---
name: "José Greco"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/jose-greco"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "23 December 1918"
died: "31 December 2000"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 62
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-09-20T04:32:32.830622+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# José Greco

Actor. Born 23 December 1918 in Montorio nei Frentani, Molise, Italy. Died 31 December 2000.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 23 December 1918, Montorio nei Frentani, Molise, Italy
- **Died:** 31 December 2000
- **Active:** 1956–1965
- **Also known as:** Costanzo Greco Bucc, Costanzo Greco
- **Average Fi1m score:** 62, as actor, over 2 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1950s 63 (1), 1960s 62 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Greco, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q9013904, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0337472/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1093250

## Streaming the US now

- **The Roku Channel:** [*Ship of Fools*](https://film.one/film/ship-of-fools.md) (62)

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## Biography

José Greco (1918–2000) was an Italian-born American flamenco dancer, choreographer and actor. Born Costanzo Greco in Montorio nei Frentani, Italy, he moved with his family to New York City as a child and made his professional dancing debut in 1937 at the Hippodrome Theatre in Manhattan.

In 1949 he formed the José Greco Dance Company, with which he toured extensively. He appeared in films including *Sombrero* (1953), *Around the World in 80 Days* (1956), *Holiday for Lovers* (1959), *Ship of Fools* (1965) as Pepe, and *The Proud and the Damned* (1972). He received the Cruz Laureada del Caballero del Mérito Civil from the Spanish government.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (2)

- *Ship of Fools* (1965), Fi1m 62, as Pepe — [page](https://film.one/film/ship-of-fools.md)
- *Around the World in 80 Days* (1956), Fi1m 63, as Flamenco Dancer — [page](https://film.one/film/around-the-world-in-80-days.md)

## Complete filmography (5)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *The Proud and Damned* (1972), as Ramon
- *Ship of Fools* (1965), as Pepe — Fi1m 62, [page](https://film.one/film/ship-of-fools.md)
- *Around the World in 80 Days* (1956), as Flamenco Dancer — Fi1m 63, [page](https://film.one/film/around-the-world-in-80-days.md)
- *Sombrero* (1953), as Gitanillo de Torrano
- *Brindis a Manolete* (1948), as Rafael · Choreographer

## Gallery

- ![José Greco](https://film.one/media/person/1238729/gallery-1d89fbdf46dc.jpg) José Greco — Larry Bessel, Los Angeles Times, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/91/Jos%C3%A9_Greco%2C_1975.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![José Greco](https://film.one/media/person/1238729/gallery-94ae63b0803a.jpg) José Greco — Image via TMDB

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