“Strongly built, balding and with a rasping delivery, Loggia suffered from typecasting during the 1970s, obliged to specialise in sharp-suited ‘heavies’ … But in 1982 he took on the role of Richard Gere’s feckless father in the hit film An Officer and a Gentleman … High-profile roles followed – as mobsters in Brian De Palma’s Scarface (1983) and John Huston’s Prizzi’s Honor (1985), and as … the avuncular toy company owner in the ‘age-changing’ comedy Big (1988) with Tom Hanks.”