Michael Constantine
Michael Constantine (born Gus Efstratiou (Ευστρατίου); 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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Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 7.499 |
Birthday | 1927-05-22 |
Place of Birth | Reading, Pennsylvania, USA |
Also Known As | Mike Constantine, Constantine Joanides, Gus Efstratiou, |
1961
The Hustler
7.667/962
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...
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The Hustler
1996
Thinner
5.9/598
An obese lawyer finds himself growing "Thinner" when an old Romani man places a hex on him. Now the lawyer must call upon his friends in organized cri...
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Thinner
1969
The Reivers
6.4/44
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...
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The Reivers
2002
My Big Fat Greek Wedding
6.5/2102
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...
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My Big Fat Greek Wedding
1969
If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium
5.7/30
A group of travelers from the United States race through seven European countries in 18 days.
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If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium
1989
Prancer
6/94
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...
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Prancer
1968
Skidoo
4.9/20
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...
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Skidoo
1996
The Juror
5.585/371
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...
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The Juror
1985
Pray for Death
6.1/48
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...
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Pray for Death
1993
My Life
6.7/215
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...
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My Life
1969
Justine
4.1/11
In Alexandria, in 1938, Darley, a young British schoolmaster and poet, makes friends through Pursewarden, the British consular officer, with Justine,...
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Justine
1966
Hawaii
6.4/42
Abner Hale, a rigid and humorless New England missionary, marries the beautiful Jerusha Bromley and takes her to the exotic island kingdom of Hawaii,...
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Hawaii
1979
The North Avenue Irregulars
6.4/14
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...
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The North Avenue Irregulars
1959
The Last Mile
6.3/13
Jail house tensions mount as a killer's execution approaches.
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The Last Mile
1980
The Love Tapes
3/1
At Frank Yost's Good Possibilities, a state-of-the-art videotaping dating service, various clients have misadventures while trying to find the right p...
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The Love Tapes
1975
Peeper
4.9/10
A detective is hired to locate a girl adopted 30 years earlier whose birth father wants to bequeath her his fortune.
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Peeper
1963
Island of Love
5.3/5
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...
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Island of Love
1965
Quick, Before It Melts
3.5/2
A reporter and a photographer become entwined with women, marriage, and a defecting Russian scientist while on an expedition to Antarctica for their m...
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Quick, Before It Melts
1974
Big Rose
0/0
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...
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Big Rose
1982
Forty Days of Musa Dagh
1/1
Armenian guerrilla troops fight against the Turkish forces on the mountain of Musa Dagh.
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Forty Days of Musa Dagh
1972
Say Goodbye, Maggie Cole
6.8/6
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,...
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Say Goodbye, Maggie Cole
1969
Don't Drink the Water
5/11
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...
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Don't Drink the Water
1971
Suddenly Single
0/0
A newly divorced man finds it difficult to get used to the single world.
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Suddenly Single
1973
The Bait
6.4/5
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...
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The Bait
2001
WW3
5.6/14
Terrorists release a deadly biological-warfare virus in the United States.
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WW3
1975
The Secret Night Caller
6.5/4
A man who is the pillar of his community has a secret - he has a compulsion to make obscene telephone calls.
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The Secret Night Caller
1978
Summer of My German Soldier
6.3/7
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...
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Summer of My German Soldier
1981
Evita Peron
0/0
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...
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Evita Peron
1979
Crisis in Mid-Air
6/1
The life of a stressed-out air controller falls apart as he battles a court case involving a mid-air collision for which an investigator is trying to...
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Crisis in Mid-Air
1966
Beau Geste
5.9/8
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...
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Beau Geste
1967
Ghostbreakers
2/1
A professor and his beautiful assistant investigate a murder which occurs in a supposedly haunted house.
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Ghostbreakers
1993
Deadfall
3.971/68
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...
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Deadfall
1971
The Impatient Heart
0/0
A social worker has problems in her private life.
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The Impatient Heart
1977
Billy: Portrait of a Street Kid
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A young ghetto kid despairs of ever getting out of that environment and making something of himself, until one day he gets a job as an assistant in a...
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Billy: Portrait of a Street Kid
2016
My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2
6/993
The continuing adventures of the Portokalos family. A follow-up to the 2002 comedy, "My Big Fat Greek Wedding."
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My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2
1975
Conspiracy of Terror
6/2
A husband-and-wife detective team investigate the existence of lethal Satanic cults , while the husband battles with his Orthodox Jewish parents who h...
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Conspiracy of Terror
1975
The Night That Panicked America
7.2/15
A dramatization of the Oct. 30, 1938 mass panic that Orson Welles' radio play, "The War of the Worlds" accidentally provoked.
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The Night That Panicked America
1982
Silent Rebellion
7/1
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...
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Silent Rebellion
1978
The Pirate
5.5/4
An Israeli man, raised by a wealthy and powerful Arab, comes into conflict with his heritage when he is entrusted with managing his country's oil fort...
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The Pirate
1992
By a Thread
0/0
Television journalist Quentin Springer has two obsessions: first, he wants to help his schizophrenic nephew by making video recordings of his life; an...
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By a Thread
1987
In the Mood
5.5/15
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....
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In the Mood
1976
Wanted: The Sundance Woman
6.4/5
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...
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Wanted: The Sundance Woman
1968
In Enemy Country
8/2
Wartime secret agents are on a mission to destroy a deadly new type of torpedo, hidden in a Nazi stronghold in France.
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In Enemy Country
1994
Because Mommy Works
0/0
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...
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Because Mommy Works
1976
Voyage of the Damned
5.9/67
A luxury liner carries Jewish refugees from Hitler's Germany in a desperate fight for survival.
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Voyage of the Damned
1974
Death Cruise
5.8/4
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.
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Death Cruise
1972
Deadly Harvest
6/1
An Iron Curtain defector who has been living for years as a California winegrower learns that Soviet agents are stalking him.
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Deadly Harvest
1988
Question of Faith
0/0
A woman struck down by terminal cancer shuns conventional medical techniques at her husband's insistence and turns to alternative treatment to combat...
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Question of Faith
1976
Twin Detectives
6/1
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.
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Twin Detectives
1986
Daniel and the Lion's Den
7.5/2
Daniel's Faith Is Put To The Test And He Passes With Flying Colors. Widely Admired For His Intelligence And High Morals, Daniel Also Has Enemies Who A...
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