Nico Lathouris

Biography

Nico Lathouris (born 1944) is an Australian actor and writer. He is best known for his roles as George Polides in the 1993 romantic comedy film The Heartbreak Kid and as George Poulos in the 1994 television teen drama spin-off Heartbreak High. In both, he plays a Greek Australian patriarch, father of the protagonist, Nick (Alex Dimitriades). Lathouris was nominated for Best Supporting Actor for his role in the film at the 1993 Australian Film Institute Awards. He is also the co-screenwriter of Mad Max: Fury Road (2015) and Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (2024). Description above from the Wikipedia article Nico Lathouris, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Movies & TV Shows

1. Mad Max (1979) — Grease Rat
2. Where the Green Ants Dream (1984) — Arnold
3. Heartbreak High (1994) — George Poulos
4. Death in Brunswick (1991) — Mustafa
5. The Heartbreak Kid (1993) — George
6. The Flying Doctors (1986) — Spiros Polites
7. Police Rescue (1991) — Nicos Angelopoulos
8. Water Rats (1996) — Peter Marchand
9. Rikky and Pete (1988) — Con Ionides
10. Father (1990) — Amos
11. Serenades (2001) — Mullah Jalal-Shah
12. Desolation Angels (1982) — Nightman
13. What I Have Written (1996) — Claude Murnane
14. Phoenix (1992) — Lenny
15. Rafferty's Rules (1987) — Kevin Grumley
16. Wrong World (1985) — Rangott
17. Gino (1994) — Rocco Petri
18. Jigsaw (1990) — Ed Minter
19. St. Vincent's Revue Film (1971)

Directed

1. Heartbreak High (1994) — Director