Lo Bianco was born in Brooklyn, New York, the son of a housewife mother and a taxi driver father. 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. 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. He also won the 1983 Outer Critics Circle Award for this performance.\n', '

Lo Bianco first portrayed the larger-than-life 1934–1945 mayor of New York City Fiorello H. La Guardia in the one-man show Hizzoner!, written in 1984 by Paul Shyre. The play closed in 1989 after 12 Broadway performances.\n', '

Lo Bianco continued his work on the life of LaGuardia in a revised revival of the play in 2008, titled LaGuardia. His third incantation of the mayor\'s life that had a limited run off Broadway in October 2012, titled 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\n', 'that we\'re in, which we continue to be in I think, and try to relate answers to failure." He performed it in Moscow shortly before the fall of the Soviet Union, and in 2015 was scheduled to perform it in Italy.\n', '

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