Gus Trikonis kicked-off his career as a dancer and an actor. He hogged the limelight in 1961, for his role in ‘West Side Story.’ He also garnered praise for his dancing in American musical ‘The Unsinkable Molly Brown’ in 1964. Through the late 1960s and the early 1980s, he handled various projects as a director and made mostly ‘exploitation films,’ low in budget. He also directed episodes of television series, including ‘Quantum Leap,’ ‘Wiseguy,’ ‘Baywatch,’ and ‘Hunter.’ Some of his popular films as an actor and as a director are ‘The Sidehackers,’ ‘The Evil,’ ‘Take This Job and Shove It,’ ‘Moonshine Country Expense,’ ‘Touched By Love,’ ‘The Swinging Barmaids,’ ‘Nashville Girl,’ ‘Supercock,’ ‘The Hellcats,’ ‘Dance of the Dwarfs,’ and more.