Michael Constantine
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Though frequently cast in Jewish roles, actor Michael Constantine was actually of Greek extraction. The son of a steel worker, Constantine studied acting with such prominent mentors as Howard DaSilva. The prematurely balding Constantine was playing character roles on and off Broadway in his mid-twenties (he was the Darrow counterpart in the original production of Compulsion), supplementing his income as a night watchman and shooting-gallery barker. In 1959, slightly weary of being ignored by callous Broadway producers and casting directors, Constantine appeared in his first film, The Last Mile (1959), thereby launching a cinematic career that has endured into the mid-1990s. Michael Constantine is perhaps best known for his extensive TV work, notably his four-season (1969-1974) stint as long-suffering high school principal Seymour Kaufman on Room 222 and his starring appearance as night-court magistrate Matthew J. Sirota on the brief 1976 sitcom Sirota's Court.
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Highest Rated Movies
Filmography
MOVIES
RATING | TITLE | CREDIT | BOX OFFICE | YEAR |
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27% | My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2 |
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$52.1M | 2016 |
No Score Yet | Ghetto Child |
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— | 2014 |
76% | My Big Fat Greek Wedding |
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$241.3M | 2002 |
No Score Yet | WW3 |
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— | 2001 |
15% | Stephen King's 'Thinner' |
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— | 1996 |
18% | The Juror |
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— | 1996 |
42% | My Life |
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— | 1993 |
0% | Deadfall |
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— | 1993 |
67% | Prancer |
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— | 1989 |
No Score Yet | Leap of Faith |
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— | 1988 |
64% | In the Mood (The Woo Woo Kid) |
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— | 1987 |
No Score Yet | Pray for Death |
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— | 1985 |
No Score Yet | Forty Days of Musa Dagh |
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— | 1983 |
No Score Yet | Silent Rebellion |
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— | 1982 |
No Score Yet | Fear in the City |
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— | 1981 |
78% | The North Avenue Irregulars |
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— | 1979 |
No Score Yet | Summer of My German Soldier |
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— | 1978 |
83% | Voyage of the Damned |
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— | 1976 |
No Score Yet | Wanted: The Sundance Woman |
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— | 1976 |
No Score Yet | Peeper (Fat Chance) |
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— | 1975 |
No Score Yet | Death Cruise |
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— | 1974 |
No Score Yet | Say Goodbye, Maggie Cole |
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— | 1972 |
No Score Yet | Violent City (The Family)(Città violenta) |
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— | 1970 |
No Score Yet | Justine |
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— | 1969 |
60% | If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium |
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— | 1969 |
80% | The Reivers |
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— | 1969 |
No Score Yet | Don't Drink the Water |
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— | 1969 |
42% | Skidoo |
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— | 1968 |
No Score Yet | In Enemy Country |
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— | 1968 |
67% | Hawaii |
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— | 1966 |
No Score Yet | Beau Geste |
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— | 1966 |
No Score Yet | Island of Love |
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— | 1963 |
98% | The Hustler |
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— | 1961 |
TV
RATING | TITLE | CREDIT | YEAR |
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No Score Yet |
Cold Case
2003-2010
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0% |
My Big Fat Greek Life
2003
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8% |
In-Laws
2002-2003
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No Score Yet |
Judging Amy
1999-2005
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No Score Yet |
Law & Order
1990-2010
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91% |
Homicide: Life on the Street
1993-1999
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No Score Yet |
Friday the 13th: The Series
1987-1990
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No Score Yet |
Hunter
1984-1991
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No Score Yet |
Murder, She Wrote
1984-1996
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No Score Yet |
MacGyver
1985-1992
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No Score Yet |
Magnum, P.I.
1980-1988
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No Score Yet |
Remington Steele
1982-1987
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No Score Yet |
Highway to Heaven
1984-1989
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No Score Yet |
Mama's Family
1983-1990
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No Score Yet |
Trapper John, M.D.
1979-1986
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No Score Yet |
Quincy, M.E.
1976-1983
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No Score Yet |
Kojak
1973-1978
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No Score Yet |
The Streets of San Francisco
1972-1977
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No Score Yet |
Night Gallery
1970-1973
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No Score Yet |
The Mary Tyler Moore Show
1970-1977
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No Score Yet |
The Odd Couple
1970-1975
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No Score Yet |
Mission: Impossible
1966-1973
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No Score Yet |
Gunsmoke
1955-1975
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No Score Yet |
Ironside
1967-1975
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No Score Yet |
The Fugitive
1963-1967
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No Score Yet |
Hogan's Heroes
1965-1971
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No Score Yet |
The Dick Van Dyke Show
1961-1966
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No Score Yet |
My Favorite Martian
1963-1966
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No Score Yet |
Perry Mason
1957-1966
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82% |
The Twilight Zone
1959-1964
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Quotes from Michael Constantine's Characters
Gus: | Why you want to leave me? |
Gus: | Didn't I say is a mistake to educate women, but nobody listen to me. |
Gus: | Didn't I say it's a mistake, to educate women? But nobody listened to me. |
Gus: | Toula, they two kinds of people: Greeks, and everybody else who wish they was Greek. |
Gus: | There are two kinds of people - Greeks, and everyone else who wish they was Greek. |
Gus: | There are two kinds of people. Greeks, and everyone else who wish they was Greek. |