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Ángel Salazar — best known as Al Pacino’s trusted sidekick “Chi Chi” throughout the iconic gangster film “Scarface” — has died, TMZ has found.
Salazar’s rep and closest good buddy, Ann Wingsong, tells TMZ … the actor handed away in his sleep at his good buddy’s Brooklyn home over the weekend.
On Sunday morning, Wingsong acknowledged, the nice buddy went to look at on Salazar in a room and positioned his physique in mattress. A motive for lack of life was not disclosed, nevertheless the rep acknowledged Salazar suffered from coronary coronary heart factors.
Early in his performing career, Salazar landed the place of Chi Chi, the devoted henchman of Pacino’s well-known Tony Montana character throughout the 1983 Brian DePalma-directed film “Scarface.”
Followers of the legendary movie will at all times bear in mind Chi Chi saving Tony’s life by way of the so-called “chainsaw scene.” They might even at all times bear in mind Chi Chi’s bloody demise on the end of the flick when his once more will get riddled with bullets from profitable squad employed by drug kingpin Alejandro Sosa.
In any case, Tony Montana moreover goes down in hail of bullets by the arms of Sosa’s gun-wielding assassins.
Exterior of his work in “Scarface,” Salazar was moreover acknowledged for working reverse Tom Hanks throughout the 1988 dramedy, “Punchline” and Pacino as soon as extra in 1993 drama, “Carlito’s Methodology.”
Salazar was moreover a celebrated comedian, who had varied HBO comedy specials and an look on “Last Comic Standing.”
Totally different notable credit score embrace “Boulevard Nights,” “Stroll Proud,” “Scorching to Trot,” “Maniac Cop 2,” amongst completely different titles.
He was 68 years outdated.
RIP
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