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Lou Antonio

 
Director: Lou Antonio
  • Born: Jan 23, 1934 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
  • Occupation: Director, Actor, Writer
  • Active: '60s-'90s
  • Major Genres: Drama, Mystery
  • Career Highlights: Cool Hand Luke, Micki + Maude, Between Friends
  • First Major Screen Credit: Cool Hand Luke (1967)

Biography

Stage actor Lou Antonio was billed seventh as "Abdul" in his first film, Elia Kazan's America America (1963). Antonio's sandpaper features resurfaced in such subsequent films as Hawaii (1966) and Cool Hand Luke (1967); thereafter, he worked almost exclusively in television. He co-starred in the weekly series The Snoop Sisters and Dog and Cat, and was top-billed as Det. Sgt. Jack Ramsey in Dog and Cat (1977). By the late 1980s, Antonio had virtually abandoned acting in favor of directing: he helmed such TV movies as Silent Victory: The Kitty O'Neil Story (1979), The Star Maker (1981), Agatha Christie's 13 at Dinner (1985) and Mayflower Madam (1987), as well as the 1978 theatrical feature Gypsy Warriors. Lou Antonio is the brother of actor Jim Antonio. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
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Lou Antonio (born January 23, 1934 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, U.S.) is an actor and TV director best known for performing in the films Cool Hand Luke and America, America. He also starred in two short-lived TV series, Dog and Cat, and Makin' It.

Antonio's only recurring TV guest role character was on Here Come the Brides, but he made multiple appearances as different characters on 1960s and 1970s series like The Rookies, Mission: Impossible, Gunsmoke, The Fugitive, Twelve O'Clock High, Star Trek: The Original Series (in the memorable episode "Let That Be Your Last Battlefield", in which he played the half-white, half-black alien pursued by the oppositely half-black, half-white alien played by Frank Gorshin), I Dream of Jeannie, and The Defenders. Antonio also played the human version of a chimpanzee turned human on an episode of the supernatural sitcom Bewitched.

As a director, he has mostly worked on TV movies such as Mayflower Madam, and TV series such as The Rockford Files, Dawson's Creek, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, and The West Wing.

Antonio was married to fellow actor Lane Bradbury,[citation needed] and his brother, Jim Antonio, is also an actor.[citation needed]

Filmography

As director

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