor Z-Vengos
(Babis)
To Fintanaki
(Giavrousis)
Maiden's Cheek
(school headmaster)
Να ζήσουν τα φτωχόπαιδα
(Ploutarhos Pahoulos)
Satrapis
Ena agori... alloiotiko ap' t' alla
With Many Children
(Pafsanias Karatsoukalas)
Ο Παλιάτσος
(Theodoros)
My friend, Lefterakis
(doctor)
Rich Without Money
(Mr. Ploutidis)
Κοκοβιός και Σπάρος στα Δίχτυα της Αράχνης
(ceremony man)
Crime in Kolonaki
(Kostas Floras)
The Happy Beginning
(program manager)
Φτωχαδάκια και Λεφτάδες
(Leonidas Dekrisis)
Η Κρεβατομουρμούρα
(Makromihaleas)
The Germans Strike Again
(madman)
Ο διάβολος και η ουρά του
(Charalabos)
The Hurdy-Gurdy
(Benardis)
Fallen Angels
(Hristos Terakis)
My Dimitri... My Dimitri
(Gerasimos Karras)
Apollo Goes on Holiday
(Ambassador)
Betrayed love
(Impresario)
Το χαμίνι
(Nikiforos)
Aspasia's dollars
Ο Μισογύνης
Love that time does not fade
Don't Fall in Love on a Saturday
(Mikes Zargantis)
Five Thousand Lies
(Patroklos Sokratidis)
That's How My Life Ended
What the Night Hides
The pain of separation
(Marios Peresiadis)
Ένα Καράβι Παπαδόπουλοι
(Pel Pap)
Η Στοργή
(Kleopas Hatzigeorgiou)
Artesta
(Ilias)
Ο Μανωλιός ξαναχτυπά
Αλύγιστη Στη Ζωή
Ο ακτύπητος κτυπήθηκε
(Androklis Hardoupis)
To ploio tis haras
Sidewalk
(Ninos)
Η πικραγαπημένη
Ο άνεμος του μίσους
Φτωχός, αλλά τίμιος
(Kostas Pergialis)