Lou Antonio

Oklahoma-born 'Lou Antonio' (qv) 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)_ (qv).After moving to Hollywood, TV work became more consistent over the next 40+ years, both as an actor, such as in _Star Trek: The Original Series: Let That Be Your Last Battlefield (1969)_ (qv), and even more as a director.::MissClassicTV