Veteran character actor Mark Margolis, who had a breakout role as a mobster in Scarface and became best known for playing vindictive former drug kingpin Hector Salamanca in TV’s Breaking Bad and then in the prequel Better Call Saul, has died at age 83.
The actor died on Thursday at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City following a short illness, according to a statement from his son, Morgan Margolis.
Margolis was nominated for an Emmy in 2012 for Breaking Bad, for outstanding guest actor, as Hector, the elderly don of his drug clan who was unable to speak or walk due to a stroke. Much
