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 ...
Known For
Complete Filmography
Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
2024
Writer
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
2022
Dramaturgy
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
2022
Thanks
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
2015
Writer
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
2001
as Mullah Jalal-Shah
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
1996
as Claude Murnane
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
1994
as Rocco Petri
Gino Pallazetti is in love with Lucia Petri and his career as a stand up comedian is about to take off.
The Heartbreak Kid
1993
as George
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
1991
as Mustafa
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
1990
On a TV tabloid show, Iya Zetnick exposes Joe Mueller as the Nazi war criminal who killed her family.
Jigsaw
1990
as Ed Minter
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
1988
as Con Ionides
Rikky and her brother Pete struggle to keep their lives from spinning out of control in small town Australia.
Wrong World
1985
as Rangott
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
1984
as Arnold
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
1982
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
1979
as Grease Rat
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
1971
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
N/A
Screenplay
Follow Max Rockatansky in the year before the events of "Mad Max: Fury Road."