Sopranos actor Charley Scalies dead at age 84: The Wire vet dies following battle with Alzheimer’s

By CHRISTINE RENDON FOR DAILYMAIL.COM

Published: 21:34 BST, 4 May 2025 | Updated: 21:38 BST, 4 May 2025

Character actor Charley Scalies has died at age 84 following a battle with Alzheimer’s. 

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

Scalies portrayed Thomas ‘Horseface’ Pakusa for 12 episodes of The Wire and also appeared in an episode of the critically-acclaimed mafia series The Sopranos.

He played Coach Molinaro, Tony Soprano’s high school football coach, in a dream scene. 

A Legacy obituary, which noted Scalies died ‘peacefully’, emphasized the role family played in his life. 

‘Best known first and foremost as a husband, father, grandfather, uncle, and friend,’ it stated, adding the actor’s ‘favorite audience was always seated around the dinner table.’ 

Actor Charley Scalies has died at age 84 following a battle with Alzheimer’s

He played Coach Molinaro, Tony Soprano’s high school football coach, in The Sopranos 

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Sopranos actor Charley Scalies dead at age 84: The Wire vet dies following battle with Alzheimer’s

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