Nicholas "Nick" A. Paleologos (born March 9, 1953 in Winchester, Massachusetts

Winchester, Massachusetts

Winchester is a town located in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, eight miles north of Boston. With its agricultural roots having mostly disappeared, it is now an affluent suburb...

) is an American film producer and politician.

Politics

Paleologos was a member of the Woburn School Committee from 1974–1975 and represented the 33rd Middlesex district in the Massachusetts House of Representatives

Massachusetts House of Representatives

The Massachusetts House of Representatives is the lower house of the Massachusetts General Court, the state legislature of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. It is composed of 160 members elected from single-member electoral districts across the Commonwealth. Representatives serve two-year terms...

 from 1977–1991. He was a candidate for Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts

Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts

The Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts is the first in the line to discharge the powers and duties of the office of governor following the incapacitation of the Governor of Massachusetts...

 in 1990

Massachusetts gubernatorial election, 1990

The 1990 Massachusetts gubernatorial election was held on November 6, 1990. Republican William Weld was elected Governor of Massachusetts for the first time. He beat Democrat John Silber to become the first Republican Governor of Massachusetts since 1975....

, but lost in the Democratic primary to Marjorie Clapprood

Marjorie Clapprood

Marjorie O'Neill Clapprood is a former Massachusetts politician and talk show host who served as a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives from 1985-1991....

.

Film and theater production

Paleologos was a film and theater producer with 52nd Street Productions and with Frederick M. Zollo

Frederick M. Zollo

Frederick M. Zollo is an award winning American producer and director of both stage and screen.-Selected stage productions:* On Golden Pond*"funHouse"* The Farnsworth Invention* Frozen* The Goat: or, Who is Sylvia?...

's Zollo Productions, Inc. Films he helped produce include Ghosts of Mississippi

Ghosts of Mississippi

Ghosts of Mississippi is a 1996 American drama film directed by Rob Reiner and starring Alec Baldwin, Whoopi Goldberg, and James Woods. The plot is based on the true story of the 1994 trial of Byron De La Beckwith, the white supremacist accused of the 1963 assassination of civil rights activist...

and Hurlyburly

Hurlyburly (film)

Hurlyburly is a 1998 independent film, based on the acclaimed 1984 play of the same name by David Rabe, who adapted it into a screenplay for the film...

Massachusetts Film Office

Paleologos was the executive director of the Massachusetts Film Office from 2007 until the position was eliminated on January 1, 2011. During his tenure at the film office, the movie-making industry in the Commonwealth experienced unprecedented growth; major motion pictures including The Town

The Town (2010 film)

The Town is a 2010 crime film starring, co-written, and directed by Ben Affleck adapted from Chuck Hogan's novel Prince of Thieves. The film opened in theaters in the United States on September 17, 2010 at number one with more than $23 million and positive reviews...

and Shutter Island were filmed in Massachusetts and Quixote Studios

Quixote Studios

Quixote Studios is a film and photo studio in Los Angeles as well as a provider of production related vehicles, grip and lighting equipment, expendables and production supplies.-History:...

opened a $1.5 million operation in Boston.