David Margulies

Margulies was born in Brooklyn, New York City to a Jewish family.[https://www.clevelandjewishnews.com/news/arts_and_entertainment/ghostbusters-margulies-dead-at-78/article_f76954f6-b98f-11e5-90cc-2770a4551bcb.html] Bloom, Nate. [http://www.jweekly.com/article/full/28688/celebrity-jews "Celebrity Jews"], jweekly.com, March 10, 2006; accessed December 19, 2015. He was the son of Runya (née Zeltzer), a nurse and museum employee, and Harry David Margulies, a lawyer.[http://www.filmreference.com/film/35/David-Margulies.html David Margulies profile], filmreference.com; accessed January 13, 2016.[http://www.milkenarchive.org/people/view/all/418/Margulies,+David#/people/view/all/418/David+Margulies/full David Margulies profile], milkenarchive.org; accessed December 19, 2015. He graduated from City College of New York.

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.{{cite news|title=Bard Academy Awards Equity Contracts to 7|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/4809368/the_bridgeport_post|agency=The Bridgeport Post|date=April 17, 1960|location=Bridgeport, CT|page=13|via=Newspapers.com|access-date=April 2, 2016}} {{Open access}} 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).{{IMDb name|546868}}

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.

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 a son Johnathon, and grandson from a previous marriage.{{Cite web|title=Stage and Screen Actor David Margulies Passes Away at 88 |url=http://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Stage-and-Screen-Actor-David-Margulies-Passes-Away-at-88-20160112 |archive-url=http://webarchive.loc.gov/all/20160112230737/http://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Stage-and-Screen-Actor-David-Margulies-Passes-Away-at-88-20160112 |url-status=dead |archive-date=January 12, 2016 |website=BroadwayWorld.com |access-date=January 12, 2016 }}{{Cite web |url=http://www.bloggerbuzz.net/best-subreddits-for-learning |title=Reddit comment from his grandson with picture; states "one of" his sons. |access-date=January 31, 2017 |archive-date=August 20, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220820053330/http://www.bloggerbuzz.net/best-subreddits-for-learning/ |url-status=dead }}[https://www.reddit.com/r/movies/comments/40nsn6/david_margulies_ghostbusters_mayor_and_new_york/cyvqmfd Reddit comment from his grandson; mods verified it in the comment below his.]

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• 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)

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