He is known to the general public especially for his character of Hector Salamanca, a crippled drug godfather who communicates with a simple bell from his wheelchair, in the hit series Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul. American actor Mark Margolis died Thursday, August 3, at the age of 83 at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York, according to American media Variety and Hollywood Reporter who reported an announcement from the actor’s son, Morgan Margolis .
Bryan Cranston, who played Breaking Bad’s main character, chemist Walter White, for five seasons, paid tribute to his former acting partner on Instagram: “Mark Margolis was a really great actor and a lovely human being. Funny and exciting off set, intimidating and scary on set. “And the actor to pay tribute to the” exceptional career “of his colleague.
“A powerful screen presence!” “, commented for his part Bob Odenkirk, the star of Better Call Saul playing the crooked lawyer Saul Goodman, on the social network X (ex-Twitter). “Mark made me laugh with his jokes and remarks on the bus that took us to set, and I hope I got even half of his energy and focus when we shouted ‘action. »
Mark Margolis had also appeared in Scarface (1983) by Brian de Palma, Ace Ventura, Detective Dogs and Cats (1994) by Tom Shadyac, and had maintained a recurring collaboration with Darren Arronofsky after playing the math teacher in Pi (1998) , the director’s first film.
