Charley Scalins, the actor of character of Bicelphia who portrayed Guy Eravedore and Union Thomas “Horse” Pakusa in the second season of The thread And Tony's high school football coach in a dream sequence on Sopranosis dead. He was 84 years old.
Scalings died Thursday in a nursing institution in Phoenixville,, Pennsylvania, after a long battle against Alzheimer's disease, said her daughter Anne Marie Scaleries The Hollywood Reporter.
The developments appeared on the 12 episodes of HBO The thread During his second season in 2003 under the name of Horseface, an old longshoreman incarcerated from the local section of IBS 1514 of the port of Baltimore which is devoted to its twisted boss, Frank Sobotka (Chris Bauer).
“As with all the other characters that I had the chance to portray, Horse Face lives in me”, he said In a 2019 interview. “I invite him to play if necessary.”
SCALIES was back on HBO the following year the fifth season Sopranos Episode “The Test Dream”, where he stood out like the Molinaro coach. Her hard character appears in a dreamRefrimanding James Gandolfini's avenger for having taken “the easy solution” by becoming a criminal and wasting his potential.
Charley evolves and James Gandolfinni on the set of “The Sopranos”.
With kind permission Anne Marie SCALIES
The youngest of three children, Charles Joseph Scalies Jr. was born in Philadelphia on July 19, 1940 and grew up in the south of Philadelphia in a house above his father's billiard room, where he entertained customers with jokes and impressions Al Jolson when he was a child.
In high school and St. Joseph's College, he and a friend had a standing act of comedy “and played each beef and beer [joint] you could find ”, he recalled In an interview of 2015. “Like all the other comedy duo of the time, we shaped our act after [Dean] Martin & [Jerry] Lewis. “”
After university, Scalies won a job as sales and contract director at Clifton Precision, a manufacturing company, then created its own consulting company, focusing on audit and quality management systems.
In the early 1990s, he returned to the stage in community theater and dinner productions, playing Johnson in the Guy and dollsBilly Flynn in Chicago and the loose lion in Oz assistant For St. Francis players in Springfield, Pennsylvania.
The developments continued to launch calls, leading to bits pieces in the 1995 films Red conditionThe Al Pacino featuring Two bits and Terry Gilliam 12 monkeys. He then played a cop on two episodes from 1996 from NBC Homicide: Life in the streetproduced by The thread Creator David Simon.
The curriculum vitae of scalins included films Liberty Heights (1999), produced by Homicide producer Barry Levinson and Kevin Smith Jersey girl (2004), and the guest spots on Law and order,, Law and order: SVU And Cold case.
He also wrote a script entitled It takes bulletsInspired by his father's billiard room.
The survivors include his 62 -year -old wife, Angeline; her children, Chuck, Angeline, Tony, Christa and Anne Marie; And his grandchildren, Charles IV, Christopher, Domenic and Amelia. “His favorite audience”, his family note“Was always sitting around the dinner table.”
Donations can be made on behalf of Greater Pennsylvania Chapter of the Alzheimer's association or at PCS Theater In Swarthmore, Pennsylvania.
