Charley Scalies, a personality actor who appeared in HBO’s The Wire and The Sopranos and was a former enterprise govt, died Might 1 on the age of 84 following a protracted battle with Alzheimer’s.
The information was confirmed by way of a public obituary and his daughter Anne Marie Scalies’ assertion to The Hollywood Reporter.
“Greatest identified in the beginning as a husband, father, grandfather, uncle, and buddy,” the obit learn, “whose life mirrored a wealthy mix {of professional} achievement, inventive ardour, and a real pleasure for all times. His favourite viewers was at all times seated across the dinner desk.”
Born Charles J. Scalies, Jr. on July 19, 1940 in Philadelphia, the performer entertained patrons of his father’s pool corridor in South Philly with impressions and jokes starting at a younger age. He graduated from St. Joseph’s Faculty and started acting on stage by way of neighborhood and dinner theater productions within the early ’90s. These roles included Properly Johnson in Guys and Dolls, Billy Flynn in Chicago and the Cowardly Lion in The Wizard of Oz with the St. Francis Gamers in Springfield, Penn.
He marked his silver display debut within the James Foley-directed Al Pacino automobile Two Bits, set in his native South Philadelphia within the Nineteen Thirties. Nevertheless, Scalies is finest identified for his function as Thomas “Horseface” Pakusa, a loyal dockworker and union member in Season 2 of The Wire. He additionally appeared as Coach Molinaro in Season 5 of The Sopranos reverse star James Gandolfini, within the episode titled “The Check Dream.”
His tv credit moreover embody Murder: Life on the Avenue, Regulation & Order, Regulation & Order: SVU, and Chilly Case. In movie, he appeared in 12 Monkeys (1995), Liberty Heights (1999) and Jersey Lady (2004).
Scalies additionally ventured into screenwriting, authoring a screenplay titled It Takes Balls, impressed by his dad’s pool room in Philadelphia. Outdoors of the leisure world, Scalies held the place of director of gross sales and contracts at Clifton Precision. He later established his personal consulting agency, specializing in ISO 9000 auditing and high quality administration programs.
He’s survived by the “real love and pleasure of his life,” his spouse of 62 years, Angeline M. Scalies, his 5 youngsters and 4 grandchildren.
“Charley emphasised the significance of household, stating that loving their mom, spending high quality time, and educating respect and laborious work have been key components of fatherhood. He believed {that a} father’s function is to information youngsters towards self-sufficiency. His spouse, youngsters, and grandchildren will miss his tales however will hold him of their hearts perpetually,” the obit learn.
