Los Angeles: David Margulies, the actor who played New York City's mayor in the ‘Ghostbusters’ film franchise and held a recurring role as Tony Soprano's lawyer on ‘The Sopranos,’ died Monday due to illness. He was 78.
Beyond his notable ‘Sopranos’ appearances as attorney Neil Mink -- a character that appeared on the show from 2000 to 2007 -- Margulies filmed episodes of ‘Law & Order,’ ‘Happyish,’ ‘Law & Order: Special Victims Unit’ and ‘The Good Wife.’
His big screen career included roles in ‘Ace Venture: Pet Detective’ (1994), ‘Nine 1/2 Weeks’ (1986) and, most recently, crime drama ‘A Most Violent Year’ (2014). Margulies was also cast as Nobel prize-winning author Elie Wiesel in 2016's ‘Madoff,’ a TV movie about financier Bernie Madoff's infamous Ponzi scheme.
Also a prominent stage actor, the Brooklyn native made his Broadway debut in a 1973 revival of ‘The Iceman Cometh.’ Throughout his stage career, he appeared in over a dozen Broadway productions, including ‘Comedians,’ ‘Angels in America,’ ‘45 Seconds From Broadway’ and ‘Wonderful Town.’
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