Biography

February 15, 1930 · Athens, Greece

August 27, 2011 · Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA (undisclosed)

Nicholas Minardos

5′ 10½″ (1.79 m)

On 9/28/66 he and Eric Fleming were shooting a scene on the Huallaga River in Peru for a TV movie called "High Jungle". The canoe they were in tipped over and both Fleming and Minardos were thrown into the river. Minardos managed to swim to shore, but Fleming drowned.

In 1986 he was caught in an FBI sting operation in New York and was indicted on charges of conspiracy to illegally ship arms to Iran. Although the indictment was eventually thrown out, the cost of his legal defense drove him to the point of bankruptcy and also ended his Hollywood career.

UCLA graduate, previously studied at the Sorbonne in Paris. Contract player at 20th Century-Fox in the 1950s.

Traded his home in Beverly Hills for a sailing yacht in Florida, which he subsequently outfitted and sailed across the Atlantic Ocean to his Greek homeland with a crew that included his son George.

His former wife, Deborah Jean Smith Minardos, later married Tyrone Power and became his third wife and widow.