Robert Loggia
Robert Loggia in 2013
Born	Salvatore Loggia (1930-01-03)January 3, 1930 Staten Island, New York City, New York, U.S.
Died	December 4, 2015(2015-12-04) (aged 85) Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Cause of death	Alzheimer's disease
Nationality	American
Education	Wagner College
Alma mater	University of Missouri
Occupation(s)	Actor, director
Years active	1951–2015
Spouse(s)	Marjorie Sloan (1954–1981) Audrey O'Brien (1982–2015, his death)
Children	3 children, 1 stepdaughter[1]
Awards	Saturn Award (1988) Ellis Island Medal of Honor (2010)
Military career
Allegiance	United States
Service/branch	United States Army
Rank	Lieutenant

Salvatore Loggia^[2] ([salvaˈtoːre ˈlɔddʒa]) (January 3, 1930 – December 4, 2015), known as Robert Loggia, was an American actor and director. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for Jagged Edge (1985).

Loggia, an Italian American, was born on Staten Island on January 3, 1930, to Beniamino Loggia, a shoemaker born in Palma di Montechiaro, Agrigento, Sicily, and Elena Blandino, a homemaker born in Vittoria, Ragusa, Sicily.^[1][3][4] He graduated from New Dorp High School. After attending Wagner College, studying journalism at the University of Missouri (class of 1951), and serving in the U.S. Army, he began a long career as a supporting actor.^{[citation needed]}

Loggia was a radio and TV anchor on the Southern Command Network in the Panama Canal Zone and first came to prominence playing the real-life American lawman Elfego Baca in a series of Walt Disney TV shows, in 1958. He later starred as the proverbial cat-burglar-turned-good in a short-lived series called T.H.E. Cat and in 1972, he played Frank Carver on the CBS soap opera The Secret Storm.^[5]

His many television credits also included appearances on Overland Trail, Target: The Corruptors!, The Untouchables, The Eleventh Hour, Breaking Point, Combat!, Custer, Columbo, Ellery Queen, High Chaparral, Gunsmoke, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, The Big Valley, The Wild Wild West, Rawhide, Little House on the Prairie, Starsky and Hutch, Charlie's Angels, The Rockford Files (three times as three different characters), 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.^[2] He starred the TV Show T.H.E. Cat in '66 and '67

His film roles included Revenge of the Pink Panther (1978), An Officer and a Gentleman (1982), Mercy Mission: The Rescue of Flight 771 (1983), based on the Air New Zealand Flight 103 incident, Psycho II (1983), Armed and Dangerous(1986), Scarface (1983), Prizzi's Honor (1985), Over The Top (1987), Necessary Roughness (1991), Independence Day (1996), and Return to Me (2000).^[2]

Loggia was nominated for an Oscar for his portrayal of crusty private detective Sam Ransom in the thriller Jagged Edge (1985) and for an Emmy in 1989, for his portrayal of FBI agent Nick Mancuso in the TV series Mancuso, FBI, a follow up to the previous year's miniseries Favorite Son (1988). He won a Saturn Award for his role in Big (1988).

Loggia appeared as a mobster in multiple films, including: Bill Sykes, the dastardly loan shark in Disney's 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).^[2] 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!"^[6] 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); Loggia drinks some orange juice, then spits it out and complains about the pulp.

In addition to playing the immoral loanshark and shipyard agent Sykes in the animated Disney film Oliver & Company (1988), Loggia had several other voice acting roles, in several media, including: as Admiral Petrarch in the computer game FreeSpace 2(1999), as the narrator of the Scarface: The World is Yours (2006) game adaptation, and in the anime movie The Dog of Flanders (1997), as 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), .^[7]

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.^[8] In 2012, Loggia portrayed Saint Peter during his final imprisonment in The Apostle Peter and the Last Supper.^[2] 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 was married to Marjorie Sloan from 1954 to 1981, with whom he had three children: Tracey (an actress)[1], John (a production designer)[2], and Kristina (an actress)[3].^[1] 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]

In 2010, Loggia was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease^[9] and died on December 4, 2015, of complications from the disease, at his home in the Brentwood neighborhood of Los Angeles, aged 85.^[9][10]

In 2010, Loggia was awarded the Ellis Island Medal of Honor in recognition of his humanitarian efforts.^[11]

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.^[12]

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