French Connection actor Tony Lo Bianco has died at the age of 87.
Lo Bianco passed away after a long battle with cancer, his family shared Wednesday.
‘Tony Lo Bianco passed away last night at his horse farm in Maryland after a battle with prostate cancer. His wife, Alyse, was next to him. Tony was 87 years old,” Lo Bianco’s representative shared in a statement.
He had a long and varied career that included films, hit television shows and theatre.
Another of his hugely successful films was the 1970 crime drama The Honeymoon Killers with co-star Shirley Stoler.
French Connection actor Tony Lo Bianco has died at the age of 87. Lo Bianco passed away after a long battle with cancer, his family shared on Wednesday.
‘Tony Lo Bianco passed away last night at his horse farm in Maryland after a battle with prostate cancer. His wife, Alyse, was next to him. “Tony was 87 years old,” said a statement from Lo Bianco’s representative. Seen in 2016
And Tony was in 1978’s Bloodbrothers with Richard Gere and 1996’s The Juror with Demi Moore.
He was also known for the sci-fi horror God Told Me To, City Heat and Kill The Irishman.
The television series in which he worked were Get Smart, The Streets of San Francisco, The Twilight Zone, Law & Order and Murder, he wrote.
He was born Anthony LoBianco in Brooklyn, New York, and was a boxer before he began acting in the mid-1960s.
Roy Scheider seen with Lo Bianco in The French Connection in 1971
Tony seen here in the center of the television series Law & Order.
Lo Bianco began working in the theater.
He performed as an understudy in a 1964 Broadway production of Incident at Vichy, then had a supporting role in a Broadway production of Tartuffe.
She then landed a starring role in Broadway’s The Royal Hunt of the Sun.
He made his film debut in The Sex Perils of Paulette (1965) before appearing as a killer in the semi-biographical crime film The Honeymoon Killers (1970).
He then had his biggest success: a role in The French Connection (1971).
In 1976 he was in God told me.
In the mid-1970s he starred in the television anthology series Police Story.
He then returned to film with the crime comedy Mean Frank and Crazy Tony (1973).
In 1975, Lo Bianco won an Obie Award for his Off-Broadway performance as Duke Bronkowski in the baseball play Yanks-3, Detroit-0, Top of the Seventh.
In 1983, Lo Bianco was nominated for a Tony for his performance as Eddie Carbone in Arthur Miller’s A View from the Bridge.
Lo Bianco appeared in several independent films in the 1990s: in 1995 as Jimmy Jacobs in the HBO biopic Tyson, in 1996 as Briggs in Sworn to Justice with Cynthia Rothrock. He had a minor role in Nixon, directed by Oliver Stone.
Lo Bianco was previously the national spokesperson for the Order of the Sons of Italy in America.
Lo Bianco was married from 1964 to 1984 to Dora Landey. They had three daughters.
He was married to Elizabeth Fitzpatrick from 2002 to 2008. He married his current wife, Alyse Best Muldoon, in June 2015.
