Robust-talking actor Charley Scalies – who had roles in “The Wire” and “The Sopranos” — died Thursday in a Pennsylvania nursing residence, based on household. He was 84.
Scalies handed away in Phoenixville after a protracted battle with Alzheimer’s, his daughter Anne Marie informed the Hollywood Reporter.
He additionally carried out alongside the likes of Al Pacino in “Two Bits,” and Bruce Willis and Brad Pitt in “12 Monkeys” throughout an performing profession that stared within the Nineteen Nineties.
Then he landed a job in season 2 of “The Wire” as a Thomas “Horseface” Pasuka, showing in all 12 episodes of the seminal 2003 season as a longshoreman union chief who helps run a car-theft scheme out of the Baltimore docks.
Later he performed Tony Soprano’s cigar-chewing highschool soccer coach in “The Sopranos” season 5, the place he got here to the mob boss in a dream to insult him for selecting a lifetime of crime.
Scalies additionally appeared in “Cold Case,” “Law & Order,” “Jersey Girl” and different exhibits over time.
He had a spouse, three youngsters, and quite a few grandchildren.
