Actor Robert Loggia, best known for playing the role of Frank Lopez in the film “Scarface”, passed away at the age of 85.
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Loggia made his first film in 1956, and continued to work until the very end of his life.
Well know for his roles Brian De Palma’s 1983 drama “Scarface” and “Big”, Robert Loggia had been battling Alzheimer’s Disease for the past five years.
“He loved being an actor”, his widow, Audrey Loggia, told Variety.
Loggia earned an Oscar nomination for his supporting role as a private detective, Sam Ranson, in 1985’s “Jagged Edge”.
Tom Hanks has expressed his grief on Twitter calling Mr Loggia a great actor in heart and soul.
Native of Staten Island, Loggia was born to Italian immigrants and started his carrier by performing plays in NY. First inclined toward newspaper work, he studied journalism at the University of Missouri, but was soon drawn to acting and returned to NY to study at the Actors Studio.
But the late actor’s most memorable role is a comic role of a toy company owner in “Big“, who befriends a child trapped in the body of an adult man, played by Tom Hanks.
He also had a varied film career, particularly during the 1980s, appearing in Revenge of the Pink Panther, An Officer and a Gentleman, Psycho II, Prizzi’s Honor, Over The Top, Necessary Roughness, Return to Me, Armed and unsafe, and Lost Highway, among many others.
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Loggia was nominated for an Emmy in 1989 for his portrayal of FBI agent Nick Mancuso in the series “Mancuso FBI” – which has a spin-off of the character he created in the “Favorite Son” miniseries starring Harry Hamlin – and again in 2000 for his guest star role in “Malcolm in the Middle”.
