Geno Silva,the scarface and Jurassic park actor has died at age 72.He is best remembered for playing Tony Montana's killer.He is survived by wife Pam and left a net worth of $7m.His cause of death was complications resulting from frontotemporal degeneration, a form of dementia.
Born on January 20, 1948, in Albuquerque, New Mexico, Silva was also a veteran on stage. In 1994, he appeared with Philip Seymour Hoffman and John Ortiz in The Merchant of Venice, a Peter Sellars' production that played Chicago, London, Paris and Hamburg, Germany; in 1999, he and Ortiz worked off-Broadway in Sueño, written by future Oscar
nominee Jose Rivera (The Motorcycle Diaries).
During his four-decade career, Silva featured 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).
On small screen, Silva featured in numerous classics like Hill Street Blues, 227, Miami Vice, MacGyver, Days of Our Lives, Key West, and Walker, Texas Ranger. One of his last TV roles was portraying Senator Vrax in two episodes of Star Trek: Enterprise in 2005.
The actor is survived by his wife Pamela, daughter Lucia and 2 grandchildren.