Robert Logan

Tall (6'3"), athletic, dark-haired, boyishly handsome Robert F. Logan, Jr. was the eldest of seven children. Born in Brooklyn on May 29, 1941, to bank executive Robert Sr. just a few months before the United States entered World War II, the family moved to Los Angeles when Bob was a child. He pursued sports in high school and was attending the University of Arizona on a baseball scholarship when discovered by a Warner Bros. talent agent and destiny intervened.Debuting in the early 1960's as a young suitor in the trashy soap-styled movie _Claudelle Inglish (1961)_ (qv), he was placed in various Warner Bros. TV shows such as "Maverick" and "Surfside 6." He also replaced the phenomenally popular 'Edd Byrnes' (qv)' "Kookie" character (Kookie advanced to being a full-fledged investigator) on the highly popular TV series _77 Sunset Strip (1958)_ (qv) as the newly hip, slang-speaking parking attendant J.R. Hale. Following this, he ventured on with guest spots on "Dr. Kildare" and "Mr. Novak," and was handed a co-starring role in the "beach party" movie _Häuptling der Rothäute (1963)_ (qv) along with his TV pal 'Edd Byrnes' (qv).Logan's career went into a lull after a full season playing frontiersman Jericho Jones on _Daniel Boone (1964)_ (qv), but resurfaced in the early 1970s as the adventurous hippy star of the popular "back to nature" family drama _The Adventures of the Wilderness Family (1975)_ (qv), which was written and directed by 'Stewart Raffill' (qv). Bob also starred in two other adventure films with a similar family Rocky Mountain theme, _Across the Great Divide (1976)_ (qv) and _The Sea Gypsies (1978)_ (qv), and showed up in two other "Wilderness" sequels as well -- _The Further Adventures of the Wilderness Family (1978)_ (qv) and _Adventures of the Wilderness Family 3 (1979)_ (qv). All four films involved writer/director Raffill. Becoming more or less the 'Michael Landon' (qv) of outdoor family films, Bob went on to write and star in yet family-styled adventure story _Kelly (1981)_ (qv).Logan made only sporadic returns to movie-making, usually playing gruff characters, in such films as the western comedy _Catlow (1971)_ (qv) starring 'Yul Brynner' (qv), the ill-received steamy drama _A Night in Heaven (1983)_ (qv) as the NASA husband of cheating cougar wife 'Lesley Ann Warren' (qv) and the action film _Scorpion (1986)_ (qv). He also starred in the backwoods thriller _Man Outside (1987)_ (qv) co-starring 'Kathleen Quinlan' (qv) and co-starred in the sports car racing independent _Born to Race (1988)_ (qv) co-starring 'Joseph Bottoms' (qv).Away from the limelight for nearly a decade, Bob returned briefly to star in the Cold War comedy film spoof _Redboy 13 (1997)_ (qv) and then he vanished again. He has one daughter from a 1960's marriage that ended in divorce.::Gary Brumburgh / [email protected]