Career
Born in Oklahoma City, Antonio's sole recurring TV guest role character was on Here Come the Brides, but he made multiple appearances as different characters on 1960s and 1970s series like The Rookies, The Naked City, Mission: Impossible, Gunsmoke, The Fugitive, Twelve O'Clock High, Star Trek (in the memorable episode "Let That Be Your Last Battlefield", in which he played the half-white, half-black alien pursued by the oppositely half-black, half-white alien played by Frank Gorshin), I Dream of Jeannie, and The Defenders. He played the human version of a chimpanzee turned human on an episode of the supernatural sitcom Bewitched. As a director, he mostly worked on TV movies such as Mayflower Madam, and TV series such as The Rockford Files, Dawson's Creek, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, and The West Wing.
Antonio was married to fellow Actors Studio member, Lane Bradbury; His brother, Jim Antonio, is also an actor.
Filmography
- Have Gun-Will Travel (1960)
- Macbeth (1961)
- Splendor in the Grass (1961)
- Naked City (1961-63)
- Breaking Point (1963)
- Route 66 (1963)
- The Defenders (1962-63)
- America, America (1963)
- For the People (1965)
- Twelve 0'Clock High (1964-65)
- The Virginian (1966)
- The Wackiest Ship in the Army (1966)
- Hawaii (1966)
- Hawk (1966)
- The Fugitive (1963-66)
- The Road West (1967)
- The Monkees (1967)
- Cool Hand Luke (1967)
- I Dream of Jeannie (1968)
- The Danny Thomas Hour (1968)
- Bonanza (1968)
- Star Trek (1969)
- Gunsmoke (1965-69)
- Bewitched (1969)
- Gentle Ben (1969)
- Sole Survivor (1970)
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- Here Come the Brides (1969-70)
- The Flying Nun (1970)
- The Phynx (1970)
- The Mod Squad (1970)
- Bracken's World (1970)
- Storefront Lawyers (1970)
- Cannon (1971)
- Dan August (1971)
- Hawaii Five-O (1971)
- Mission: Impossible (1970-72)
- Cade's County (1972)
- Night Gallery (1973)
- Partners In Crime (1973)
- The F.B.I. (1971-73)
- Insight (1974)
- The Snoop Sisters (1973-74)
- The Rookies (1973-74)
- Dog and Cat (1977)
- The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries (1977)
- Makin' It (1979)
- Where The Ladies Go (1980)
- Thirteen at Dinner (1985)
- Face to Face (Hallmark Hall of Fame presentation) (1990)
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As director
- Heroic Mission (1967)
- Then Came Bronson (1969)
- The Flying Nun (1969-70)
- The Young Rebels (1970)
- Getting Together (1971)
- The Partridge Family (1971-72)
- Banacek (1972)
- The Rookies (1973)
- Griff (1973) (also writer)
- Love Is Not Forever (1974)
- Sin American Style (1974)
- Amy Prentiss (1974)
- Someone I Touched (1975)
- McCloud (1972-75)
- McMillan & Wife (1975-76)
- The Rockford Files (1974-76)
- Lanigan’s Rabbi (1976)
- Delvecchio (1976)
- Rich Man, Poor Man Book II (1976)
- Something For Joey (1977)
- The Girl in the Empty Grave (1977)
- The Gypsy Warriors (1978)
- The Critical List (1978)
- A Real American Hero (1978)
- The Chinese Typewriter (1979)
- Silent Victory: The Kitty O’Neil Story (1979)
- Heaven on Earth (1979)
- Breaking Up Is Hard To Do (1979)
- The Contender (1980)
- We’re Fighting Back (1981)
- The Star Maker (1981)
- The Steeler and the Pittsburgh Kid (1981)
- Something So Right (1982)
- Between Friends (1983)
- A Good Sport (1984)
- Threesome (1984)
- Rearview Mirror (1984)
- Thirteen at Dinner (1985)
- One Terrific Guy (1986)
- Shell Game (1987)
- Pals (1987)
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- Mayflower Madam (1987)
- The Outside Woman (1989) (also producer)
- Dark Holiday (1989) (also executive producer)
- Face to Face (Hallmark Hall of Fame presentation) (1990)
- Sporting Chance (1990)
- This Gun for Hire (1991)
- Lies Before Kisses (1991)
- The Last Prostitute (1991)
- The Rape of Doctor Willis (1991)
- A Taste for Killing (1992)
- Nightmare in the Daylight (1992)
- The Contender (1993)
- Party of Five (1994)
- Diagnosis: Murder (1994)
- Chicago Hope (1995)
- The Cosby Mysteries (1995)
- American Gothic (1995)
- Picket Fences (1993-96)
- Dark Skies (1996)
- Mr & Mrs. Smith (1996)
- Spy Game (1997)
- Roar (1997)
- Dawson’s Creek (1998)
- Vengeance Unlimited (1998)
- To Have & To Hold
- Wasteland (1999)
- The Force (1999)
- Get Real (1999)
- Felicity (2000)
- The West Wing (2001)
- CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (2000-01)
- UC: Undercover (2001)
- The Guardian (2001)
- First Monday (2002)
- The Handler (2003)
- Numb3rs (2003)
- Reunion (2005)
- Boston Legal (2006-07)
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References and notes
[ Source: Wikipedia ]