Mark Margolisa world-traveling actor who brilliantly played the vengeful drug lord Hector Salamanca, a man of few words and sonorous, in breaking Bad And Better call Saulalready died. He was 83 years old. Margolis He died Thursday at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York after a short illness, his son, actor and Knitting Factory Entertainment CEO Morgan Margolis, said.
A protégé of Stella Adler, who also did double duty as the personal assistant to the legendary acting teacher. Margolis he also rose to fame as Bolivian thug Alberto Shadow in Face with a scar Brian De Palma (1984); like a raucous landlord, Mr. Chickadance, looking for rent in Ace Ventura: Pet Detective (1994); and from 1998 to 2003 as HIV-positive mob boss Antonio Nappa on the HBO series. ounce. The Philadelphia native played an aging math teacher for Darren Aronofsky in Pi (1998), then appeared in the director’s next five films: as the guy who keeps selling television to Mrs. Goldfarb (Ellen Burstyn) in Requiem for a Dream (2000); like a priest in Fountain (2006); as Randy “The Ram” Robinson (Mickey Rourke)’s landlord Fighter (2008); as a patron of ballet in Black Swan (2010); and as a “fallen angel” in Noah (2014).
When asked in a 2012 interview why Aronofsky kept hiring him, he jokingly replied:
“He thinks he has obligations! I started with him in his first movie, a $60,000 movie, Piwhen it was unknown. I followed him for three months because he kept lying to me about when I would get my money. In the end, I threatened that I would call his mother, who was the waitress in the film. Then he finally paid me.”
Margolis, who did not speak Spanish, first appeared as Hector “Tio” Salamanca in breaking Bad Vince Gilligan in March 2009, in the second episode of the second season of the AMC drama. Former enforcer for Mexican crime boss Don Eladio (Stephen Bauer), his character is paralyzed and can only communicate through facial expressions and a brass bell tied to his wheelchair.
In the exciting fourth season finale “Face to face‘, which aired in October 2011, Salamanca takes revenge on drug lord Gus Fring (Giancarlo Esposito) as part of a suicide mission, and in 2012 received an Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series (Hector Salamanca even had his own own dedicated site).
As of 2016, with the second season of Prelude to breaking Bad, Better call Saul, Margolis he got a second chance to play Salamanca at a younger age before becoming incapacitated.
“I came alone to breaking Bad just from what I knew from that episode, but you can’t predict the taste and the fans got attached to me,” he said. “Someone recently asked me, ‘How did you manage to play such a terrible guy?’ and I replied, “Have you spoken to my friends? They will tell you that I am rather miserable from the very beginning.”
Margolis He was born to a Jewish family in Philadelphia on November 26, 1939. His mother, Fanya, was a decorator, worked for a wallpaper company and painted a lot, and his father, Isidore, was a factory worker.
He took his first acting class at age 14 and after a year at Temple University moved to New York and studied theater with Adler at the Actors Studio (he became a life member).
“My first impression of her was, ‘If God is a woman, then she is a he,'” he told Eric Broadbent in an interview with Inside the Gilliverse in 2020. “She was larger than life. Everything I know (about acting) comes from Stella.”
In exchange for classes, he worked as Adler’s personal assistant for nearly three years, hauling her cabs, delivering groceries to her apartment across from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and looking after guests’ coats when she hosted a party.
“I was fascinated by her,” he told The Observer in 2012. “I was 19 and she was 60. That attracted me.”
Margolis He then studied with rival Alder Lee Strasberg for about a year, but moved away from acting and struggled to make ends meet. He had a coffee shop on McDougal Street in Greenwich Village.
“I used to let Richie Havens sit there all night, even if he didn’t have any money, because I liked listening to his music,” she said in 2016.
He built theatrical art installations and brought geodesic domes to schools across the country.
Finally, he made his screen debut as a cranky air passenger in an X-rated series. Discovery of Misty Beethoven (1976), then there were small roles in go in style (1979) Badly dressed from De Palma (1980) and Arthur (1981) before his nasty Alberto was killed by Al Pacino’s Tony Montana Face with a scar.
“I’m just an actor traveling the world,” he once said. “Honestly, six months after Face with a scarI had to take a job with a real estate development friend for a few months to make ends meet.”
Margolis from 1985 to 1989, he had a recurring role as surveillance expert Jimmy on the CBS crime drama. Equalizerstarring Edward Woodward.
his character in Ace Ventura Jim Carrey is named after a real-life landlord once owned by director Tom Shadyac. Mr Shikadance,
“They wanted a voice that sounded like something from Exorcist“, said. “I never saw Exorcistbut I assumed it was.”
To interpret the silent Salamanca, Margolis he said he looked up to his late mother-in-law Shirley.
“She was in a nursing home in Florida for many years, unfortunately after suffering a stroke,” he said. “We visited her and she couldn’t speak. But he was agitated when we entered the room, and the left side of his mouth always made these contortions, when his lips protruded, as if he were chewing tobacco. So I kind of stole it from her. I always say that this role is a tribute to Shirley, who was actually a dancer for Earl Carroll Follis in the 1930s.”
Margolis He said that Gilligan called him on the phone and said that Hector would be killed off in Breaking Bad, but that he would “have a lot of fun doing it.”
His career also included films such as cotton club (1984) The secret of my success (1987) 1492: Conquest of paradise (1992) I shot Andy Warhol (1996) Absolute Power (1997) Thomas Crown case (1999) end of days (1999) Tailor from Panama (2001) hardball (2001) gone baby gone (2007) disobedience (2008) and Stand up guys (2012) and TV shows like Saint Barbara, Law and order, californication, interested party, American Horror Story And Case.
Besides son and wife Heide, the survivors Margolis Among them is his wife, Jacqueline, whom he married in June 1962; grandchildren Ben, Aidan and Henry; and his brother and his wife, Jerome and Ann. He lived in Tribeca for many years.
Instead of sending flowers, you can make a donation to the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation.
In his interview with The Observer Margolis He said that the fans he met on the street “think I’m some rich guy, that everyone in the movies makes the same money as Angelina Jolie,” he explained. “They don’t understand that most of my life has been a struggle.”
Via: The Hollywood Reporter
Editor’s note: Great actor, he will be missed. Margolis has always talked about the reality of how non-A-list actors live and work. Everyone thinks that any actor makes millions, and this is not true. It’s good that he seems to have had a full life.