Andréas Voutsinas

Born: 1932-08-22 Khartoum, Sudan

Died: 2010-06-08

Andreas Voutsinas (22 August 1930 – 8 June 2010) was a Greek actor and theater director. In the English-speaking world, he was best known for his roles in three Mel Brooks films, The Producers (1968), The Twelve Chairs (1970) and History of the World, Part I (1981). Voutsinas was born on 22 August 1932 in Khartoum, since there was a sizeable community of Greek settlers in Sudan at the time. His parents hailed from the Ionian Island of Kefalonia. They set up a pasta factory in the Anglo-Egyptian colony, 'reputedly supplying spaghetti to Italian forces' during the Fascist invasion of Abyssinia. After the collapse of the business during WWII, V ...