Robert Loggia
Robert Loggia ( born January 3, 1930 in Staten Iceland, New York City as Salvatore Loggia ) is an American actor of Italian descent.
Biography
The Italo - Americans chose to the chagrin of his father, for his son rather have a career would have liked as a journalist, headed for acting and for visiting the legendary Lee Strasberg early 1950s, Actors Studio in his hometown of New York City. Then Loggia first worked on Broadway as a stage actor.
In 1956 he had his first film role in Robert Wise's boxing drama The hell is up with Paul Newman. Immediately afterwards he received first roles in television and film productions as a cop, which was followed by numerous other police roles over the years. He played his first leading role in 1958 in Cop Hater as Detective Steve Carelli, a well-known figure of the famous novel by Ed McBain series about the police officers of the 87th New York Police Department. In the early 1960s he was in a Disney television series the immortal laws man Elfego Baca.
In 1966, he starred in the series T.H.E. Cat, the main role of a former circus performer and burglar who switches sides and now fights crime with the learned agents. For the hard-nosed and menacing actor to change to the other side of the law in countless westerns and crime films was obvious. It seemed Loggia some critics say, however, sometimes also called " wooden and unconvincing ," such as the film critic Leonard Maltin wrote.
However, in the early 1980s began loggia with increasing success with critics and audiences, to establish itself as a sensitive and versatile character actor, as in Taylor Hackford's drama An Officer and a Gentleman ( 1982) as the father of Richard Gere. In Brian De Palma's Scarface (1983 ) he gave a particularly unscrupulous criminals, while in Blake Edwards ' SOB he - Hollywood's last whistle ( 1981) and also presented in several Pink Panther films his comedic talent.
The climb to the top of his profession finally succeeded Loggia as a Mafioso in John Huston's Prizzi's Honor, and nominated for an Oscar with his supporting role as a private investigator in the psychological thriller The knife (both 1985). In Blake Edwards ' That's Life - Sun Life ( 1986) is, he starred opposite Jack Lemmon and Julie Andrews as an alcohol dilapidated priests, and in the hit comedy Big (1988 ) he danced as a toy manufacturer with the to find magical way adults become boys Josh (Tom Hanks ) left out on an oversized piano.
Between 1976 and 1981, took over Robert Loggia who directed some episodes of the TV series Quincy, Hart to Hart and Magnum. After his performance in the miniseries minions of hell as an FBI agent Nick Mancuso was born in 1988, the spin -off Mancuso, FBI, but which was canceled after the first season in 1989. In 1992 he was in Bloody Mary - A woman with bite back a mafioso, which is directed by a vampire ( Anne Parillaud ).
1996 Loggia played a general in the blockbuster Independence Day. In 1997, he starred in David Lynch's enigmatic film Lost Highway. In 1999, he appeared in a commercial for orange juice, which gained cult status due to its surreal style. In 2004, he had several appearances in the series The Sopranos. Loggia is still a busy character actor in American film and television.
Robert Loggia is married since 1982 to his second wife Audrey O'Brien and has four children.