David Margulies

Early life

Margulies was born in Brooklyn, New York City to a Jewish family. He was the son of Runya (née Zeltzer), a nurse and museum employee, and Harry David Margulies, a lawyer. He graduated from City College of New York.

Career

Margulies made his stage debut in the off-Broadway play Golden 6 (1958). In that same year, he joined the American Shakespeare Festival as an apprentice, which led to his receiving an Actors' Equity Association contract for the 1960 theater season. His first Broadway appearance was in the 1973 revival of The Iceman Cometh.

His 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).

His television credits include 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.

Personal life and death

Margulies died on January 11, 2016, of cancer in Manhattan, New York, at the age of 78. He was survived by his partner, actress Lois Smith, as well as a son Johnathon, and a grandson from a previous marriage.

Filmography

Film

Television

Additional Broadway credits

• Comedians (1976)
• The West Side Waltz (1981)
• Brighton Beach Memoirs (1983)
• Conversations with My Father (1992)
• Angels in America: Millennium Approaches (1993)
• Angels in America: Perestroika (1993)
• A Thousand Clowns (1996 revival)
• 45 Seconds from Broadway (2001)
• Wonderful Town (2003 revival)

References

References

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