Charley Scaliesactor born in Philadelphia who played the docker and trade unionist Thomas “Horse face” Pakusa in the second season of the series The Wire and to the American football coach of the Tony high school in a sequence of dreams in The sopranohe has died. He was 84 years old.
Scalies died Thursday at a Nursing Center in Phoenixville, Pennsylvania, after a long battle against Alzheimer’s, as confirmed by his daughter Anne Marie Scalies to the Hollywood Reporter portal.
Scalies appeared in the 12 episodes of The Wire of HBO During his second season in 2003 as Horseface, a former docker of the local IBS 1514 of the port of Baltimore imprisoned who is devoted to his corrupt boss, Frank Sobotka (Chris Bauer).
“Like all the other characters that I have been lucky enough to play, a horse face lives in me,” he said in a 2019 interview. “I invite you to play when I need it.”
Scalies returned to HBO the following year in the fifth season of the soprano, “The dream of the test”, where he stood out as coach Molinaro. His character, of a hard nature, appears in a dream, rebuking the vindictive Tony (James Gandolfini) for taking the easy way out, becoming a criminal and wasting its potential.
Charley Scalies’s trajectory
In high school and in St. Joseph’s College, he and a friend made a show of comic monologues “and we played in all the premises of Beef and Beer that we found,” he recalled in a 2015 interview. “Like any other comic duo of the time, we inspired our show in [Dean] Martin and [Jerry] Lewis. “
After the University, Scalies got a job as a sales and contracts in Clifton Precision, a manufacturing company, and then established its own consulting company, focusing on audit and quality management systems.
In the early 1990s, he returned to the stage in community and dinner theater productions, playing Nicly-Nicely Johnson in Guys & DollsBilly Flynn in Chicago and to the cowardly lion in The Oz Wizard For St. Francis Players in Springfield, Pennsylvania.
Scalies participated in auditions, which allowed him to obtain secondary papers in the 1995 films Red condition, Two bitsstarring To the Pacinoand 12 monkeysof Terry Gilliam. Subsequently, he played a police officer in two episodes of 1996 Homicide: Life on the street of the NBC, produced by David Simoncreator of The Wire.
The scalies curriculum included films Liberty Heights (1999), directed by Barry Levinsonand Jersey Girl (2004) of Kevin Smithand special appearances in Law & Order, Law & Order: SVU and Cold Case.
He also wrote a script entitled It Takes Ballsinspired by his father’s billiard room.
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