Nick Dennis
Born: 1904-04-26 in Volos, Thessaly, Greece
Died: 1980-11-14
Known For: Acting
Biography
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.
Filmography
1973
- Kojak as Constantine
- Lotsa Luck as Mario
- The Night of the Cat
1971
- Columbo as Guard
1969
- The Good Guys and the Bad Guys as Engineer #2
1968
- The Legend of Lylah Clare as Nick
1967
1966
- Gunpoint as Nicos
1963
- 4 for Texas as Angel
1962
- The Alfred Hitchcock Hour as Danny
- Birdman of Alcatraz as Crazed Prisoner (uncredited)
1961
- Ben Casey
- The Investigators
- Too Late Blues as Nick Bubalinas
1960
- Spartacus as Dionysius
1959
- The Rebel as Sheriff Rocky Spiropolous
- Alaska Passage as Pete Harris
- Johnny Staccato
1957
- Have Gun, Will Travel
- Richard Diamond, Private Detective as Chico Burns
- Slaughter on 10th Avenue as Midget
1956
- The Adventures of Jim Bowie
- Hot Blood as Korka (uncredited)
1955
- East of Eden as Rantani
- The Big Knife as Mickey Feeney
- Top of the World as Cappi
- Kiss Me Deadly as Nick
1953
- Man in the Dark as Cookie
- The Glory Brigade as Cpl. Marakis
1952
- Four Star Playhouse as Waiter
- Cavalcade of America as Sgt. Chiaco
- Anything Can Happen as Chancho
- Eight Iron Men as Pvt. Sapiros
- The Iron Mistress as Nez Coupe
1951
- A Streetcar Named Desire as Pablo Gonzales
- Sirocco as Nasir Aboud
- Ten Tall Men as Mouse
1950
- Lux Video Theatre as Tony
1947
- A Double Life as Stagehand (uncredited)