Veteran character player Robert Loggia anticipated a career in journalism but, after college and a stint in the military, turned his attention to performing and never looked back. Raised in Manhattan's Little Italy, the rugged, gravelly-voiced actor has frequently drawn from his upbringing and Sicilian background for the numerous roles in gangster films so prominent on his resume, but his swarthy looks have also enabled him to inhabit other ethnicities, ranging from Spanish (crime boss Frankie Lopez in "Scarface" 1983), Egyptian (Anwar Sadat in the 1982 syndicated miniseries "A Woman Called Golda") and Russian (KGB spy Yuri Bukharin in the CBS series "Emerald Point....