Robert Loggia, broadly known as intense fellow performing artist in motion pictures and TV appears, kicked the bucket at 85 years old on Friday at his home here. He first pursued a career in journalism and studied at the University of Missouri but his interest in acting drew him back to NY, where he took up an acting courses at the Actors Studio.
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Well-respected actor Robert Loggia has lost his battle with Alzheimer’s disease.
He was a Miami drug lord in Al Pacino-starrer “Scarface” and a Sicilian mobster in “Prizzi’s Honor“.
Movie veteran Robert Loggia has died, aged 85. One of Loggia’s most endearing roles was playing Tom Hank’s boss in “Big” and tapping out music on a giant floor piano in 1988. The lead character was a cat burglar and circus aerialist that kept his clients from being killed, but the show only lasted one season. He credited his re-emergence to a couple of plays produced by Joseph Papp, “Wedding Band” with Ruby Dee and “In the Boom-Boom Room” with Madeleine Kahn.
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”. Some of his later characters included being a general, and an advisor to the president in the 1996 movie, “Independence Day”.
Mr. Loggia’s first marriage, to Marjorie Sloane, ended in divorce.
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Audrey, Loggia’s wife of 33 years, confirmed his death to The Hollywood Reporter Friday.
