Robert Loggia Scarface Update Dead Against Opposes

Oscar-nominated actor robert loggia, who was known for gravelly voiced gangsters from scarface to the sopranos but who was most endearing as tom hanks' kid-at-heart toy. Robert loggia, durable star of movies and tv shows including brian de palma's 1986 scarface and big, died friday in los angeles, his widow audrey confirmed to variety. After nbc cancelled the series when viewing figures failed to deliver, loggia went into a mid-life crisis—a dante-esque descent into the inferno, as he called it later.

Loggia died at noon friday at his home in brentwood, california, after a five-year struggle with alzheimer's disease, according to his wife of 41 years, audrey loggia.