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 …
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 died. He was 87. His family said he died May 27 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 — whose affairs certainly were more than clerical — in more than 60 episodes of the New England-set 1960s romantic drama “Peyton Place.” During his long TV career, Hogan was a regular on a handful of short-lived series, starring opposite the titluar star of “The Don Rickles Show” (1972), with Dennis Dugan in the 1978 Steven Bochco-Stephen J. Cannell drama “Richie Brockelman,” “Private Eye” — and its follow-up TV movie — and the 1980-81 Midwestern family drama “Secrets of Midland Heights.
