{"id":40504,"date":"2015-12-05T10:12:17","date_gmt":"2015-12-04T23:42:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/?p=40504"},"modified":"2016-06-18T18:24:10","modified_gmt":"2016-06-18T08:54:10","slug":"vale-robert-loggia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/2015\/12\/05\/vale-robert-loggia\/","title":{"rendered":"Vale – Robert Loggia"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Robert Loggia, the Academy Award-nominated actor best known for his roles in Big, Independence Day<\/em>, and television series The Sopranos<\/em>, has passed away.<\/p>\n

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Mr Loggia’s first film role was an uncredited bit-part in Somebody Up There Likes Me<\/em> (1956), leading to his first credited role in 1957’s The Garment Jungle<\/em>. Alongside his various television roles, Loggia continued in film, appearing as Joseph in The Greatest Story Ever Told<\/em> (1965), as Al Marchione in\u00a0Revenge\u00a0Of The Pink Panther<\/em> (1978), and as Bruno Langois in Trail Of The Pink Panther<\/em> (1982) and Curse Of The Pink Panther<\/em>, in 1983.<\/p>\n

Mr Loggia appeared alongside Al Pacino in the crime classic Scarface<\/em> (1983), Jack Nicholson and Kathleen Turner in Prizzi’s Honor<\/em> (1985), and John Cusack in Hot Pursuit<\/em> (1987), before he became a household name playing toy company mogul Mr MacMillan in the Tom Hanks comedy smash, Big<\/em>, in 1988. He provided a voice that year for Disney’s Oliver & Company<\/em>, before being nominated for a Primetime Emmy in an acting category for 1989’s Mancuso FBI<\/em>. He would receive a nomination again in 2000, for an appearance in Malcolm In The Middle<\/em>.<\/p>\n

His most famous roles for most audiences were as the grumpy US military commander in Roland Emmerich’s blockbuster disaster film, Independence Day<\/em> 1996, and 1985’s Jagged Edge<\/em>, starring Glenn Close and Jeff Bridges, for which he was nominated for an Academy Award in the Best Supporting Actor category.<\/p>\n

Robert Loggia appeared in an array of television series including Columbo, Gunsmoke, Rawhide, Charlie’s Angels, The Rockford Files, Frasier<\/em> and Monk<\/em>, among others.<\/p>\n

At the time of his passing on December 4, Robert Loggia was 85.<\/p>\n

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Robert Loggia and Tom Hanks in one of the most famous scenes in “BIG”, 1988.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Robert Loggia (Center) in his role as a military commander in 1996’s “Independence Day”.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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