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Mark Margolis, Actor on ‘Breaking Bad’ and ‘Better Call Saul,’ Dies at 83
Submitted 1 year ago by Saturn_V@lemm.ee to moviesandtv@lemmy.film
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derthomas@lemmy.world 1 year ago
JakenVeina@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Man won an emmy for ringing a bell. Respect on him for even ACCEPTING a role like that. What did the audition look like?
cheery_coffee@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
This dude nailed the “I’m shitting my pants in revenge” face, and not everyone can pull that off.
WaxiestSteam69@lemmy.world 1 year ago
He did so much with that role while not speaking. I always thought he was a great actor.
dreamfall@kbin.social 1 year ago
I haven't seen BB in a while...but I'm pretty sure there are flashbacks with him where he is vocal.
wangadang@lemmy.world 1 year ago
He also has a major role in Better Call Saul, which takes place around the time he becomes that way
MyDearWatson616@lemmy.world 1 year ago
There’s the scene with Gus at the pool and the one with the cousins as kids, which also involves water. Better Call Saul had him a lot more.
WarmSoda@lemm.ee 1 year ago
That is true. I think it’s like two scenes though. Ohh and a short cold open scene. He spent far more time on screen as an old man.
Hubi@feddit.de 1 year ago
“Can you ring a bell? Now do it looking angry. Not angry enough. Perfect.”
liquidapricity@lemmy.world 1 year ago
He did such a good job as Hector.
Ado@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Was crazy how terrifying a paralyzed person could be
liquidapricity@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Exactly, and all the bitterness with it.
autotldr@lemmings.world [bot] 1 year ago
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Mark Margolis, the journeyman actor who turned in a commanding performance as the vindictive drug runner Hector Salamanca, a man of few words and a bell, on Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul, has died.
A protégé of Stella Adler who did double duty as the legendary acting teacher’s personal assistant, Margolis also stood out as the Bolivian henchman Alberto the Shadow in Brian De Palma’s Scarface (1984); as the gravelly voiced landlord Mr. Shickadance looking for the rent in Ace Ventura: Pet Detective (1994); and, from 1998-2003, as the HIV-infected mob boss Antonio Nappa on HBO’s Oz.
The Philadelphia native played an aging math teacher for Darren Aronofsky in Pi (1998), then showed up in the filmmaker’s next five movies: as the guy who keeps selling Mrs. Goldfarb’s (Ellen Burstyn) TV back to her in Requiem for a Dream (2000); as a priest in The Fountain (2006); as Randy “The Ram” Robinson’s (Mickey Rourke) landlord in The Wrestler (2008); as a ballet patron in Black Swan (2010); and as a “fallen angel” in Noah (2014).
In the spectacular season-four finale, “Face Off,” which aired in October 2011, Salamanca gets his revenge on drug kingpin Gus Fring (Giancarlo Esposito) as part of a suicide mission, and he received an Emmy nomination for outstanding guest actor in a drama series in 2012.
In exchange for classes, he served as Adler’s personal assistant for nearly three years, getting her cabs, carrying her groceries back to her apartment opposite the Metropolitan Museum of Art and checking coats for guests when she hosted a party.
He managed a coffee house on MacDougal Street in Greenwich Village — “I used to let Richie Havens sit there all night even though he didn’t have any money because I loved listening to his music,” he said in 2016 — built theatrical artwork installations and took geodesic domes to colleges all around the country.
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radioactiveradio@lemm.ee 1 year ago
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kaato@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Such a great actor!
Ertebolle@kbin.social 1 year ago
Best ratio of screen time to cultural impact since Hannibal Lecter
Impulsivedoorholder@reddthat.com 1 year ago
Lannibal Hector
Ginjutsu@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Damn, never even realized he was in an Ace Ventura movie. What an explosive career.
BigJim@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Venturraaaaaaa
Yes, Satan?
Nastybutler@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Oh I’m sorry sir. You sounded like someone else
Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social 1 year ago
He'll always be that old guy in TNG who died and Riker got put on trial for his murder
Redhotkurt@kbin.social 1 year ago
Ah, the Rashomon-inspired ep, "A Matter of Perspective." That was a good one! R.I.P. Margolis, he was a great actor.
Ertebolle@kbin.social 1 year ago
That's not the way I remember it
like100dollars@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Omg I never realized. That was a really bad episode tho. Horrible acting all around.
raven@beehaw.org 1 year ago
I was thinking Ace Ventura’s landlord.
serfraser@sopuli.xyz 1 year ago
“Ven-tur-aaahh!”
djmarcone@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Row 1 (ding) a b c d e f (ding)
brihuang95@sopuli.xyz 1 year ago
Last chance to look at me, Hector. 😢
InvertedParallax@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Remember him as a few random characters on law and order.
Somehow made some generic characters terrifying as all fuck.
This was a man who practiced his craft.
Ducks@ducks.dev 1 year ago
Damn. What a legend
echo@sopuli.xyz 1 year ago
cabrón, i need to see your balls
ShadowCat@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Damn I only recently finished Breaking Bad and he’s just shown up in Better Call Saul, RIP.
moobythegoldensock@geddit.social 1 year ago
Wow, he was Sol from Pi? Definitely gotta watch that again.
e-ratic@kbin.social 1 year ago
Damn that sucks
little_hoarse@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
RIP the bell ringer
Fantomas@lemmy.world 1 year ago
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sugarvenym@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Yes, Satan?
Dax87@forum.stellarcastle.net 1 year ago
THATS where I remember him!!
IcebergSlim@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Sad to hear, loved his work.
Robdor@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Accepted his new position as Satan. Long love the king. youtu.be/8uTThzrBYwg
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MyNameIsIgglePiggle@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
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