Ron Silver
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Ronald Arthur Silver (July 2, 1946-2009) was an American actor, director, producer, radio host, and political activist.
Henry Kissinger, Alan Dershowitz, and Angelo Dundee were all depicted as actors.
In 1988, he was honoured a Tony for Best Actor for Speed-the-Plow, a satirical dissection of the American film industry.
Early life
Silver was born in Manhattan on July 2, 1946, the son of May (née Zimelman), a substitute instructor), and Irving Roy Silver, a clothing sales executive. Silver was born on the Lower East Side of Manhattan and attended Stuyvesant High School.
Silver graduated from the State University of New York at Buffalo with a Bachelor of Arts in Spanish and Chinese, as well as a Masters Degree in Chinese History from St. John's University in New York and the Chinese Culture University in Taiwan. He also attended Columbia University's Graduate School of International Affairs (SIPA) and concentrated on acting at the Herbert Berghof Studio and later at The Actors Studio.
Personal life
Silver went to more than 30 countries and spoke fluent Mandarin Chinese and Spanish. He worked at the high school level and as a social worker for the Department of Social Services.
Lynne Miller, a social worker who later became a Self magazine editor, married him in 1975; their union lasted until their divorce in 1997.
In 1989, he co-founded the Creative Coalition, an entertainment industry political advocacy group that promotes First Amendment rights, public education, and arts advocacy.
Silver was a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He co-founded One Jerusalem in 2000 to condemn the Oslo Peace Agreement and insist that "a united Jerusalem" be retained as Israel's undivided capital.
After the September 11 attacks, Silver, a lifelong Democrat, became a candidate and a supporter of President George W. Bush, citing those attacks and Democratic policies on terrorism as reasons. He appeared at the 2004 Republican National Convention, continued to support President Bush, and was named Chairman of the Millennium Committee by New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani.
In Silver's blog on the PJ Media website, he claimed that coworkers on The West Wing referred to him as "Ron, Ron, the Neo-Con."
Silver was nominated by President Bush to serve on the Board of Directors of the United States Institute of Peace on October 7, 2005. Silver had joined the Lewis Libby Legisl Defence Trust's advisory committee on September 8, 2006.
President George W. Bush nominated Silver to accompany him in Jerusalem for the 60th anniversary of the State of Israel in May 2008.
Senator John McCain's choice of Sarah Palin as his running mate in the 2008 presidential election was a "brilliant political pick," he told Sky News, but a part of him wanted to "see an African American president in my lifetime." Mitchell Silver, his brother, said, "He told me he did vote for Barack Obama in the end."
Career
Silver got his big acting break starring in El Grande de Coca-Cola in 1974. Producers Richard Flanzer and Roy Silver (no relation) opened it at the famed Whisky a Go Go on the Sunset Strip in Los Angeles. The production ran for more than a year. Silver and his co-star, actor Jeff Goldblum, were discovered by Hollywood film agents during this show's run.
In 1976, he made his film debut in Tunnel Vision, and also played a placekicker in the football comedy film Semi-Tough. From 1976 to 1978, he had a recurring role as Gary Levy in the sitcom Rhoda, a spinoff from The Mary Tyler Moore Show. Additional screen roles include a psychiatrist in the horror story The Entity (1983), the devoted son of Anne Bancroft in Garbo Talks (1984), an incompetent detective in Eat and Run (1986), the pistol-wielding psychopath stalking Jamie Lee Curtis in 1989's Blue Steel, and the lead in Paul Mazursky's Oscar-nominated Enemies: A Love Story (1989).
He starred as Jerry Lewis's character's son in the multi-episode "Garment District Arc" of the television crime series Wiseguy (1988).
He portrayed two well-known attorneys in films based on actual events, playing defense attorney Alan Dershowitz in the drama Reversal of Fortune (1990), based on the trial of Claus von Bülow and defense attorney Robert Shapiro in the television film American Tragedy (2000), the story of the O. J. Simpson trial.
From 1991 to 2000, Silver served as president of the Actors' Equity Association. He played a film producer in Best Friends opposite Burt Reynolds and Goldie Hawn (1982), an actor in Lovesick (1983) and a film director in Mr. Saturday Night (1992). Silver portrayed a corrupt, rogue senator in the 1994 Jean-Claude Van Damme sci-fi thriller Timecop.
On television in 1998, he starred opposite Kirstie Alley for season two of her TV comedy series Veronica's Closet.
In other films based on true stories, Silver portrayed tennis player Bobby Riggs in the TV docudrama When Billie Beat Bobby (2001), about Riggs' real-life exhibition tennis match against Billie Jean King, which Riggs lost. He was also featured as Muhammad Ali's boxing trainer and cornerman Angelo Dundee in Michael Mann's 2001 biopic Ali.
From 2001 to 2002 and again from 2005 to 2006, he had a recurring role as presidential campaign adviser Bruno Gianelli on the NBC series The West Wing.
Silver provided the narration for the 2004 political documentary film FahrenHYPE 9/11 that was produced as a conservative political response to the award-winning and controversial Michael Moore documentary film, Fahrenheit 9/11.
Silver also narrated a MEMRI documentary film about the Arab and Iranian reactions to the September 11 attacks called The Arab and Iranian Reaction to 911: Five Years Later.
Additionally, Silver narrated the audiobook versions of several Philip Roth novels, including American Pastoral, The Plot Against America, and Portnoy's Complaint.
One of his final film performances was as a judge in another true story, 2006's Find Me Guilty, directed by Sidney Lumet and starring Vin Diesel.
In February 2008, Silver began hosting The Ron Silver Show on Sirius Satellite Radio, which focused on politics and public affairs. The show aired live at 9–11am ET, on Indie Talk, Sirius 110.