Geno Silva, the character actor best known as playing the sunglass-wearing assassin who finished off Al Pacino's Tony Montana in 'Scarface,' has died. He was 72.
that Silva died May 9 of complications from frontotemporal degeneration, a form of dementia with which he had been afflicted for 15 years.
But Silva truly made his film mark as the silent assassin known as"The Skull" in"Scarface." As Pacino's cocaine-filled drug lord Tony Montana rages at an army of would-be killers filling his body with bullets,"The Skull" wordlessly walks behind Montana and shoots him in the back with a shotgun. On TV, Silva appeared in"Hill Street Blues,""227,""Miami Vice,""MacGyver," "Key West," and"Walker, Texas Ranger." He played Senator Vrax in the"Star Trek: Enterprise" episodes"United" and"The Aenar."
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