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Michael Constantine Biography (1927-)

Original name, Constantine Joanides; born May 22, 1927, in Reading, PA; son of Theoharis (a steel worker) and Andromache (maiden name, Foteadou) Efstration; married Juliana McCarthy (an actress), October 5, 1953 (divorced, 1969); children: Thea Eileen, Brendan Neil.

Nationality

American

Gender

Male

Occupation

Actor

Birth Details

May 22, 1927

Reading, Pennsylvania, United States

Famous Works

• CREDITS
• Television Appearances
• Series
• John "Jack" Ellenhorn, Hey, Landlord, NBC, 1966-1967
• Principal Seymour Kaufman, Room 222, ABC, 1969-1974
• The Sorcerer, "Electra Woman and Dyna Girl," The Krofft Supershow,ABC, 1976-1977
• Judge Matthew J. Sirota, Sirota's Court, NBC, 1976-1977
• Avril Krinsky, Amanda's (also known as Amanda's by the Sea), ABC, 1983
• Miniseries
• Ben Savitch, Harold Robbins' 79 Park Avenue (also known as 79 Park Avenue), NBC, 1977
• Yasfir (some sources cite Yashir), Harold Robbins' The Pirate (also known as The Pirate), CBS, 1978
• Dr. Vansina, Roots: The Next Generations, ABC, 1979
• Jaime Yankelovitch, Evita Peron, NBC, 1981
• Movies
• Frankie Ventura, Suddenly Single, ABC, 1971
• Murray Kane, The Impatient Heart (also known as McCormack),NBC, 1971
• Stefan Groza, Deadly Harvest, CBS, 1972
• Dr. Sweeney, Say Goodbye, Maggie Cole, ABC, 1972
• Dr. Burke, Death Cruise, ABC, 1974
• Jess Wingate, The Night That Panicked America, ABC, 1975
• Dr. Mayhill, The Secret Night Caller, NBC, 1975
• Dave Riley/David Baker, Wanted: The Sundance Woman (also known asMrs. Sundance Rides Again), ABC, 1976
• Dr. Silver, Billy: Portrait of a Street Kid (also known as Ghetto Child), CBS, 1977
• The Raid on Entebbe, 1977
• Harry Bergen, Summer of My German Soldier, NBC, 1978
• Frank Piovano, Crisis in Mid-Air, CBS, 1979
• Dr. Rudolph, Leap of Faith (also known as Question of Faith), CBS, 1988
• Elliot, Because Mommy Works, NBC, 1994
• WW3 (also known as WWIII), Fox, 2001
• Pilots
• Oscar Jenssen, Ghostbreaker, NBC, 1967
• Captain Gus Maryk, The Bait, ABC, 1973
• Gunther, Big Rose (also known as Double Trouble), CBS, 1974
• Jacob Horowitz, Conspiracy of Terror, NBC, 1975
• Ben Sampson, Twin Detectives, ABC, 1976
• Dominick, the father, Daughters, NBC, 1977
• Frank Yost, The Love Tapes (also known as They're Playing Our Tape), ABC, 1980
• Mr. Harding, "Maxwell Ltd.: Finder of Lost Loves Pilot," Finder of Lost Loves, 1984
• Episodic
• Armstrong Circle Theatre, CBS, 1958
• "Loan Shark," Brenner, CBS, 1959
• Carabello, "The Nick Moses Story," The Untouchables, ABC, 1961
• Edmund Wald, "The King of Champagne," The Untouchables, ABC, 1961
• "The Fighter," The Asphalt Jungle, ABC, 1961
• Seth Otis, "The Matt Bass Scheme," The Untouchables, ABC, 1961
• "A Piece of Tomorrow," Detectives (also known as The DetectivesStarring Robert Taylor), ABC, 1961
• Swedon, "To Wear a Badge," Target: The Corruptors, ABC, 1961
• "The Attack," The Defenders, CBS, 1961
• "Let Me Die before I Wake," Naked City, ABC, 1962
• "Wheresoever I Enter," The Lloyd Bridges Show, CBS, 1962
• Engineer Andersen, "The Night That Nothing Happened," Ben Casey, ABC, 1962
• Marty Baltin, "The Chess Game," The Untouchables, ABC, 1962
• "Tears for a Nobody Doll," Sam Benedict, NBC, 1962
• Dr. Ernest Miller, "A Distant Thunder," Dr. Kildare, 1962
• Police detective, "Hide and Seek," Vacation Playhouse, CBS, 1963
• "Scapegoat," The Lloyd Bridges Show, CBS, 1963
• Max, "Junkman," The Untouchables, ABC, 1963
• Baca, "Old York," Gunsmoke, CBS, 1963
• "Trouble at French Creek," Dakotas, ABC, 1963
• "No Wild Games for Sophie," Channing, NBC, 1963
• "And Man Created Vanity," Eleventh Hour, NBC, 1963
• "A Black Dress for Gina," The Greatest Show on Earth, ABC, 1963
• Sylvio Fiore, "Bonus Baby," 77 Sunset Strip, ABC, 1963
• Sheriff Charlie Koch, "I Am the Night--Colour Me Black," The TwilightZone, CBS, 1964
• "Escape," Great Adventure, CBS, 1964
• "The Stefanini Dowry," The Rogues, NBC, 1964
• "Remember the Dark Sins of Youth," Slattery's People, CBS, 1964
• Dillard, "The Case of the Blonde Bonanza," Perry Mason, CBS, 1964
• "Governor John M. Slaton," Profiles in Courage, NBC, 1964
• Joe Dix, "Counterweight," The Outer Limits, ABC, 1964
• "General Alexander William Doniphan," Profiles in Courage, NBC, 1965
• "Indestructible Man," Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, ABC, 1965
• "Paid in Full," Death Valley Days, syndicated, 1965
• The Tycoon, ABC, 1965
• Ernie Svoboda, "Everybody Get Hit in the Mouth Sometime," The Fugitive, ABC, 1965
• "Memorandum for a Spy," Bob Hope Chrysler Theatre, NBC, 1965
• Detective Harry Collins, "The Case of the Missing Sleuth," My FavoriteMartian, CBS, 1965
• "What Can Go Wrong?," Trials of O'Brien, CBS, 1965
• "Compulsion to Confess," The New Breed, ABC, 1965
• Pappy Ryan, "The Case of the Runaway Racer," Perry Mason, CBS, 1965
• Stavros Karas, "The Dream of Stavros Karas," The Virginian, NBC, 1965
• Captain Heinrich, "It Takes a Thief ... Sometimes," Hogan's Heroes, CBS, 1966
• "Don't Count on Tomorrow," Run for Your Life, NBC, 1966
• Leonardo da Vinci, "Martin Meets His Match," My Favorite Martian,CBS, 1966
• Ben Wyckoff, "A Taste for Tomorrow," The Fugitive, ABC, 1966
• Leslie Merkle, "You Oughta Be in Pictures," The Dick Van Dyke Show, CBS, 1966
• Vorodenko, "Massacre," Twelve O'Clock High, ABC, 1966
• "A Gift from Alexander," I Spy, NBC, 1966
• "Sparrowhawk," I Spy, NBC, 1966
• "Brotherhood," T.H.E. Cat, NBC, 1966
• Silvio, "Marked for Death," T.H.E. Cat, NBC, 1966
• "To Light a Candle," The Road West, NBC, 1966
• Jacques Patron, "Entombed," Combat!, ABC, 1967
• "Verdict for a Spy," Bob Hope Chrysler Theatre, NBC, 1967
• Arthur "Art" Howe, "The Judgment: Part 1," The Fugitive, ABC, 1967
• "The Turn the Other Cheek Brief," Dundee and the Culhane, CBS, 1967
• "Consignment: Betsy the Boiler," The Iron Horse, ABC, 1967
• "Sister Lucy," The Flying Nun, ABC, 1968
• Martin Willard, "The Possessed," The Invaders, ABC, 1968
• Noah Meek, "The Gun Runners," Gunsmoke, CBS, 1968
• "Buffalo Man," Gunsmoke, CBS, 1968
• "The Death Wagon," The Virginian, NBC, 1968
• "Once More without Feeling," The Good Guys, CBS, 1969
• Janos, "The Code," Mission: Impossible, CBS, 1969
• "A Touch of Hands," The Virginian, NBC, 1969
• "All the Old Familiar Faces," The Name of the Game, NBC, 1970
• "Engrave Trouble," The Odd Couple, ABC, 1971
• Wellman, "The Boy Who Predicted Earthquakes," Night Gallery, NBC,1971
• Mike Cooper, "I Am Curious Cooper," The Mary Tyler Moore Show, CBS, 1971
• "Love and the High School Sweetheart," Love, American Style, ABC,1972
• "A Terminal Career," The Bold Ones: The Doctors, NBC, 1972
• "A Wrongful Death," Streets of San Francisco, ABC, 1973
• Don "Cheech" Frank Scalesi, "The Chinatown Murders: Parts 1 & 2," Kojak, CBS, 1974
• "Queen of the Gypsies," Kojak, CBS, 1975
• "Man in a Cage," Manhunter, CBS, 1975
• "The Score," Police Woman, NBC, 1975
• "The Picture in Sobel's Window," Insight, syndicated, 1976
• Dr. Eisner, "The Deadly Cure," McMillan and Wife, NBC, 1976
• Leo Campbell, "The Adventure of the Wary Witness," Ellery Queen, NBC, 1976
• Arnie Moss, "Time Bomb," Vega$, 1981
• Dr. George Pendleton, "Gentle into That Good Night," Quincy, 1981
• Sidney Kovac, "Boomerang," Lou Grant, 1981
• Dr. Ciotti, "Seldom Silent, Never Heard," Quincy, 1981
• Monsieur de Paris, "Guillotine," Darkroom, ABC, 1982
• "Death in a Funny Position: Parts 1 & 2," Benson, 1982
• Virgil Sykes, "One Hundred Miles a Gallon," The Fall Guy, 1983
• Police chief, "The Beverly Hills Social Club," Matt Houston, 1983
• Bill Green, "China Cruise," The Love Boat, 1983
• Mr. Tomasino, "Faith, Hope, and Charity," Hotel, 1983
• Dr. Dan Hickey, "The Good Doctor," Highway to Heaven, NBC, 1984
• Judge Willard E. Packard, "Harper versus Harper," Mama's Family, 1984
• Robert Corman, "The Disappearance of Harry the Hat," Simon & Simon, 1984
• George Edward Mulch, "Cast in Steele," Remington Steele, NBC, 1984
• George Edward Mulch, "Have I Got a Steele for You," Remington Steele, NBC, 1985
• Jan Messic, "Thief of Budapest," MacGyver, ABC, 1985
• "Prisoner of Yesterday," Airwolf, 1985
• Ben Gibbons, "Murder Takes the Bus," Murder, She Wrote, CBS, 1985
• George Edward Mulch, "Steele, Inc.," Remington Steele, NBC, 1986
• Judge Hannibal Kearns, "Death of the Flowers," Magnum P.I., CBS, 1986
• "Rosie," Crazy Like a Fox, 1986
• Sam Leland, "Out in the Cold," MacGyver, ABC, 1987
• "Stavograd: Parts 1 & 2," Airwolf, 1987
• Dr. John Longstrand, "Walking Point," Simon & Simon, 1987
• Ernie Petrolik, "Forever Hold Your Piece," Simon & Simon, 1988
• Ray Dallion, "Pipe Dream," Friday the 13th, syndicated, 1988
• Truman Smith III, "Plan 10 from Outer Space," Probe, 1988
• Laszlo Dolby, "Wearing of the Green," Murder, She Wrote, CBS, 1988
• Harvey Falk, "Payback," Hunter, 1988
• Winnie's father, "Blast from the Past," Free Spirit, 1990
• Angelo Busico, "The Language Barrier," Midnight Caller, 1990
• Dan Banett, "Trust," Law & Order, NBC, 1992
• Jim Scinta, "Dog and Pony Show," Homicide: Life on the Street, NBC, 1993
• Joshua Berger, "Sanctuary," Law & Order, NBC, 1994
• "One Day at a Time," The Cosby Mysteries, NBC, 1994
• "The Using Game," New York News, CBS, 1995
• Zack, "Valentine's Day," Cosby, CBS, 1997
• Elias Kelikidis, "Beating the Bounds," Judging Amy, CBS, 2001
• Other
• Yianni, My Palikari (special), 1982
• Film Appearances
• Convict Ed Warner, The Last Mile, United Artists, 1959
• Big John, The Hustler, Twentieth Century-Fox, 1961
• Andy, Island of Love (also known as Not on Your Life), Warner Bros., 1963
• Gage, Lonnie, Futuramic, 1963
• Mikhail Drozhensky, Quick, before It Melts, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1964
• Rostov, Beau Geste, Universal, 1966
• Mason, Hawaii, United Artists, 1966
• Pertowsky, Dirty Heroes (also known as La dalle ardenne all' inferno), Golden Eagle, 1967
• Ladislov, In Enemy Country (also known as In Enemy Hands),Universal, 1968
• Leech, Skidoo, Paramount, 1968
• Jack Harmon, If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium, United Artists, 1969
• Memlik Pasha, Justine, Twentieth Century-Fox, 1969
• Mr. Binford, The Reivers (also known as Yellow Winton Flyer), National General, 1969
• Krojack, Don't Drink the Water, Avco-Embassy, 1969
• Anglich, Peeper (also known as Fat Chance), Twentieth Century-Fox, 1975
• Luis Clasing, Hamburg-Amerika line agent, Voyage of the Damned, Avco-Embassy, 1976
• Missile X--Geheimauftrag Neutronenbombe (also known as Cruise Missile, Missile X: The Neutron Bomb Incident, Teheran Incident, Allarme nucleare, La guerra de los misiles, and MissileX, orden secreta bomba de neutrones), 1978
• Marv Fogelman, The North Avenue Irregulars (also known as Hill's Angels), Buena Vista, 1979
• Silent Rebellion, 1982
• Talaat Pasha, Forty Days of Musa Dagh, 1983
• Mr. Newman, Pray for Death, American Distribution Group, 1985
• Mr. Wisecarver, In the Mood (also known as The Woo Woo Kid), Twentieth Century-Fox, 1987
• Mr. Stewart/Santa, Prancer, Orion, 1989
• By a Thread, 1991
• Frank, Deadfall, Trimark Pictures, 1993
• Bill, My Life, Columbia, 1993
• Tadzu Lempke, Stephen King's "Thinner" (also known as Thinner), Paramount, 1996
• Judge Weitzel, The Juror, Columbia, 1996
• Gus Portokalos, My Big Fat Greek Wedding, IFC Films, 2002
• Also appeared in the film Cyanamide.
• Stage Appearances
• Multiple roles, Inherit the Wind, National Theatre, New York City,1955
• Anagnos, The Miracle Worker, Playhouse Theatre, New York City, beginning 1959
• The Egg, 1965
• Compulsion, 1967
• Arturo VI, 1972
• A Walk in the Woods, San Diego, CA, 1986
• The director, Temptation, Center Theatre Group, Mark Taper Forum,Los Angeles, 1988-1989
• Three Sisters, 1991
• Meshugah or Lost Souls, 1998