Mark MargolisThe globe-trotting actor who delivered a commanding performance as vengeful drug lord Hector Salamanca, a man of few words and an hour, breaking bad y Good call Saul, passed away. He was 83 years old. Margolis She died Thursday at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City after a brief illness, her son, actor and Knitting Factory Entertainment CEO Morgan Margolis, announced.
An official of Stella Adler, who did double duty as personal assistant to the legendary acting teacher, Margolis He also rose to fame as the Bolivian thug Alberto the Shadow Scarface Brian De Palma (1984); The landlord, Mr. Shikadance, is looking for rent Ace Ventura: Pet Detective (1994); and, from 1998 to 2003, as HIV-positive mob boss Antonio Nappa in the HBO series, oz. The Philadelphia native played an elderly math teacher to Darren Aronofsky get (1998), then appeared in the filmmaker’s next five films: as the man who sells television to Mrs. Goldfarb (Ellen Burstyn); A dream funeral (2000); Like a priest in the fountain (2006); as Randy “The Ram” Robinson’s (Mickey Rourke) landlord warrior (2008); Like a ballet patron black swan (2010); and as a “fallen angel”. Noah (2014).
When asked in a 2012 interview why Aronofsky hired him, he jokingly replied:
“He feels he has an obligation! I started with him in his first movie, $60,000 Movie. getWhen it was unknown. I chased him for three months because he lied to me about when I would get my money. I finally threatened to call her mother, who was the film’s caterer. Then finally he paid me.”
Margolis, who did not speak Spanish, made his first appearance as Hector “Tio” Salamanca breaking bad by Vince Gilligan in March 2009, in the second season of the AMC drama. A former enforcer for Mexican crime boss Don Eladio (Steven Bauer), his character is paralyzed and can only communicate using facial expressions and a brass bell strapped to his wheelchair.
In the spectacular season four finale, “dear to dear“, which aired in October 2011, Salamanca takes revenge on drug lord Gus Fring (Giancarlo Esposito) as part of a suicide mission, and received an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series in 2012. (Hector Salamanca even had his own tribute website).
As of 2016, with the second season of Prelude breaking bad, Good call Saul, Margolis He got a second chance to play for Salamanca as a junior before being disabled.
“I came alone breaking bad From what I knew, from that episode, but you can’t guess the flavor, and the fans connected with me,” he said. “Someone recently asked me, ‘How do you play such a scary guy?’ And I replied: ‘Have you talked to my friends? They’ll tell you I’m pretty miserable to begin with.’
Margolis He was born on November 26, 1939 to a Jewish family in Philadelphia. His mother, Fania, was a decorator who worked for a wallpaper company and did a lot of painting, and his father, Isidore, was a factory worker.
He took his first acting class at age 14, and after a year at Temple University, he moved to New York and studied theater with Adler at The Actors Studio (he became a lifetime member).
“My first impression of her was, ‘If God is a woman, she is,'” he told Eric Broadbent in an Inside the Gullivers interview in 2020. “She was larger than life. As far as I know [sobre actuación] It comes from Stella.
In exchange for the class, she worked as Adler’s personal assistant for about three years, hailing his taxi, delivering groceries to his apartment from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and tending to guests’ coats when he hosted a party.
“I have a real fascination with him,” he told The Observer in 2012. “I was 19 and he was 60. That’s what attracted me.”
Margolis He then studied with Alder’s rival Lee Strasberg for about a year, but he drifted away from acting and struggled to make ends meet. He ran a coffee shop on MacDougall Street in Greenwich Village.
“I used to let Richie Havens sit there all night, even if he didn’t have any money, because I loved listening to his music,” he said in 2016.
He built theater arts installations and brought geodesic domes to schools across the country.
Eventually, he made his on-screen debut as an X-rated airline passenger Opening of Misty Beethoven (1976), then had minor roles going in style (1979), Dress like crazy From De Palma (1980) and Arthur (1981) before his evil Alberto is killed by Al Pacino’s Tony Montana. Scarface.
He once said, “I’m just a world-traveling actor.” “Honestly, after six months ScarfaceI had to take a job with a real estate development friend for a few months.”
Margolis From 1985 to 1989, he had a recurring role as surveillance expert Jimmy on the CBS crime drama The EqualizerStarring Edward Woodward.
his character Ace Ventura Named after an actual landowner by Jim Carrey that director Tom Shadiak once owned. To Mr. Chickdance,
“They wanted a voice to get something out king of ghosts“, said. “I have never seen king of ghostsBut I assumed that it was”.
To paraphrase the silent Salamanca, Margolis He said he took cues from his late mother-in-law Shirley.
“She was in a nursing home in Florida for many years, sadly, after a stroke,” he said. “We used to meet him and he couldn’t talk. But he would get excited when we walked into the room and the left side of his mouth would always have this contortion where the lip protruded, almost like he was chewing tobacco. So I kind of stole that from him. I always say the role is an homage to Shirley, who was actually a dancer for Earl Carroll Follies in the 1930s.”
Margolis He said that Gilligan called him on the phone to tell him that Hector was going to be killed off in Breaking Bad, but that he would “have a lot of fun doing it.”
His career also has movies like this Cotton Club (1984), The secret of my success (1987), 1492: Conquest of Paradise (1992), I shot Andy Warhol (1996), absolute power (1997), The Thomas Crown Affair (1999), at the end of the day (1999), Tailor of Panama (2001), hardball (2001), All children are gone (2007), Contempt (2008) y Stand up friends (2012), and TV shows such as Saint Barbara, Law and order, Californication, people of interest, American Ghost Stories y the relationship.
Surviving besides his son and his wife are Heide Margolis These include his wife, Jacqueline, whom he married in June 1962; grandsons Ben, Aidan and Henry; and his brother and his wife, Jerome and Anne. He lived in Tribeca for years.
In lieu of sending flowers, donations may be made to the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation.
In his interview with The Observer, Margolis He said fans he met on the street “think I’m some kind of rich guy, in movies where everyone makes money like Angelina Jolie,” he explained. “They don’t understand that most of my life has been a struggle.”
Through: The Hollywood Reporter
Editor’s note: Great actor, he will be missed. Margolis always talked about the reality of how non-A-list actors lived and got jobs. Everyone thinks that an actor earns crores and it is not true. The good thing is that he seems to have had a full life.
