Mark Margolis, Actor on ‘Breaking Bad’ and ‘Better Call Saul,’ Dies at 83
Margolis died Thursday at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City
Margolis stood out as the Bolivian henchman Alberto the Shadow in Brian De Palma’s Scarface (1983)
The Philadelphia native played an aging math teacher for Darren Aronofsky in Pi (1998)
Margolis, who didn’t speak Spanish, made his first appearance as “Tio” Sa
lamanca
Salamanca gets his revenge on drug kingpin Gus Fring (Giancarlo Esposito)
Margolis got a second chance to play Salamanca as a younger man, before he became incapacitated.
Margolis was born into a Jewish family in Philadelphia on Nov. 26, 1939.
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