Lou Antonio

Lou Antonio is an American actor and television director who was born in Oklahoma City, studied at the University of Oklahoma, and later trained in New York with the acting teachers Lee Strasberg, Curt Conway, and Lonny Chapman. He directed The Chalk Garden at Elmwood Playhouse in 1962, then began television acting in the mid-1960s, becoming known for the films America America (1963) and Cool Hand Luke (1967) and for starring in the short-lived series Dog and Cat and Makin' It. His guest work included a popular Bewitched episode and the Star Trek episode Let That Be Your Last Battlefield (1969), with Frank Gorshin. Antonio went on to direct many television programs, among them The Flying Nun, The Partridge Family, The Rockford Files, Picket Fences, Chicago Hope, and The West Wing. His final work was on Boston Legal in 2007.