His uncle is celebrated artist Dean Konopisos and grandson of RADM Konstantine Konopisos JAG.
Played NCAA basketball and baseball for the University of Dallas.
Founded and ran the former Konstantine Foundation - a government recognized non-profit charity organization.
Related to legendary film actor Gregory Peck through his maternal grandmother Arlene Peck.
Became friends with legendary character actor Charles Durning after directing him in "The Waiter.".
Created his own acting methodology, which he calls "Exiphen" which emphasizes the use of imagination built on a foundation of intense research and a deep Existential - Phenomenological understanding of human motivations and interpersonal dynamics.
Related, by marriage, to actor and assassin John Wilkes Booth.
He briefly took classes for a law degree, but decided he did not want to be a lawyer.
At age 10, he adopted a stray kitten and named it Muff Potter after a character in Huckleberry Finn. Muff Potter remained his trusted friend for 22 years.