Ángel Salazar — most interesting known as Al Pacino’s trusted sidekick “Chi Chi” inside the iconic gangster film “Scarface” — has died, TMZ has found.
Salazar’s rep and closest good pal, Ann Wingsong, tells TMZ … the actor handed away in his sleep at his good pal’s Brooklyn home over the weekend.
On Sunday morning, Wingsong acknowledged, the great pal went to look at on Salazar in a room and situated his physique in mattress. A purpose 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 inside the 1983 Brian DePalma-directed film “Scarface.”
Followers of the legendary movie will all the time keep in mind Chi Chi saving Tony’s life by way of the so-called “chainsaw scene.” They could even all the time keep 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 spite of everything, Tony Montana moreover goes down in hail of bullets by the fingers of Sosa’s gun-wielding assassins.
Exterior of his work in “Scarface,” Salazar was moreover acknowledged for working reverse Tom Hanks inside 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 “Closing Comic Standing.”
Completely 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He was 68 years outdated.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
