'Breaking Bad' and 'Better Call Saul' alums including Bryan Cranston, Bob Odenkirk pay tribute to Hector Salamanca Mark Margolis, who died August 3 at 83. Skip to main content Open Mega Menu ...

NEW YORK — Emmy-nominated actor Mark Margolis, who played murderous former drug kingpin Hector Salamanca in "Breaking Bad" and then in the prequel "Better Call Saul," has died at age 83.

Mark Margolis in a scene from “Breaking Bad.” He played the former drug kingpin Hector Salamanca, who communicated by means of a wheelchair bell while living in a New Mexico nursing home.

Mark Margolis, who portrayed the menacing, bell-ringing Hector Salamanca in "Breaking Bad" and "Better Call Saul," died Thursday. He was 83.

Margolis was nominated for an Emmy in 2012 for “Breaking Bad,” for outstanding guest actor, as Salamanca, the elderly don of his drug clan who was unable to speak or walk due to a stroke.

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