Robert Loggia

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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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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

Commons : Robert Loggia  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Biographical data of Robert Loggia in: My Sicilian Legacy: The Struggles and Joys of Three Generations , by Richard F. Cavallaro, AuthorHouse, 2009, p. 382
  2. ^ Oscar-Nominated Actor Robert Loggia Dies at 85. In: variety.com. Variety , December 4, 2015, accessed December 5, 2015 .
personal data
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