Ghostbusters actor David Margulies dies

The actor who played the mayor in 1980s film Ghostbusters, David Margulies, has died at the age of 78.

The actor who played the mayor in Ghostbusters, David Margulies, has died at the age of 78. (AAP)

Veteran actor of the stage and screen David Margulies, whose film roles included the mayor in Ghostbusters, has died. He was 78.

Margulies died in New York on Monday, his agent Mary Harden said on Tuesday. No cause of death was immediately available, she said.

The Brooklyn-born Margulies made his Broadway debut in the 1973 revival of The Iceman Cometh. He performed on Broadway a dozen more times, including as Roy Cohn in Angels in America.

He played the mayor of New York in 1984's Ghostbusters, as well as its 1989 sequel. Most recently, he had roles in JC Chandor's A Most Violent Year and John Turturro's Fading Gigolo.

His numerous TV stints included playing Tony Soprano's lawyer, Neil Mink, on The Sopranos.