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Robert Logan, recognized for his work on the hit collection “77 Sundown Strip” and, later, because the dad in a collection of back-to-nature household movies, has died.
THR studies Logan’s Might 6 demise in Estero, Florida, was solely confirmed by his household this week.
Logan was born Might 29, 1941, in Brooklyn, New York. Whereas attending the College of Arizona within the ’50s, he was scouted and signed to Warner Bros.
Showing on episodes of “Maverick” and “Surfside 6” and within the movie “Claudelle Inglish” (all 1961), his large break got here taking part in J.R. Hale on “77 Sundown Strip,” on which his character changed the phenomenally common Kookie, performed by the late Edd Byrnes.
He appeared on dozens of episodes of the present from 1961-1963.
After that, despite his heartthrob seems to be, his profession was spotty within the ’60s. He made visitor appearances on “Dr. Kildare” (1964), “Mr. Novak” (1964), and recurred on “Daniel Boone” (1965-1966), and within the movies “Seaside Ball” (1965), “The Bridge at Remagen” (1969), and “Catlow” (1971).
Logan’s profession loved a second wind after a niche of a number of years when he signed on because the patriarch within the unbiased movie “The Adventures of the Wilderness Household” in 1975. The film adopted the Robinson household, who abandon metropolis dwelling for all times within the woods, a call made for the well being of their daughter.
The movie discovered an viewers, and spawned the sequels “The Additional Adventures of the Wilderness Household” (1978) and “Adventures of the Wilderness Household 3” (1979).
He was additionally a back-to-nature sort in “Throughout the Nice Divide” (1976), “The Sea Gypsies” (1978), and “Kelly” (1981), the latter of which he wrote.
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Logan continued working by way of the ’80s, together with within the campy male-stripper film “A Night time in Heaven” (1983).
His remaining appearing in any medium was within the 1997 movie “Redboy 13.”
Logan is survived by his spouse of 39 years; his son and daughter and their households, together with three grandchildren; and 4 siblings.
