Robert Loggia, who played drug lords and mobsters and danced with Tom Hanks in ``Big,'' has died, his wife Aubrey Loggia says.
Aubrey Loggia said Loggia died Friday at his home in Los Angeles after a five year battle with Alzheimer's. He was 85.
Loggia's rugged looks and voice suited his many character roles as gangsters or other shady characters. He was a Miami drug lord in ``Scarface'' and a Sicilian mobster in ``Prizzi's Honor.'' He earned an Oscar nomination for the 1985 legal thriller, ``Jagged Edge.''
But perhaps his most memorable role was a comic turn as the toy company boss in ``Big.'' In a famous scene, he and Hanks, as a boy in a man's body, dance on a giant toy keyboard in joyful duets of ``Chopsticks'' and ``Heart and Soul.''