Greg Evans Associate Editor/Broadway CriticCaesar Cordova, a character actor whose long association with Al Pacino included appearances in Scarface and Carlito’s Way, died Aug.
26 of natural causes in Atlantic City. He was 84.His death was announced by son Panchito Gomez, an actor whose credits include Selena, American Me and Hill Street Blues, with Deadline’s sister publication Variety first reporting the news.Cordova first appeared with Pacino in 1969 in Broadway’s Does a Tiger Wear a Necktie?
The play marked the Broadway debut of the little-known Pacino. In Brian de Palma’s 1983 Scarface, Cordova played a lunch stand cook, and 10 years later played a barber in Carlito’s Way.
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