ACTOR ROBERT HOGAN PASSES AWAY AT AGE 87

Robert Hogan, a TV character actor who was a regular on “Peyton Place” for two seasons and recurred on “The Wire” and such other popular series as “Law & Order” and “Alice,” has passed away. He was 87. His family said he died of pneumonia complications at his home in coastal Maine.

Hogan amassed more than 150 credits during a six-decade career, guesting multiple times on such classic shows as “Murder, She Wrote,” “Gunsmoke,” “The F.B.I.,” “Barnaby Jones,” “77 Sunset Strip,” “The Rockford Files” and as Louis Sobotka in four Season 2 episodes of HBO’s “The Wire.” He also played Greg Stemple in a half-dozen “Alice” episodes during the early 1980s.

He also played the Rev. Tom Winter in more than 60 episodes of the 1960’s drama “Peyton Place.”

During his long television career, Hogan was a regular on a handful of short-lived series including “The Don Rickles Show”. He was also in a few season 2 episodes of “Operation Petticoat” in 1979.

He appeared in episodes of the soap operas “One Life to Live,” “Days of Our Lives,” “As the World Turns,” “All My Children,” “General Hospital” and “Another World.”

On the big screen, his credits include “The Lady in Red,” “Species II,” “Blue Christmas,” “The Sleepy Time Gal” and “Welcome to Academia.” He also appeared on Broadway in “A Few Good Men” (1989-91) and “Hamlet” (1992).

But Hogan’s guest appearances on TV shows is long. It started in the early 1960’s on such dramas as “Cheyenne,” “Hawaiian Eye,” “77 Sunset Strip,” “The Fugitive” and the final-season “Twilight Zone” episode “Spur of the Moment.” He also appeared in comedies of the era including “Hazel” and “The Donna Reed Show.”

He would continue to amass credits throughout that decade and the next two, with stops at popular comedy and drama series including “Batman,” “The Mary Tyler Moore Show,” “Bonanza,” “I Dream of Jeannie,” “Hogan’s Heroes,” “Hawaii Five-O,” “Gomer Pyle: USMC,” “McCloud,” “Love American Style,” “Mission: Impossible,” “The Streets of San Francisco,” “The Six Million Dollar Man,” “The Incredible Hulk,” “Hill Street Blues,” “Newhart,” “St. Elsewhere,” “One Day at a Time,” “Magnum P.I.” and “Spenser: For Hire.”

Survivors include Mary Hogan, by his wife of 38 years; three children from a previous marriage to fine Shannon Hogan: Chris, Stephen and Jud; and grandchildren Susanna and Liam. In lieu of flowers, the family requests donations made to the NYC nonprofit DOROT or the Alzheimer’s Association.

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