Associated Press
ATHENS, Greece – Greece's leaders are paying tribute to Thanassis Vengos, a popular comic actor who died at age 84 following a series of strokes.
Officials at a state hospital in Athens say Vengos died early Tuesday.
President Karolos Papoulias described him as "a wonderful, charismatic person with a rare sense of kindness."
Vengos, once imprisoned for his left-wing sympathies, made his name in slapstick comedies in the 1960s but also earned respect from his peers while working under the country's leading directors. In 1995, he starred in Theo Angelopoulos' "Ulysses Gaze" along with U.S. actor Harvey Keitel.
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