Mark Margolis, the longtime character actor whose career pinnacled with unforgettable arcs on 'Breaking Bad' and 'Better Call Saul,' has died at the age of 83.
Better Call SaulMargolis’ son announced the actor’s death Friday, noting that Margolis died at New York’s Mt. Sinai Hospital on August 3 following a short illness.
“He was one of a kind. We won’t see his likes again. He was a treasured client and a lifelong friend. I was lucky to know him,” his manager Robert Kolker said in a statement. “A pervasive presence in television, film, and on stage, Emmy-nominated actor Mark Margolis was best known for playing Hector ‘Tio’ Salamanca, a former drug kingpin who is unable to speak or walk due to the lingering effects of a stroke that originally appearing on AMC’s hit and for which he was nominated for a 2012 Emmy award,” read a biography accompanying Kolker’s statement.
Margolis’ first notable big-screen role came in 1983 when he portrayed assassin Alberto the Shadow in
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