‘Breaking Dangerous,’ ‘Higher Name Saul’ actor was 83
Mark Margolis, finest identified for his roles in “Scarface” and AMC’s “Breaking Bad,” has died. He was 83.
The actor died Thursday at New York’s Mt. Sinai Hospital “following a brief sickness,” in accordance with an announcement from administration affiliate Henry Eshelman obtained by USA TODAY.
“He was one in all a form. We can’t see his likes once more,” Robert Kolker, his longtime supervisor, mentioned in an announcement. “He was a treasured shopper and a lifelong pal. I used to be fortunate to know him.”
Margolis has appeared in a whole lot of roles on the stage and display, reaching his Hollywood breakout as baneful bodyguard Alberto the Shadow in 1983’s “Scarface.” Extra lately, he was identified for enjoying the fearsome Hector “Tio” Salamanca in “Breaking Dangerous” and its prequel spinoff, “Higher Name Saul.”
Salamanca was one of many franchise’s most memorable and intimidating villains: a wheelchair-bound drug kingpin who suffered a stroke and could not converse, however rang a bell to speak.
“I appeared on the script and thought, ‘Oh my, I don’t need to study any strains,’ ” Margolis advised the Higher Name Saul Insider Podcast last year. “I simply need to fly out to New Mexico, get into the scene and assume. And for me, it was heaven.”
Different notable credit embody the Jim Carrey comedy “Ace Ventura: Pet Detective,” in addition to quite a few dramas from director Darren Aronofsky, together with “Pi,” “Requiem for a Dream” and “Black Swan.” He most lately appeared in Showtime sequence “Your Honor” earlier this year, alongside “Breaking Bad” co-star Bryan Cranston.
The versatile Margolis labored steadily for greater than 60 years, incomes one Emmy nomination for excellent visitor actor for “Breaking Dangerous” in 2012. However he lamented being identified for only one factor.
“There are three guys a day that cease me and the one factor they know me from is ‘Scarface,’ ” Margolis told Vulture in 2016. “I at all times say, ‘My God, you’re speaking about one thing from 30 years in the past.’ Then they at all times invariably say, ‘Properly, have you ever completed something since then?’ which actually upsets me. … It makes you’re feeling like they retired you for some motive. It shouldn’t ache me, however I’m a bit of bit unhinged. Insecure might be the phrase.”
Margolis was born in Philadelphia on Nov. 26, 1939. As a younger man, he moved to New York to review appearing underneath trainer Stella Adler on the Actors Studio, and later with Lee Strasberg and Barbara Loden.
He’s survived by his spouse of 61 years, Jacqueline, together with son Morgan and three grandchildren.
