Sopranos -actor Charley Scalies dead at the age of 84: The Wire Vet dies after the battle with Alzheimer’s

Beloved character -actor Charley Scalies died Thursday at the age of 84 after a fight with Alzheimer’s.

Schales’ daughter Anne Marie Scalies revealed to The Hollywood Reporter that her father died on Thursday in a nursing facility in Phoenixville, Pennsylvania.

Scalies portrayed Stuwedore Thomas ‘Horseface’ Pakusa on 12 episodes of The Wire during the second season of the show, which closely investigated the economic issues that Baltimore Dockworkers were confronted in the midst of changing times.

Scalies also appeared in an episode of another iconic HBO Series, The Sopranos.

He played coach Molinaro, the high school football coach of Tony Soprano, played by deceased legend James Gandolfini.

The character appeared in a dream scene of an episode entitled The test dreamAs the exchange illustrated the psychological uncertainties soprano (a frightening New Jersey mafia boss) confronted, and Searched to tackle through therapy.

A character actor who had a key role on the sopranos died. The cast shown in 2024 in NYC during an anniversary event for the iconic HBO show

Charley Scalies played coach Molinaro, the high school football coach of Tony Soprano, in a dream scene that showed the uncertainties with which the restless Mafia boss was confronted (and wanted to deal with therapy).

The episode (which was broadcast for the first time on May 16, 2004) was the 11th episode of the show of the fifth season, directed by Allen Coulter and written by Matthew Weiner and Sopranos -Maker David Chase.

An inheritance for death advertisement – He noticed that Scalies died ‘peacefully’ – emphasized the role that family played in his life.

It noted that he was “primarily known as a husband, father, grandfather, uncle and friend.”

The Obit said that the favorite audience of the actor was always around the dining table. ‘

Season two of the thread showed how the slow times in the docks a few employees – including Pakusa – led to earn extra money smuggling in smuggling.

In the midst of the items that were unconsciously smuggled in by the Baltimore crew drugs and women who have tragically traded the US to become sex workers.

“The only time I have even been to the port is when I worked on the thread,” Scalies said Chesapeake Bay Magazine in 2019.

Scalies said that “the only time I even met a cum, shortly after I was cast as a horse face.”

Scalies died at the age of 84 after a fight with Alzheimer’s, according to his family

He played coach Molinaro, the high school football coach of Tony Soprano, in the Sopranos

He had a memorable exchange with an adult Tony Soprano (played by the late James Gandolfini) who unveiled the uncertainties that the Mafia boss had inn

Scalies portrayed Thomas ‘Horseface’ Pakusa for 12 episodes of the wire

The role was a perfect fit, because shortly after the landing of the part, Scalies happened to chat with various Real-Life Stuwedores and trade union representatives for the International Lungeshoremen’s Association, all of whom approved the casting.

“I told them that I had just been cast as a ‘checker’ of the Union in a TV program,” he remembered. “Their reaction was immediately and unanimous:” He looks like a checker. ” ‘

Scalies explained: “As with all the other characters I am blessed to portray, Horseface lives in me – I invite him to play if needed.”

On Twitter, a number of fans of the show paid a tribute to the deceased actor in the role he played on the thread, where they referred his references to scenes that concerned his character.

A message from the Wire Fan Account Ziggy_Sobotka was: ‘Heart broken to report that Charlie Scalies, Horse Space on the Wire and coach Molinaro from the Sopranos died’

Fans refer to an important scene that showed that Horseface provided an injured colleague

“Rip he is still on the clock,” said a fan. Another added: “Great characters tears to the legend.”

Referring to a scene for illustration of Horseface’s loyalty to the Union, wrote a fan: “Good luck that St. Peter got something out of him at the Pearly Gates without an IBS lawyer present.”

A message from the Wire Fan account Ziggy_sobotkaNamed after another Dockworker in the series, read: “Heart broken to report that Charlie Scalies, Horseface on the Wire and coach Molinaro from the Sopranos died.”

It concluded: ‘Charles J. Scalies, Jr. 19-7-1940-5/1/2025. ‘