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Lou Antonio

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  • Actor
  • Producer
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Lou Antonio in Star Trek (1966)
Oklahoma-born Lou Antonio is English-French-German on his mother's side and Greek on his father's side. A talented baseball player as a teenager, he was scouted by the Boston Red Sox while in high school, but an injury ended his dreams of playing professional baseball. He attended Oklahoma University on a journalism scholarship and graduated with a degree in French, all the while acting in school plays.

Accepted into the prestigious Actors Studio in 1958, Antonio was a working actor through much of the 1960s, doing summer stock, plays, TV guest roles, and the occasional movie, most notably Cool Hand Luke (1967).

After moving to Hollywood, TV work became more consistent over the next 40+ years, both as an actor, such as in Let That Be Your Last Battlefield (1969), and even more as a director.
BornJanuary 23, 1934
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  • Nominated for 3 Primetime Emmys

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Lou Antonio in Cool Hand Luke (1967)
Paul Newman, George Kennedy, Lou Antonio, Robert Drivas, Clifton James, and Ralph Waite in Cool Hand Luke (1967)
Paul Newman, Dennis Hopper, Harry Dean Stanton, Lou Antonio, Richard Davalos, Robert Drivas, Warren Finnerty, Chuck Hicks, Buck Kartalian, Wayne Rogers, and Ralph Waite in Cool Hand Luke (1967)
Dennis Hopper and Lou Antonio in Cool Hand Luke (1967)
Edward Andrews and Lou Antonio in I Dream of Jeannie (1965)
Paul Newman, Lou Antonio, and James Gammon in Cool Hand Luke (1967)
Paul Newman, Joe Don Baker, Lou Antonio, Marc Cavell, Chuck Hicks, and Wayne Rogers in Cool Hand Luke (1967)
Paul Newman, George Kennedy, Harry Dean Stanton, Anthony Zerbe, Lou Antonio, J.D. Cannon, Richard Davalos, Norman Goodwins, Chuck Hicks, and Ralph Waite in Cool Hand Luke (1967)
Joan Blondell, Lou Antonio, Ray Chippeway, Dennis Larden, Michael A. Miller, and Lonny Stevens in The Phynx (1970)
Lou Antonio and Frank Gorshin in Star Trek (1966)

Known for

Paul Newman in Cool Hand Luke (1967)
Cool Hand Luke
8.1
  • Koko
  • 1967
Hector Elizondo, Mandy Patinkin, Roma Maffia, Adam Arkin, Roxanne Hart, and E.G. Marshall in Chicago Hope (1994)
Chicago Hope
6.8
TV Series
  • Director
Walter Koenig, Leonard Nimoy, William Shatner, James Doohan, DeForest Kelley, George Takei, and Nichelle Nichols in Star Trek (1966)
Star Trek
8.4
TV Series
  • Lokai
Scott Bakula and Maria Bello in Mr. & Mrs. Smith (1996)
Mr. & Mrs. Smith
7.1
TV Series
  • Director

Credits

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Director

  • Candice Bergen, William Shatner, and James Spader in Boston Legal (2004)
    Boston Legal
  • Reunion (2005)
    Reunion
  • Numb3rs (2005)
    Numb3rs
  • Joe Pantoliano, Hill Harper, Tanya Wright, and Anna Belknap in The Handler (2003)
    The Handler
  • Simon Baker in The Guardian (2001)
    The Guardian
  • Tim Curry, Gary Cole, Caitlin Wachs, Sasha Pieterse, and Jimmy 'Jax' Pinchak in Family Affair (2002)
    Family Affair
  • James Garner, Joe Mantegna, Joe Flanigan, and Randy Vasquez in First Monday (2002)
    First Monday
  • Oded Fehr, Vera Farmiga, Bruklin Harris, Jarrad Paul, and Jon Seda in UC: Undercover (2001)
    UC: Undercover
  • Elisabeth Shue and Ted Danson in CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (2000)
    CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
  • Rob Lowe, Martin Sheen, Allison Janney, Dulé Hill, Moira Kelly, Janel Moloney, Richard Schiff, John Spencer, and Bradley Whitford in The West Wing (1999)
    The West Wing
  • The Fugitive (2000)
    The Fugitive
  • Scott Foley, Keri Russell, and Scott Speedman in Felicity (1998)
    Felicity
  • Debrah Farentino, Anne Hathaway, Jesse Eisenberg, Eric Christian Olsen, Christina Pickles, and Jon Tenney in Get Real (1999)
    Get Real
  • Hector Elizondo, Mandy Patinkin, Roma Maffia, Adam Arkin, Roxanne Hart, and E.G. Marshall in Chicago Hope (1994)
    Chicago Hope
  • Wasteland (1999)
    Wasteland

Actor

  • Lisa Chess, Michael Pressman, and Alan Rosenberg in Frankie and Johnny Are Married (2003)
    Frankie and Johnny Are Married
  • Linden Ashby and Allison Smith in Spy Game (1997)
    Spy Game
  • Face to Face (1990)
    Face to Face
  • Peter Ustinov in Thirteen at Dinner (1985)
    Thirteen at Dinner
    • (uncredited)
  • Pierce Brosnan and Stephanie Zimbalist in Remington Steele (1982)
    Remington Steele
    • (uncredited)
  • Where the Ladies Go (1980)
    Where the Ladies Go
  • Makin' It (1979)
    Makin' It
  • Shaun Cassidy, Pamela Sue Martin, and Parker Stevenson in The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries (1977)
    The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries
  • Dog and Cat (1977)
    Dog and Cat
  • Kim Basinger in Dog and Cat (1977)
    Dog and Cat
  • Kate Jackson, Georg Stanford Brown, Sam Melville, and Michael Ontkean in The Rookies (1972)
    The Rookies
  • Insight (1960)
    Insight
  • Helen Hayes and Mildred Natwick in The Snoop Sisters (1972)
    The Snoop Sisters
  • The F.B.I. (1965)
    The F.B.I.
  • Partners in Crime

Producer

  • Costas Mandylor, Ryder Parry, and Willa Jane Shaw in Opa (2023)
    Opa
  • Never a Neverland (2014)
    Never a Neverland
  • Dark Holiday (1989)
    Dark Holiday
  • The Outside Woman (1989)
    The Outside Woman
  • Micki + Maude (1984)
    Micki + Maude

Personal details

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    • Lou Antonio's personal website.
    • January 23, 1934
    • Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA
    • Lane BradburyDecember 23, 1965 - December 16, 1980 (divorced, 2 children)
    • Elkin Antoniou G
    • Jim Antonio(Sibling)
  • Other works
    Stage: Assistant Stage Manager for "Girls of Summer" on Broadway (earliest Broadway credit). Written by N. Richard Nash. Featuring the song "Girls of Summer" composed by Stephen Sondheim. Stage Manager: Irving Buchman. Directed by Jack Garfein. Longacre Theatre: 19 Nov 1956-5 Jan 1957 (56 performances). Cast: Shelley Winters (as "Hilda Brookman"), Pat Hingle (as "Jules Taggart"), George Peppard (as "Mickey Argent"; Broadway debut), Lenka Peterson (as "Binne Brookman"), Arthur Storch (as "Gene Mitchell"), Nellie Burt (as "Mrs. Mitchell"), John Harkins (as "Tommy Brookman"), Sandra Stevens (as "Phyllis Brookman"). Produced by Cheryl Crawford.
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    Younger brother of actor Jim Antonio.

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