His roles included a mobster in “The French Connection” and, in one-man shows, New York Mayor Fiorello La Guardia.
Stage and screen actor Tony Lo Bianco in a scene from the 1971 crime thriller “The French Connection,” directed by William Friedkin.
While the play was in rehearsals, he pitched a perfect game in softball with his left hand. He threw with his opposite hand onstage, noting that the character was supposed to be a right-hander. “I like the idea of keeping with the script,” he explained. The second of three sons, Anthony LoBianco was born in Brooklyn on Oct. 19, 1936. His grandparents had emigrated from Sicily, and his mother looked after the home while his father worked as a cabbie.Mr. Lo Bianco studied at the Dramatic Workshop, a New York acting school, and in 1963 he co-founded the Triangle Theater, where he produced and directed plays at the Church of the Holy Trinity on the Upper East Side.
In addition to his third wife, survivors include two daughters from his first marriage, Yummy Helmes and Nina Landey; two stepchildren, Tristan Hamilton and Lanah Fitzgerald; a brother; and 10 grandchildren. Another daughter from his first marriage, Anna Avila, died in 2006.
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