Robert Logan, finest referred to as the valet parking attendant on the ABC detective present “77 Sundown Strip” has died. He was 82.
Anthony Francis Logan confirmed to The Occasions on Thursday that his father died on Might 6 of pure causes in Estero, Fla. His household waited till this week to announce his dying to make sure his official obituary was completed.
“He was simply an incredible particular person. … He was a extremely incredible, hands-on adventurous father actually just like Skip Robinson within the films,” Logan stated. “[We are] so fortunate to have skilled that and so blessed to know him.”
Robert Francis Logan Jr. was born in Brooklyn on Might 29, 1941. He was the oldest son of eight kids born to financial institution government Francis Logan and Catherine Quigley. He attended the College of Arizona on a baseball scholarship the place he was scouted by a Warner Bros. expertise agent.
Logan’s breakout position was because the “hip, slang-talking” valet driver J.R. Hale within the detective sequence “77 Sundown Strip.” The sequence starred Efren Zimbalist Jr. and Roger Smith because the wisecracking, womanizing detectives Stu Bailey and Jeff Spencer who work in an workplace on the 77 Sundown Strip of Los Angeles. Logan performed Hale in 50 episodes of the present’s fourth and fifth season. He ultimately changed the earlier valet Kookie, performed by Edd Byrnes, who joined the detective duo.
Following the cancellation of “77 Sundown Strip,” Logan appeared in episodes of “Dr. Kildare” and “Mr. Novak.” He reunited with Byrnes for the musical comedy “Seashore Ball” in 1965 and he co-starred with Fess Parker as Jericho Jones on NBC’s “Daniel Boone.”
Solid members from the tv detective sequence “77 Sundown Strip” sit in a convertible exterior a restaurant circa 1963. Edd Byrnes, from left, Efrem Zimbalist Jr, Roger Smith, Louis Quinn (holding canine in his lap) and Robert Logan.
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Logan was additionally identified for his position as Skip Robinson within the 1975 movie “The Adventures of the Wilderness Household.” With the intention to escape the filth and criminality of metropolis life, Skip Robinson, a building employee in Los Angeles, strikes to a cabin he constructed within the Rocky Mountains along with his spouse Susan Damante and their two younger kids.
The unbiased movie garnered nice success, grossing $28.8 million on the field workplace. The success led to 2 sequels, “The Additional Adventures of the Wilderness Household” in 1978 and “Mountain Household Robinson” in 1979.
His final main position was as a rocket engineer and estranged husband within the 1986 erotic romance movie “A Evening in Heaven.”
Logan was preceded in dying by his mother and father, Frank and Catherine, his sisters Maureen Messrah and Carol Dawson, his brother Francis Logan Jr., his niece Brittany Bertram, and his nephew by marriage, Scott Wilson.
He’s survived by his spouse of 39 years, Alina; his daughter, Courtney Worthington; son, Anthony; daughter-in-law, Hayley; his three granddaughters, Elsa Worthington, Ingrid, and Alma Logan; in addition to his siblings Logan “Patty”Lahey, Theresa Bertram, Janet Haines, Timothy Logan; and lots of nieces and nephews.
Logan is interred at Cedar Grove Cemetery on the campus of the College of Notre Dame.
