NICK DENNIS
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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 Eden 1955
- Spartacus 1960
- A Streetcar Named Desire 1951
- Sirocco 1951
- A Double Life 1947
- The Big Knife 1955
- 4 for Texas 1963
- Kiss Me Deadly 1955
- Man in the Dark 1953
- The Good Guys and the Bad Guys 1969
- Too Late Blues 1961
- The Glory Brigade 1953
- Gunpoint 1966
- Top of the World 1955
- Alaska Passage 1959
- Eight Iron Men 1952
- Birdman of Alcatraz 1962
- Ten Tall Men 1951
- The Iron Mistress 1952
- Anything Can Happen 1952
- Slaughter on 10th Avenue 1957
- Kojak 1973
- Richard Diamond, Private Detective 1957
- The Rebel 1959
- Columbo 1971
- Ben Casey 1961
- The Alfred Hitchcock Hour 1962