MARK Margolis, best known for his roles on Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul, has died.
The Emmy-nominated star died at the age of 83 on Thursday.
Mark's son Morgan, CEO of Knitting Factory Entertainment, revealed that his father died at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City following a short illness.
The Hollywood performer was a part of many notable projects throughout his long career including playing the role of henchman Alberto the Shadow in 1984's classic film Scarface alongside Al Pacino.
Years later he would also appear in 1998's Pi, playing a math teacher in the Darren Aronofsky film.
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Mark would become a fixture in the director's career, appearing in a number of his films including Requiem for a Dream, The Fountain, The Wrestler, Black Swan, and Noah.
"He thinks he has an obligation!" Mark once joked to the Hollywood Reporter on why Darren continued to cast him in his movies.
The actor added at the time: "I started with him on his first movie, the $60,000 Pi, when he was unknown. I chased him for three months because he kept lying to me about when I’d get my money.
"I finally threatened to call his mother, who was craft services on the film. Then he finally paid me.”
Despite his performances in well known big screen projects, it was his TV roles that landed him on the mainstream radar.
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In 2009, Mark made his first appearance on the now classic AMC series Breaking Bad alongside Bryan Cranston and Aaron Paul.
Mark played Hector (Tio) Salamanca on the Vince Gilligan drama, a character who is paralyzed and is only able to communicate using facial expressions and a bell attached to his wheelchair.
To play the silent role, Mark said he took his cues from his late mother-in-law, Shirley.
“She was in a nursing home for many years in Florida, tragically, after suffering a stroke,” he once shared.
“We used to visit her, and she couldn’t speak. But she’d get excited when we came in the room, and the left side of her mouth would always do these contortions where the lips would push out, almost like she was chewing tobacco."
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"So I kind of stole that from her..." he revealed.
Mark's role on the popular series proved to have a lasting impact on viewers.
"I was only coming onto Breaking Bad as far as I knew for that one episode, but there’s no accounting for taste, and the fans took a fancy to me,” the actor told the outlet.
“Somebody asked me recently, ‘How did you manage to play such a horrible guy?’ and I said, ‘Have you talked to my friends?’ They’ll tell you I’m pretty miserable to begin with.”
Mark would once again play the role- a younger version- in the show's prequel Better Call Saul in 2016.
He is survived by his son Morgan, his wife Jacqueline, brother Jerome, and grandsons Ben, Aidan and Henry.
