Actor David Margulies, Known for ‘Ghostbusters’, Dies at 78

Marguiles was 78 when he died Monday in New York City.

David Margulies, a character actor who starred as New York City’s mayor in the original Ghostbusters films, has died.

Armed with his thick NY accent and charm, he is best known outside his hometown as the rumpled mayor in the 1984 comedy, “Ghostbusters” and its 1989 sequel.

According to a report in Broadway World, longtime stage and screen actor David Margulies passed away on Monday.

His films, in addition to the Ghostbusters movies, included All That Jazz, Dressed To Kill, Hide In Plain Sight, I’m Dancing As Fast As I Can, Ace Ventura: Pet Detective and the film adaptation of Memoirs.

He made his professional stage debut in 1958 in the off-Broadway play Golden 6, and later appeared on the Great White Way in the 1973 revival of The Iceman Cometh with James Earl Jones.

On television, he was seen in a wide variety of series including Law & Order, Touched By An Angel, Chicago Hope, Northern Exposure, The Equalizer, NYPD Blue, The Sopranos, The Good Wife and Happyish. He played Tony Soprano’s lawyer, Neil Mink, in eight episodes of HBO’s The Sopranos, and will be seen as Elie Wiesel in the upcoming ABC miniseries Madoff. He also appeared in “Conversations With My Father”, “Angels in America: Perestroika” and “Wonderful Town”. The actor was also a founding member of the San Francisco’s American Conservatory Theater.