![]() Avg.User Rating: Rate this person: Actor Born: January 3, 1930 in Staten Island, New York City, NY Biography:Forceful leading actor "Robert Loggia" left plans for a journalistic career behind when he began his studies at New York's Actors Studio. His first important Broadway assignment was 1955's "The Man with the Golden Arm"; one year later, he made his first film, "Somebody Up There Likes Me". In 1958 he enjoyed a brief flurry of TV popularity as the title character in "The Nine Lives of Elfego Baca," a multipart western originally telecast on "Walt Disney Presents". His next weekly TV assignment was as a good-guy burglar in 1967's "T.H.E. Cat". A fitfully successful movie leading man, Loggia truly came into his own when he cast off his toupee and became a character actor, often in roles requiring quiet menace. As "Richard Gere"'s bullying father, Loggia dominated the precredits scenes of "An Officer and a Gentleman" (1981), and was equally effective as the villain in "Curse of the Pink Panther" (1982) and... Full Biography
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