Michael Constantine (born Gus Efstratiou (ΕυστÏατίου); May 22, 1927 – August 31, 2021) was an American actor. He is most widely recognized for his portrayal of Kostas “Gus” Portokalos, the Windex bottle-toting Greek father of Toula Portokalos (Nia Vardalos), in the film My Big Fat Greek Wedding (2002).
Earlier, he earned acclaim for his television work, especially as the long-suffering high school principal, Seymour Kaufman, on ABC’s comedy-drama, Room 222, for which he won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series in 1970; he was again recognized by the Emmy Awards, as well as the Golden Globe Awards, the following year. After the conclusion of Room 222, Constantine portrayed night court magistrate Matthew J. Sirota on the 1976 sitcom Sirota’s Court, receiving his second Golden Globe nomination. Constantine reprised his role as Gus Portokalos in My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2 (2016).
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Michael Constantine Biography / Wiki
| Name | Michael Constantine |
| Also Know | Mike Constantine, Constantine Joanides |
| Gender | Male |
| Known For | Acting |
| Place of Birth | Reading, Pennsylvania, USA |
| Date of Birth | 1927-05-22 |
| Age(as in 2022) | 94 |
| Deathday | 2021-08-31 |
Michael Constantine Acting Movies
| Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
| Conspiracy of Terror | 1975-12-29 | A husband-and-wife detective team investigate the existence of lethal Satanic cults , while the husband battles with his Orthodox Jewish parents who h… | |
| The Bait | Captain Gus Maryk | 1973-03-13 | Tracy Fleming is a widowed police officer, with a young son, who has risen to the role of plainclothes operative. After six women have been raped and … |
| The Last Mile | Ed Werner | 1959-02-18 | Jail house tensions mount as a killer’s execution approaches…. |
| Crisis in Mid-Air | Frank Piovano | 1979-02-13 | The life of a stressed out air controller falls apart as he battles a court case involving a mid-air collision which is causing the unhappiness of his… |
| The Impatient Heart | Murray Kane | 1971-10-07 | A social worker has problems in her private life…. |
| The Night That Panicked America | Jess Wingate | 1975-10-31 | A dramatization of the Oct. 30, 1938 mass panic that Orson Welles’ radio play, “The War of the Worlds” accidentally provoked…. |
| Say Goodbye, Maggie Cole | Dr. Sweeney | 1972-09-27 | Maggie Cole is a research scientist who, after the sudden death of her husband, takes a position as an on-call doctor in an inner-city clinic. There, … |
| Deadly Harvest | Stefan Groza | 1972-09-26 | An Iron Curtain defector who has been living for years as a California winegrower learns that Soviet agents are stalking him…. |
| The Love Tapes | Frank Yost | 1980-05-09 | At Frank Yost’s Good possibilities, a state-of-the-art videotaping dating service, various clients have various misadventures while trying to find the… |
| The Reivers | Mr. Binford | 1969-12-25 | In turn-of-the-century Mississippi, an 11-year-old boy comes of age as two mischievous adult friends talk him into sneaking the family car out for a t… |
| My Big Fat Greek Wedding | Kostas “Gus” Portokalos | 2002-02-22 | A young Greek woman falls in love with a non-Greek and struggles to get her family to accept him while she comes to terms with her heritage and cultur… |
| Peeper | Anglich | 1975-12-03 | A detective is hired to locate a girl adopted 30 years earlier whose birth father wants to bequeath her his fortune…. |
| WW 3 | Yuri Zenkovsky | 2001-07-12 | Terrorists release a deadly biological-warfare virus in the United States…. |
| The Secret Night Caller | Dr, Mayhill | 1975-02-18 | A man who is the pillar of his community has a secret – he has a compulsion to make obscene telephone calls…. |
| Evita Peron | Jaime Yankelevich | 1981-02-23 | Aspiring actress Eva Duarte rises from a minor celebrity to the wife of a powerful Argentine dictator, but her all consuming fiery rage, ambition, and… |
| Summer of My German Soldier | Harry Bergen | 1978-10-29 | Patty Bergen is a teenager in a Jewish family living in the American South during World War II. Patty feels like an outcast even in her own family and… |
| My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2 | Kostas “Gus” Portokalos | 2016-03-23 | The continuing adventures of the Portokalos family. A follow-up to the 2002 comedy, “My Big Fat Greek Wedding.”… |
| Silent Rebellion | Yianni | 1982-05-04 | A Greek immigrant (Savalas) and his son return to Greece, where they reunite with mother and brother and re-discover their heritage and each other. Cr… |
| In the Mood | Mr. Wisecarver | 1987-09-16 | When 15-year-old Sonny Wisecarver has an affair with his older neighbor Francine and then runs off to marry her, a stern judge has the union annulled…. |
| Big Rose: Double Trouble | Gunther | 1974-03-26 | Rose Winters, a private detective out of Los Angeles, teams with Ed Mills, a somewhat inexperienced young detective, to find out who is blackmailing a… |
| Forty Days of Musa Dagh | 1982-01-01 | Armenian guerrilla troops fight against the Turkish forces on the mountain of Musa Dagh…. | |
| Thinner | Tadzu Lempke | 1996-10-25 | A fat lawyer finds himself growing “Thinner” when an old gypsy man places a hex on him. Now the lawyer must call upon his friends in organized crime t… |
| Skidoo | Leech | 1968-12-19 | Ex-gangster Tony Banks is called out of retirement by mob kingpin God to carry out a hit on fellow mobster “Blue Chips” Packard. When Banks demurs, Go… |
| My Life | Bill Ivanovich | 1993-11-12 | It seems that Bob Jones has everything a man could want, namely a fulfilling job and a beautiful, pregnant wife, Gail. But Bob’s life is turned upside… |
| Quick Before It Melts | Mikhail Drozhensky | 1965-01-20 | A magazine reporter and his photographer, on assignment in the Antarctic, attempt to fly in girls to make their chilly lives more enjoyable. Director … |
| Suddenly Single | Frankie Ventura | 1971-10-19 | A newly divorced man finds it difficult to get used to the single world…. |
| Wanted: The Sundance Woman | Dave Riley | 1976-10-01 | Katharine Ross repeats her portrayal of Etta Place (from “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid”) in this adventure of the fugitive who, alone and desper… |
| Twin Detectives | Ben Sampson | 1976-05-01 | Identical twin brothers who own a detective agency hatch a plan to expose a phony group of psychics, but soon find themselves involved in a murder…. |
| Prancer | Mr. Stewart / Santa | 1989-11-17 | Jessica, the daughter of an impoverished apple farmer, still believes in Santa Claus. So when she comes across a reindeer with an injured leg, it make… |
| Don’t Drink the Water | Krojack | 1969-11-11 | The Hollander family’s European vacation is interrupted when their plane is forced to land in Vulgaria. The Hollanders leave the plane to take picture… |
| Ghostbreakers | Oscar Jensen | 1967-09-08 | A professor and his beautiful assistant investigate a murder which occurs in a supposedly haunted house…. |
| The Pirate | Yashir | 1978-11-21 | An Israeli man, raised by a wealthy and powerful Arab, is put in charge of his country’s vast oil fortunes. He comes into conflict with a fanatical te… |
| In Enemy Country | Ladislov | 1968-07-01 | Wartime secret agents are on a mission to destroy a deadly new type of torpedo, hidden in a Nazi stronghold in France…. |
| The Hustler | Big John | 1961-09-25 | Fast Eddie Felson is a small-time pool hustler with a lot of talent but a self-destructive attitude. His bravado causes him to challenge the legendary… |
| Island of Love | Andy | 1963-06-12 | Con artist Steve Blair persuades Tony Dallas, a Manhattan gangster, to finance a movie about Adam and Eve by offering the female lead to Tony’s stripp… |
| Death Cruise | Dr. Burke | 1974-10-30 | Several couples are notified that they have won an ocean cruise, but they actually have been lured onto a ship so that they can be murdered…. |
| The Juror | Judge Weitzel | 1996-02-02 | With his gangster boss on trial for murder, a mob thug known as “the Teacher” tells Annie Laird she must talk her fellow jurors into a not-guilty verd… |
| Beau Geste | Rostov | 1966-09-07 | In 1906, two American brothers join the French Foreign Legion and, led by a sadistic Sergeant-Major, they defend a fort against Berber and Tuareg atta… |
| Because Mommy Works | Elliot | 1994-11-21 | Since her divorce nurse Abbey lives alone with her 6 years old son Willie. Her ex-husband Ted may have Willie every second weekend. But when Ted marri… |
| If It’s Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium | Jack Harmon | 1969-04-24 | A group of travelers from the United States race through seven countries in 18 days…. |
| The North Avenue Irregulars | Marv | 1979-02-09 | When crooks set up operations in a traditional town, a minister and a group of church ladies are willing to do anything, no matter how wacky, to get t… |
| Deadfall | Frank | 1993-10-08 | After he accidentally kills his father, Mike, during a sting, Joe tries to carry out Mike’s dying wish by recovering valuables that Mike’s twin brothe… |
| Pray for Death | Mr. Newman | 1985-01-11 | Akira Saito, a Japanese businessman lives in Tokyo with his Japanese-American wife Aiko and their children, Takeshi and Tomoya. When the family has a … |
| Question of Faith | Doctor Rudolph | 1988-10-06 | A woman struck down by terminal cancer shuns conventional medical techniques at her husband’s insistence and turns to alternative treatment to combat … |
| Justine | Memlik Pasha | 1969-08-06 | In Alexandria, in 1938, Darley, a young British schoolmaster and poet, makes friends through Pursewarden, the British consular officer, with Justine, … |
| Hawaii | Mason | 1966-10-10 | Abner Hale, a rigid and humorless New England missionary, marries the beautiful Jerusha Bromley and takes her to the exotic island kingdom of Hawaii, … |
| Voyage of the Damned | Luis Clasing | 1976-12-22 | A luxury liner carries Jewish refugees from Hitler’s Germany in a desperate fight for survival…. |
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