Logan Fry was born William Logan Fry in Columbus, Ohio in September, 1944. The son of a Federal Administrative Law Judge and an elementary school teacher, he graduated from Oberlin College in 1967 and Case Western University Law School in 1970, concurrently serving in Artillery, then Judge Advocate General, units of the United States Army Reserve. In addition to reserve duty, Logan earned his tuition by working on the family Christmas tree farm near Akron, Ohio, as a janitorial assistant in a rubber company research lab, a shipping and receiving clerk in a light fixture factory, a rake and shovel man for a landscaping company, a food runner in the college dining hall and a night bellman at the local Holiday Inn. Acting wasn't even a wayward thought in his early years; and his first career was as attorney serving successively in the Law Department of the City of Cleveland, Antitrust Division of the United States Department of Justice, The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company, Goodyear Atomic Corporation , he had his first introduction to the use of squibs. All clearly stunt work, but not his primary role in each of these films. They represent a way, instead, of bringing more complexity to each his characters.
Raises a flock of sheep on a small farm just west of Akron, Ohio.
A lawyer, then artist and weaver, Logans first connection to film was as a precision driver in Spider-Man 3 , in a scene filmed Cleveland, Ohio. At nearly 62 years of age, it was a late start for his chosen life work.
