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Nico Lathouris

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Nico Lathouris

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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.

Known For

Acting
2001SerenadesMullah Jalal-Shah
1996What I Have WrittenClaude Murnane
1996Water RatsPeter Marchand
1994GinoRocco Petri
1994Heartbreak HighGeorge Poulos
1993The Heartbreak KidGeorge
1992PhoenixLenny
1992PhoenixLenny Ryan
1991Death in BrunswickMustafa
1991Police RescueNicos Angelopoulos
1990JigsawEd Minter
1990FatherAmos
1988Rikky and PeteCon Ionides
1987Rafferty's RulesKevin Grumley
1986The Flying DoctorsSpiros Polites
1985Wrong WorldRangott
1984Where the Green Ants DreamArnold
1982Desolation AngelsNightman
1979Mad MaxGrease Rat
1971St. Vincent's Revue Film
Directing
1994Heartbreak HighDirector
Writing
2024Furiosa: A Mad Max SagaWriter
2015Mad Max: Fury RoadWriter
-Mad Max: The WastelandScreenplay
Crew
2022Three Thousand Years of LongingDramaturgy
2022IthakaThanks
1994Heartbreak HighDramaturgy