Robert Loggia

Salvatore "Robert" Loggia was an American film and television actor and director, known for his distinctive raspy voice. He was famous for playing the role of bad guys, gangsters, mobsters, mafia bosses, drug dealers, loan sharks, mercenaries, and a gangster named Salvatore (his actual name) "The Shark" Macelli in Innocent Blood, which explains why people in the Walt Disney Studios picked him to give the voice of Bill Sykes, the loan shark gangster, in Oliver & Company. He also played Lew Horner in the 1991 Hollywood Pictures film The Marrying Man, John McBainbridge in the 1998 Touchstone Pictures film Holy Man, and Matt in the 1994 Touchstone Pictures film I Love Trouble. Additionally, he played the title character of the Disney series The Nine Lives of Elfego Baca.
Loggia was born in New York City on January 3, 1930 and grew up in the Little Italy neighborhood, where the family spoke Italian at home. He graduated from New Dorp High School before taking courses at Wagner College. In 1951, he earned a degree in journalism from University of Missouri. He later studied acting with Alvina Krause at Northwestern University. After serving in the United States Army during the Korean War, he married Marjorie Sloan in 1954 and began a long career at the Actors Studio, studying under Stella Adler.
He performed in many films, such as The Greatest Story Ever Told, Revenge of the Pink Panther, An Officer and a Gentleman, Psycho II, Scarface, S.O.B., That's Life!, Prizzi's Honor, Independence Day, Lost Highway, Return to Me, and Tim and Eric's Billion Dollar Movie. He also appeared on television series, like Mancuso, FBI, Malcolm in the Middle, The Sopranos, Men of a Certain Age, T.H.E. Cat, Rawhide, Gunsmoke, Fantasy Island, Magnum, P.I., Emerald Point N.A.S., and Little House on the Prairie.
Loggia died on December 4, 2015, of complications from Alzheimer's disease, at his home in the Brentwood neighborhood of Los Angeles, at the age of 85.
==Roles==
1958-elfego-01.jpg|Elfego Baca(The Nine Lives of Elfego Baca)
BillSykes.jpg|Bill Sykes(Oliver & Company)
==Trivia==
*He was among many actors considered for the role of Barnaby in Babes in Toyland.
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