Robert Loggia
Robert Loggia | |
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Born | Salvatore Loggia January 3, 1930 Staten Island, New York, U.S. |
Died | December 4, 2015 Brentwood, California, U.S. | (aged 85)
Resting place | Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery, California, U.S. |
Education | Wagner College |
Alma mater | University of Missouri |
Occupation(s) | Actor, director |
Years active | 1948–2015 |
Spouse(s) |
Marjorie Sloan
(m. 1954; div. 1981)Audrey O'Brien (m. 1982) |
Children | 3 children, 1 stepdaughter[1] |
Awards | Saturn Award (1988) Ellis Island Medal of Honor (2010) |
Military career | |
Allegiance | United States |
Service/ | U.S. Army |
Rank | Lieutenant |
Signature |
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 won the Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actor for Big (1988).
In a career spanning over sixty years, Loggia performed in many films including The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965), Revenge of the Pink Panther (1978), An Officer and a Gentleman (1982), Scarface (1983), Prizzi's Honor (1985), Oliver & Company (1988), Innocent Blood (1992), Independence Day (1996), Lost Highway (1997), Return to Me (2000), and Tim and Eric's Billion Dollar Movie (2012). He also appeared on television series including the Walt Disney limited series, The Nine Lives of Elfego Baca (starring role-1958),[2] Mancuso, FBI (in which he starred-1989–1990), Malcolm in the Middle (2001), The Sopranos (2004), Men of a Certain Age (2011), and was also the star of the groundbreaking 1966-67 NBC martial arts / action series, T.H.E. Cat.[3][4][5][6]
Early life and education
Salvatore Loggia was born in Staten Island, New York on January 3, 1930, to Biagio Loggia, a shoemaker born in Palma di Montechiaro, Province of Agrigento, Sicily, and Elena Blandino, a homemaker born in Vittoria, Province of Ragusa, Sicily.[1][7][8] He grew up in the Little Italy neighborhood, where the family spoke Italian at home. He graduated from New Dorp High School before going to Wagner College on a football scholarship. Later he started courses towards a degree in journalism at the University of Missouri, but later still switched to drama courses with Alvina Krause at Northwestern University.
After serving in the United States Army, he married Marjorie Sloan in 1954 and began a long career at the Actors Studio, studying under Stella Adler.[9]
Career
At age 25, he made his debut on Broadway in The Man With the Golden Arm in 1955.[9]
Although Loggia made his first film in 1956, in an uncredited appearance, it was not until he was cast as a New Mexico lawman Elfego Baca, two years later, that he made a breakthrough in Hollywood. Loggia was a radio and TV anchor on the Southern Command Network in the Panama Canal Zone, and he came to prominence playing a real-life sheriff in The Nine Lives of Elfego Baca, a series of Walt Disney TV shows. He later starred as the proverbial cat-burglar-turned-good circus artist Thomas Hewitt Edward Cat in a short-lived detective series called T.H.E. Cat, first broadcast in 1966. At first, T.H.E. Cat appeared to be a success, Loggia said: "We're drawing about a 30 per cent share of the audience, which NBC considers fine for a new show with a new star."[10] After NBC cancelled the series when viewing figures failed to deliver, Loggia went into a mid-life crisis—a "Dante-esque descent into the inferno", as he called it later. For six years his career foundered, and his marriage fell apart. Restless and unnerved, constantly riddled with self-doubt, a chance meeting with Audrey O'Brien was his saving grace. She helped him out of the crisis, and they later married. Despite playing Frank Carver on the CBS soap opera The Secret Storm[11] in 1972, he took a new course when he decided to begin a career in directing.
He also carried on acting and amassed many television credits in a variety of roles, including appearances on Overland Trail, Target: The Corruptors!, The Untouchables, The Eleventh Hour, Breaking Point, Combat!, Custer, Columbo, Ellery Queen, The High Chaparral, Gunsmoke, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, The Big Valley, The Wild Wild West, Rawhide, Little House on the Prairie,"The Rockford Files", Starsky & Hutch, Charlie's Angels, Magnum, P.I., Quincy, M.E., Kojak, Hawaii Five-0, The Bionic Woman, Falcon Crest, Frasier, The Sopranos, Monk, and Oliver Stone's miniseries Wild Palms.
The director Blake Edwards often cast Loggia in his films in minor or supporting roles. These included Revenge of the Pink Panther (1978); S.O.B. (1981), which was a satire about Hollywood; and the Pink Panther sequels.
Loggia also acted in several widely acclaimed films such as An Officer and a Gentleman (1982), Scarface (1983), Prizzi's Honor (1985), and Independence Day (1996). Other films starring Loggia include Over The Top (1987), Necessary Roughness (1991), and Return to Me (2000).
Loggia was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his portrayal of 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, his first such honor, for portraying FBI agent Nick Mancuso in the TV series Mancuso, FBI (1989–1990), a follow-up to the previous year's miniseries Favorite Son (1988). Loggia appeared as a mobster in multiple films, including Bill Sykes, the immoral loanshark and shipyard agent in Disney's animated film Oliver & Company (1988), Salvatore "The Shark" Macelli in John Landis' Innocent Blood (1992), Mr. Eddy in David Lynch's Lost Highway (1997), and Don Vito Leoni in David Jablin's The Don's Analyst (1997). Additionally, he played violent mobster Feech La Manna in several episodes of The Sopranos.
In 1998, Loggia appeared in a television commercial lampooning obscure celebrity endorsements. In it, a young boy names Loggia as someone he would trust to recommend Minute Maid orange-tangerine blend. Loggia instantly appears and endorses the drink, to which the boy exclaims, "Whoa, Robert Loggia!"[12] The commercial was later referenced in a Malcolm in the Middle episode in which Loggia made a guest appearance as "Grandpa Victor" (for which he received his second Emmy nomination); in it, Loggia drinks some orange juice, then spits it out and complains about the pulp.
In addition to voicing Sykes in Disney's Oliver & Company, Loggia had several other voice acting roles, in multiple media, including: Admiral Petrarch in the computer game FreeSpace 2 (1999), the narrator of the Scarface: The World is Yours (2006) game adaptation and the anime movie The Dog of Flanders (1997), crooked cop Ray Machowski in the video game Grand Theft Auto III (2001), and a recurring role on the Adult Swim animated TV comedy series Tom Goes to the Mayor (2004–2006).[13]
In August 2009, Loggia appeared in one of Apple's Get a Mac advertisements. The advertisement features Loggia as a personal trainer hired by PC to get him back on top of his game.[citation needed] On October 26, 2009, TVGuide.com announced Loggia had joined the cast of the TNT series Men of a Certain Age.[14]
In 2012, Loggia portrayed Saint Peter during his final imprisonment in The Apostle Peter and the Last Supper. Loggia partnered with Canadian entrepreneur Frank D'Angelo from 2013, appearing in three films (Real Gangsters, The Big Fat Stone, and No Depo$it), with a fourth film in production (Sicilian Vampire) at the time of Loggia's death.[citation needed]
Loggia served as a director for episodes of Quincy M.E., Magnum, P.I., and Hart to Hart.
Loggia reprised his role from Independence Day, General William Grey, in a cameo appearance alongside his wife, Audrey, in the 2016 sequel Independence Day: Resurgence, filmed shortly before his death. The film was released posthumously and dedicated to him.
Personal life
Loggia was married to Marjorie Sloan from 1954 to 1981, with whom he had three children. Loggia and Sloan were divorced in 1981.[1]
In 1982, Loggia married Audrey O'Brien, a business executive and the mother of his stepdaughter Cynthia Marlette. Loggia and O'Brien remained married until his death in 2015.[1]
Illness and death
In 2010, Loggia was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease.[15] He died on December 4, 2015, of complications from the disease, at his home in the Brentwood neighborhood of Los Angeles, at the age of 85.[15][16]
Honors and recognitions
In 2010, Loggia was awarded the Ellis Island Medal of Honor in recognition of his humanitarian efforts.[17]
On December 17, 2011, Loggia was honored by his alma mater, the University of Missouri, with an honorary degree for his career and his humanitarian efforts.[18]
Filmography
Film
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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1956 | Somebody Up There Likes Me | Frankie Peppo | Uncredited. |
1957 | The Garment Jungle | Tulio Renata | American crime film noir, directed by Vincent Sherman and Robert Aldrich, and written by Lester Velie and Harry Kleiner. |
1958 | Cop Hater | Detective Steve Carelli | American police procedural film, based on the 1956 novel Cop Hater by Ed McBain |
The Lost Missile | Dr. David Loring | Science fiction film, directed by William A. Berke's son, Lester Wm. Berke, who had come up with the original story. | |
1963 | Cattle King | Johnny Quatro | |
1965 | The Greatest Story Ever Told | Joseph | American epic film, produced and directed by George Stevens. |
1966 | The Three Sisters | Solyony | Directed by Paul Bogart. |
Elfego Baca: Six Gun Law | Elfego Baca | ||
1969 | Che! | Faustino Morales | American biographical drama film, directed by Richard Fleischer, and starring Omar Sharif as Marxist revolutionary Ernesto "Che" Guevara. |
1974 | Two Missionaries | Marches Gonzaga |
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1977 | Speedtrap | Spillano | A police chase action film. |
First Love | John March | American romance film. | |
1978 | Revenge of the Pink Panther | Al Marchione | The sixth film in The Pink Panther comedy film series. |
1980 | The Ninth Configuration | Lt. Bennish |
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Flatfoot in Egypt | Edward Burns |
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1981 | S.O.B. | Herb Maskowitz | American film comedy, written and directed by Blake Edwards. |
1982 | An Officer and a Gentleman | Byron Mayo | American drama/romance film.[19] |
Trail of the Pink Panther | Bruno Langois | The seventh film in The Pink Panther series. | |
1983 | Psycho II | Dr. Bill Raymond |
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Curse of the Pink Panther | Bruno Langois |
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Scarface | Frank Lopez | American crime drama film, directed by Brian De Palma, and written by Oliver Stone, a remake of the 1932 film of the same name. | |
1985 | Prizzi's Honor | Eduardo Prizzi | American film, directed by John Huston. |
Jagged Edge | Sam Ransom | American courtroom thriller, written by Joe Eszterhas, and directed by Richard Marquand. | |
1986 | Armed and Dangerous | Michael Carlino | American action-crime comedy film, directed by Mark L. Lester. |
That's Life! | Father Baragone | ||
1987 | Over the Top | Jason Cutler |
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Hot Pursuit | Mac MacClaren | American-Mexican action comedy film, directed by Steven Lisberger, and written by Lisberger and Steven Carabatsos. | |
The Believers | Lt. Sean McTaggert | A horror/neo-noir film, directed by John Schlesinger. | |
Gaby: A True Story | Michel Brimmer | American-Mexican drama biographical film, directed by Luis Mandoki. | |
Amazon Women on the Moon | Gen. McCormick |
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1988 | Big | Mr. MacMillan | American fantasy comedy film, directed by Penny Marshall |
Oliver and Company | Sykes |
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1989 | Relentless | Bill Malloy | American crime film, directed by William Lustig. |
Triumph of the Spirit | Father Arouch |
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1990 | Opportunity Knocks | Milt Malkin | Comedy film, directed by Donald Petrie. |
1991 | The Marrying Man | Lew Horner |
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Necessary Roughness | Coach Wally Rig | American sports comedy film, directed by Stan Dragoti in his final film. | |
1992 | Gladiator | Pappy Jack | American sports drama film, directed by Rowdy Herrington. |
Innocent Blood | Sallie "The Shark" Macelli |
| |
Spies Inc. | Mac | ||
1993 | Lifepod | Director Banks | |
1994 | Bad Girls | Frank Jarrett | Western film, directed by Jonathan Kaplan, from a screenplay by Ken Friedman and Yolande Turner. |
The Last Tattoo | Cmdr. Conrad Dart | ||
I Love Trouble | Matt Greenfield | ||
1995 | Coldblooded | Gordon | Black comedy/thriller film about hitmen, directed by Wallace Wolodarsky. |
Man with a Gun | Philip Marquand | ||
1996 | Independence Day | General William Grey | American epic science fiction disaster film, co-written and directed by Roland Emmerich. |
1997 | Lost Highway | Mr. Eddy / Dick Laurent | French-American neo noir psychological mystery thriller, written and directed by David Lynch. |
Smilla's Sense of Snow | Moritz Jasperson | Released in the United Kingdom under the original 1992 novel title in Danish title: Frøken Smillas fornemmelse for sne. | |
The Dog of Flanders | Grandpa Jehan |
| |
The Don's Analyst | Don Vito Leoni | ||
1998 | Wide Awake | Grandpa Beal | Comedy-drama film, written and directed by M. Night Shyamalan, and produced by Cathy Konrad and Cary Woods. |
The Proposition | Hannibal Thurman | ||
Holy Man | John McBainbridge | Comedy film, directed by Stephen Herek. | |
Hard Time | Connie Martin | American crime film, directed by, and starring Burt Reynolds.[21][22] | |
1999 | The Suburbans | Jules | Comedy-drama that satirizes the 1980s revival hype around the turn of the 21st century. |
Flypaper | Marvin | ||
American Virgin | Ronny | Directed by Jean-Pierre Marois. | |
2000 | Return to Me | Angelo Pardipillo | Romantic comedy-drama film, directed by Bonnie Hunt. |
2001 | Dodson's Journey | Opti Dodson | |
The Shipment | Frank Colucci | ||
All Over Again | Zack | ||
2005 | The Deal | Jared Tolson | Political thriller film, directed by Harvey Kahn. |
2006 | Funny Money | Feldman | Comedy film, directed by Leslie Greif. |
Rain | Jake Marvin |
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Forget About It | Carl Campobasso | Directed by BJ Davis.[23] | |
Wild Seven | Mackey Willis | ||
2008 | The Boneyard Collection | ||
The Least Of These | Father William Jennings | ||
2009 | Shrink | Dr. Robert Carter | American independent comedy-drama film, directed by Jonas Pate. |
2010 | Harvest | Siv | Received the Charlotte Film Festival Award for Best Actor. |
Obituary of the Sun | Samuel Levine | ||
2011 | Fake | Seamus White | |
The Grand Theft | General McAvoy | ||
The Great Fight | Dr. Salvatore Reno | ||
The Life Zone | John Lation / Satan | ||
2012 | Apostle Peter and the Last Supper | Apostle Peter | |
Tim and Eric's Billion Dollar Movie | Tommy Schlaaang | American comedy film, written and directed by Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim, creators of Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!. | |
The Diary of Preston Plummer | John Percy | ||
Margarine Wars | Grandpa Griswold | ||
2013 | Real Gangsters | Gaitanno 'Tanno' | |
2014 | Snapshot | Paul Grady | |
Scavenger Killers | Dr. Montgomery | ||
An Evergreen Christmas | Pops | ||
The Big Fat Stone | Father Walter | ||
2015 | Bleeding Hearts | Sheriff Wilson | |
No Deposit | Sydney Fischer | ||
Sicilian Vampire | Santino Trafficante Sr. | Canadian horror drama film, written, directed by, and starring Frank D'Angelo. | |
2016 | Independence Day: Resurgence | Retired General and former 43rd President[24] William Grey | Posthumous release |
The Red Maple Leaf | Patrick Adams Senior | Posthumous release | |
Cries of the Unborn | Mr. Lation | Posthumous release, (final film role) |
Television
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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1959 | Wagon Train | Jose Maria Moran | Episode: "The Jose Maria Moran Story" |
1959 | Alcoa Presents: One Step Beyond | Tom Grant | Episode: "The Hand" |
1963 | Alfred Hitchcock Presents | Driver | Episode: "You'll Be the Death of Me" |
1965 | Combat! | Etienne | Episode: "The Tree of Moray" |
1965 | Gunsmoke | Lieutenant Cal Tripp | Episode: "Chief Joseph" |
1965 | The Wild Wild West | Warren Trevor | Episode: "The Night of Sudden Death" |
1966 | T.H.E. Cat | Thomas Hewitt Edward Cat | Main cast |
1968 | The Big Valley | Vern Hickson | Episode: "The Profit and the Lost" |
1974 | Mannix | Mexican Police Inspector | Episode: “Bird of Prey” |
1976 | Columbo | Harry | Episode: "Now You See Me" |
1976 | The Moneychangers | Tony Bear | TV miniseries |
1976 | The Rockford Files | Manny Arturis | Episode: "Drought at Indianhead River" |
1976 | Wonder Woman | Hans Eichler | Episode: "Wonder Woman vs Gargantua" |
1977 | The Rockford Files | Manny Arturis | Episode: "Beamer's Last Case" |
1977 | Raid on Entebbe | Yigal Allon |
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1978 | The Rockford Files | Russell Nevitt | Episode: "Rosendahl and Gilda Stern Are Dead" |
1980 | Magnum, P.I. | Philippe Trusseau | 3 episodes |
1982 | A Woman Called Golda | Anwar Sadat | TV miniseries |
1982 | Little House on the Prairie | Thomas Stark | Episode: "Rage" |
1983 | Emerald Point N.A.S. | Yuri Bukharin | Main cast |
1987 | Echoes in the Darkness | Jay Smith | TV miniseries |
1987 | Conspiracy: The Trial of the Chicago 8 | William Kunstler | |
1988 | Favorite Son | Nick Mancuso | |
1989 | Mancuso, F.B.I. | Nick Mancuso | Main cast |
1991 | Sunday Dinner | Ben Benedict | Main cast |
1993 | Wild Palms | Senator Anton Kreutzer | TV miniseries |
1993 | Mercy Mission: the Rescue of Flight 771 | Gordon Vette | Television film |
1994 | Picture Windows | Merce | Episode: "Armed Response" |
1999 | Joan of Arc | Father Monet | |
2000 | Malcolm in the Middle | Victor | Episode: "The Grandparents" |
2000 | Frasier | Stefano | Episode: "The Three Faces of Frasier" |
2000 | The Outer Limits | Justice Earl Clayton | Episode: "Final Appeal" |
2003 | Queens Supreme | Judge Thomas O'Neill | Main cast |
2004 | The Sopranos | Feech La Manna | Appears in: "Two Tonys", "Rat Pack", Where's Johnny?", and "All Happy Families..." |
2008 | Monk | Louie Flynn | Episode: "Mr. Monk Takes a Punch" |
2010 | Hawaii Five-0 | Boatswain's Mate, Ed McKay, 1st Class | Episode: "Ho'apano" |
2010–2011 | Men of a Certain Age | Artie | 3 episodes |
Video games
Year | Title | Roles | Notes |
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1999 | Freespace 2 | Adm. Petrarch | |
2001 | Grand Theft Auto III | Ray Machowski | |
2006 | Scarface: The World Is Yours | Narrator, Civilian |
Awards and nominations
Year | Award | Category | Work | Result | ref |
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1985 | Academy Award | Best Supporting Actor | Jagged Edge | Nominated | [15] |
1988 | Cable ACE Award | Best Actor in a Theatrical or Dramatic Special | Conspiracy: The Trial of the Chicago 8 | Nominated | |
1988 | Saturn Award | Best Supporting Actor | Big | Won | [25] |
1990 | Primetime Emmy Award | Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series | Mancuso, F.B.I. | Nominated | |
1992 | Fangoria Chainsaw Award | Best Actor | Innocent Blood | Nominated | |
2001 | Primetime Emmy Awards | Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series | Malcolm in the Middle | Nominated |
References
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- ^ dalek7 (March 24, 2013). "T.H.E. Cat Robert Loggia" – via YouTube.
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- ^ Gowran, Clay (October 31, 1966). "Plan More Kisses for Bone Busting Cat". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved September 4, 2016.
- ^ TV Guide Guide to TV. Barnes and Noble. 2004. p. 562. ISBN 0-7607-5634-1.
- ^ Whoa, Robert Loggia! on YouTube
- ^ Justin Sevakis (March 6, 2008) The Dog of Flanders – Buried Treasure, animenewsnetwork.com; accessed April 12, 2015.
- ^ Adam Bryant (October 26, 2009). "Exclusive: Ray Romano's Men of a Certain Age Casts Robert Loggia". TVGuide.com.
- ^ a b c Associated Press (December 4, 2015). "'Scarface,' 'Sopranos' actor Robert Loggia dies at 85". LA Times. Tribune Publishing. Retrieved December 4, 2015.
- ^ McNary, Dave (December 4, 2015). "Oscar-Nominated Actor Robert Loggia Dies at 85". Variety. Penske Media Corporation. Retrieved January 15, 2015.
- ^ "Ellis Island Medal of Honor", NYU News and Publications, May 10, 2015. Retrieved 2015-12-05
- ^ "Robert Loggia, William Least Heat-Moon to earn honorary MU degrees". Columbia Daily Tribune. December 1, 2011. Archived from the original on July 22, 2012. Retrieved December 5, 2011.
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External links
- Robert Loggia at the Internet Broadway Database
- Robert Loggia at IMDb
- Robert Loggia at the Internet Off-Broadway Database
- Robert Loggia at the University of Wisconsin's Actors Studio audio collection
- Robert Loggia (Aveleyman)
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