Michael Constantine, Dad in ‘My Big Fat Greek Wedding,’ Dies at 94.

Michael Constantine, Dad in ‘My Big Fat Greek Wedding,’ Dies at 94.
“I just knew I belonged there,” Mr.
Constantine told Odyssey, an English-language magazine about Greek life, in 2011.
“They could make fun of this hick from Pennsylvania, but I just belong here — this is me.”

The young Mr.
Constantine studied acting with Howard da Silva, supporting himself with odd jobs, among them night watchman and shooting-gallery barker.
He became an understudy to Paul Muni playing the character modeled on the famed defense lawyer Clarence Darrow in “Inherit the Wind,” which opened on Broadway in 1955.
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In “Compulsion” — a 1957 Broadway dramatization of Meyer Levin’s novel about the Leopold and Loeb murder case — Mr.
Constantine took over the role of the defense lawyer from Frank Conroy just before opening night.
(Mr.
Conroy withdrew after suffering a heart attack during previews.)

“Michael Constantine gives an excellent performance as the prototype of Clarence Darrow,” Brooks Atkinson wrote in The New York Times.