Tony Lo Bianco

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Tony Lo Bianco (born October 19, 1936 in Brooklyn , New York , USA ) is an American film and theater actor and film director .

Life

Tony Lo Bianco, Italian-American by origin, was an amateur boxer with the Golden Gloves at a young age until he began to try acting on stage in the early 1960s. In 1963 he founded the Triangle Theater in New York, of which he was director for six years.

In 1965 he made his debut as a film actor, albeit still under his pseudonym Anthony Greco . As an actor, Lo Bianco was mostly fixated on Mediterranean, southern or even explicitly Italian character roles. He first became famous in 1977 when Lo Bianco played the Roman Quintilius in Franco Zeffirelli's film adaptation of the Bible, Jesus of Nazareth .

In the 1990s he stood in front of the camera for Nixon - produced in 1995 - and Not Guilty from 1996, among others .

Tony Lo Bianco tried it as a director of television series in the 1970s, but he was less fortunate in this profession, as the production of Kaz or The Duke was discontinued after only one season. In 1985 he directed Too Scared to Scream , a 100-minute feature film, for the first and so far only time .

In addition to his work in film and television, Lo Bianco is also involved in charitable causes and is committed to diabetes and lupus research as well as to the NYPD Columbia Foundation .

Tony Lo Bianco was married three times. In 1964 he and Dora Landey stood before the altar; the marriage was divorced in 1999. The marriage produced three daughters. From 2000 to 2009 he was married to Elizabeth Fitzpatrick for the second time. He has been married to Alyse Best Muldoon since 2015.

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SURNAME Lo Bianco, Tony
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Greco, Anthony
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American film and stage actor and film director
DATE OF BIRTH October 19, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Brooklyn , New York , USA