Costa Dillon
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Constantine Dillon (born 1953), usually known as Costa, is an American writer and actor of Greek ancestry. He is most famous as the creator of the cult classic film Attack of the Killer Tomatoes! and its sequels: Return of the Killer Tomatoes!, Killer Tomatoes Strike Back! and Killer Tomatoes Eat France; he also wrote Happy Hour.
Dillon is also a career employee of the National Park Service, recently serving as the Superintendent of Fire Island National Seashore, where he successfully prevented destructive and expensive beach manipulation that would have used tax-payer dollars to benefit private homeowners and damaged natural beaches and marshes. He received the Stephen T. Mather Award for Conservation from the National Parks Conservation Association, for this effort. He is currently the Director of the National Park Service's Horace Albright Training Center at the Grand Canyon.
Dillon is a 1975 graduate of the University of California, Davis and the University of Colorado.