American actor and television director born in 1934 who played Lokai, the fugitive from Cheron, in the third-season Original Series episode Let That Be Your Last Battlefield.
Lou Antonio is an American actor and director, born in 1934, whose film roles include the convict Koko in Cool Hand Luke (1967).
In Let That Be Your Last Battlefield he played Lokai, a political refugee whose face is white on one side and black on the other. He begs asylum aboard the Enterprise while Commissioner Bele, played by Frank Gorshin and coloured the opposite way round, demands his return after a pursuit lasting fifty thousand years. Both men finally beam down to their dead world to continue the chase.
From the 1970s Antonio worked mainly as a director of television films and episodic drama, earning several Emmy nominations.