NICK DENNIS
ACTING
Nick Dennis (April 26, 1904 – November 14, 1980) was a Greek American film actor born in Thessaly, Greece.
The supporting actor, who began in films in 1947, was known for playing ethnic types (usually Greek) in films such as Kiss Me Deadly and the Humphrey Bogart film Sirocco.
Dennis, who spoke Greek fluently, appeared in a number of television programs in the 1960s and 1970s including playing the parts of Orderly Nick Kanavaras on the medical drama Ben Casey and Uncle Constantine on the detective show Kojak.
Nick Dennis also played the role of Pablo Gonzales in Tennessee Williams' play, A Streetcar Named Desire, as well as its subsequent film version in 1951..
- East of Eden1955
- A Streetcar Named Desire1951
- Spartacus1960
- Sirocco1951
- 4 for Texas1963
- Kiss Me Deadly1955
- The Big Knife1955
- Man in the Dark1953
- Too Late Blues1961
- The Glory Brigade1953
- Gunpoint1966
- Top Of The World1955
- Alaska Passage1959
- Eight Iron Men1952
- Birdman of Alcatraz1962
- Ten Tall Men1951
- The Iron Mistress1952
- Anything Can Happen1952
- Slaughter on 10th Avenue1957
- The Good Guys and the Bad Guys1969
- A Double Life1947
- Richard Diamond, Private Detective1957
- Kojak1973
- The Rebel1959
- Columbo1971
- The Alfred Hitchcock Hour1962
- Kojak1973
- Kojak1973
- The Rebel1959
- The Rebel1959