Robert Loggia

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Salvatore "Robert" Loggia (January 3, 1930 – December 4, 2015) was an American actor and director.

He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for Jagged Edge (1985) and received the Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actor for Big (1988). Loggia appeared in many films over the years, including The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965), The Blind Panther (1985), Return to Me (2000), and Tim and Eric's Billion Dollar Film (2012).

Malcolm in the Middle (1958), The Nine Lives of Elfego Baca (1989–1990), The Sopranos (2004), Men of a Certain Age (2001), and was also the star of the groundbreaking 1966–67 NBC martial arts / action film T.H.E.Cat.

Early life and education

Loggia was born on January 3, 1930, to Biagio Loggia, a shoemaker born in Palma de Montechiaro, Sicily, and Elena Blandino, a homemaker born in Vittoria, Province of Ragusa, Sicily. He grew up in Little Italy, where the family spoke Italian at home. He graduated from New Dorp High School before enrolling in Wagner College. He earned a degree in journalism from the University of Missouri in 1951. He later studied at Northwestern University with Alvina Krause.

He married Marjorie Sloan in 1954 and began a long career at the Actors Studio, studying under Stella Adler after being in the Korean Army during the Korean War.

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Career

In 1955, he made his Broadway debut in The Man with the Golden Arm at age 25.

Although Loggia made his first film, Somebody Up There Likes Me (1956), in an uncredited appearance, it wasn't until he was cast as a New Mexico prosecutman Elfego Baca two years later that he had a breakthrough in Hollywood. Loggia, a radio and television anchor on the Panama Canal Zone, rose to fame as a real-life sheriff in The Nine Lives of Elfego Baca, a series of Walt Disney TV series. Thomas Hewitt Edward Cat, the proverbial cat-burglar-turned-good circus artist, appeared in a short-lived detective series called T.H.E. Cat first appeared in 1966, a 1966 television broadcaster. T.H.E. came first at the top of the charts. "We're getting about a 30 percent share of the audience," Loggia said of a recent show with a new celebrity." Loggia's life began after NBC canceled the show when viewing figures failed to produce, prompting him to call it a "Dante-esque descent into the inferno" later. His career flourished for six years, but his marriage fell apart. Audrey O'Brien's chance meeting was his saving grace, leaving him exhausted and tense, and the self-doubt remained present. She aided him in escaping the crisis and they later married. After playing Frank Carver on the CBS soap opera The Secret Storm in 1972, he vehemently changed direction when he started a career in directing.

He continued acting and gained many television credits, including appearances on Overland Trail, The Untouchables, Breaking Point, Combat!, Custer, Columbo, Ellery Queen, The High Chaparral, The Sopranos, Montk, The Six Million Dollar Man, The Man of the West, Seven Times of the Sea, The Last American, The High Chaparral, Dietch, The Sopranos, Intuitables, The Big Valley, The Black Handgun

Loggia was often cast in his films in minor or supporting roles by director Blake Edwards. They included Revenge of the Pink Panther (1978) and other Pink Panther sequels, as well as S.O.B. (1981), which was a satire of Hollywood.

Loggia starred Frank Lopez, a drug dealer who was one of the key supporting characters and antagonists in the film Scarface, which is often considered a Hollywood classic film.

Loggia appeared in several well-known films, including An Officer and a Gentleman (1982), Prizzi's Honor (1985), and Independence Day (1996). Over the Top (1987), Necessary Roughness (1991), and Return to Me (2000) are three other films starring Loggia.

Loggia was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role as crusty private detective Sam Ransom in the crime thriller Jagged Edge (1985). He was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series for portraying FBI agent Nick Mancuso (1989–1990), the sequel to last year's miniseries Favorite Son (1988). Loggia appeared in multiple films, including Bill Sykes, the immoral loanshark and shipyard agent in Disney's animated film Oliver & Company (1988), Don Eddy's Lost Highway (1992), and Don Vito Leoni's The Don's Analyst (1997). In addition, he appearedană bbster Feech La Manna in several episodes of The Sopranos.

Loggia appeared on television commercial lampooning obscure celebrity endorsements in 1998. In it, a young boy names Loggia as someone he would trust to recommend Minute Maid's orange-tangerine blend. Loggia appears and endorses theinterroged drink, to which the boy exclaims, "Whoa, Robert Loggia!" The commercial was later referred to in a Malcolm in the Middle episode in which Loggia received his second Emmy nomination; in it, Loggia sips orange juice, then spits it out and complains about the presence of pulp.

Loggia performed in numerous television series, including: Admiral Petrarch in the computer game FreeSpace 2 (1999) and the anime film The Dog of Flanders (2001), crooked cop Ray Machowski in the video game Grand Theft Auto III (1999), and a recurring appearance in the Adult Swim animated TV comedy series Tom Goes to the Mayor (1994–2006).

Loggia appeared in one of Apple's Get a Mac ads in August 2009. Loggia is portrayed in the video as a personal trainer hired by PC to get him back to where he belongs. Loggia had joined the cast of Men of a Certain Age, according to TVGuide.com on October 26, 2009.

Loggia appeared in two episodes of Family Guy as himself; in the episode "Brothers and Sisters," after Mayor West informs his fiancé Carol that he has "aides" (which Carol misidentifies as HIV); later, he comes out as "NOT OKAY!" He is seen twice in the episode "Call Girl" denoting the passing of time in boring events. "Eight f***ing hours later," the script would bring the story forward. During his last parole in The Apostle Peter and the Last Supper in 2012, Loggia portrayed Saint Peter. Loggia was married to Canadian entrepreneur Frank D'Angelo from 2013 and No Depo$it), his fourth film in development (Sicilian Vampire) at the time of Loggia's death.

Loggia appeared on episodes of Quincy M.E., Magnum, P.I., and Hart to Hart.

Loggia reprised his role as General William Grey in a cameo appearance alongside his wife, Audrey, in the 2016 sequel Independence Day: Resurrection, which was shot shortly before his death. The film was released posthumously and devoted to him.

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