Mark Margolis (Picture: FilmMagic)

Mark Margolis, the 77-year-old actor known to TV fans as Breaking Bad’s Hector ‘Tio’ Salamanca has undergone brain surgery after a fall during filming on Better Call Saul.

Better Call Saul is the spin-off show for the critically acclaimed award-winning Breaking Bad, in which Margolis has reprised his role of a drug cartel leader.

It is though that Margolis fell whilst off set and he was taken to hospital where a ‘routine procedure’ took place to reduce brain swelling.

His representative told RadarOnline.com: ‘Doctors discovered minor brain swelling and performed a routine procedure to reduce it.’


Mark Margolis (left) in Breaking Bad (Picture;: AMC)

Series creator Vince Gilligan described Margolis as ‘one of the finest actors alive, regardless of whether the role requires him to speak or remain silent in a wheelchair, ringing a bell’.



Margolis was recently removed from the Emmys Best Guest Actor in a Drama Series ballot because he had appeared in five of the 10 episodes of the last season of the show, rendering him ineligible for the honour.

Mark Margolis now stars in Better Call Saul (Picture;: AMC)

It is now too late for network AMC to submit his name for the Best Supporting Actor category.

A Television Academy spokesperson said: ‘There was an error in AMC’s entry submission, and pursuant to 69th Emmy Awards rules, this entry will be disqualified. Had this not been brought to the Academy’s attention now, it would have surfaced after the Nomination Round votes are tallied, during the vetting of all nominees prior to our announcement on July 13.’

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