AMERICAN actor, Geno Silva has died of complications from frontotemporal degeneration, a form of dementia with which he had been battling for 15 years.
The veteran role interpreter passed away on Saturday, May 9, 2020, at his Los Angeles home.
Born on January 20, 1948, in Albuquerque, New Mexico, Silva had a four-decade career in film and TV, appearing in more than 100 projects including 1988’s Tequila Sunrise, Steven Spielberg‘s Amistad and The Lost World: Jurassic Park, David Lynch‘s 2001 Mulholland Drive, and he starred alongside Vin Diesel in F. Gary Gray‘s 2003 A Man Apart.
He will ever be remembered for his iconic role in Scarface, an American crime drama, as a hitman who never spoke a word while killing Al Pacino‘s Tony Montana in the movie’s climactic ending. The role, however, earned Silva the seventh-place slot on a Top 20 Best Henchmen in Cinema History list.
May his soul rest in peace.
