Sopranos actor Charley Scalies dead at age 84: The Wire vet dies following battle with Alzheimer’s
Character actor Charley Scalies has died at age 84 following a battle with Alzheimer’s.
Scalies’ daughter Anne Marie Scalies revealed to The Hollywood Reporter that her father passed on Thursday at a nursing facility in Phoenixville, Pennsylvania.
Scalies portrayed Thomas ‘Horseface’ Pakusa for 12 episodes of The Wire and also appeared in an episode of the critically-acclaimed mafia series The Sopranos.
He played Coach Molinaro, Tony Soprano’s high school football coach, in a dream scene.
A Legacy obituary, which noted Scalies died ‘peacefully’, emphasized the role family played in his life.
‘Best known first and foremost as a husband, father, grandfather, uncle, and friend,’ it stated, adding the actor’s ‘favorite audience was always seated around the dinner table.’
Actor Charley Scalies has died at age 84 following a battle with Alzheimer’s
He played Coach Molinaro, Tony Soprano’s high school football coach, in The Sopranos
