Actor Robert Loggia is seen in an image from the move “Scarface”.
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Loggia’s wife Audrey, spoke to TMZ and told the site that Robert had been struggling with Alzheimer’s for the last five years. His supporting role in 1985’s Jagged Edge earned him an Academy Award nomination. He received an Emmy nomination for his role in the television series “Mancuso FBI”, Variety reports. In a famous scene, he and Hanks, as a boy in a man’s body, dance on a giant toy keyboard in joyful duets of “Chopsticks” and “Heart and Soul”. “He loved being an actor and he loved his life”.
On screen, Robert is known for playing tough guy roles.
In 2003, he appeared in four episodes of HBO’s “The Sopranos“, as gangster Feech La Manna, who was released from prison and sought to return to the Mafia.
Born in Staten Island, New York in 1930, Loggia attended the University of Missouri and served in the US Army before embarking on his career in entertainment. “He used to say that he never had to work”. Loggia worked steadily throughout the 1950s, with perhaps his biggest break coming with a repeating role in Walt Disney’s Wonderful World of Color series, Elfego Baca, from 1958 through 1960. He starred in the 1966-67 series “T.H.E. Cat” as a former circus aerialist and cat burglar turned professional bodyguard who would introduce himself as “T. Hewitt Edward Cat”.
The late actor also ventured into movies and delivered some memorable performances in movies like “Revenge Of Pink Panther”, “Over The Top”, “Independence Day”, “Necessary Roughness” and “Armed And Dangerous”.
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Loggia is survived by his wife and three children from a previous marriage to Della Marjorie Sloan.
