ROBERT LOGGIA

5 Dec

(3 January 1930 - 4 December 2015)

American actor in over 200 films and TV shows from 1951 including Wagon Train, Disney’s Wonderful World of Colour, Naked City, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, The Untouchables, The Defenders, Rawhide, Kojak, Columbo, The Rockford Files, Starsky and Hutch, The Sopranos, and the title role in Mancuso FBI. He also directed some TV episodes. Films include An Officer and a Gentleman, Scarface, Prizzi’s Honour as well as many other forgettable movies. In 2016 he still has three films to be released.

MICHAEL DARVELL

Michael Darvell

Michael Darvell trained as a librarian at Watford and in Surrey before joining Ealing Libraries where he became Music Librarian for the borough. He edited Masthead, the magazine of the University of North London School of Librarianship, The Surrealist, the staff magazine of Surrey County Library, and contributed to the Assistant Librarian and London Librarian professional journals. A freelance film reviewer since 1970, he has written for Film, Films Illustrated, Film Review, Movie Maker and Radio Times, as well as editing Montage, the London film societies magazine, for ten years. A change of career saw him joining What’s On in London as Features Editor and he eventually stepped into the shoes of the late F. Maurice Speed (founding father of Film Review annual) as the magazine’s Editor. From 2007 to 2015, he was co-editor of the Film Review annual with Mansel Stimpson. As well as writing about films, Michael has reviewed theatre for The Stage newspaper, and has written about music theatre and cabaret for the Classical Source and Musical Theatre Review websites. He is also a former restaurant critic for the ViewLondon website. Michael has been a member of the London Film Critics’ Circle since 2005.

ROBERT LOGGIA

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