Ted Beniades (Theodore Cleanthis Beniades)
(November 17, 1922 – October 24, 2014)

Beniades, a veteran actor who as an old-school undercover cop busts Al Pacino’s
Tony Montana for tax evasion in Scarface (1983), has died.

His family announced Beniades, who earlier starred as a detective on the gritty
1967-69 ABC series N.Y.P.D., died peacefully today at his home in Brookville, Pa.

Beniades also appeared with Pacino in Serpico (1973) and was in The Next Man
(1976), starring Sean Connery.