Monday, July 28, 2014

'El Mariachi' Actor Peter Marquardt Dies At 50

Peter Marquardt in "El Mariachi" - Everett Collection


He got the part of the drug lord Moco in the 1992 film due to a chance meeting with writer-director Robert Rodriguez when they were bunkmates at a medical research facility.

 

Peter Marquardt, who played the white-suited drug lord Moco in Robert Rodriguez's 1992 classic El Mariachi and its first sequel, has died, a funeral home in Austin confirmed Sunday. He was 50.

Marquardt died July 19, a spokeswoman at the Cook-Walden/Forest Oaks Funeral Home and Memorial Park said. No cause of death was immediately available.

Marquardt more recently worked in the computer game industry.

Mike Barnes. The Hollywood Reporter

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