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Michael Constantine is a Actor American born on 22 may 1927 at Reading (USA)

Michael Constantine

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Birth name Constantine Ioannides
Nationality USA
Birth 22 may 1927 at Reading (USA)
Death 31 august 2021 (at 94 years)

Michael Constantine (born May 22, 1927) is an American actor of Greek descent.

He is probably now best known for his portrayal of Kostas "Gus" Portokalos, the Windex bottle-toting Greek father of Toula Portokalos (Nia Vardalos), in the 2002 surprise hit film My Big Fat Greek Wedding. Prior to that, he was well known for his extensive television work, especially as the long-suffering high school principal, Seymour Kaufman, on ABC's sitcom, Room 222, for which he won an Emmy Award as Best Supporting Actor in 1970.
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Best films

Usually with

Nia Vardalos
Nia Vardalos
(2 films)
Rita Wilson
Rita Wilson
(2 films)
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Filmography of Michael Constantine (30 films)

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Actor

Voyage of the Damned, 2h35
Directed by Stuart Rosenberg
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, War
Themes Seafaring films, Films about religion, Transport films, Political films, Films about Jews and Judaism
Actors Faye Dunaway, Oskar Werner, Lee Grant, Max von Sydow, James Mason, Malcolm McDowell
Roles Luis Clasing
Rating63% 3.195123.195123.195123.195123.19512
Based on actual events, this film tells the story of the 1939 voyage of the MS St. Louis, which departed from Hamburg carrying 937 Jews from Germany, ostensibly to Havana, Cuba. The passengers, having seen and suffered rising anti-Semitism in Germany, realised this might be their only chance to escape. The film details the emotional journey of the passengers who gradually become aware that their passage was planned as an exercise in propaganda, and that it had never been intended that they disembark in Cuba.
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Peeper
Peeper (1975)
, 1h27
Directed by Peter Hyams
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Comedy, Comedy thriller
Themes Children's films
Actors Michael Caine, Timothy Carey, Natalie Wood, Kitty Winn, Michael Constantine, Thayer David
Roles Anglich
Rating56% 2.8018852.8018852.8018852.8018852.801885
1947 à Hollywood. Lou Anglich échappe à une filature en frappant son poursuivant avec sa valise. Lorsque Leslie C. Tucker, un détective privé anglais, revient à son bureau, il trouve Anglich, qui le charge de retrouver a fille Anna, placée dans un orphelinat 29 ans auparavant. Anglich dit à Tucker qu'il a beaucoup d'argent et qu'il veut le donner à sa fille avant que ses "associés" le retrouvent et le tuent...
The Night That Panicked America, 1h32
Directed by Joseph Sargent
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Films about writers, Space adventure films, Films about television, Mars in film, Films based on science fiction novels, Films set in the future, Films about extraterrestrial life, Space opera, Films about extraterrestrial life, Alien invasions in films, Disaster films
Actors Paul Shenar, Vic Morrow, Michael Constantine, Eileen Brennan, Meredith Baxter, Tom Bosley
Roles Jess Wingate
Rating69% 3.4915753.4915753.4915753.4915753.491575
Le 30 octobre 1938, Orson Welles anime une émission spéciale dans laquelle il donne sa version du roman de H.G. Wells, La Guerre des mondes. Cependant bon nombre de gens ratent le début de l'émission et s'imaginent que de vrais martiens envahissent la Terre, causant ainsi une panique générale dans tous les États-Unis...
The Bait
The Bait (1973)
, 1h18
Directed by Leonard Horn
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Actors Noam Pitlik, Michael Constantine, Donna Mills, William Devane, Arlene Golonka, June Lockhart
Roles Captain Gus Maryk
Rating58% 2.9131952.9131952.9131952.9131952.913195
If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium, 1h39
Directed by Mel Stuart
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Adventure, Romance
Themes Transport films, Road movies
Actors Suzanne Pleshette, Ian McShane, Mildred Natwick, Michael Constantine, Murray Hamilton, Norman Fell
Roles Jack Harmon
Rating61% 3.0972453.0972453.0972453.0972453.097245
Charlie (Ian McShane) is an English tour guide who takes groups of Americans on whirlwind 18-day sightseeing tours of Europe. Among his various clients on his latest trip are Samantha (Suzanne Pleshette) with whom he wants to have an affair, a man who desires a pair of custom-made Italian shoes from a certain cobbler in Rome, another man who is secretly being set up for a surprise marriage with his Italian cousin, and an Army veteran who is reliving his World War II experiences.
Justine
Justine (1969)
, 1h56
Directed by George Cukor, Joseph Strick
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Films set in Africa, Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, Children's films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Anouk Aimée, Dirk Bogarde, Robert Forster, Michael York, Anna Karina, John Vernon
Roles Memlik Pasha
Rating54% 2.702232.702232.702232.702232.70223
Set in Alexandria in 1938, a young British schoolmaster named Darley meets Pursewarden, a British consular officer. Pursewarden introduces him to Justine, the wife of an Egyptian banker. Darley befriends her, and discovers she is involved in a plot against the British, the goal of which is to arm the Jewish underground movement in Palestine.
The Reivers, 1h52
Directed by Mark Rydell
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Action
Themes Films about animals, Sports films, Transport films, Films about automobiles, Films about horses, Road movies, Horse sports in film
Actors Steve McQueen, Sharon Farrell, Mitch Vogel, Burgess Meredith, Will Geer, Michael Constantine
Roles Mr. Binford
Rating65% 3.29753.29753.29753.29753.2975
Set in 1905, the film follows the exploits of the likable but raffish Boon Hoggenbeck (Steve McQueen), who takes an interest in a new car, a new 1905 Winton Flyer that is the property of a man named Boss (Will Geer), the patriarch of the McCaslin family, who live in the Mississippi area where Boon lives. When the taking of the car first by Boon and then by Ned (Rupert Crosse) (they show themselves to be reivers, or thieves, in the film's start, hence the title) leads to a public brawl, the local magistrate lets them off by a bond that Boss pays on the condition both men stay out of trouble and further away from the car while he is away with family to tend to a funeral.
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Don't Drink the Water, 1h40
Directed by Howard Morris
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Films based on plays
Actors Jackie Gleason, Estelle Parsons, Ted Bessell, Michael Constantine, Richard Libertini, Howard St. John
Roles Krojack
Rating55% 2.7528252.7528252.7528252.7528252.752825
Walter Hollander, a caterer, is on vacation with his wife Marion and daughter Susan. While flying to Athens, their plane is hijacked to Vulgaria, behind the Iron Curtain. While waiting for the plane to be cleared to take off again, Marion insists they go outside and take a few pictures. Unfortunately they are in a restricted area so the secret police suspect them of being spies. Inspector Krojak sends a squad of soldiers with machine guns to arrest them, and the Hollanders flee to the car of the American ambassador which is parked nearby.
Skidoo
Skidoo (1968)
, 1h37
Directed by Otto Preminger
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Crime
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about drugs
Actors Jackie Gleason, Carol Channing, Frankie Avalon, Fred Clark, Michael Constantine, Frank Gorshin
Roles Leech
Rating47% 2.3564652.3564652.3564652.3564652.356465
As a cartoon character dressed in prison stripes (and holding a peace-logo flower which turns into a tiny parasol and then a helicopter blade) executes a few dance steps to the music of Nilsson's Skidoo theme, the words "Otto Preminger" appear below him. Additional words "presents SKIDOO starring" can also be seen as the camera pulls back to reveal that this image is on a TV screen, while Carol Channing's voice is heard exclaiming, "No, Harry, not that. No, I don't wanna see that", with the channel suddenly switching to show a US Senate hearing conducted by Senator Hummel, portrayed by Peter Lawford, who asks a series of organized crime figures various questions to which they invariably reply, "I refuse to answer on the grounds it may tend to incriminate me.
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In Enemy Country, 1h47
Directed by Harry Keller
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Action, Adventure
Themes Political films
Actors Anthony Franciosa, Anjanette Comer, Guy Stockwell, Paul Hubschmid, Tom Bell, Michael Constantine
Roles Ladislov
Rating56% 2.8113252.8113252.8113252.8113252.811325
Pendant la seconde guerre mondiale, des espions américains faisant partie du Département d'État sont chargés de détruire un nouveau type de torpille dont le centre de recherche se trouve caché en France.
Hawaii
Hawaii (1966)
, 3h9
Directed by George Roy Hill, James Blue, Richard Talmadge
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Adventure, Historical, Romance
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films
Actors Julie Andrews, Max von Sydow, Gene Hackman, Jocelyne LaGarde, Richard Harris, Carroll O'Connor
Roles Mason
Rating64% 3.248583.248583.248583.248583.24858
The story follows Prince Keoki Kanakoa, the Reverend Abner Hale and his wife Jerusha, who join the prince on mission to the Islands of Hawaii for the Calvinist church with the promise to make Kanakoa a minister. Upon their arrival to the islands, the ship stops in Lahaina, Maui before going on to Honolulu, Oahu where the main church has been established. There they are greeted by the aliʻi nui, Malama Kanakoa, Keoki's mother, who stops the Hales from traveling further when she demands Jerusha remain in Lahaina to teach her to write.
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Beau Geste
Beau Geste (1966)
, 1h43
Directed by Joseph Kane, Douglas Heyes
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Action
Actors Guy Stockwell, Doug McClure, Leslie Nielsen, Telly Savalas, Robert Wolders, Michael Constantine
Roles Rostov
Rating60% 3.0492253.0492253.0492253.0492253.049225
A column of the French Foreign Legion arrives at the remote Fort Zinderneuf, having been assigned to relieve the legionnaires who had been defending the fort. Upon their arrival, they find that the fort has been ravaged by Tuareg attacks and American Beau Graves (Guy Stockwell) is the only survivor. After his badly injured arm is amputated, he is asked what has happened and his story is revealed in flashback.
Island of Love, 1h41
Directed by Morton DaCosta
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Robert Preston, Tony Randall, Giorgia Moll, Walter Matthau, Michael Constantine, Ollie Johnston
Roles Andy
Rating50% 2.524192.524192.524192.524192.52419
Steve Blair, always on the lookout for a new money-making scheme, spots a stripper of his acquaintance, Cha Cha Miller, at a Greek restaurant in New York, then overhears her gangster boyfriend Tony Dallas say how somebody should make a wholesome movie about Adam and Eve.
The Hustler, 2h14
Directed by Robert Rossen, Ulu Grosbard
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Sports films, Children's films, Escroquerie
Actors Paul Newman, Jackie Gleason, Piper Laurie, George C. Scott, Myron McCormick, Murray Hamilton
Roles Big John
Rating78% 3.9485253.9485253.9485253.9485253.948525
Small-time pool hustler "Fast Eddie" Felson travels cross-country with his partner Charlie to challenge the legendary player "Minnesota Fats". Arriving at Fats' home pool hall, Eddie declares he will win $10,000 that night. Fats arrives and he and Eddie agree to play straight pool for $200 a game. After initially falling behind, Eddie surges back to being $1,000 ahead and suggests raising the bet to $1,000 a game; Fats agrees. He sends out a runner, Preacher, to Johnny's Bar, ostensibly for whiskey, but really to get professional gambler Bert Gordon to the hall.
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The Last Mile, 1h21
Directed by Howard W. Koch
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Themes Prison films, Films based on plays
Actors Mickey Rooney, Frank Overton, Michael Constantine, Clifford David, Ford Rainey, Johnny Seven
Roles Ed Werner
Rating65% 3.286283.286283.286283.286283.28628
In a death row cell block nine inmates are scheduled for execution. Then "Killer" John Mears (Rooney) comes along. His viciousness infects the environment and his plans to break out of prison are the catalyst for tragedy.