{"id":2821,"date":"2025-05-06T15:19:28","date_gmt":"2025-05-06T15:19:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ncisnews.com\/?p=2821"},"modified":"2025-05-06T15:19:28","modified_gmt":"2025-05-06T15:19:28","slug":"charley-scalies-actor-known-for-roles-in-the-wire-and-the-sopranos-dies-at-84","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncisnews.com\/?p=2821","title":{"rendered":"Charley Scalies, Actor Known for Roles in \u2018The Wire\u2019 and \u2018The Sopranos\u2019, Dies at 84"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Charley Scalies, the actor fondly remembered for his tough-talking role as Thomas \u201cHorseface\u201d Pasuka in\u00a0<em>The Wire<\/em>, has died at the age of 84. His daughter, Anne Marie, confirmed he passed away Thursday at a nursing home in Phoenixville, Pennsylvania, after a long battle with Alzheimer\u2019s disease.<\/p>\n<p>Scalies launched his acting career in the 1990s and shared the screen with Hollywood heavyweights such as Al Pacino in\u00a0<em>Two Bits<\/em>\u00a0and Bruce Willis and Brad Pitt in\u00a0<em>12 Monkeys<\/em>. But it was his 2003 turn in the acclaimed second season of HBO\u2019s\u00a0<em>The Wire<\/em> that made him a standout. Playing \u201cHorseface,\u201d a dockworker involved in a smuggling ring, Scalies appeared in all 12 episodes of the season, bringing gritty realism and heart to the union storyline.<\/p>\n<p>He also had a memorable guest role in season 5 of\u00a0<em>The Sopranos<\/em>, portraying Tony Soprano\u2019s high school football coach. In a surreal dream sequence, the coach confronts Tony, criticizing his descent into the cr1minal world.<\/p>\n<p>Throughout his career, Scalies made appearances on popular series such as\u00a0<em>Cold Case<\/em>,\u00a0<em>Law &amp; Order<\/em>, and\u00a0<em>Jersey Girl<\/em>, among others.<\/p>\n<p>Off-screen, Scalies was a devoted family man, survived by his wife, three children, and many grandchildren.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-18618\" src=\"https:\/\/www.curiousworld.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Charley-Scalies-Dies-at-84.webp\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.curiousworld.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Charley-Scalies-Dies-at-84.webp 640w, https:\/\/www.curiousworld.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Charley-Scalies-Dies-at-84-242x300.webp 242w, https:\/\/www.curiousworld.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Charley-Scalies-Dies-at-84-561x694.webp 561w, https:\/\/www.curiousworld.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Charley-Scalies-Dies-at-84-265x328.webp 265w, https:\/\/www.curiousworld.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Charley-Scalies-Dies-at-84-531x657.webp 531w, https:\/\/www.curiousworld.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Charley-Scalies-Dies-at-84-364x450.webp 364w, https:\/\/www.curiousworld.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Charley-Scalies-Dies-at-84-608x752.webp 608w\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"792\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Charley Scalies, the actor fondly remembered for his tough-talking role as Thomas \u201cHorseface\u201d Pasuka in\u00a0The Wire, has died at the age of 84. His daughter, Anne Marie,&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2822,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncisnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncisnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncisnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncisnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncisnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2821"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ncisnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2821\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2823,"href":"https:\/\/ncisnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2821\/revisions\/2823"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncisnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncisnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncisnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncisnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}