Charley Scalies
Courtesy of x / @ziggys_dukCharley ScaliesFamous for your roles in iconic shows The wire and The sopranosHe has died at 84 years after a battle with Alzheimer’s disease.
The actor died in a nursing center in Phoenixville, Pennsylvania, on Thursday, May 1.
Scalies was better known for his role as DockkWorker and member of the Thomas “Horseface” Paka in The wireAppearing in each episode of the second season of the stores acclaimed by critics, launched in 2003.
“As with all other characters, I am lucky to portray, Horsefface lives within me,” said the actor in 2019. “I invite him to play as necessary.”
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In The sopranosScalies played a high school sports coach who appeared in an opposite dream sequence James Gandolfini. As Scalies once told a local journalist: “I am a good actor. I can sweat in the example.”
Far from the cameras, the resident of Pennsylvania of a lifetime was a devoted family man. “Better known first of all as a husband, father, grandfather, uncle and friend,” says his public obitary. “Professionally, Charley Scalies was an American actor and former business executive whose life reflected a rich combination of professional achievements, creative passion and true joy for life. His favorite audience was always sitting around the table.”
The moving obituario continued: “He is survived by the true love and joy of his life, his 62 -year -old wife, Angeline M. Scalies (Née Cardamone); his five children: Charles (Chuck) Scalies III, Angeline Kugut (Steve Kugut), Anthony (Tony) Scalies, Christist Ann Scalise and Anne Marie Scalies (Shawn Weaver);
As the news of the actor’s death was learned, Anne Marie led tributes. “Charley emphasized the importance of the family, stating that loving her mother, spending quality time and teaching respect and hard work were key elements of fatherhood,” she said. The Hollywood Reporter. “He saw the duty of a father how to bring children to independence. His stories will be surprised by his wife, his children and grandchildren, but his memory will live in their hearts.”
Duration of his six -seasons career, the sopranos transformed television as we know it, winning their title as one of the best programs of all time. HBO’s crime drama began in January 1999 with Tony Soprano (James Gandolfini) reluctantly entering his new psychiatrist’s office, Jennifer Melfi (Lorraine Bracco), after having a panic attack. […]
In addition to its two best -known roles, Scalies also appeared in the 1995 film Two bits, throughout To the Pacinoand episodes or Homicide: Life on the street and Public order. He came to act after a career in sales and consulting, but it was, throughout all the accounts, an artist born, making impressions and counting jokes in his father’s pole beam in his youth.
His memories of the Philadelphia pool hall also inspired a script, Balls are neededwhich completed in 2015. “I love a good love story as much as I like to laugh,” he said about the project.
