John Colicos

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BIRTHDAY

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Toronto, Canada

DIED

March 06, 2000

RECENT CREDITS

The Last Don (TV) Jul. 29, 2001

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (TV) Nov. 11, 1998

Nowhere to Hide (FILM) Jul. 17, 1987

Phobia (FILM) Jan. 1, 1981

The Postman Always Rings Twice (FILM) Jan. 1, 1981

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BIOGRAPHY

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Canadian actor John Colicos has often been mistaken for Jay Robinson (who played Caligula in The Robe). Such gaffes are understandable, since Colicos, Zerbe and Robinson have spent their professional lives essaying the same sort of smirking, posturing megalomaniacal villains. Colicos played the demented Mikos Cassadine, plotting to take over the world with his weather-controlling machine during an early-1980s story arc on the TV serial General Hospital? A nicer but no less abrasive John Colicos could be seen playing foredoomed restaurant owner Nick Papadakis in the 1982 remake of The Postman Always Rings Twice.

~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

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EXTRA: He's Dead, Jim (and Members of the Academy)!

Mar. 30, 2000

SANTA MONICA, Calif., March 30, 2000 -- "Star Trek" fans have a Bones to pick with the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. On Sunday's Oscar telecast, actor DeForest Kelley, aka Dr. Leonard "Bones" McCoy of the Starship Enterprise crew, was excluded from the annual montage of Actors Who Died Since The Last Oscars -- even though the man had impeccable credentials, havi...

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