Mark Margolis (born 26 November 1939) is an American actor, who has been making films since 1976.
Margolis went to Temple University briefly before moving to New York City, where he studied drama with Stella Adler and at the Actors Studio. He is perhaps most famous for his supporting roles in Scarface and the films of Darren Aronofsky: π, Requiem for a Dream, The Fountain, The Wrestler, and Black Swan. Aronofsky wrote the role of Father Avila in The Fountain specifically for Margolis.
He has had recurring roles on numerous TV shows, including The Equalizer, HBO’s Oz, Law And Order, Crossing Jordan and most recently Showtime’s Californication and Breaking Bad. He also appeared in a first season episode of Quantum Leap.
In 1991 he also played Helmut Dieter in soap opera Santa Barbara.
Mark Margolis Biography / Wiki
| Name | Mark Margolis |
| Also Know | |
| Gender | Male |
| Known For | Acting |
| Place of Birth | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA |
| Date of Birth | November 26, 1939 |
| Age(as in 2023) | 83 |
| Deathday |
Mark Margolis Acting Movies
| Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
| Dig | Heinrich Berger | 2012-12-03 | Twenty years following his exodus from Europe, a young, Jewish Holocaust survivor comes face to face with the Nazi responsible for his family’s death…. |
| Pi | Sol Robeson | 1998-07-10 | A mathematical genius discovers a link between numbers and reality, and thus believes he can predict the future…. |
| Nobody | Professor Hagel | 2009-01-01 | Lindeman, 25-year-old art student, struggles to find his inspiration, finding himself in one ridiculous situation after the other…. |
| Far from Poland | Adam Zarewski | 1984-03-10 | FAR FROM POLAND is probably the first American non-fiction film (Godmilow calls it a “drama-tary”) to explode cinema verite’s mythic claim to be the o… |
| The Abandoned | Jim | 2015-06-13 | A troubled young woman who, in a last-ditch effort at getting her life together, takes a job working nights as a security guard at an abandoned luxury… |
| The Fountain | Father Avila | 2006-11-22 | Spanning over one thousand years, and three parallel stories, The Fountain is a story of love, death, spirituality, and the fragility of our existence… |
| The Wrestler | Lenny | 2008-09-07 | Aging wrestler Randy “The Ram” Robinson is long past his prime but still ready and rarin’ to go on the pro-wrestling circuit. After a particularly bru… |
| The Pit and the Pendulum | Mendoza | 1991-06-27 | Set during the height of Spanish Inquisition. The beautiful and kind-hearted Maria is arrested as a witch when she inadvertently cries out in horror a… |
| Angela | 2002-06-07 | Manhattan- as it is every day of the week, year in, year out. Life is pretty routine for Bob, about to turn 70, yet aching for one last fling. Maybe h… | |
| Descending Angel | Bercovici | 1990-11-25 | A recently engaged man getting to know his future father-in-law better unearths clues that the man may have been a Nazi collaborator and a mass murder… |
| Queenie in Love | Spencer | 2001-09-12 | A quirky, romantic New York comedy about the pursuit of love, life and the right to be yourself…. |
| Haber | Bremer | 2008-08-05 | At the brink of World War I, Fritz Shimon Haber was Germany’s greatest chemist. Haber’s Nobel prize-winning synthetic fertilizers saved world’s popula… |
| A Remarkable Life | Landon | 2016-05-27 | There are many things in life that could do a number on a man’s masculinity. Lenny Babbitt has his identity and manhood challenged when his wife Tracy… |
| Carl(a) | Grandpa | 2011-10-10 | Carla is a transgender person living in NYC who aspires to be a fashion designer. Making a living as a on-line sex worker Carla must deal with a fami… |
| Abe | Benjamin | 2020-12-24 | The Israeli-Jewish side of his family calls him Avram. The Palestinian-Muslim side Ibrahim. His first-generation American agnostic lawyer parents call… |
| A Jury of Her Peers | Mr. Hale | 1980-01-01 | A Jury of Her Peers is a 1980 short film directed by Sally Heckel, adapted from the story by Susan Glaspell. A farm woman is accused of murdering her … |
| The Courier | Stitch | 2012-03-29 | A shady FBI agent recruits a courier to deliver a mysterious package to a vengeful master criminal who has recently resurfaced with a diabolical plan…. |
| Beneath | Mr. Parks | 2013-07-19 | Six high school seniors celebrating with day’s excursion find themselves on rowboat attacked by man-eating fish and must decide who must be sacrificed… |
| Particles of Truth | Grandpa Black | 2003-06-14 | Life, love, and the fear of failing… Lilli Black, battling her painful memories and the secrets surrounding her dying father, collides into the comp… |
| Nasty Baby | Richard | 2015-02-08 | Freddy and his boyfriend Mo are trying to have a baby with the help of their best friend, Polly. Freddy is an artist, and his latest work is all about… |
| Minyan | Itzik | 2020-08-28 | In a rapidly changing New York of the 1980s, a Russian Jewish teenager wrestles with his identity, faith, and sexuality, all of which seem irreconcila… |
| The Avenging | Pedro Quintana | 1982-01-01 | Gritty western telling the story of a family at war. One brother is out for vengeance after being kidnapped and wrongly imprisoned in Mexico…. |
| Every Last Secret | Grandpa | 2022-04-01 | A war veteran suffering from PTSD befriends a teenage girl…. |
| Camp Hollywood | Himself | 2004-11-19 | A porn star, a bank robber and a Shakespearean actor are some of the subjects of Camp Hollywood, a feature documentary about the residents of a legend… |
| Baja | Don Primo | 2018-04-01 | Four 22 year-olds on a Mexican road trip seem bound for disaster until they, and their trip, are unexpectedly redeemed by a series of miraculous event… |
| Bridget | Slim | 2002-02-07 | Being addicted to alcohol, single mother Anna had to give her son to foster parents, but they would “sell” him back if she offers enough money. When s… |
| Madonna: The Video Collection 93:99 | Bartender (segment “Bad Girl”) | 1999-11-02 | A collection of Madonna’s favorite videos from 1993-1999. Contains the 14 videos: Bad Girl, Fever, Rain, Secret, Take A Bow, Bedtime Story, Human Natu… |
| Headspace | Boris Pavlovsky | 2005-09-18 | 25-year-old Alex Borden’s chance encounter with a mysterious stranger has found his intellect rapidly expanding, but as the power of his mind grows so… |
| One Fall | Walter Grigg Sr. | 2016-09-09 | Set in the rustic Midwestern town of One Fall, the film tells the story of a man, James (Marcus Dean Fuller), who miraculously survived a horrific fal… |
| Stand Up Guys | Claphands | 2012-12-14 | After serving 28 years in prison for accidentally killing the son of a crime boss, newly paroled gangster Val reunites with his former partners in cri… |
| Valley of Bones | El Papa | 2017-09-01 | A paleontologist gets a tip from an oil worker in the Badlands that may set her career back on track…. |
| Boss of Bosses | Piney Armone | 2001-06-03 | The story of the rise and fall of the powerful New York City organized crime boss, Paul Castellano…. |
| Trouble on the Corner | Mr. Borofsky | 1997-10-09 | Jeff Steward, a psychologist, takes good care of his patients mostly living in the same apartment. One day a piece of the bathroom ceiling collapses s… |
| The Thomas Crown Affair | Heinrich Knutzhorn | 1999-08-06 | A very rich and successful playboy amuses himself by stealing artwork, but may have met his match in a seductive detective…. |
| 2BPerfectlyHonest | Abrams | 2004-05-02 | Business partners Frank and Josh go bankrupt after their dot-com start-up collapses before it goes online. Frank, a bachelor and broke, reluctantly mo… |
| Delta Force 2: The Colombian Connection | Gen. Olmedo | 1990-08-24 | When DEA agents are taken captive by a ruthless South American kingpin, the Delta Force is reunited to rescue them in this sequel to the 1986 film…. |
| Northern Borders | Whiskeyjack | 2015-01-16 | In 1956, ten-year-old Austen Kittredge is sent to live on his grandparents’ Vermont farm, where he experiences wild adventures and uncovers long-fes… |
| Memories of Manon | Jimmy | 1989-02-13 | Yvette Marcel (Melissa Anderson) asks her godfather Control and McCall for help dealing with her irrational father, who is intent on locating Manon, t… |
| White Hot | The Tin Man | 1989-02-01 | A young man, short of money, is persuaided into looking after the business of a local drug dealer for a week or two. Up until then, the guy had been a… |
| The Girl Next Door | Homeless Man Hit By Car | 2007-07-19 | In a quiet suburban town in the summer of 1958, two recently orphaned sisters are placed in the care of their mentally unstable Aunt Ruth. But Ruth’s … |
| Inside The Fountain: Death and Rebirth | Himself | 2007-05-15 | A behind-the-scenes documentary about the making of Darren Aronofsky’s ‘The Fountain’…. |
| You Bury Your Own | Smith | 2015-10-10 | A soldier returns home to New York to solve the mystery behind his younger brother’s sudden violent death…. |
| Squanto: A Warrior’s Tale | Captain Hunt | 1994-10-28 | Squanto is a high-born Indian warrior from a tribe on the Atlantic coast of North America which devotes its life to hunting and rivalry with a neighbo… |
| Infested | Father Morning | 2002-10-18 | Horror tale of insects which eat their victims from the inside out…. |
| Jakob the Liar | Fajngold | 1999-09-16 | In 1944 Poland, a Jewish shop keeper named Jakob is summoned to ghetto headquarters after being caught out after curfew. While waiting for the German … |
| The Pallbearer | Philip DeMarco | 1996-05-03 | Aspiring architect Tom Thompson is told by mysterious Ruth Abernathy that his best friend, “Bill,” has taken his own life. Except that Tom has never m… |
| The Tailor of Panama | Rafi Domingo | 2001-03-30 | A British spy is banished to Panama after having an affair with an ambassador’s mistress. Once there he makes connection with a local tailor with a ne… |
| Gone Baby Gone | Leon Trett | 2007-06-06 | When 4 year old Amanda McCready disappears from her home and the police make little headway in solving the case, the girl’s aunt, Beatrice McCready hi… |
| 1492: Conquest of Paradise | Bobadilla | 1992-10-09 | 1492: Conquest of Paradise depicts Christopher Columbus’ discovery of The New World and his effect on the indigenous people…. |
| Flawless | Vinnie | 1999-11-26 | An ultraconservative police officer suffers a debilitating stroke and is assigned to a rehabilitative program that includes singing lessons – with the… |
| Fast Food Fast Women | Graham | 2000-05-15 | How important is the truth when falling in love? Bella is a Manhattan café waitress, about to turn 35, stuck in a long-term affair going nowhere. Pau… |
| The Bedroom Window | Man in Phone Booth | 1987-01-16 | Baltimore, Maryland. Sylvia sees a girl being attacked from her lover Terry’s bedroom window. The assailant flees and his victim is saved. But that sa… |
| House of D | Mr. Pappass | 2005-04-29 | In the present, artist Tom Warshaw recalls his traumatic coming of age. As a 13-year-old growing up in New York City in 1973, Tom hangs out with Pappa… |
| Requiem for a Dream | Mr. Rabinowitz | 2000-10-06 | The hopes and dreams of four ambitious people are shattered when their drug addictions begin spiraling out of control. A look into addiction and how i… |
| End of Days | Pope | 1999-11-24 | On 28 December 1999, the citizens of New York City are getting ready for the turn of the millennium. However, Satan decides to crash the party by comi… |
| Absolute Power | Red Brandsford | 1997-02-14 | A master thief coincidentally is robbing a house where a murder—in which the President of The United States is involved—occurs in front of his eye… |
| Black Swan | Mr. Fithian / Patron | 2010-12-03 | A journey through the psyche of a young ballerina whose starring role as the duplicitous swan queen turns out to be a part for which she becomes frigh… |
| Noah | Magog (voice) | 2014-03-07 | A man who suffers visions of an apocalyptic deluge takes measures to protect his family from the coming flood…. |
| Lady Mobster | Peter Colicos | 1988-10-19 | Television account of a young woman who becomes her mobster godfather’s staunchest defender…. |
| Hardball | Fink | 2001-09-14 | An aimless young man who is scalping tickets, gambling and drinking, agrees to coach a Little League team from the Cabrini Green housing project in Ch… |
| Short Eyes | Mr. Morrison | 1977-09-28 | A young man who is charged with child molestation is placed in New York City’s infamous Tombs prison. When the other inmates in his cell block find … |
| The Secret of My Success | Maintenence Man | 1987-04-10 | Brantley Foster, a well-educated kid from Kansas, has always dreamed of making it big in New York, but once in New York, he learns that jobs – and gir… |
| Muggable Mary, Street Cop | Sgt. Meyers | 1982-02-25 | Mary is a single mother with a disabled child who makes a living as a undercover cop catching johns, muggers, and rapists…. |
| Ace Ventura: Pet Detective | Mr. Shickadance | 1994-02-04 | He’s Ace Ventura: Pet Detective. Jim Carrey is on the case to find the Miami Dolphins’ missing mascot and quarterback Dan Marino. He goes eyeball to e… |
| Above Freezing | 1998-10-01 | A commitment-phobic flower shop wholesale worker struggles with his live-in girl friend in this standard sitcom-styled film…. | |
| Scarface | Shadow | 1983-12-09 | After getting a green card in exchange for assassinating a Cuban government official, Tony Montana stakes a claim on the drug trade in Miami. Viciousl… |
| Glory | 10th Connecticut Soldier | 1989-12-15 | Robert Gould Shaw leads the US Civil War’s first all-black volunteer company, fighting prejudices of both his own Union army and the Confederates…. |
| Mickey Blue Eyes | Gene Morgansen | 1999-08-16 | An English auctioneer proposes to the daughter of a mafia kingpin, only to realize that certain “favors” would be asked of him…. |
| Tales from the Darkside: The Movie | Gage (segment ‘Cat From Hell’) | 1990-05-03 | A young boy tells three stories of horror to distract a witch who plans to eat him…. |
| 18 Shades of Dust | 1999-09-01 | 18 Shades of Dust – Hitman’s Journal… | |
| Defiance | Jewish Elder | 2008-12-31 | Based on a true story, during World War II, four Jewish brothers escape their Nazi-occupied homeland of West Belarus in Poland and join the Soviet par… |
| Eddie Macon’s Run | 5:00 Bar Owner | 1983-03-23 | Eddie Macon is running from a nightmare… running to a dream… running for his life and his time is running out. He’s escaped a Texas prison for the… |
| Stay | Bookstore Owner | 2005-09-24 | Psychiatrist Sam Foster has a new patient, Henry Letham, who claims to be suicidal. In trying to diagnose him, Sam visits Henry’s prior therapist and … |
| Diner | Earl Mager | 1982-04-02 | Set in 1959, Diner shows how five young men resist their adulthood and seek refuge in their beloved Diner. The mundane, childish, and titillating deta… |
| Dinner Rush | Fitzgerald | 2000-09-01 | One unlucky evening, Louis Cropa, a part-time bookmaker, discovers that his restaurant has become a hotbed of conflicting characters. In addition to h… |
| Dressed to Kill | Patient at Bellvue Hospital (uncredited) | 1980-07-25 | After witnessing a mysterious woman brutally slay a homemaker, prostitute Liz Blake finds herself trapped in a dangerous situation. While the police t… |
| Side Streets | Bartender | 1998-09-05 | In 24 hours, 5 worlds collide in the forgotten neighborhoods of New York City…. |
| Hannibal | Perfume Expert | 2001-02-08 | After having successfully eluded the authorities for years, Hannibal peacefully lives in Italy in disguise as an art scholar. Trouble strikes again wh… |
| The Rosary Murders | Father Max | 1987-08-28 | A killer of Detroit clergy confesses to a priest, who turns sleuth because he cannot tell the police…. |
| Going in Style | Prison Guard | 1979-12-07 | Three senior citizens in their 70s who live together are slowly decaying in endless days with nothing to do but feed the birds. One of them comes up w… |
| I Shot Andy Warhol | Louis Solanas | 1996-05-01 | Based on the true story of Valerie Solanas who was a 1960s radical preaching hatred toward men in her “Scum” manifesto. She wrote a screenplay for a f… |
| Christmas Evil | Man #2 | 1980-11-01 | A toy factory worker, mentally scarred as a child upon learning Santa Claus is not real, suffers a nervous breakdown after being belittled at work, an… |
| Arthur | Wedding Guest (uncredited) | 1981-07-17 | Arthur is a 30-year-old child who will inherit $750 million if he complies with his family’s demands and marries the woman of their choosing…. |
| No Half Measures: Creating the Final Season of Breaking Bad | Self | 2013-11-26 | A documentary about the making of season five of the acclaimed AMC series Breaking Bad…. |
| Immortals | The New Priest (uncredited) | 2011-11-10 | Theseus is a mortal man chosen by Zeus to lead the fight against the ruthless King Hyperion, who is on a rampage across Greece to obtain a weapon that… |
| Daredevil | Fallon (uncredited) | 2003-02-14 | A man blinded in a childhood accident fights crime using his superhumanly-elevated remaining senses…. |
| The Cotton Club | Charlie Workman (uncredited) | 1984-12-14 | Harlem’s legendary Cotton Club becomes a hotbed of passion and violence as the lives and loves of entertainers and gangsters collide…. |
| The Opening of Misty Beethoven | Unhappy Guy on Plane (uncredited) | 1976-03-01 | Inspired by My Fair Lady, this interpretation of Pygmalion is about a sexologist who attempts to transform Misty from a hooker into sensuous instrumen… |
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