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Leonardo DiCaprio mentioned him as his favorite actor, in “Once upon a time in… Hollywood”, while watching him on TV. She was in titles like “The Wire” and “Peyton Place.” Robert Hogan, historical of the television series, died on May 27, 2021, at the age of 87, from complications of pneumonia, at his home on the Maine coast, his family announced.

Robert Joseph Hogan, the youngest of three brothers, was born on September 28, 1933 in Queens. He grew up in an apartment a few feet from the elevated train in the New York neighborhood of Jamaica.  Although he began studying Engineering, he eventually graduated with a degree in Acting from the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, in his hometown.

Robert Hogan  began his career appearing on the stage, after making his off-Broadway debut in 1961 in Michael Shurtleff’s “Call Me by My Rightful Name” with Robert Duvall and Joan Hackett . He moved to Los Angeles shortly thereafter to pursue a career in television and film. He got a job right after he arrived, guest-starring on episodes of 77 Sunset Strip and Cheyenne , in 1961.

Over the next few years, Robert Hogan  appeared in episodes of hit series such as Batman  and  Bonanza . His great friend Bernard Fein, creator of the television sitcom  Hogan’s Heroes , named the colonel protagonist, played by Bob Crane, leading a group of Nazi prisoners during World War II with his name, although he only appeared in a chapter. In 1968 he landed the role of Reverend Tom Winter on the soap opera Peyton Place , which he played for two seasons. In cinema, Robert Hogan lavished himself much less, although he was in The Lady in Red , by Lewis Teague , and Species II.  

After divorcing Sharon Lynn, with whom he had three children, in 1982, Robert Hogan remained attached to the writer Mary Barbera until his death. He never left the stage,  receiving an Outer Critics Circle Award in 1998 for his portrayal of lawyer Clarence Darrow in John Logan ‘s “Never the Sinner ,” a drama about the 1920s Leopold and Loeb murder trial. Later, he played a United States Marine in the original Broadway production of Aaron Sorkin ‘s “A Few Good Men . ”
During his later years of his career, he stood out as Judge Hugo Bright and other roles, in Law & Order , and various other characters in Murder, She Wrote . In addition, Robert Hogan gave life to a retired carpenter, member of a family of drug dealers, in The Wire (Under listening) .
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