Robert Loggia
Robert Loggia (* 3. January 1930 in Staten Iceland , New York City as Salvatore Loggia ; † 4. December 2015 in Los Angeles , California ) was an American actor of Italian descent.
Life
The Italian-American decided to the chagrin of his father, who prefer a career for his son journalist would have liked in the early 1950s for acting and for the visit of the legendary, of Lee Strasberg directed, Actors Studio in his hometown of New York City. After that Loggia first worked as a stage actor on Broadway .
In 1956 he had his first film role in Robert Wise's boxing drama Hell is Inside Me with Paul Newman . Immediately afterwards he got his first roles on television and in film productions as a cop , which was followed by numerous other police officer roles over the years. He played his first leading role in 1958 in Cop Hater as Detective Steve Carella , a well-known character in Ed McBain's famous series of novels about the police officers of the 87th New York Police Department. He was in the early 1960s in a Disney - television series of the immortal laws man Elfego Baca .
From 1966 he played the main role in the series THE Cat, a former circus artist and burglar who changes sides and now fights crime with the means he has learned. For the die-hard and threatening actor, switching to the other side of the law in countless westerns and crime films was obvious. In the opinion of some critics, however, Loggia sometimes appeared “wooden and unconvincing”, as the film critic Leonard Maltin wrote.
In the early 1980s, however, with increasing success with critics and audiences, Loggia began to establish itself as a sensitive, versatile character actor, for example in Taylor Hackford's drama An Officer and a Gentleman (1982) as the father of Richard Gere . In Brian De Palma's new edition of the classic Scarface (1983) he played the role of the particularly unscrupulous drug lord Frank Lopez , while he also demonstrated his comedic talent in Blake Edwards ' SOB - Hollywood's Last Howler (1981) and in several Pink Panther films posed.
Loggia finally rose to the top of his guild as a mafioso in John Huston's Die Ehre der Prizzis and with his Oscar- nominated supporting role as a private detective in the psychological thriller The Knife (both 1985). In Blake Edwards' That's Life (1986) he appeared alongside Jack Lemmon and Julie Andrews as a priest addicted to alcohol, and in the hit comedy Big (1988) he danced with the toy manufacturer in a fairytale way Adult boy Josh ( Tom Hanks ) left out on an oversized piano .
Between 1976 and 1981 Robert Loggia directed several episodes of the television series Quincy , Hart but Warm and Magnum . After his appearance in the miniseries Hell's favorites as FBI agent Nick Mancuso , the spin-off Mancuso, FBI , was formed in 1988 , but was discontinued after the first season in 1989. In 1992 he was in Bloody Marie - A woman with a bite again a Mafioso, who is judged by a vampire ( Anne Parillaud ).
In 1996 Loggia played a general in the blockbuster Independence Day . In 1997 he starred in David Lynch's enigmatic film Lost Highway . In 1999 he appeared in a commercial for orange juice, which gained cult status due to its surreal design . In 2004 he had several appearances in the series The Sopranos . Loggia was a busy character actor in American film and television.
Robert Loggia was married to Audrey O'Brien in 1982 and had four children. He died in Los Angeles on December 4, 2015 at the age of 85.
Filmography (selection)
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- 1951: Search for Tomorrow (TV series)
- 1956: Somebody Up There Likes Me (Somebody Up There Likes Me)
- 1957: For Bare Life (The Garment Jungle)
- 1958: Cop Hater
- 1958: The red telephone ... alarm! (The Lost Missile)
- 1963: Gunslingers of Wyoming (Cattle King)
- 1963: The Greatest Story Ever Told (The Greatest Story Ever Told)
- 1966: THE Cat (TV series)
- 1966: Elfego Baca - Six Gun Law (Elfego Baca: Six Gun Law)
- 1968: Che!
- 1974: Two missionaries (Porgi L'altra guancia)
- 1975: Columbo (TV series, episode 5x05 When appearances are deceptive )
- 1976: The Public Defender ( Mallory: Circumstantial Evidence , TV movie)
- 1976: Street Killing
- 1976: ... who know no mercy ( Raid on Entebbe , TV film)
- 1977: Young Love (First Love)
- 1977: Speedtrap - get in, start, run away (Speedtrap)
- 1978: Detective Rockford - a call is enough (TV series, episode 4x01 Stranger Springs )
- 1978: Inspector Clouseau - The crazy Flic with the hot look (Revenge of the Pink Panther)
- 1978: Starsky & Hutch (s04 e10) (Unexpected help)
- 1979: Vegas (TV series)
- 1980: Flat foot on the Nile (Piedone d'Egitto)
- 1981: SOB - Hollywood's Last Howler (SOB)
- 1982: An Officer and a Gentleman
- 1982: Our Little Farm - Season 9, 1 episode
- 1982: The Pink Panther is hunted (Trail of the Pink Panther)
- 1983: Curse of the Pink Panther (Curse of the Pink Panther)
- 1983: Psycho II
- 1983: Scarface
- 1984: The fatal affair of Katherine G. (A Touch of Scandal)
- 1985: Prizzi's Honor (Prizzi's Honor)
- 1985: The Knife (Jagged Edge)
- 1985: Night of Retribution (Streets of Justice)
- 1986: Two under full steam (Armed And Dangerous)
- 1986: That's Life! That's life (That's Life!)
- 1987: Over the Top
- 1987: The Ritual (The Believers)
- 1987: Mr. Alligator ... See You Later (Hot Pursuit)
- 1987: Echoes in the Darkness (TV movie)
- 1987: Gaby : A True Story
- 1987: Amazons on the moon or why the Americans have the channel full (Amazon Women on the Moon)
- 1988: Big
- 1988: Chaotic spies
- 1988: Oliver and Co. (Oliver and Company)
- 1988: Hell's minions ( Favorite Son , miniseries)
- 1989: The Sunset Killer (Relentless)
- 1989: No Chance for Dreams (Dream Breakers , TV movie)
- 1989: Triumph of the Spirit ( Triumph of the Spirit)
- 1990: The disaster Knight (Opportunity Knocks)
- 1991: The Marrying Man (The Marrying Man)
- 1991: Armadillo Bears - A Totally Chaotic Bunch (Necessary Roughness)
- 1992: Fists - You have to fight for your rights (Gladiator)
- 1992: Starfighter of Death ( Afterburn , TV movie)
- 1992: Bloody Marie - A Woman with a Bite (Innocent Blood)
- 1993: Crashed in the Jungle (Nurse On The Line)
- 1993: SOS over the Pacific (Mercy Mission: The Rescue of Flight 771)
- 1993: Lifepod
- 1993: The Last Tattoo
- 1993: Wild Palms
- 1994: Bad Girls
- 1994: I Love Trouble - Nothing but trouble (I Love Trouble)
- 1994: Raging Current - Rafting Trip Into Verderben ( White Mile , TV movie)
- 1995: Lassiter: Murder in New Orleans ( Jake Lassiter: Justice on the Bayou , TV movie)
- 1995: Man with a Gun
- 1995: Cold Blooded
- 1995: The Right to Remain Silent (TV movie)
- 1996: Independence Day
- 1996: Pandora's Clock - Killer viruses aboard the 747 (Pandora's Clock)
- 1996: Trial - A bull strikes back ( Mistrial , TV movie)
- 1997: Lost Highway
- 1997: Miss Smilla's Sense of Snow (Smilla's Sense of Snow)
- 1997: Psycho godfather
- 1998: Wide Awake
- 1998: Desire & Reality (The Proposition)
- 1998: Logan: A Suspected Cop (Hard Time)
- 1998: The Guru (Holy Man)
- 1999: Flycatcher (Flypaper)
- 1999: Bonanno: A Godfather's Story
- 1999: The Suburbans - The Beat Goes On! (The Suburbans)
- 1999: Jeanne d'Arc - The Woman of the Millennium (Joan of Arc)
- 2000: The American Virgin (Live Virgin)
- 2000: Back to you (Return to Me)
- 2001: The Shipment - Hot cargo in the cattle truck (The Shipment)
- 2001: Malcolm in the Middle ( Malcolm in the Middle , TV series, episode 2x15 The Grandparents )
- 2004: The Sopranos ( The Sopranos , TV series, 4 episodes)
- 2005: The Deal - In the sights of the oil mafia (The Deal)
- 2006: Rain
- 2006: Funny Money
- 2006: Wild Seven
- 2006: Forget About It
- 2008: The Least of These
- 2008: Monk (TV series, episode 7x04)
- 2009: Shrink
- 2010: Harvest
- 2010: Hawaii-five-o (TV series, episode 7x01)
- 2011: The Grand Theft
- 2011: The Great Fight
- 2012: Snapshot
- 2012: The Diary of Preston Plummer
- 2012: Tim and Eric's Billion Dollar Movie
- 2012: Peter and the Last Supper (Apostle Peter and the Last Supper)
- 2015: Bleeding Hearts
- 2015: Sicilian Vampire
- 2016: Independence Day: Resurgence
Awards
- 1986: Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actor for Jagged Edge
- 1988: CableACE Award nomination for Best Actor for Conspiracy: The Trial of the Chicago 8
- 1990: Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actor for Big
- 1990: Primetime Emmy Award nomination for Best Actor for Mancuso, FBI
literature
Web links
- Robert Loggia at the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Robert Loggia at the Internet Broadway Database (English)
- Films by Robert Loggia with German distribution titles
Individual evidence
- ^ Biographical data of Robert Loggia in: My Sicilian Legacy: The Struggles and Joys of Three Generations , by Richard F. Cavallaro, AuthorHouse, 2009, p. 382
- ^ Oscar-Nominated Actor Robert Loggia Dies at 85. In: variety.com. Variety , December 4, 2015, accessed December 5, 2015 .
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Loggia, Robert |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Loggia, Salvatore (maiden name); Loggia, Roberto |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | US-American actor |
DATE OF BIRTH | January 3, 1930 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Staten Island , New York City , United States |
DATE OF DEATH | 4th December 2015 |
Place of death | Los Angeles , California , United States |