“Charley Scalies, The Philadelphia-Bred Character Actor Who Portrayed The Stevedore and Union Guy Thomas ‘Horseface’ The Sopranos, Has Died. HE WAS 84. SCALIES DIED Thursday in A Nursing Facility in Phoenixville, Pennsylvania, After A Long Battle”, – WRITE: www.hollywoodReporter.com
Scalies Died Thursday in A Nursing Facility in Phoenixville, Pennsylvania, After A Long Battle with Alzheimer’s, His Daughter Anne Marie Scalies Told The Hollywood Reporter.
Scalies appeared on all 12 episodes of hbo’s The Wire Durying it Season in 2003 as Horseface, An Incarcerated Former Ibs Local 1514 Longhoreman from the Port of Baltimore Who’s Devoted to His Croomed Boss, Frank Sobotka.
“As with All The Other Characters I’ve Been Blessed To Portray, Horseface Lives Inside of Me,“ He Said in A 2019 Interview. “I Invite Him Out to Play As Needed.”
Scalies Was Back On HBO The NEXT YEAR ON THE FIFTHTH-SEASON Sopranos Installment «The Test Dream,” WHERE HE STOD OUT as Coach Molinaro. His Hard-Nosed Character Shows Up in A Dream, Besting James Gandolfini’s Vengeful Tony for Taking “The Easy Way Out” by BY BYCOMING A CRIMINAL AND Squandering His Poticial.
Charley Scalies and James Gandolfini on the Set of ‘The Sopranos.’ CourTesy Anne Marie Scalies
The Youngst of Three Children, Charles Joseph Scalies Jr. Was Born in Philadelphia on July 19, 1940, and Raissed in South Philadelphia in a Home Above His Father’s Pool Hall, WHERE HE ENTERTED PATRONS WITH JOKES AND ALOSON IMPESSS.
In High School and at St. Joseph’s College, He and A Friend Had A Stand-Up Comedy Act “And Played Every Beef and Beer [joint] We Could Find, ”HE RECALLED IN A 2015 INTERView.“ LIKE EVERY Other Comedy Duo of the Time, We Patterned Our Act After [Dean] Martin & [Jerry] Lewis. ”
After College, Scalies Landed A Job As Director of Sales and Contracts at Clifton Precision, A Manufacturing Company, Ten Established His Own Consulting Focushing on Austing on Austing.
In the early 1990s, he retrieved to the stage in community and dinner theater reproductions, playing Nicely-Nicely Johnson in Guys & dollsBilly Flynn in Chicago d Cowardly lion in The Wizard of Oz For the St. Francis Players in Springfield, Pennsylvania.
Scalies Went on Casting Calls, Leading to Bit Parts in the 1995 Movies Condition Redthe al pacino-starring Two Bits and Terry Gilliam’s 12 Monkeys. HE THEN PLAYED A COP ON TWO 1996 EPISODES OF NBC’s Homicide: Life on the StreetProduced by The Wire Creator David Simon.
Scalies’ résumé included the films Liberty heights (1999), Directed by Homicide Producer Barry Levinson, and Kevin Smith’s Jersey Girl (2004), and Guest Spots On LAW & ORDER, LAW & ORDER: SVU an Cold Case.
He also wrote a screenplay titled It Takes Ballsinspired by his dad’s pool Room.
Survivors Include His Wife of 62 Years, Angeline; His Children, Chuck, Angeline, Tony, Christa and Anne Marie; And his Grandchildren, Charles IV, Christopher, Domenic and Amelia. “His Favorite Audence,” his family noted, “Was always Seated AROUND The DINNER TABLE.”
Donations can be in his name to the Greater Pennsylvania Chapter of the Alzheimer’s Association or to the PCS Theater in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania.