Mark Margolis
Birthday: 1939-11-26
Place of Birth: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Biography: Mark Margolis (November 26, 1939 – August 3, 2023) was an American actor, who had been making films since 1976. Margolis went to Temple University briefly before moving to New York City, where he studied drama with Stella Adler and at the Actors Studio. He was perhaps most famous for his supporting roles in Scarface and the films of Darren Aronofsky: π, Requiem for a Dream, The Fountain, The Wrestler, and Black Swan. Aronofsky wrote the role of Father Avila in The Fountain specifically for Margolis. He had recurring roles on numerous TV shows, including The Equalizer, HBO's Oz, Law And Order, Crossing Jordan and most recently Showtime's Californication and Breaking Bad. He also appeared in a first season episode of Quantum Leap. In 1991, he also played Helmut Dieter in soap opera Santa Barbara.
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Scarface
After getting a green card in exchange for assassinating a Cuban government official, Tony Montana s...
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The Thomas Crown Affair
Bored billionaire executive Thomas Crown entertains himself by stealing a Monet from a reputed museu...
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Pi
A mathematical genius discovers a link between numbers and reality, and thus believes he can predict...
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The Fountain
Spanning over one thousand years, and three parallel stories, The Fountain is a story of love, death...
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Requiem for a Dream
The drug-induced utopias of four Coney Island residents are shattered when their addictions run deep...
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18 Shades of Dust
Two gangsters threaten the owner of an upscale restaurant after his son can't pay a gambling debt....
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Jakob the Liar
In 1944 Poland, a Jewish shop keeper named Jakob is summoned to ghetto headquarters after being caug...
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The Tailor of Panama
A British spy is banished to Panama after having an affair with an ambassador's mistress. Once there...
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Gone Baby Gone
When 4 year old Amanda McCready disappears from her home and the police make little headway in solvi...
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Tales from the Darkside: The Movie
A young boy tells three stories of horror to distract a witch who plans to eat him....
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A Jury of Her Peers
A Jury of Her Peers is a 1980 short film directed by Sally Heckel, adapted from the story by Susan G...
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Dressed to Kill
After witnessing a mysterious woman brutally slay a homemaker, prostitute Liz Blake finds herself tr...
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The Pallbearer
Aspiring architect Tom Thompson is told by mysterious Ruth Abernathy that his best friend, "Bill," h...
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The Wrestler
Aging wrestler Randy "The Ram" Robinson is long past his prime but still ready and rarin' to go on t...
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Muggable Mary: Street Cop
Mary is a single mother with a disabled child who makes a living as a undercover cop catching johns,...
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Headspace
25-year-old Alex Borden's chance encounter with a mysterious stranger has found his intellect rapidl...
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Christmas Evil
Garbed in his red suit, Harry, a toy factory worker, decides that the only thing he can do to save t...
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Diner
Set in 1959, Diner shows how five young men resist their adulthood and seek refuge in their beloved ...
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Madonna: The Video Collection 93:99
A collection of Madonna's favorite videos from 1993-1999. Contains the 14 videos: Bad Girl, Fever, R...
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The Girl Next Door
In a quiet suburban town in the summer of 1958, two recently orphaned sisters are placed in the care...
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Black Swan
The story of a ballerina in a New York City ballet company whose life is completely consumed with da...
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Starwater
Made by Scott William Winters, Starwater is a star-studded experimental film shot while doing the HB...
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The Pit and the Pendulum
Set during the height of Spanish Inquisition. The beautiful and kind-hearted Maria is arrested as a ...
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The Opening of Misty Beethoven
Inspired by My Fair Lady, this interpretation of Pygmalion is about a sexologist who attempts to tra...
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The Avenging
Gritty western telling the story of a family at war. One brother is out for vengeance after being ki...
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Eddie Macon's Run
Eddie Macon is running from a nightmare... running to a dream... running for his life and his time i...
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Far from Poland
FAR FROM POLAND is probably the first American non-fiction film (Godmilow calls it a "drama-tary") t...
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Noah
A man who suffers visions of an apocalyptic deluge takes measures to protect his family from the com...
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The Courier
A shady FBI agent recruits a courier to deliver a mysterious package to a vengeful master criminal w...
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One Fall
Set in the rustic Midwestern town of One Fall, the film tells the story of a man, James (Marcus Dean...
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My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2
The continuing adventures of the Portokalos family. A follow-up to the 2002 comedy, "My Big Fat Gree...
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Stand Up Guys
After serving 28 years in prison for accidentally killing the son of a crime boss, newly paroled gan...
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White Hot
A young man, short of money, is persuaided into looking after the business of a local drug dealer fo...
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Angela
Manhattan- as it is every day of the week, year in, year out. Life is pretty routine for Bob, about ...
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Above Freezing
A commitment-phobic flower shop wholesale worker struggles with his live-in girl friend in this stan...
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The Other Side of Victory
This film dramatizes the problems facing ordinary American soldiers during the Revolutionary War, ex...
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Dig
Twenty years following his exodus from Europe, a young, Jewish Holocaust survivor comes face to face...
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Beneath
Six high school seniors celebrating with day's excursion find themselves on rowboat attacked by man-...
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Descending Angel
A recently engaged man getting to know his future father-in-law better unearths clues that the man m...
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Squanto: A Warrior's Tale
It's the 17th century, and Native American Squanto roams free in the New World until he's captured b...
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Particles of Truth
Lilli Black, battling her painful memories and the secrets surrounding her dying father, collides in...
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Queenie in Love
A quirky, romantic New York comedy about the pursuit of love, life and the right to be yourself....
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Doubletake
Two corpses are found in different locations with their heads severed and exchanged. Frank Janek is ...
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I Want To Go Home
Brother and sister go on the run with their divorced mom, not realizing until later that their mom h...
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2BPerfectlyHonest
Business partners Frank and Josh go bankrupt after their dot-com start-up collapses before it goes o...
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1492: Conquest of Paradise
1492: Conquest of Paradise depicts Christopher Columbus’ discovery of The New World and his effect o...
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Stay
Psychiatrist Sam Foster has a new patient, Henry Letham, who claims to be suicidal. In trying to dia...
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Arthur
Arthur is a 30-year-old child who will inherit $750 million if he complies with his family's demands...
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Nasty Baby
A gay couple enlists the help of their friend Polly to create a baby. Meanwhile, they must also cont...
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House of D
In the present, artist Tom Warshaw recalls his traumatic coming of age. As a 13-year-old growing up ...
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End of Days
Cynical bodyguard Jericho is hired by a man possessed by Satan, who is in search of his bride. When ...
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Haber
At the brink of World War I, Fritz Shimon Haber was Germany's greatest chemist. Haber's Nobel prize-...
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Carl(a)
Carla is a transgender person living in NYC who aspires to be a fashion designer. Making a living a...
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Daredevil
A man blinded in a childhood accident fights crime using his superhumanly-elevated remaining senses....
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Defiance
Based on a true story, during World War II, four Jewish brothers escape their Nazi-occupied homeland...
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The Abandoned
A troubled young woman who, in a last-ditch effort at getting her life together, takes a job working...
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Pants on Fire
Two teachers - Julie and Barry are having an affair. When Barry confesses about his lover to his wif...
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A Remarkable Life
There are many things in life that could do a number on a man's masculinity. Lenny Babbitt has his i...
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Lady Mobster
Television account of a young woman who becomes her mobster godfather's staunchest defender....
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Ace Ventura: Pet Detective
He's Ace Ventura: Pet Detective. Jim Carrey is on the case to find the Miami Dolphins' missing masco...
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Camp Hollywood
A porn star, a bank robber and a Shakespearean actor are some of the subjects of Camp Hollywood, a f...
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Valley of Bones
A paleontologist gets a tip from an oil worker in the Badlands that may set her career back on track...
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Hardball
An aimless young man who is scalping tickets, gambling and drinking, agrees to coach a Little League...
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Abe
A 12-year-old boy from Brooklyn tries to unite his half-Israeli and half-Palestinian family through ...
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Delta Force 2: The Colombian Connection
When DEA agents are taken captive by a ruthless South American kingpin, the Delta Force is reunited ...
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Hannibal
After having successfully eluded the authorities for years, Hannibal peacefully lives in Italy in di...
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Short Eyes
A young man who is charged with child molestation is placed in New York City’s infamous Tombs prison...
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Side Streets
The lives of diverse characters in each of New York City's five boroughs overlap....
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Flawless
An ultraconservative police officer suffers a debilitating stroke and is assigned to a rehabilitativ...
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Baja
Four 22 year-olds on a Mexican road trip seem bound for disaster until they, and their trip, are une...
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Northern Borders
In 1956, ten-year-old Austen Kittredge is sent to live on his grandparents’ Vermont farm, where he e...
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Boss of Bosses
The story of the rise and fall of the powerful New York City organized crime boss, Paul Castellano....
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Glory
Robert Gould Shaw leads the US Civil War's first all-black volunteer company, fighting prejudices of...
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Fast Food Fast Women
How important is the truth when falling in love? Bella is a Manhattan café waitress, about to turn 3...
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Dinner Rush
One unlucky evening, Louis Cropa, a part-time bookmaker, discovers that his restaurant has become a ...
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Absolute Power
A master thief coincidentally is robbing a house where a murder—in which the President of the United...
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Going in Style
Three kindly old men decide to light up the dimming twilight of their lives with a last blaze of glo...
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The Bedroom Window
Baltimore, Maryland. Sylvia sees a girl being attacked from her lover Terry's bedroom window. The as...
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Bridget
Being addicted to alcohol, single mother Anna had to give her son to foster parents, but they would ...
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The Cotton Club
Harlem's legendary Cotton Club becomes a hotbed of passion and violence as the lives and loves of en...
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Inside The Fountain: Death and Rebirth
A behind-the-scenes documentary about the making of Darren Aronofsky's ‘The Fountain’....
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Minyan
In a rapidly changing New York of the 1980s, a Russian Jewish teenager wrestles with his identity, f...
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The Secret of My Success
Brantley Foster, a well-educated kid from Kansas, has always dreamed of making it big in New York, b...
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You Bury Your Own
A soldier returns home to New York to solve the mystery behind his younger brother's sudden violent ...
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Nobody
Lindeman, 25-year-old art student, struggles to find his inspiration, finding himself in one ridicul...
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The Rosary Murders
A priest is put in a dilemma when the serial killer who has been murdering priests and nuns confesse...
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Memories of Manon
Yvette Marcel asks her godfather Control and McCall for help dealing with her irrational father, who...
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Mickey Blue Eyes
An English auctioneer proposes to the daughter of a mafia kingpin, only to realize that certain "fav...
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I Shot Andy Warhol
Based on the true story of Valerie Solanas who was a 1960s radical preaching hatred toward men in he...
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Immortals
Theseus is a mortal man chosen by Zeus to lead the fight against the ruthless King Hyperion, who is ...
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Trouble on the Corner
Jeff, a troubled therapist, suffers a breakdown when he spies on his sexy neighbor Ericca, a beautif...
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Umney's Last Case
It’s just another ordinary day in 1930s Los Angeles for private investigator Clyde Umney, until a ne...
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Where the Rivers Flow North
Sleeper with a top notch cast in the story of a lone wolf logger who fights developers, bankers and ...
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Almost Partners
Molly McCue becomes bored with her quiet, suburban life and fantasizes about becoming a detective. S...
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Making of Better Call Saul: Finale
A behind-the-scenes documentary on the making of Better Call Saul Season Six. Includes interviews wi...
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