Charley Scalies, actor in the iconic HBO series and, died last Thursday at age 84, in a Nursing center in Phoenixville, Pennsylvania (USA), after years suffering Alzheimer, according to his daughter Anne Marie Scalies (THR).
Secondary actor of characters born in Philadelphia, Scalies played the stibuador and unionist Thomas Horseface (Horse face) Pakusa in the second season of The Wire and to the American football coach of the Mafioso Tony Soprano school, in a dream sequence in one of the episodes of The soprano.
“Like all the other characters that I have been lucky enough to interpret, Horseface He lives inside me, ”he said in a 2019 interview, recalls Thr. The actor appeared in the 12 episodes of David Simon’s series during his second season, in 2003, playing the former station of the port of Baltimore, imprisoned and devotee from his corrupt boss, Frank Sobotka (played by Chris Bauer).
Scalies returned to HBO the following year, in the fifth season of , where he stood out as coach Molinaro in the chapter entitled The Test Dream. His character, of a hard nature, appears in a dream, rebuking the avenge Tony (James Gandolfini) for taking “the easy exit” by becoming a criminal and wasting his potential.
Charles Joseph Scalies Jr. was born in Philadelphia on July 19, 1940 and grew up in the south of the city, in a house on his father’s pool, where as a child he entertained customers with jokes and imitations of the singer and actor to Jolson.
In addition to the aforementioned series, the Scalies curriculum includes the film Liberty Heights (1999), directed by the producer of the series Homicide (where he also worked), Barry Levinson; 12 monkeys (1995), by Terry Gilliam, and the film A Jersey girl (2004), by Kevin Smith, in addition to appearances as a guest actor in, Law and Order: Special Victims Unit y Open casehis last role.
