Gus Trikonis Biography

Gus Trikonis, born as Kostas Tritchonis, is an American actor and director. He is best known for appearing as Indio in the highly successful flick ‘West Side Story’. As a director, he made his debut with the flick ‘Five the Hard Way’ following it with the subtly silly soft-core ‘The Student Body’, the exploitation film ‘The Swinging Barmaids’ and the horror/adventure ‘Dance of the Dwarfs’. However, the hit comedy ‘Take This Job and Shove It’ was Trikonis' biggest mainstream success. Trikonis, who was one of the best young directors at one time, also directed several television shows. He directed episodes of many TV series including ‘Hercules: The Legendary Journeys’, ‘Baywatch’, ‘Quantum Leap’, ‘Burke's Law’, ‘Wiseguy’,’ ‘Hunter’, ‘Baywatch Nights’, ‘The Commish’, ‘The Flash ‘ and ‘The Twilight Zone’ to name a few. Outside of acting and directing, Gus Trikonis has made several oil paintings. The actor is not a social media person and thus is not active on any social networking website.