Dan Ziskie, the familiar character actor who portrayed lots of government officials during his long career and the New Orleans construction magnate CJ Liquori on HBO’s Treme , has died. He was 80.

Ziskie died July 21 in New York of arteriosclerotic cardiovascular disease, his family announced .

“Dan was a man of remarkable talent and a keen observer of life,” they wrote. “He was as vibrant and multifaceted as the characters he portrayed on stage and screen.”

The Detroit native played NFL commissioner Paul Tagliabue in Peter Landesman’s Concussion (2015), and his big-screen résumé also included Robert Altman ’s O.C. and Stiggs (1985), Chris Columbus’ Adventures in Babysitting (1987), Roger Donaldson’s Thirteen Days (2000) and Charlie Kaufman’s Synecdoche, New York (2008).

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