Person
Nico Lathouris
Acting · Born 1944-01-01
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
Mad Max: Fury Road
Writer
The Flying Doctors
Spiros Polites
Heartbreak High
George Poulos
Water Rats
Peter Marchand
Police Rescue
Nicos Angelopoulos
Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
Writer
Rafferty's Rules
Kevin Grumley
Mad Max
Grease Rat
Three Thousand Years of Longing
Dramaturgy
Phoenix
Lenny
Filmography
- 2024Furiosa: A Mad Max SagaWriter
- 2022Three Thousand Years of LongingDramaturgy
- 2022IthakaThanks
- 2015Mad Max: Fury RoadWriter
- 2001SerenadesMullah Jalal-Shah
- 1996What I Have WrittenClaude Murnane
- 1996Water RatsPeter Marchand
- 1994GinoRocco Petri
- 1994Heartbreak HighGeorge Poulos
- 1993The Heartbreak KidGeorge
- 1992PhoenixLenny
- 1991Death in BrunswickMustafa
- 1991Police RescueNicos Angelopoulos
- 1990FatherAmos
- 1990JigsawEd Minter
- 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
- —Mad Max: The WastelandScreenplay
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