‘The Wire’ actor Robert Hogan dies aged 87
The Wire actor Robert Hogan has died at the age of 87.His family wrote in a New York Times obituary that he died due to complications from pneumonia, in his home in Maine on May 27. He had been living with vascular Alzheimer’s disease of the last eight years of his life.Hogan, who appeared as Louis Sobotka in The Wire, had appeared in over 100 primetime TV shows during his lifetime, including The Twilight Zone, The Donna Reed Show, Hogan’s Heroes and more.The actor was born in Jamiaca, Queens, and later served in the US army in Korea as a teenager.