Nico Minardos

His film credits also include Holiday for Lovers; Twelve Hours to Kill; It Happened in Athens; and Cannon for Cordoba.

These latter two appearances reunited him with Cannon for Cordoba co-star, Pete Duel, who played Hannibal Heyes, the alias Smith of the title.

[1] It is the story of a revolutionary from World War II, the mysterious Agathon, who is committing terrorist acts in Greece and Albania.

Minardos obtained financing for the film from Kjell Qvale, a Bay Area-based automotive entrepreneur who was then the majority shareholder in Jensen Motors.

[citation needed] He was born Nicholas Minardos in Greece and emigrated to the United States permanently in 1954; he became a naturalized citizen in 1960.

Two years after the divorce, Deborah married the legendary actor Tyrone Power, and after he died, producer Arthur Loew Jr. Minardos remarried in 1965.

[6] Minardos was caught in an FBI sting operation in New York and was indicted by then-U.S. Attorney Rudy Giuliani on charges of conspiracy to illegally ship arms to Iran.

Julie and Nico Minardos
Nico Minardos at controls of a Cessna airplane