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Miriam Colón with James Arness on "Gunsmoke" in 1970.
CBS; thumbnail, Bolivar Arellano, 2006
Miriam Colón
Died on March 3, 2017 at age 80
A diminutive but formidable actress, Ms. Colón founded the Puerto Rican Traveling Theater in New York and played Al Pacino’s unswayable Cuban mother in “Scarface,” among other film roles.
Notable Deaths 2017
Remembering Mary Tyler Moore, Chuck Berry, Jerry Lewis, David Rockefeller, Trisha Brown, Glen Campbell, Dick Gregory, Edith Windsor, Sam Shepard, Tom Petty and many others who died this year.