Tony Lo Bianco has appeared in numerous films, television programs, and stage performances, both on-screen and off as a writer, director, and producer. Onstage, he won an Obie Award for Best Actor in Jonathan Reynolds's "Yanks-3, Detroit-0, Top of the 7th". Following his memorable performance as Eddie Carbone in Arthur Miller's A View from the Bridge on Broadway, he was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Actor, and won the Outer Critics Circle Award. He also won a New York Area Television Academy Award and daytime Emmy for Hizzoner! (1984).

A Brooklyn-born New Yorker, Lo Bianco's best-known film performance was as Sal Boca in the iconic Academy Award-winning film, The French Connection (1971). He also starred in the cult classic The Honeymoon Killers (1970); in The Seven-Ups (1973) (with Roy Scheider); in Bloodbrothers (1978) (with Richard Gere and Paul Sorvino); in City Heat (1984) (with Clint Eastwood and Burt Reynolds); in Nixon (1995) (starring Anthony Hopkins in the title role); in The Juror (1996) (starring Alec Baldwin and Demi Moore); in F.I.S.T. (1978) (starring Sylvester Stallone and Rod Steiger); in Boiling Point (1993) (starring Wesley Snipes and Dennis Hopper); in God Told Me To (1976); in Kill the Irishman (2011) (starring Val Kilmer and Vincent D'Onofrio); in the Italian miniseries La romana (1988) (with screen legend Gina Lollobrigida), and in both 79 Parts (2016)and 79 Parts: Director's Cut (2019) (playing the same character). Lo Bianco has appeared in more than 100 films to date.

On television, Lo Bianco starred as Rocky Marciano, the only undefeated heavyweight champ of the world, in Marciano (1979). He appeared in the mini-series/made-for-television movies Alle origini della mafia (1976), Marco Polo (1982), Jesus of Nazareth (1977), The Last Tenant (1978) (opposite Lee Strasberg) and Another Woman's Child (1983) (starring Linda Lavin). Later television roles have included several episodes of Police Story (1973), Law & Order (1990), and Homicide: Life on the Street (1993) (all NBC police procedurals), playing different roles and characters. He starred opposite Lindsay Wagner in the series Jessie (1984). Lo Bianco directing credits include Police Story (1973), The Secret Empire (1979), Kaz (1978), and the feature film, Too Scared to Scream (1984).

In 1963, he co-founded the Triangle Theater and served as artistic director for six years, during which time lighting designer Jules Fisher, playwright Jason Miller and actor Roy Scheider passed through its doors. Lo Bianco himself directed eight productions and produced twenty-five others. He is a member of the Italian American National Hall of Fame and served as the National Spokesperson for the Order Sons of Italy.

He has received the following awards and honors: Eleanora Duse Award for Outstanding Contribution to the Performing Arts; Man of the Year for Outstanding Contributions to the Italian-American Community from the Police Society of New Jersey; Man of the Year Award from the State of New Jersey Senate; Lifetime Entertainment Award from the Columbus Day Parade Committee; Golden Lion Award (1997); the Humanitarian Award of the Boys' Town of Italy and the Ellis Island Medal of Honor.

- IMDb Mini Biography By: Chris Schembra / Robert Sieger

Of Sicilian heritage and born in Brooklyn on October 19, 1936, blue-collar actor Anthony (Tony) Lo Bianco is one of three sons born to a taxi cab driver and his wife. Highly athletic growing up, he is a former Golden Gloves boxer and an all-star baseball player. With his interest in acting sparked during high school, Tony attended the Dramatic Workshop for training and presented little theatre plays at one point. In the late 1950's, he adding teaching drama to his resume.

Making his Broadway debut replacing Jerry Orbach as one of McHeath's gang in "The Threepenny Opera," Tony met his first wife, stage actress Dora Landey, while both were replacements in that cast. He was one of the founders of the Triangle Theater in 1963 and served as its artistic director for several years, directing and producing numerous productions. He would return to Broadway several times throughout the 1960's in such plays as "Incident at Vichy," "Tartuffe," "The Royal Hunt of the Sun," "The Ninety-Day Mistress" and "The Goodbye People. During that time, Tony also gained on-camera experience with parts on such popular TV programs as "Get Smart," "Blue Light," "Hawk," "NYPD Blue."

Moving to film work, Tony and Shirley Stoler made a memorably lethal crime-spree duo in the low-budget cult classic The Honeymoon Killers (1970). This led to other plentiful big screen work with gruff, pungent urban roles in the Academy Award-winning crimer The French Connection (1971) (as mobster Sal Boca); Mean Frank and Crazy Tony (1973) (as Crazy Tony opposite Lee Van Cleef); The Seven-Ups (1973) (with Roy Scheider); God Told Me To (1976) (lead sci-fi horror role); F.I.S.T. (1978) (starring Sylvester Stallone); Bloodbrothers (1978) (sharing the lead with on-screen brothers Richard Gere and Paul Sorvino); Separate Ways (1981) (opposite Karen Black); and City Heat (1984) (starring Clint Eastwood and Burt Reynolds).

Equally impressive on the dramatic stage, Tony won an Obie Award for his prized role as Duke, a washed-up big league pitcher in "Yanks-3, Detroit-0, Top of the 7th" (1975) and went on to win the Outer Critics Circle Award and a Tony nomination for his memorable performance as Eddie Carbone in Arthur Miller's "A View from the Bridge" (1983). He last appeared on Broadway portraying colorful New York City mayor Fiorello La Guardia in the short-lived one-man play "Hizzoner!" in 1989. In addition, he would win a New York Emmy for his TV version of Hizzoner! (1984). Sustaining his interest in the fascinating character, Tony later toured re-wrote, renamed and directed the one-man show "A Little Flower" on La Guardia and toured with it quite successfully into the millennium.

Television would remain a strong medium for Tony with highlights being the starring role as heavyweight champion Rocky Marciano in the TV movie Marciano (1979), as well as the Italian miniseries La romana (1988) (co-starring screen legend Gina Lollobrigida). Other fine work included such mini-series/TV movies as Mr. Inside/Mr. Outside (1973), The Story of Jacob and Joseph (1974) (as Joseph), Alle origini della mafia (1976), Marco Polo (1982), Jesus of Nazareth (1977), The Last Tenant (1978) and Another Woman's Child (1983) (starring Linda Lavin). Starring opposite Lindsay Wagner in the dramatic series Jessie (1984), Lo Bianco also directed several TV series episodes, including "Kaz" and "Police Story" as well as the crime movie thriller Too Scared to Scream (1984).

Later "tough guy" Lo Bianco characters were witnessed in the films City of Hope (1991), The Good Policeman (1993), Boiling Point (1993), The Ascent (1994), Power and Lovers (1994), Nixon (1995), The Juror (1996), Sworn to Justice (1996), Mafia! (1998), Endangered Species (2002), Frame of Mind (2009), Kill the Irishman (2011), Send No Flowers (2013) and 79 Parts: Director's Cut (2019). As for TV, he starred in a short-lived, change-of-pace comedy series with Palace Guard (1991), and showed up on episodic TV with appearances on "Murder, She Wrote," "Homicide: Life on the Street," "Law & Order," and "Walker, Texas Ranger."

The thrice-married actor, a member of The Actors Studio, has three daughters from his first marriage. Current wife, Alyse, collaborates with him on his various stage, film and video projects. A noted humanitarian, Tony was the recipient of the Eleanora Duse Award for his "Outstanding Contribution to the Performing Arts."

- IMDb Mini Biography By: Gary Brumburgh / gr-home@pacbell.net