Broadway Vet & Ghostbusters Mayor David Margulies Dead at 78

Broadway vet and Ghostbusters mayor David Margulies died on January 11, reports the New York Daily News. He was 78 years old.

Margulies was born in Brooklyn, New York, the son of Runya and Harry David Margulies, a nurse and lawyer, respectively. Soon after graduating from the City College of New York, Margulies made his stage debut in 1958’s Golden 6 off-Broadway.

It was in 1973 that Margulies made his Broadway debut in The Iceman Cometh; he later went on to tread the Main Stem’s boards in Zalmen or The Madness of God, Comedians, Break a Leg, The West Side Waltz, Brighton Beach Memoirs, Cafe Crown, Conversations With My Father, Angels in America, A Thousand Clowns and 45 Seconds From Broadway. Margulies was last seen on the Great White Way in the 2003 revival of Wonderful Town.

An off-Broadway mainstay, Margulies’ most recent credits included After the Revolution at Playwrights Horizons, All That I Would Ever Be at New York Theatre Workshop, The Accomplices at the Acorn Theatre and The Illusion at Signature Theatre Company. His last stage appearance was in 2013—The Hatmaker's Wife for Playwrights Realm.

Marguiles’ best known film role was as the Mayor of New York in the blockbuster movies Ghostbusters and Ghostbusters II. Additional screen credits included Ace Ventura: Pet Detective, A Most Violent Year, The Front, All That Jazz, Dressed to Kill, 9½ Weeks and The Sopranos. He will soon be seen as Elie Wiesel in ABC's upcoming series Madoff.