Robert Loggia

Birthplace: Staten Island, New York
Birthday: January 3, 1930

Veteran character player Robert Loggia anticipated a career in journalism but, after college and a stint in the military, turned his attention to performing and never looked back. Raised in Manhattan's Little Italy, the rugged, gravelly-voiced actor has frequently drawn from his upbringing and Sicilian background for the numerous roles in gangster films so prominent on his resume, but his swarthy looks have also enabled him to inhabit other ethnicities, ranging from Spanish (crime boss Frankie Lopez in "Scarface" 1983), Egyptian (Anwar Sadat in…more

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Actor

The Don's Analyst
Don Vito Leoni
The Nine Lives of Elfego Baca
Elfego Baca
Sunday Dinner
Ben Benedict
Mancuso FBI
Nick Mancuso
Mercy Mission: The Rescue of Flight 771
Captain Gordon Vette

Director

Magnum, P.I.
Director
Quincy, M.E.
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Career Milestones

2007
Co-starred in "Funny Money" a film adaptation of the 1994 play written by Ray Cooney
2005
Cast opposite Christian Slater in the political thriller "The Deal"
2003
Joined the cast of "The Sopranos" as a mafia wiseguy released from prison
2001
Made guest appearance on the hit Fox series "Malcolm in the Middle" as Lois' father; received Emmy nomination
2001
Starred as Zack, a destitute, alcoholic man who has supposedly travelled back through time to convice his youthful self to change the course of his life in "All Over Again" (filmed 1999), an independent film shot on location in Chatanooga, Tennessee; screened at film festivals