Photo Flash: Remembering David Margulies

As BroadwayWord reported yesterday, stage and screen actor David Margulies passed away on Monday, January 11. He was 78 years old.

Margulies was born in Brooklyn, New York, the son of Runya, a nurse and museum worker, and Harry David Margulies, a lawyer. Margulies graduated from City College of New York. Immediately afterward, he made his stage debut in the off-Broadway play Golden 6 (1958). His first Broadway appearance was in the 1973 revival of The Iceman Cometh.

Among his many Broadway credits are: Wonderful Town (2003 revival), 45 Seconds from Broadway (2001), A Thousand Clowns (1996 revival), Angels in America: Perestroika (1993), Angels in America: Millennium Approaches (1993), Conversations with My Father (1992), Brighton Beach Memoirs (1983), The West Side Waltz (1981), Night Flowers (1979) and Comedians (1976).

Margulies' film credits include The Front (1976), Last Embrace (1979), All That Jazz (1979), Hide in Plain Sight (1980), Dressed to Kill (1980), Times Square(1980), I'm Dancing as Fast as I Can (1982), Daniel (1983), Ghostbusters (1984), Brighton Beach Memoirs (1986), 9½ Weeks (1986), Ishtar (1987), Running on Empty (1988), Ghostbusters II (1989), Out on a Limb (1992), A Stranger Among Us (1992), Ace Ventura: Pet Detective (1994), and Fading Gigolo (2013). Among Margulies' television credits are Kojak, Tales from the Darkside, Spenser: For Hire, The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd, Chicago Hope, NYPD Blue, Northern Exposure, Touched by an Angel, four episodes of Law & Order, and eight episodes of The Sopranos as mob boss Tony Soprano's lawyer Neil Mink.

Photo Credit: Walter McBride

David Margulies ( THE ACCOMPLICES )atending the 28th Annual Lucille Lortel Awards held at the Penthouse at American Airlines Theatre in New York City. April 21, 2008

David Margulies ( THE ACCOMPLICES ) attending the 28th Annual Lucille Lortel Awards held at the Penthouse at American Airlines Theatre in New York City. April 21, 2008

David Margulies ( THE ACCOMPLICES ) attending the 28th Annual Lucille Lortel Awards held at the Penthouse at American Airlines Theatre in New York City. April 21, 2008

Lois Smith & David Margulies attending the 2008 Lucille Lortel Awards at the Union Square Theatre in New York City. May 5, 2008

Lois Smith & David Margulies attending the 2008 Lucille Lortel Awards at the Union Square Theatre in New York City. May 5, 2008

NEW YORK, NY - July 10, 2013: Robert Petkoff, Martin Moran, Henry Stram, David Margulies, Matthew Saldivar, Judy Kuhn, Eisa Davis, Anika Noni Rose, Raul Esparza, Aidan Gemme, Peter Friedman and Michael Parks during the Opening Night Curtain Call for 'The Cradle Will Rock' , New York City Centers new Encores! Off-Center Series.

NEW YORK, NY - July 10, 2013: David Margulies, Matthew Saldivar, Judy Kuhn, Eisa Davis, Anika Noni Rose and Raul Esparza with conductor Chris Fenwick in the background during the Opening Night Curtain Call for 'The Cradle Will Rock' , New York City Centers new Encores! Off-Center Series.

David Margulies attending the Opening Night Performance Party for 'The Cradle Will Rock' , New York City Centers new Encores! Off-Center Series in NY - July 10, 2013:

Lois Smith and David Margulies attends the Opening Night After Party for the Playwrights Horizons New York premiere production of 'Marjorie Prime' at Tir Na Nog Irish Pub & Grill on December 14, 2015 in New York City.

David Margulies attends the Opening Night After Party for the Playwrights Horizons New York premiere production of 'Marjorie Prime' at Tir Na Nog Irish Pub & Grill on December 14, 2015 in New York City.