
Directing
Lou Antonio
Born 1934-01-23
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Lou Antonio (born January 23, 1934) is an American 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 (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, and his brother, Jim Antonio, is also an actor. He was born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, U.S.. Description above from the Wikipedia article Lou Antonio, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Acting credits
7.7When petty criminal Luke Jackson is sentenced to two years in a Florida prison farm, he doesn't play by the rules of either the sadistic warden or the yard's resident heavy, Dragline, who ends up admiring the new guy's unbreakable will. Luke's bravado, even in the face of repeated stints in the prison's dreaded solitary confinement cell, "the box," make him a rebel hero to his fellow convicts and a thorn in the side of the prison officers.
Cool Hand Luke
1967
7.5A fragile Kansas girl's unrequited and forbidden love for a handsome young man from the town's most powerful family drives her to heartbreak and madness.
Splendor in the Grass
1961
5.8Actress Jane Wilkinson wants a divorce, but her husband, Lord Edgware, refuses. She convinces Hercule Poirot to use his famed tact and logic to make her case. Lord Edgware turns up murdered, a well-placed knife wound at the base of his neck. It will take the precise Poirot to sort out the lies from the alibis - and find the criminal before another victim dies.
Thirteen at Dinner
1985
6.3Abner Hale, a rigid and humorless New England missionary, marries the beautiful Jerusha Bromley and takes her to the exotic island kingdom of Hawaii, intent on converting the natives. But the clash between the two cultures is too great and instead of understanding there comes tragedy.
Hawaii
1966
7.0A young Anatolian Greek, entrusted with his family's fortune, loses it en route to Istanbul and dreams of going to America.
America America
1963
9.0Based on Graham Greene's novel about a flawed but devoted priest in 1930s Mexico who attempts to perform his duties while eluding a police lieutenant determined to capture him.
The Power and the Glory
1963
5.7An American paleontologist and a British miner get in a conflict over who has the rights to dig on a site in Kenya.
Face to Face
1990
3.6A rock band is invented by the government as a cover to find hostages in a remote castle in Albania held by communist enemies of the USA.
The Phynx
1970
10.0A small-town bar, open only from 9AM to 3PM and owned by Buck (Earl Holliman), is the setting where bored housewives and wandering husbands go to find some adventure in their miserable lives.
Where the Ladies Go
1980
6.3In 1960, the ruins of an American bomber were found in the Libyan desert, but the remains of the crew were never located. In Guerdon Trueblood's teleplay, the ghosts of a bomber crew hang around their derelict plane, awaiting the day that their bones will be recovered and given a decent burial. The sole survivor, navigator Russell Hamner, has in the intervening 25 years become a General. He joins an investigation team that has come across the wreckage, while the ghosts, headed by Major Devlin, plot to expose Hamner as a coward who deserted his post and left his crew mates to die.
Sole Survivor
1970
5.0A retired judge who opens a private detective agency and her ex-con associate try to track down $750,000 in bank robbery loot.
Partners in Crime
1973
NRA veteran detective loses his partner in a shooting while they are investigating a gangster who is controlling the local porno rackets. He is stunned to discover that the new partner he is assigned is not only a rookie, but a female.
Dog and Cat
1977
NRFrom her being discovered by Groucho Marx in NY to becoming one of the of most iconic bombshells of the 60s - including her memorable role in the Academy Award winning film 'Cool Hand Luke'- this film looks at the extraordinary life Joy Harmon, who went from being a film cheesecake to actually making them as the premiere dessert maker for the major studio's craft services. We'll interview her co-stars, follow her in her bakery and onto the sets of many major television shows and hear from her family and friends about this amazing woman.
From Cheesecake to Cheesecake: The Joy Harmon Story
2013
NRA documentary on the making of 'Cool Hand Luke' (1967).
A Natural Born World-Shaker: The Making of 'Cool Hand Luke'
2008
Behind the camera
5.8Actress Jane Wilkinson wants a divorce, but her husband, Lord Edgware, refuses. She convinces Hercule Poirot to use his famed tact and logic to make her case. Lord Edgware turns up murdered, a well-placed knife wound at the base of his neck. It will take the precise Poirot to sort out the lies from the alibis - and find the criminal before another victim dies.
Thirteen at Dinner
1985
5.0American soldiers (Tom Selleck and James Whitmore Jr.) must travel behind enemy lines to procure the formula for a deadly Nazi toxin in this World War II adventure.
The Gypsy Warriors
1978
5.9A married Wisconsin teacher fears a Los Angeles lawyer who has mistaken her for his long-lost wife.
Nightmare in the Daylight
1992
5.9A married Wisconsin teacher fears a Los Angeles lawyer who has mistaken her for his long-lost wife.
Nightmare in the Daylight
1992
7.1The police chief of a small town begins an investigation after a young woman, who was supposed to have died several months previously, starts appearing around town just before her parents are found mysteriously dead.
The Girl in the Empty Grave
1977
5.7An American paleontologist and a British miner get in a conflict over who has the rights to dig on a site in Kenya.
Face to Face
1990
9.0A New York stockbroker introduces a girlfriend to his buddy from out of town, then regrets it.
Threesome
1984
4.5Two 60s teenagers find work rather than pleasure when it turns out that the prostitute they desire now owns a horse farm.
The Last Prostitute
1991
5.5Danny Youngblood is a famed Hollywood director with a reputation for modeling sexy starlets into superstar actresses, and then turning his discoveries into his wives, one after another. However, Danny meets his match when he zeroes in on his latest conquest, Margot Murray, who decides to turn the tables on him.
The Star Maker
1981
8.0American tourist Gene LePere (Lee Remick), on vacation in Turkey, is hounded by a street vendor into buying a carved head she doesn't want. Then she is cast into prison for smuggling an antique.
Dark Holiday
1989
5.1A woman learns that her husband has been unfaithful and that she has acquired a venereal disease. Then she learns that, after years of trying, she is finally pregnant
Someone I Touched
1975
6.3A drama directed by Lou Antonio.
The Rape of Doctor Willis
1991
5.9Joey lives with his mother. His father isn't around, he doesn't like school, he is bored and doesn't take orders from anyone. In other words he is a real little scamp. Being at one's wit's end, his mother decides to look for a "big brother" (sort of surrogate father) for Joey. At first this clumsy Arnie doesn't know how to handle Joey but after a while everything changes and not only for Joey ...
Something So Right
1982
NRA wealthy publisher is accused of murdering a prostitute he had once spent the night with. The accusations appear false until his own son testifies against him. Desperate to discredit her stepson, the publisher's wife tries to clear her husband's name, but is drawn deep into a tangled web.
Lies Before Kisses
1991
4.3Inspired by the explosive sex-for-sale scandal that rocked Manhattan in 1984, the infamous Sydney Biddle Barrows, a driven young socialite, opens an exclusive escort service catering to the wealthy and affluent. From Sydney's rise to become a million-dollar, modern-day madam to her notorious plummet into bankruptcy and public disgrace, experience a private glimpse into the forbidden world of high-class prostitution-where money talks...pleasure sells...and discretion is everything.
Mayflower Madam
1987
4.5When two boys are killed and two girls are blinded for life in a tragic accident, Buford Pusser, the town sheriff, is determined to get revenge. Though he must bend the law, Pusser is resolved to get the bootleg booze and dope king of the county who provided the poisoned moonshine that caused the accident. Based on the real-life folk hero whose career inspired the Walking Tall movies.
A Real American Hero
1978
NRIn this pilot film, an Irish Catholic police chief and a Jewish rabbi join together to solve the murder of a housekeeper whose body was discovered by the front entrance of the rabbi's synagogue.
Lanigan's Rabbi
1976
7.2When the psychopathic jailbreaker Hopps and his cousin steal a camper to continue their flight, they notice too late that there's a baby on the back seat. At first they want to kill it, but...
Rearview Mirror
1984
7.0The award-winning Coke commercial becomes a heart-warming story!
The Steeler and the Pittsburgh Kid
1981
7.0Two private investigators are hired by an airline company to retrieve a stolen prototype jet. Starring Tom Selleck. Released 1979.
The Chinese Typewriter
1979
5.4Two college students get a summer job on an offshore oil rig. They are soon approached by a co-worker who had earlier befriended them, and who now tries to draw them into a plot to murder the rig's crew chief.
A Taste for Killing
1992
9.0The stylish editor of a fashion magazine and a rumpled sports reporter endeavor to keep their somewhat offbeat romance on a purely platonic level.
A Good Sport
1984
7.0Based on the life of Kitty O'Neil, a young girl who overcame her deafness to become one of the top stuntwomen in Hollywood, and the holder of the women's land-speed record for driving a rocket-powered racing car.
Silent Victory: The Kitty O'Neil Story
1979
7.0Inspired by the exploits of New York's Guardian Angels, which began as a band of streetwise young people who formed an anti-crime subway patrol and went on to gain a national reputation and units in major cities around the country, this film unites three New York City youths as leaders of a citizens' patrol tackling gangs terrorizing merchants and local citizens.
We're Fighting Back
1981