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Geno Silva: Scarface star dies at age 72

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Geno Silva: Scarface star dies aged 72



American actor, Geno Silva, has been taken by the cold hands of death after suffering from frontotemporal dementia.

The actor is best remembered for playing Tony Montana’s killer in ‘Scarface’. He has also appeared in films such as 1941, Tequila Sunrise, The Lost World: Jurassic Park, Amistad, Mulholland Drive and A Man Apart.

According to a Hollywood Reporter, Silva, 72, died at his home in Los Angeles on the 9th of  May. He had been suffering from frontotemporal dementia.

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Born on January 20, 1948, in Albuquerque, New Mexico, Silva was also a veteran on stage.

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In 1994, he appeared with Philip Seymour Hoffman and John Ortiz in The Merchant of Venice, a Peter Sellars’ production that played Chicago, London, Paris and Hamburg, Germany; in 1999, he and Ortiz worked off-Broadway in Sueño, written by future Oscar nominee Jose Rivera (The Motorcycle Diaries).

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During his four-decade career, Silva featured in Luis Valdez’s Zoot Suit (1981), he was in the 1979 Broadway production opposite Edward James Olmos — Robert Towne’s Tequila Sunrise (1988); Steven Spielberg’s Amistad and The Lost World: Jurassic Park, both released in 1997; David Lynch’s Mulholland Drive (2001); and F. Gary Gray’s A Man Apart (2003).

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On small screen, Silva featured in numerous classics like Hill Street Blues, 227, Miami Vice, MacGyver, Days of Our Lives, Key West, and Walker, Texas Ranger. One of his last TV roles was portraying Senator Vrax in two episodes of Star Trek: Enterprise in 2005.

The actor is survived by his wife Pamela, daughter Lucia and 2 grandchildren.

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