Years active 1961–2003 Name Gus Trikonis Siblings Gina Trikonis | Relatives Gina Trikonis (sister) Role Actor | |
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Occupation Actor, film director, film producer, screenwriter, television director Movies West Side Story, Nashville Girl, The Swinging Barmaids, Dance of the Dwarfs, Moonshine County Express Similar People Goldie Hawn, Bill Hudson, Wyatt Russell, Kurt Russell, Deborah Raffin | ||
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Gus Trikonis (born November 21, 1937) is an American actor, dancer and director.
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Career
He began his career as an actor and dancer, notably appearing in the hugely successful 1961 film West Side Story as Indio, one of the "Sharks", as well as dancing with Debbie Reynolds and Grover Dale to the frantic "He's My Friend" in 1964's The Unsinkable Molly Brown. Although not billed, originally, Trikonis got his second biggest exposure in front of any audience (the first being in the aforementioned "West Side Story" , seen at US theatres by about 61 million moviegoers), on December 3, 1968, as one of the two main (out a of total of five) male dancers who do Elvis Presley's choreography as he sings a Gospel medley, the latter as part of a widely watched NBC-TV Special entitled "Elvis".
As a director, Trikonis handled several projects from the late 1960s to the early 1980s, mostly low-budget "exploitation films". He made several films for Roger Corman at New World Pictures; Corman called Trikonis one of the best young directors he had ever worked with.
From the 1980s to the mid-1990s Trikonis mostly directed television series. He directed episodes of television series including Baywatch, Quantum Leap, Hunter and Wiseguy.
Personal life
Trikonis was married to actress Goldie Hawn from 1969 to 1976; he was her first husband and they have the same birthday. His sister is Gina Trikonis, an actress who also appeared in West Side Story, as Graziela, Riff's girlfriend.
Films directed
Filmography
Director
2001
18 Wheels of Justice (TV Series) (1 episode)
- Old Wives' Tale (2001)
1999
Pensacola: Wings of Gold (TV Series) (2 episodes)
- Article 32 (2000)
- Behind Enemy Lines (1999)
1994
Viper (TV Series) (8 episodes)
- Hell Hath No Fury (1999)
- My Fair Hoodlums (1999)
- The Really Real Reenactment (1998)
- Honest Abe (1998)
- Wanted: Fred or Alive (1998)
- Trust No One (1998)
- First Mob Wives Club (1997)
- The Face (1994)
1996
Hercules: The Legendary Journeys (TV Series) (5 episodes)
- Regrets- I've Had a Few (1997)
- Atlantis (1997)
- Judgment Day (1997)
- The Cave of Echoes (1996)
- Let the Games Begin (1996)
1989
Baywatch (TV Series) (22 episodes)
- Golden Girls (1997)
- Rendezvous (1997)
- Heal the Bay (1997)
- Hit and Run (1995)
- Surf's Up (1995)
- Deep Trouble (1995)
- Homecoming (1995)
- Aftershock (1994)
- Coronado del Soul: Part 2 (1994)
- Coronado del Soul: Part 1 (1994)
- Tower of Power (1993)
- Lover's Cove (1993)
- Vacation: Part 2 (1993)
- Vacation: Part 1 (1993)
- Pier Pressure (1992)
- Rookie of the Year (1992)
- Reunion (1992)
- The Fabulous Buchannon Boys (1991)
- The One That Got Away (1991)
- Snake Eyes (1990)
- We Need a Vacation (1990)
- Heat Wave (1989)
1997
Insel der Furcht (TV Movie)
1996
The Sentinel (TV Series) (1 episode)
- The Debt (1996)
1995
Baywatch Nights (TV Series) (3 episodes)
- Balancing Act (1995)
- Pressure Cooker (1995)
- Pursuit (1995)
1995
Burke's Law (TV Series) (2 episodes)
- Who Killed Mr. Game Show? (1995)
- Who Killed the Motor Car Maverick? (1995)
1995
Robin's Hoods (TV Series) (3 episodes)
- Advise & Consent (1995)
- Labors of Love (1995)
- Seems Like Old Times (1995)
1994
SeaQuest 2032 (TV Series) (1 episode)
- Special Delivery (1994)
1994
New York Undercover (TV Series) (1 episode)
- Garbage (1994)
1994
Thunder in Paradise (TV Series) (2 episodes)
- Nature of the Beast (1994)
- Changing of the Guard (1994)
1993
The Commish (TV Series) (1 episode)
- Hero (1993)
1993
Quantum Leap (TV Series) (1 episode)
- The Beast Within - November 6, 1972 (1993)
1991
The Great Pretender (TV Movie)
1991
Hunter (TV Series) (2 episodes)
- Ex Marks the Spot (1991)
- Under Suspicion (1991)
1990
The Flash (TV Series) (3 episodes)
- Fast Forward (1991)
- Double Vision (1990)
- Watching the Detectives (1990)
1989
Wiseguy (TV Series) (4 episodes)
- Changing Houses (1990)
- Call It Casaba (1989)
- Dead Dog Lives (1989)
- All or Nothing (1989)
1988
Beauty and the Beast (TV Series) (12 episodes)
- Legacies (1990)
- Invictus (1990)
- A Time to Heal (1990)
- Snow (1989)
- Walk Slowly (1989)
- Ceremony of Innocence (1989)
- A Kingdom by the Sea (1989)
- A Gentle Rain (1989)
- A Fair and Perfect Knight (1989)
- God Bless the Child (1988)
- Ashes, Ashes (1988)
- Temptation (1988)
1989
Unsub (TV Series) (1 episode)
- And the Dead Shall Rise to Condemn Thee: Part 2 (1989)
1988
Open Admissions (TV Movie)
1986
Christmas Snow (TV Movie)
1986
The Twilight Zone (TV Series) (4 episodes)
- The After Hours/Lost and Found/The World Next Door (1986) - (segment "Lost and Found")
- What Are Friends For?/Aqua Vita (1986) - (segment "What Are Friends For?")
- Take My Life- Please!/Devil's Alphabet/The Library (1986) - (segment "Take My Life- Please!", directed by)
- Gramma/Personal Demons/Cold Reading (1986) - (segment "Cold Reading", directed by)
1986
Jack and Mike (TV Series)
1985
Love on the Run (TV Movie)
1985
Midas Valley (TV Movie)
1985
Malice in Wonderland (TV Movie)
1983
First Affair (TV Movie)
1983
Dempsey (TV Movie)
1983
Dance of the Dwarfs
1982
Miss All-American Beauty (TV Movie)
1981
Twirl (TV Movie)
1981
Take This Job and Shove It
1981
Elvis and the Beauty Queen (TV Movie)
1980
Touched by Love
1980
Flamingo Road (TV Series) (1 episode)
- Pilot (1980)
1979
She's Dressed to Kill (TV Movie)
1979
The Last Convertible (TV Mini Series) (1 episode)
- Part 3 (1979)
1979
The Darker Side of Terror (TV Movie)
1978
The Evil
1977
Moonshine County Express
1976
The Student Body
1976
Nashville Girl
1975
The Swinging Barmaids
1975
Supercock
1970
'This Is My Wife' or Life with Goldie (Documentary short)
1969
Five the Hard Way
Actor
1968
The Hellcats as
Scorpio
1967
Dundee and the Culhane (TV Series) as
Tonoka
- The Death of a Warrior Brief (1967) - Tonoka
1967
The St. Valentine's Day Massacre as
Rio
1967
Iron Horse (TV Series) as
Manolo
- Decision at Sundown (1967) - Manolo
1966
The Sand Pebbles as
Restorff
1966
The Virginian (TV Series) as
Running Elk
- The Captive (1966) - Running Elk
1966
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (TV Series) as
Sonar Man - Sub.
- Killers of the Deep (1966) - Sonar Man - Sub.
1964
Pajama Party as
Pajama Boy
1964
The Unsinkable Molly Brown as
Joe
1964
The Lieutenant (TV Series) as
1st NCO
- To Kill a Man (1964) - 1st NCO
1964
The Fugitive (TV Series) as
Young Boyfriend
- Somebody to Remember (1964) - Young Boyfriend
1963
77 Sunset Strip (TV Series) as
Marco Costa
- Don't Wait for Me (1963) - Marco Costa
1963
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (TV Series) as
Gordie Sykes
- Diagnosis: Danger (1963) - Gordie Sykes
1961
West Side Story as
Indio
1961
The Law and Mr. Jones (TV Series) as
Turk
- One by One (1961) - Turk
Writer
1978
The Evil (screenplay)
1975
Supercock (original story)
1970
'This Is My Wife' or Life with Goldie (Documentary short)
Assistant Director
1994
Baywatch (TV Series) (second unit director - 3 episodes)
- Hit and Run (1995) - (second unit director)
- Surf's Up (1995) - (second unit director)
- Coronado del Soul: Part 2 (1994) - (second unit director)
Self
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Masters of the Grind (Documentary) (post-production) as
Self
1979
Fantasy Film Festival (TV Series) as
Self
- Richard Crenna & Gus Trikonis (1979) - Self
1970
'This Is My Wife' or Life with Goldie (Documentary short) as
Narrator
1968
The Ann-Margret Show (TV Special) as
Dancer
References
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