Geno Silva, actor in ‘Scarface,’ dies at 72
New York: Geno Silva, the character actor perhaps best known for playing The Skull, the hitman who takes out Al Pacino’s Tony Montana in the explosive climax of Scarface, has died. He was 72. Silva died of complications from frontotemporal degeneration, a form of dementia.
During his four-decade career, Silva also could be seen in Luis Valdez’s Zoot Suit (1981) — he was in the 1979 Broadway production opposite Edward James Olmos — Robert Towne’s Tequila Sunrise (1988); Steven Spielberg’s Amistad and The Lost World: Jurassic Park, both released in 1997; David Lynch’s Mulholland Drive (2001); and F. Gary Gray’s A Man Apart (2003).