Robert Loggia

Robert Loggia studied at Wagner College, New Dorp High School and University of Missouri. The recorded working language is English. The field of work recorded is film, acting and film direction. Distinctions recorded are Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actor, Ellis Island Medal of Honor, Saturn Awards and 16th Saturn Awards.

• Name — Robert Loggia • Birth Name — Salvatore Loggia • Born — 3 January 1930 • Birthplace — Staten Island, New York, U.S. • Died — 4 December 2015 • Place of death — Los Angeles, California, U.S. • Resting Place — Westwood Memorial Park • Education — University of Missouri (BA) • Occupation — Actor • Years Active — 1951–2015 • Children — 3 • Relatives — James LeGros (son-in-law) • Awards — Saturn Award (1988) Ellis Island Medal of Honor (2010)

Loggia was born in Staten Island, New York on January 3, 1930,[3] to Biagio Loggia, a shoemaker born in Palma di Montechiaro, Sicily and Elena Blandino, a homemaker born in Vittoria, Sicily.[4][5] He grew up in the Little Italy neighborhood, where the family spoke Italian at home. He graduated from New Dorp High School in Staten Island before taking courses at Wagner College in the city, where he joined the Alpha Sigma Phi fraternity.[6] In 1951, Robert Loggia earned a degree in journalism from the University of Missouri in Columbia.[7] He later studied acting with Alvina Krause at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois.[8] After serving as a reporter in the United States Army for the Armed Forces Radio and Television Service in the Caribbean,[9] Loggia started his acting career at the Actors Studio, studying under Stella Adler.[10]

Loggia's stage roles include Solyony in The Three Sisters (1964) and as Al in Boom Boom Room (1973).[11] He had an uncredited appearance in Somebody Up There Likes Me (1956); when he was cast as a New Mexico lawman Elfego Baca in 1958 his career began. He was a radio and TV anchor on the Southern Command Network in the Panama Canal Zone, and Loggia garnered attention by playing a real life sheriff in The Nine Lives of Elfego Baca, a series of Walt Disney TV shows. • Illustration — Loggia in T.H.E. Cat, 1966 Loggia 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. T.H.E. Cat initially appeared to be a success, and 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."[12] After NBC canceled the series when viewing figures failed to deliver, he went into a mid-life crisis—a "Dante-esque descent into the inferno", as he called it later. For six years, Loggia's 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 Loggia out of the crisis, and they later married. Despite playing Frank Carver on the CBS soap opera The Secret Storm[13] in 1972, he took a new course when he decided to begin a career in directing. Director Blake Edwards often cast Loggia in his films in minor or supporting roles including Revenge of the Pink Panther (1978), other Pink Panther sequels, and S.O.B. (1981), a satire about Hollywood. In 1983, Loggia played Frank Lopez,[14] a drug dealer who was one of the main supporting characters and antagonists in the film Scarface, which is often considered a classic Hollywood film.[15] Loggia also acted in several widely acclaimed films such as An Officer and a Gentleman (1982), Prizzi's Honor (1985), and Independence Day (1996). He also appeared in the movie "Big" in 1988, which was an American fantasy comedy film directed by Penny Marshall and starring Tom Hanks as Josh Baskin, an adolescent boy whose wish to be "big" transforms him physically into an adult. Robert Loggia and Tom Hanks famously played an oversized floor piano keyboard with their feet in the FAO Schwartz toy store. 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). He also 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[16]!" 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 a second Emmy nomination); in it, Loggia drinks orange juice, spits it out, and complains about the presence of pulp. In addition to voicing Sykes in Disney's Oliver & Company, Loggia had several more voice acting roles in multiple media, including: Admiral Petrarch in the computer game FreeSpace 2 (1999) and the anime movie The Dog of Flanders (1997), crooked cop Ray Machowski in Grand Theft Auto III, a 2001 video game, and a recurring role on the Adult Swim animated TV comedy series Tom Goes to the Mayor (2004–2006).[17] In August 2009, Loggia appeared in one of Apple's Get a Mac advertisements. The advertisement features him as a personal trainer hired by PC to get him back on top of his game. On October 26, 2009, TVGuide.com announced Loggia had joined the cast of the TNT series Men of a Certain Age. Loggia appeared in two episodes of the animated series Family Guy as himself; in the episode "Brothers and Sisters", after Mayor West tells his fiancé Carol he has "aides" (which Carol mistakes for AIDS), before he clarifies that he is referring to his assistants; West then remarks that they both have AIDS, and the scene cuts to Loggia, angrily responding "Not Okay!". In the episode "Call Girl", he is seen twice denoting the passage of time in boring events. The script cuts away to Loggia saying "Eight __ hours later", then back to the story, further along in the plot. An earlier episode showed Peter stuck behind Loggia at the airport, where he was not voiced by Loggia himself. In 2012, Loggia portrayed Saint Peter during his final imprisonment in The Apostle Peter and the Last Supper. He partnered with Frank D'Angelo, an entrepreneur from Toronto in 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. 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 he died. The film was released posthumously and dedicated to him.

• Illustration — Robert and Audrey Loggia at the 2012 Miami Film Festival in Miami Loggia was married to Della Marjorie Sloan, from 1954 until they divorced in 1981. They had three children. In 1982, he and Audrey O'Brien married; they were married until his death in 2015.[19] In 2010, Loggia was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease.[20] He died on December 4, 2015, due to complications from the disease, at his home in the Brentwood, Los Angeles, at age 85.[21] He was interred at Westwood Memorial Park.

• Year — Title — Role — Notes • 1956–1957 — Studio One — - — Season 9 Episode 1: "A Special Announcement" • Henry Thomas — Season 9 Episode 28: "The Traveling Lady" • Lieutenant Joe Crane — Season 10 Episode 3: "Mutiny on the Shark: Part 1" Season 10 Episode 4: "Mutiny on the Shark: Part 2" • 1958 — Playhouse 90 — Major Woulman — Season 2 Episode 32: Rumors of Evening • NBC Matinee Theater — Dagnon — Season 3 Episode 103: "The Prophet Hosea" • 1958–1960 — Walt Disney Presents — Elfego Baca — Season 5 Episode 1: "The Nine Lives of Elfego Baca" (1958) Season 5 Episode 3: "Four Down and Five Lives to Go" (1958) Season 5 Episode 5 Episode 10: "Elfego Baca: Lawman or Gunman" (1958) Season 5 Episode 11: "Law and Order, Incorporated" (1958) Season 5 Episode 17: "Elfego Baca: Attorney at Law" (1959) Season 5 Episode 19: "The Griswold Murder" (1959) Season 6 Episode 7: "Elfego Baca: Move Along, Mustangers" (1959) Season 6 Episode 8: "Elfego Baca: Mustang Man, Mustang Maid" (1959) Season 6 Episode 24: Elfego Baca: Friendly Enemies at Law" (1960) Season 6 Episode 25: Elfego Baca: Gus Tomlin is Dead" (1960) • 1959 — Wagon Train — Jose Maria Moran — Season 2 Episode 34: "The Jose Maria Moran Story" • Alcoa Presents: One Step Beyond — Tom Grant — Season 2 Episode 15: "The Hand" • Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse — Patsy — Season 2 Episode 5: "Come Back to Sorrento" • 1960 — The United States Steel Hour — Jacques Planchet / Jonathan Plunkett — Season 7 Episode 16: "How to Make a Killing" • Overland Trail — Captain Porfirio Diaz — Season 1 Episode 11: "Mission into Mexico" • 1960–1962 — Alfred Hitchcock Presents — Larry Chetnik — Season 6 Episode 9: "The Money" • James "Jimmy" French — Season 7 Episode 16: "The Case of M.J.H." • 1961 — Naked City — Ben Tourelle — Season 3 Episode 4: "The Fingers of Henri Tourelle" • Target: The Corruptors — Johnny Praisewater — Season 1 Episode 5: "The Poppy Vendor" • The Defenders — Joe Manson — Season 1 Episode 12: "Perjury" • Alcoa Premiere — Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary — Season 1 Episode 9: "The End of a World" • 1962 — The Untouchables — Leo Mencken / Larry Zenko — Season 3 Episode 17: "Takeover" • The Dick Powell Show — Collin Maese — Season 1 Episode 23: "The Hook" • The DuPont Show of the Week — Kiki — Season 2 Episode 2: "The Interrogator" • 1963 — The Alfred Hitchcock Hour — "Driver" Arthur — Season 2 Episode 4: "You'll Be the Death of Me" • The Defenders — Jerry Thomas — Season 2 Episode 23: "The Eye of Fear" • Rawhide — Maria Jose Chappala — Season 5 Episode 24: "Incident of the Comanchero" • 1963–1964 — Ben Casey — Dr. Mike Rosario — Season 3 Episode 2: "Justice to a Microbe" • John Hanavan — Season 4 Episode 13: "This Wild, Wild, Wild Waltzing World" • The Nurses — Dr. Juan Cortez — Season 3 Episode 13: "The Skill in These Hands" • 1964 — Route 66 — Colonel Zaman — Season 4 Episode 23: "I'm Here to Kill a King" • 1965 — The Alfred Hitchcock Hour — Richard Schausak — Season 3 Episode 25: "The World's Oldest Motive" • Combat! — Etienne — Season 3 Episode 26: "The Tree of Moray" • Gunsmoke — Lieutenant Cal Tripp — Season 10 Episode 19: "Chief Joseph" • 1965–1967 — The Wild Wild West — Warren Trevor — Season 1 Episode 4: "The Night of Sudden Death" • 1966 — Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea — Dr. Crandell Ames — Season 2 Episode 19: "Graveyard of Fear" • 1966–1967 — T.H.E. Cat — Thomas Hewitt Edward Cat — 26 episodes • 1968 — The Big Valley — Vern Hickson — Season 4 Episode 9: "The Profit and the Lost" • 1968–1970 — The High Chaparral — Chio — Season 2 Episode 9: "The Deceivers" • Grey Wolf — Season 4 Episode 9: "The Forge of Hate" • 1970–1972 — The F.B.I. — Alex Poland — Season 6 Episode 8: "The Deadly Pact" • Phillip Derrane — Season 7 Episode 20: "Arrangement with Terror" • 1974 — Cannon — Luis Gutierrez — Season 4 Episode 6: "The Exchange" • 1975 — Mannix — Inspector Varga — Season 8 Episode 20: "Bird of Prey: Part 1" Season 8 Episode 21: "Bird of Prey: Part 2" • 1975–1978 — Starsky & Hutch — Ben Forest — Season 1 Episode 5: "The Fix" • Jack Parker — Season 4 Episode 10: "The Groupie" • 1975 — Kojak — Cassidy York — Season 2 Episode 23: "Two-Four-Six for Two Hundred" • McMillan & Wife — Dimetrios Anapopulis — Season 5 Episode 3: "Aftershock" • Ellery Queen — Alexsei Dobrenskov — Season 1 Episode 7: "The Adventure of Colonel Nivin's Memoirs" • 1975–1976 — S.W.A.T. — Joe Stevens — Season 1 Episode 5: "Hit Men" • Lieutenant Johnson — Season 2 Episode 22: "Any Second Now" • 1976 — Cannon — Johnny Behr — Season 5 Episode 21: "Snapshot" • Columbo — Harry — Season 5 Episode 5: "Now You See Me" • The Moneychangers — Tony ("Tony Bear") — Season 1 Episode 3: "Part III" Season 1 Episode 4: "Part IV" • 1976–1978 — The Rockford Files — Dominic Marcon — Season 3 Episode 5: "Drought at Indianhead River" • Manny Arturis — Season 4 Episode 1: "Beamer's Last Case" • Russell Nevitt — Season 5 Episode 2: "Rosendahl and Gilda Stern Are Dead" • 1976 — Charlie's Angels — Paul Terranova — Season 1 Episode 6: "The Killing Kind" • Wonder Woman — Hans Eichler — Season 1 Episode 6: "Wonder Woman vs Gargantua" • Street Killing — Louis Spillane — Television film • 1976–1977 — The Six Million Dollar Man — Mahmud Majid — Season 4 Episode 9: "The Thunderbird Connection" (Television film) • Hendricks — Season 5 Episode 7: "Rollback" • Police Woman — Paul Nicastro — Season 2 Episode 19: "Wednesday's Child" • Sylvester — Season 3 Episode 16: "Shadow of a Doubt" • 1977 — Raid on Entebbe — Yigal Allon — Television film • The Bionic Woman — Ali Ben Gazim — Season 2 Episode 17: "Jaime and the King" (Television film) • 1978 — The Eddie Capra Mysteries — George Carroll — Season 1 Episode 6: "How Do I Kill Thee?" • 1979 — Hawaii Five-O — Russ Hendrix — Season 11 Episode 18: "The Execution File" • 1979–1980 — Vega$ — Lou Volt — Season 1 Episode 13: "The Eleventh Event" • Simon Webster — Season 2 Episode 18: "The Hunter Hunted" • 1980 — Charlie's Angels — Michael Durano — Season 4 Episode 23: "Toni's Boys" • Magnum, P.I. — Philippe Trusseau — Season 1 Episode 1: "Don't Eat the Snow in Hawaii" Season 1 Episode 2: "Don't Eat the Snow in Hawaii: Part 2" • 1981 — Fantasy Island — Porter Brockhill — Season 4 Episode 12: "The Heroine/The Warrior" • 1982 — A Woman Called Golda — Anwar Sadat — TV miniseries • Little House on the Prairie — Thomas Stark — Season 9 Episode 4: "Rage" • 1983–1984 — Emerald Point N.A.S. — Yuri Bukharin — 16 episodes • 1984 — Murder, She Wrote — Joe Kellijian — Season 1 Episode 9: "Death Casts a Spell" • Matt Houston — Decker — Season 3 Episode 6: "Return to Nam: Part 1" Season 3 Episode 7: "Escape from Nam: Part 2" • 1985 — Streets of Justice — Detective Christopher Ryan — Television film • 1986 — Magnum, P.I. — Philippe Trusseau / 'La Bulle' — Season 7 Episode 5: "Death and Taxes" • Alfred Hitchcock Presents — Charley — Season 1 Episode 14: "A Very Happy Ending" • 1987 — Echoes in the Darkness — Jay Smith — 2 episodes ("Part I" and "Part II") • Conspiracy: The Trial of the Chicago 8 — William Kunstler — Television film • 1988 — Favorite Son — Nick Mancuso — Season 1 Episode 1: "Part One" • 1989–1990 — Mancuso, F.B.I. — 20 episodes • 1991 — Sunday Dinner — Ben Benedict — 6 episodes • 1993 — Wild Palms — Senator Anton Kreutzer — 5 episodes • Mercy Mission: The Rescue of Flight 771 — Gordon Vette — Television film • 1995 — Picture Windows — Merce — Season 1 Episode 6: "Armed Response" • 1996 — The Right to Remain Silent — Lieutenant Mike Brosloe — Television film • Mistrial — Captain Lou Unger • 1999 — Joan of Arc — Father Monet — 2 episodes ("Part I" and "Part II") • 2000 — Dharma & Greg — General Kirby — Season 4 Episode 4: "Hell No, Greg Can't Go" • Frasier — Stefano — Season 7 Episode 21: "The Three Faces of Frasier" • The Outer Limits — Justice Earl Clayton — Season 6 Episode 21: "Final Appeal" • Touched by an Angel — Chandler Crowne — Season 7 Episode 4: "Restoration" • 2001 — Malcolm in the Middle — Victor — Season 2 Episode 15: "The Grandparents" • 2003 — Queens Supreme — Judge Thomas O'Neill — all 13 episodes • Curb Your Enthusiasm — Mel Brooks' Business Associate — Season 4 (2 episodes uncredited) • 2004 — The Sopranos — Michele "Feech" La Manna — Season 5 Episode 1: "Two Tonys" Season 5 Episode 2: "Rat Pack" Season 5 Episode 3: "Where's Johnny?" Season 5 Episode 4: "All Happy Families" • 2006 — Tom Goes to the Mayor — Lew Petersen (voice) — Season 2 Episode 6: "Saxman" • 2008 — Monk — Louie Flynn — Season 7 Episode 4: "Mr. Monk Takes a Punch" • 2010 — Hawaii Five-0 — Boatswain's Mate 1st Class Ed McKay — Season 1 Episode 7: "Ho'apano (Accept)" • 2010–2011 — Men of a Certain Age — Artie — Season 1 Episode 7: "Father's Fraternity" • Season 2 Episode 6: "Let the Sunshine In" Season 2 Episode 9: "A League of Their Owen" • 2011–2013 — Family Guy — Himself — Season 9 Episode 15: "Brothers and Sisters" • Season 11 Episode 14: "Call Girl"

• Year — Title — Roles — Notes • 1999 — Freespace 2 — Admiral Petrarch • 2001 — Grand Theft Auto III — Ray Machowski • 2006 — Scarface: The World Is Yours — Frank Lopez, The Narrator, Civilian • 2021 — Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy – The Definitive Edition — Ray Machowski — Archival recordings Remaster of Grand Theft Auto III only

Robert Loggia is recorded with the occupation television director. Recorded with the occupation program host. Recorded as actor, program host and director.

In 2010, Loggia was awarded the Ellis Island Medal of Honor in recognition of his humanitarian efforts.[22] On December 17, 2011, he was honored by his alma mater, the University of Missouri, with an honorary degree for his career and his humanitarian efforts.[23]

• Year — Award — Category — Work — Result — ref • 1985 — Academy Award — Best Supporting Actor — Jagged Edge • 1988 — Cable ACE Award — Best Actor in a Theatrical or Dramatic Special — Conspiracy: The Trial of the Chicago 8 • Saturn Award — Best Supporting Actor — Big • 1990 — Primetime Emmy Award — Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series — Mancuso, F.B.I. • 1992 — Fangoria Chainsaw Award — Best Actor — Innocent Blood • 2001 — Primetime Emmy Award — Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series — Malcolm in the Middle