Nico Lathouris

Nico Lathouris

18 Credits

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 ...

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Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga

Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga

2024

Writer

7.5
Writing

As the world falls, young Furiosa is snatched from the Green Place of Many Mothers into the hands of a great biker horde led by the warlord Dementus. ...

Three Thousand Years of Longing

Three Thousand Years of Longing

2022

Dramaturgy

6.9

A solitary scholar discovers an ancient bottle while on a trip to Istanbul and unleashes a djinn who offers her three wishes. Filled with reluctance, ...

Ithaka

Ithaka

2022

Thanks

8.3

The campaign to free Julian Assange takes on intimate dimensions in this documentary portrait of an elderly man’s fight to save his son. Arguably the...

Mad Max: Fury Road

Mad Max: Fury Road

2015

Writer

7.6
Writing

An apocalyptic story set in the furthest reaches of our planet, in a stark desert landscape where humanity is broken, and most everyone is crazed figh...

Serenades

Serenades

2001

as Mullah Jalal-Shah

5.0
Acting

Set in the 1890s in the central desert region of Australia, 'Serenades' tells the tale of Jila who is conceived when her Afghan cameleer father wins h...

What I Have Written

What I Have Written

1996

as Claude Murnane

4.0
Acting

Truth and fiction collide when sexual obsession leads to betrayal. A voyage of discovery realigns subject, object and victim - things are not always a...

Gino

Gino

1994

as Rocco Petri

Acting

Gino Pallazetti is in love with Lucia Petri and his career as a stand up comedian is about to take off.

The Heartbreak Kid

The Heartbreak Kid

1993

as George

5.5
Acting

Christina (Claudia Karvan) is a school teacher from a wealthy Greek-Australian background, engaged to a lawyer and content with the traditional course...

Death in Brunswick

Death in Brunswick

1991

as Mustafa

6.0
Acting

A reserved man in need of a job, Carl Fitzgerald finds employment at a Greek restaurant. Upon meeting waitress Sophie, Carl begins dating the attracti...

Father

Father

1990

5.3
Acting

On a TV tabloid show, Iya Zetnick exposes Joe Mueller as the Nazi war criminal who killed her family.

Jigsaw

Jigsaw

1990

as Ed Minter

Acting

On the first morning of her honeymoon after a whirlwind 3 week romance, successful business woman Virginia Bond finds herself both a widow and the pri...

Rikky and Pete

Rikky and Pete

1988

as Con Ionides

4.3
Acting

Rikky and her brother Pete struggle to keep their lives from spinning out of control in small town Australia.

Wrong World

Wrong World

1985

as Rangott

Acting

David Trueman is a young doctor who dreams of going to South America to practice medicine among the disenfranchised. Arriving in Bolivia, he encounter...

Where the Green Ants Dream

Where the Green Ants Dream

1984

as Arnold

6.9
Acting

The Australian Aborigines (in this film anyway) believe that this is the place where the green ants go to dream, and that if their dreams are disturbe...

Desolation Angels

Desolation Angels

1982

2.5
Acting

Three beautiful girls decide to escape their upper class private school for a weekend and take off to a remote resort town. Unfortunately, the town ha...

Mad Max

Mad Max

1979

as Grease Rat

6.7
Acting

In the ravaged near-future, a savage motorcycle gang rules the road. Terrorizing innocent civilians while tearing up the streets, the ruthless gang la...

St. Vincent's Revue Film

St. Vincent's Revue Film

1971

Acting

Lathouris performs in mime: barefoot, in white makeup and a top hat, he wanders around Sydney, humorously aggravating a group of nuns (most of whom ar...

Mad Max: The Wasteland

Mad Max: The Wasteland

N/A

Screenplay

Writing

Follow Max Rockatansky in the year before the events of "Mad Max: Fury Road."