Happy 75th Birthday Lloyd Battista

Lloyd Battista was born on May 14, 1937 in Cleveland, Ohio. He’s spent a lifetime in theater and film which has produced an impressive list of credits. As an actor he has been seen on and off Broadway well over a dozen times ranging in vehicles as diverse as “Sexual Perversity” in Chicago to “The Homecoming” with The Royal Shakespeare Company. On television he has guest starred on countless prime time shows ranging from "Here's Lucy" and "Mission Impossible", to "Perry Mason" and "Walker, Texas Ranger". He has been seen in over a dozen movies made for television, plus Spelling Entertainment's mini-series of James Michener's "Texas". Battista is also recognizable from being a regular for five years on CBS's classic daytime drama, "Love of Life". In film appearances he's been killed by John Wayne, hit over the head by Woody Allen and Diane Keaton, been the President of Nicaragua, been a brother to Ringo Starr and rode into the sunset in several Spaghetti westerns where he always wore a black hat. Perhaps his favorite action sequence was his underwater struggle with Flipper in "Flippers New Adventure". His voice is easily recognized from the long running radio drama, CBS Mystery Theatre of the Air. He’s directed for the theater and radio, written screenplays for films and written poetry and is a restaurant critic. He appeared in and wrote screenplays for four Euro-westerns “The Silent Stranger” (1968), “Blindman” (1971), “Get Mean” (1975) and “Comin’ At Ya!” (1981). Today we celebrate Lloyd Battista’s 75^th Birthday.