Actor Ángel Salazar, who played Al Pacino’s soldier Chi Chi in the 1983 crime film Scarface, has died at the age of 68.
The actor’s representative and confidante, Ann Wingsong, said TMZ Salazar, who had heart problems, died on Sunday while sleeping at a friend’s house.
Wingsong told the outlet that a friend checked on Salazar and found him lifeless in his bed. Wingsong’s cause of death was not immediately released, the outlet said.
Salazar played a criminal henchman of Pacino’s drug lord Tony Montana in the film, which also starred Michelle Pfeiffer, Steven Bauer, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio and F. Murray Abraham, as well as the late actors Paul Shenar and Robert Loggia.
Salazar appeared in films such as 1982’s A Stranger Is Watching, 1980’s Where the Buffalo Roam, 1979’s Walk Proud and 1979’s Boulevard Nights before landing his career-defining role in the film opposite Brian DePalma.
Actor Ángel Salazar, who played Al Pacino’s soldier Chi Chi in the 1983 crime film Scarface, has died at the age of 68. Pictured last year in New Jersey
Salazar’s character Chi Chi was portrayed alongside Pacino’s Tony Montana in the 1983 crime film during a scene where the crime boss was caught laundering money
In the film’s storyline, Chi Chi comes to Montana’s aid after he is attacked with a chainsaw during a drug deal gone wrong.
Chi Chi also sat next to Montana during a scene where the crime boss was caught laundering money.
The character Chi Chi dies during the film’s famous final confrontation, after being shot in the back during an attack by a group of assailants led by Scarface rival Alejandro Sosa.
