Vasilis Diamantopoulos was born on November 15, 1920 in Piraeus, Greece. He was an actor and director, known for Mathe paidi mou grammata (1981), Kavafis (1996) and Ta paidia tis Helidonas (1987). He was married to Marina Georgiou and Tonia Karali. He died on May 5, 1999 in Athens, Greece.