Michael Constantine
Date of birth: 1927-05-22
Place of birth: Reading, Pennsylvania, USA
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Mike Constantine, Constantine Joanides, Gus Efstratiou, مایکل کنستانتین
Biography
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).
Movie Credits
The Hustler
1961-09-25
Fast Eddie Felson is a small-time pool hustler with a lot of talent but a self-destructive attitude.
Thinner
1996-10-25
An obese lawyer finds himself growing "Thinner" when an old Romani man places a hex on him. Now the
The Reivers
1969-12-20
In turn-of-the-century Mississippi, an 11-year-old boy comes of age as two mischievous adult friends
My Big Fat Greek Wedding
2002-04-19
A young Greek woman falls in love with a non-Greek and struggles to get her family to accept him whi
If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium
1969-04-24
A group of travelers from the United States race through seven European countries in 18 days.
Prancer
1989-11-17
Jessica, the daughter of an impoverished apple farmer, still believes in Santa Claus. So when she co
Skidoo
1968-12-19
Ex-gangster Tony Banks is called out of retirement by mob kingpin God to carry out a hit on fellow m
The Juror
1996-02-02
With his gangster boss on trial for murder, a mob thug known as "the Teacher" tells Annie Laird she
Pray for Death
1985-01-11
Akira Saito, a Japanese businessman lives in Tokyo with his Japanese-American wife Aiko and their ch
My Life
1993-11-12
It seems that Bob Jones has everything a man could want, namely a fulfilling job and a beautiful, pr
Justine
1969-08-06
In Alexandria, in 1938, Darley, a young British schoolmaster and poet, makes friends through Pursewa
Hawaii
1966-10-10
Abner Hale, a rigid and humorless New England missionary, marries the beautiful Jerusha Bromley and
The North Avenue Irregulars
1979-02-09
When crooks set up operations in a traditional town, a minister and a group of church ladies are wil
The Last Mile
1959-02-18
Jail house tensions mount as a killer's execution approaches.
The Love Tapes
1980-05-09
At Frank Yost's Good Possibilities, a state-of-the-art videotaping dating service, various clients h
Peeper
1975-12-03
A detective is hired to locate a girl adopted 30 years earlier whose birth father wants to bequeath
Island of Love
1963-06-12
Con artist Steve Blair persuades Tony Dallas, a Manhattan gangster, to finance a movie about Adam an
Quick, Before It Melts
1965-01-20
A reporter and a photographer become entwined with women, marriage, and a defecting Russian scientis
Big Rose
1974-03-26
Rose Winters, a private detective out of Los Angeles, teams with Ed Mills, a somewhat inexperienced
Forty Days of Musa Dagh
1982-01-01
Armenian guerrilla troops fight against the Turkish forces on the mountain of Musa Dagh.
Say Goodbye, Maggie Cole
1972-09-27
Maggie Cole is a research scientist who, after the sudden death of her husband, takes a position as
Don't Drink the Water
1969-11-11
The Hollander family's European vacation is interrupted when their plane is forced to land in Vulgar
Suddenly Single
1971-10-19
A newly divorced man finds it difficult to get used to the single world.
The Bait
1973-03-13
Tracy Fleming is a widowed police officer, with a young son, who has risen to the role of plaincloth
WW3
2001-07-12
Terrorists release a deadly biological-warfare virus in the United States.
The Secret Night Caller
1975-02-18
A man who is the pillar of his community has a secret - he has a compulsion to make obscene telephon
Summer of My German Soldier
1978-10-30
Patty Bergen is a teenager in a Jewish family living in the American South during World War II. Patt
Evita Peron
1981-02-23
Aspiring actress Eva Duarte rises from a minor celebrity to the wife of a powerful Argentine dictato
Crisis in Mid-Air
1979-02-13
The life of a stressed-out air controller falls apart as he battles a court case involving a mid-air
Beau Geste
1966-09-02
In 1906, two American brothers join the French Foreign Legion and, led by a sadistic Sergeant-Major,
Ghostbreakers
1967-09-08
A professor and his beautiful assistant investigate a murder which occurs in a supposedly haunted ho
Deadfall
1993-10-08
After he accidentally kills his father, Mike, during a sting, Joe tries to carry out Mike's dying wi
The Impatient Heart
1971-10-08
A social worker has problems in her private life.
Billy: Portrait of a Street Kid
1977-09-12
A young ghetto kid despairs of ever getting out of that environment and making something of himself,
My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2
2016-03-23
The continuing adventures of the Portokalos family. A follow-up to the 2002 comedy, "My Big Fat Gree
Conspiracy of Terror
1975-04-10
A husband-and-wife detective team investigate the existence of lethal Satanic cults , while the husb
The Night That Panicked America
1975-10-31
A dramatization of the Oct. 30, 1938 mass panic that Orson Welles' radio play, "The War of the World
Silent Rebellion
1982-05-04
A Greek immigrant (Savalas) and his son return to Greece, where they reunite with mother and brother
The Pirate
1978-11-21
An Israeli man, raised by a wealthy and powerful Arab, comes into conflict with his heritage when he
By a Thread
1992-10-02
Television journalist Quentin Springer has two obsessions: first, he wants to help his schizophrenic
In the Mood
1987-09-16
When 15-year-old Sonny Wisecarver has an affair with his older neighbor Francine and then runs off t
Wanted: The Sundance Woman
1976-10-01
Katharine Ross repeats her portrayal of Etta Place (from "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid") in th
In Enemy Country
1968-07-01
Wartime secret agents are on a mission to destroy a deadly new type of torpedo, hidden in a Nazi str
Because Mommy Works
1994-11-21
Since her divorce nurse Abbey lives alone with her 6 years old son Willie. Her ex-husband Ted may ha
Voyage of the Damned
1976-12-22
A luxury liner carries Jewish refugees from Hitler's Germany in a desperate fight for survival.
Death Cruise
1974-10-30
Several couples are notified that they have won an ocean cruise, but they actually have been lured o
Deadly Harvest
1972-09-26
An Iron Curtain defector who has been living for years as a California winegrower learns that Soviet
Question of Faith
1988-10-06
A woman struck down by terminal cancer shuns conventional medical techniques at her husband's insist
Twin Detectives
1976-05-01
Identical twin brothers who own a detective agency hatch a plan to expose a phony group of psychics,
Daniel and the Lion's Den
1986-01-01
Daniel's Faith Is Put To The Test And He Passes With Flying Colors. Widely Admired For His Intellige