Veteran TV actor Robert Hogan, who starred in The Wire, Law & Order, Peyton Place, dies at 87 – USA TODAY
Veteran TV and stage actor Robert Hogan, who appeared in shows ranging from "All My Children" to "The Wire" in a career spanning six decades, died May 27 at his coastal Maine home, his family announced in The New York Times.
The cause of death was complications from pneumonia. He was 87.
Hogan appeared in more than 100 primetime shows as well as nearly every daytime drama on the air in his career. His extensive television resume includes "Hogan's Heroes," "The Donna Reed Show," "The Twilight Zone," "I Dream of Jeannie," "Laverne & Shirley," "Gunsmoke," "The Manhunter," "Operation Petticoat," "One Day at a Time," "Peyton Place" "The Mary Tyler Moore Show," and "The Wire" (playing retired shipwright Louis Sobotka, Frank Sobotka's elder brother).
Hogan had more than a coincidental name ...