George Kotsonaros was a Greek

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-born film actor. He acted mostly in silent pictures.

His swarthy, menacing face—and pugilist's rearranged nose—got him many roles as a tough guy or a prizefighter at a time when boxing movies were a flourishing sub-genre due to the sport's huge popularity with the public.

Most of Kotsonaros's films are today considered lost, as is the case with most silent films.

Filmography

• Honeymoon Lane (1931) as Nolay
• Dangerous Paradise (1930) as Pedro
  aka Two Against Death (USA: alternative title)
• The Body Punch (1929) as Paul Steinert
• The Shakedown
  The Shakedown (1929 film)
  The Shakedown is a 1929 action/comedy/sports drama film, directed by William Wyler. It was discovered and restored to 35 mm by George Eastman House in 1998 from a good-condition 16mm positive print.-Synopsis:...
  
   (1929) as Battling Roff
• We Faw Down
  We Faw Down
  We Faw Down is a 1928 two-reel silent comedy starring Laurel and Hardy and directed by Leo McCarey. It was shot in August and September 1928, and released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer on December 29 of that year, with synchronized music and sound effects in theaters wired for sound.The plot line was...
  
  (1928) as One-Round Kelly (uncredited)
  aka We Slip Up (UK)
• Beggars of Life
  Beggars of Life
  Beggars of Life is an early sound film with talking sequences starring Wallace Beery as a rail-riding hobo and Louise Brooks as a girl on the run. Based on a novel called Beggars of Life by Jim Tully, the film is often regarded as Brooks's best American movie...
  
  (1928) as Baldy (uncredited)
• Street of Sin
  Street of Sin
  -Production background:The film was produced by Famous Players-Lasky and distributed by Paramount Pictures, directed by Mauritz Stiller and Ludwig Berger, and starred Olga Baclanova, Emil Jannings, and Fay Wray.-Cast:*Olga Baclanova as Annie...
  
  (1928) as Iron Mike
• The Fifty-Fifty Girl (1928) as Buck (the Gorilla Man)
• The Love Mart
  The Love Mart
  The Love Mart is a 1927 silent drama film directed by George Fitzmaurice and featuring Boris Karloff. The film is lost.-Cast:* Billie Dove - Antoinette Frobelle* Gilbert Roland - Victor Jallot* Ray Turner - Poupet...
  
  (1927) as Fleming Henchman (uncredited)
• The Private Life of Helen of Troy
  The Private Life of Helen of Troy
  The Private Life of Helen of Troy is a 1927 silent film about Helen of Troy based on a novel by John Erskine and adapted to screen by Gerald C. Duffy. The film was directed by Alexander Korda and starred Maria Corda as Helen, Lewis Stone as Menelaus, and Ricardo Cortez as Paris...
  
  (1927) as Hector
  aka Helen of Troy (USA)
• The Wizard (1927) as The Gorilla
• King of the Jungle
  King of the Jungle (serial)
  King of the Jungle is a 1927 adventure film serial directed by Webster Cullison. The film is considered to be lost.-Cast:* Elmo Lincoln* Sally Long...
  
   (1927, serial)
• Catch-As-Catch-Can (1927) as Butch
• The Tender Hour (1927) as The Wrestler
• When a Man Loves
  When A Man Loves (1927 film)
  When a Man Loves is a 1927 American silent historical drama film directed by Alan Crosland and produced and distributed by Warner Bros.. The picture stars John Barrymore and Dolores Costello in the oft filmed story of Abbe Prevost's Manon Lescaut....
  
  (1927) as Convict Prisoner (uncredited)
  aka His Lady (UK)
• While London Sleeps
  While London Sleeps
  While London Sleeps is a 1926 film about a police-dog, Rinty, who helps Scotland Yard defeat a dangerous criminal organisation known as the Mediterranean Brotherhood that operates out of the Limehouse district of London. Walter Morosco wrote the screenplay and the film holds the distinction of...
  
  (1926) as The Monk
• Cupid's Knockout (1926)
• Vanishing Millions (1926)

External links

• George Kotsonaros at the Internet Movie Database
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