Robert Hogan , a TV character actor who was a regular on\u00a0\u00ab\u00a0Peyton Place\u00a0\u00bb\u00a0for two seasons and recurred on \u00a0\u00bb The Wire \u00a0\u00bb \u00a0and such other popular \u2026<\/b>
\nRobert Hogan, a TV character actor who was a regular on \u00ab\u00a0Peyton Place\u00a0\u00bb for two seasons and recurred on \u00a0\u00bb The Wire \u00a0\u00bb and such other popular series as \u00a0\u00bb Law & Order \u00a0\u00bb and \u00ab\u00a0Alice,\u00a0\u00bb 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 \u00ab\u00a0Murder, She Wrote,\u00a0\u00bb \u00ab\u00a0Gunsmoke,\u00a0\u00bb \u00ab\u00a0The F.B.I.,\u00a0\u00bb \u00ab\u00a0Barnaby Jones,\u00a0\u00bb \u00ab\u00a077 Sunset Strip,\u00a0\u00bb \u00ab\u00a0The Rockford Files\u00a0\u00bb and as Louis Sobotka in four Season 2 episodes of HBO\u2019s \u00ab\u00a0The Wire.\u00a0\u00bb He also played Greg Stemple in a half-dozen \u00ab\u00a0Alice\u00a0\u00bb episodes during the early 1980s. He also played the Rev. Tom Winter \u2014 whose affairs certainly were more than clerical \u2014 in more than 60 episodes of the New England-set 1960s romantic drama \u00ab\u00a0Peyton Place.\u00a0\u00bb During his long TV career, Hogan was a regular on a handful of short-lived series, starring opposite the titluar star of \u00ab\u00a0The Don Rickles Show\u00a0\u00bb (1972), with Dennis Dugan in the 1978 Steven Bochco-Stephen J. Cannell drama \u00ab\u00a0Richie Brockelman,\u00a0\u00bb \u00ab\u00a0Private Eye\u00a0\u00bb \u2014 and its follow-up TV movie \u2014 and the 1980-81 Midwestern family drama \u00ab\u00a0Secrets of Midland Heights.\u00a0\u00bb He also was a regular for a handful of Season 2 episodes of sitcom \u00ab\u00a0Operation Petticoat\u00a0\u00bb in 1979. He also appeared in episodes of the soap operas \u00ab\u00a0One Life to Live,\u00a0\u00bb \u00ab\u00a0Days of Our Lives,\u00a0\u00bb \u00ab\u00a0As the World Turns,\u00a0\u00bb \u00ab\u00a0All My Children,\u00a0\u00bb \u00ab\u00a0General Hospital\u00a0\u00bb and \u00ab\u00a0Another World.\u00a0\u00bb On the big screen, his credits include \u00ab\u00a0The Lady in Red,\u00a0\u00bb \u00ab\u00a0Species II,\u00a0\u00bb \u00ab\u00a0Blue Christmas,\u00a0\u00bb \u00ab\u00a0The Sleepy Time Gal\u00a0\u00bb and \u00ab\u00a0Welcome to Academia.\u00a0\u00bb He also appeared on Broadway in \u00ab\u00a0A Few Good Men\u00a0\u00bb (1989-91) and \u00ab\u00a0Hamlet\u00a0\u00bb (1992). His stage career also included works by Anton Chekhov, Eugene O\u2019Neill and others, including an Outer Critics Circle Award for \u00ab\u00a0Never the Sinner\u00a0\u00bb in 1998. But Hogan\u2019s stock in trade was guesting on primetime TV series. The list is long \u2014 starting in the early 1960s on such dramas as \u00ab\u00a0Cheyenne,\u00a0\u00bb \u00ab\u00a0Hawaiian Eye,\u00a0\u00bb \u00ab\u00a077 Sunset Strip,\u00a0\u00bb \u00ab\u00a0The Fugitive\u00a0\u00bb and the final-season \u00ab\u00a0Twilight Zone\u00a0\u00bb episode \u00ab\u00a0Spur of the Moment.\u00a0\u00bb He also appeared in comedies of the era including \u00ab\u00a0Hazel\u00a0\u00bb and \u00ab\u00a0The Donna Reed Show.\u00a0\u00bb He would continue to amass credits throughout that decade and the next two, with stops at popular comedy and drama series including \u00ab\u00a0Batman,\u00a0\u00bb \u00ab\u00a0The Mary Tyler Moore Show,\u00a0\u00bb \u00ab\u00a0Bonanza,\u00a0\u00bb \u00ab\u00a0I Dream of Jeannie,\u00a0\u00bb \u00ab\u00a0Hogan\u2019s Heroes,\u00a0\u00bb \u00ab\u00a0Hawaii Five-O,\u00a0\u00bb \u00ab\u00a0Gomer Pyle: USMC,\u00a0\u00bb \u00ab\u00a0McCloud,\u00a0\u00bb \u00ab\u00a0Love American Style,\u00a0\u00bb \u00ab\u00a0Mission: Impossible,\u00a0\u00bb \u00ab\u00a0The Streets of San Francisco,\u00a0\u00bb \u00ab\u00a0The Six Million Dollar Man,\u00a0\u00bb \u00ab\u00a0The Incredible Hulk,\u00a0\u00bb \u00ab\u00a0Hill Street Blues,\u00a0\u00bb \u00ab\u00a0Newhart,\u00a0\u00bb \u00ab\u00a0St. Elsewhere,\u00a0\u00bb \u00ab\u00a0One Day at a Time,\u00a0\u00bb \u00ab\u00a0Magnum P.I.\u00a0\u00bb and \u00ab\u00a0Spenser: For Hire.\u00a0\u00bb Born on September 28,1933, in the NYC borough of Queens, Hogan served in the Army in Korea after high school and returned to New York to study engineering at NYU. After taking an aptitude test to determine whether that field indeed was his calling, his family said, the test results produced two words: the arts. \u00ab\u00a0That\u2019s when I gave acting a try,\u00a0\u00bb they quoted him as saying. 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\u2019s Association.<\/p>\n