Mark Margolis

Mark Margolis Biography

Mark Margolis (November 26, 1939 – August 3, 2023) was an American actor, who had been making films since 1976. Margolis went to Temple University briefly before moving to New York City, where he studied drama with Stella Adler and at the Actors Studio. He was perhaps most famous for his supporting roles in Scarface and the films of Darren Aronofsky: π, Requiem for a Dream, The Fountain, The Wrestler, and Black Swan.

Aronofsky wrote the role of Father Avila in The Fountain specifically for Margolis. He had recurring roles on numerous TV shows, including The Equalizer, HBO's Oz, Law And Order, Crossing Jordan and most recently Showtime's Californication and Breaking Bad. He also appeared in a first season episode of Quantum Leap. In 1991, he also played Helmut Dieter in soap opera Santa Barbara.

Mark Margolis Movies

My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2

Mark Margolis TV Shows

Rage of Angels

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Mark Margolis Quotes

Consciousness and Patterns in Computation

Sol Robeson: [[computers; [sense] Certain programs cause ] to get stuck in a particular loop. The loop leads to meltdown but just before the crash, they become aware of their own structure. The computer has a ] of its own silicon nature and it prints out the ingredients.

Maximillian Cohen: The computer becomes conscious?

Sol Robeson: In some ways, I guess.

Maximillian Cohen: Studying the pattern made Euclid conscious of itself. I had to... Before it died it spit out the number. That consciousness is the number?

Sol Robeson: No, Max. It's only a nasty bug.

Maximillian Cohen: It's more than that, Sol.

Sol Robeson: [[dead; [end; [nothing] No, it's not. It's a ] ]. There's ] there.

Maximillian Cohen: [[door] It's a ], Sol. It's a door.

Sol Robeson: A door at the front of a cliff. You're driving yourself over the edge.

Rabbi Cohen: [[Talmud; [Second Temple|second temple] The ] tells us it began 2,000 years ago, when the Romans destroyed the ].

Maximillian Cohen: What is this?

Rabbi Cohen: [[W:Cohanim|Cohanim; [W:Holy of Holies|Holy of Holies; [w:God in Judaism|God; [Ark of the Covenant|Ark of the Tabernacle; [Ten Commandments|ten commandments; [Moses; [Yom Kippur; [Jerusalem; [W:Messianic Age|Messianic Age; [w:Shem HaMephorash|the true name of God] Max, you will understand everything if you listen... The Romans also destroyed our priesthood, the ]. And with their deaths, they destroyed our greatest secret. In the center of the temple was the heart of the Jewish life, the ]. It was the earthly residence of our ]. The one God. It housed the ], which stored the original ] which God gave to ]. Only one man was allowed to enter this Holy of Holies on one day, the holiest day of the year, ]. On the Day of Atonement, all of Israel would descend upon ] to watch the High Priest, the Cohen Godul, make his trip to the Holy of Holies. If the High Priest was pure, he would emerge moments later and we were secured a prosperous year. It meant that we were closer to the ]. But, if he was impure, he would die instantly and it meant that we were doomed. The Holy Priest had one ritual to perform in the Holy of Holies, he had to intone a single word... That word, was ].

Maximillian Cohen: So?

Rabbi Cohen: The true name, which only the Cohanim knew, was 216 letters long.