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Tony Lo Bianco (born October 19, 1936) is an American actor in films and television. ==Life and career== Lo Bianco was born in Brooklyn, New York, the son of a housewife mother and a taxi driver father.〔(Search Results )〕〔http://www.broadwayworld.com/article/BWW-Interview-Tony-Lo-Bianco-Creating-Magic-with-THE-LITTLE-FLOWER-20130313?PageSpeed=noscript〕 He is known for his tough guy roles in the cult films ''The Honeymoon Killers'', ''God Told Me To'', and ''The French Connection''. Lo Bianco was a Golden Gloves boxer and also founded the Triangle Theatre in 1963, serving as its artistic director for six years and collaborating with lighting designer Jules Fisher, playwright Jason Miller and actor Roy Scheider.〔http://tonylobianco.com/biography〕 Lo Bianco won an off-Broadway Obie award for "Yanks-3, Detroit-0, Top of the Seventh." Most notably, Lo Bianco was nominated for a Tony for his portrayal of Eddie Carbone in Arthur Miller's ''A View from the Bridge''.〔http://ibdb.com/person.php?id=23993〕 He also won the 1983 Outer Critics Circle Award for this performance.〔http://pro.imdb.com/name/nm0516215/bio〕 Lo Bianco first portrayed the larger-than-life 1934-1945 mayor of New York City Fiorello H. LaGuardia in a one-man show, ''Hizzoner!'', written in 1984 by Paul Shyre. The play closed in 1989 after 12 Broadway performances. Lo Bianco continued his work on the life of LaGuardia in a revised 〔 revival of the play in 2008, titled ''LaGuardia.''〔http://iaonevoice.blogspot.com/2008/11/tony-lo-bianco-is-laguardia.html〕 His third incantation of the mayor's life that had a limited run Off-Broadway in October 2012, titled ''The Little Flower''.〔http://tonylobianco.com/the-little-flower〕 Lo Bianco has been constantly rewriting the play, which he purchased from Shyre's estate, and he views it as “a vehicle to express my concerns for the public and the political mess that we’re in, which we continue to be in I think, and try to relate answers to failure.” He has performed it in Moscow shortly before the fall of the Soviet Union, and in 2015 was scheduled to perform it in Italy.〔 Lo Bianco was a regular in Joseph Wambaugh's TV series ''Police Story'' in the mid 70's, opposite actors Don Meredith and Chuck Connors. A ''New York Times'' profile in 2015 reported that Lo Bianco was at work on a one-man show playing himself, and a film script about his early life.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Tony Lo Bianco」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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