Stage and Screen Actor David Margulies Passes Away at 78

BroadwayWord has just learned that stage and screen actor David Margulies passed away yesterday, 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.

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