Ron Silver

Name: Ron Silver
Date of Birth: July 02, 1946
Place of Birth: New York City, New York

Mini-bio: An intense, quixotic performer, Silver, a native New Yorker, escaped serving in Vietnam by traveling through Asia and Russia in the 1960s on an intelligence-gathering mission for the CIA (and getting ...( read more)arrested at least once). Back in the USA, he taught school for about a year in Connecticut, before moving to New York, where he made his stage debut in 1971. Silver spent the '70s acting in off-Broadway and regional productions. He made his Broadway debut as a replacement in Mike Nichols' production of David Rabe's "Hurlyburly" (1984-85). Nichols also teamed the actor with Marlo Thomas and Olympia Dukakis in the gentle comedy "Social Security" (1986). Silver attained stage stardom with a Tony Award-winning turn as a sleazy film producer opposite Madonna in David Mamet's "Speed-the-Plow" (1988). He left the productions of "La Bete" (1991) and Arthur Miller's "Broken Glass" (1994) during their pre-Broadway tryouts over "creative differences". The dark-haired, laser-eyed Silver hit the small screen in 1976, appearing in "The Mac Davis Show" (NBC), as Valerie Harper's neighbor on "Rhoda" (CBS, from 1976-78) and in his first TV-movie, "The Return of the World's Greatest Detective" (NBC). He played supporting roles in TV-movies and miniseries, such as "Murder at the Mardi Gras (CBS, 1978) and "Kane & Abel" (CBS, 1985) before landing his first starring role in "Forgotten Prisoners: The Amnesty Files" (TNT, 1990). He offered a memorable characterization of a NYC garmento in a story arc of "Wiseguy" (CBS, 1988-89) which featured Jerry Lewis as his father and Stanley Tucci as his nemesis. Silver went on to appear in the thriller "Live Wire" (HBO, 1992), the sci-fi "Lifepod" (his directorial debut, Fox, 1993), "Almost Golden: The Jessica Savitch Story" (Lifetime, 1995) and as the Secretary of State in "Kissinger and Nixon" (TNT, 1995). None of his series--"Dear Detective" (CBS, 1979), "The Stockard Channing Show" (CBS, 1980), "Baker's Dozen" (CBS, 1982)--lasted long. Silver has played a recurring role as Christine Lahti's ex-husband on the CBS drama series "Chicago Hope". Beginning with his part as a Spanish instructor in "Tunnelvision" in 1976, Silver did a number of supporting film roles (e.g., "Semi-Tough", 1977; "Best Friends", 1982) and finally began making an impression with good turns in "Silkwood" (1982) and as a bereft son in "Garbo Talks" (1984). He received widespread acclaim for his film performances as a resourceful, womanizing Holocaust survivor in Paul Mazursky's "Enemies, A Love Story" (1989) and as Alan Dershowitz in "Reversal of Fortune" (1990), Barbet Schroeder's black comedy of manners based on the Von Bulow murder trial. That year, he also played an oily villain stalking rookie cop Jamie Lee Curtis in Kathryn Bigelow's "Blue Steel". During the first half of the '90s, Silver has co-starred in "Married to It" (1991), Billy Crystal's "Mr. Saturday Night" (1992), "Timecop" (1994), Spike Lee's "Girl 6" and the sci-fi thriller "The Arrival" (both 1996). Active in many political causes, Silver is a co-founder (and first president) of the liberal advocacy group, The Creative Coalition. He was elected president of Actors' Equity Association in June, 1991.

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The American actor, producer and director Ronald Silver was born on 2nd July, 1946 in New York City. These days Ronald Silver is actively working for a radio program featuring politics & public affairs broadcasted through satellite radio in Sirius. Ronald Silver’s mother May was a teacher & father Irving Roy Silver was employed as clothing salesman. Ronald Silver was brought up in Lower East Side area of Manhattan. He started his educational pursuits from a Hebrew Institute located in the vicinity of his house followed by Stuyvesant High School. Continuing his educational pursuits Ronald Silver went on to graduate from the University at Buffalo with a Bachelor of Arts in Spanish and Chinese and further received a Master's Degree in Chinese History from St. John's University in New York and the College of Chinese Culture in Taiwan. Ronald Silver also attended Columbia University's Graduate School of International Affairs. In 1976 Ronald Silver appeared in his first film Tunnel Vision. After a brief gap Ron performed in the 1983 movie Lovesick, his role was well appreciated. The good work followed by more offers and in 1984 Ronald appeared in film Garbo Talks playing the role of Anne Bancroft’s devoted son. In contrast to his earlier roles Ronald’s next appearance was as an incompetent detective in the ’86 released Eat and Run. Silver then appeared in the Oscar-nominated Paul Mazursky’s movie Enemies: Love Story in 1989 followed by Reversal of Fortune in 1990 in which he played the part of Alan Dershowitz, the defense attorney. By the end of 80’s Ron was able to establish himself as an accomplished actor. During the decade of 90’s Ronald Silver appeared in numerous films including Billy Crystal's 1992 movie Mr. Saturday Night, Timecop in 1994 featuring Jean-Claude Van Damme & in Michael Mann's movie Ali as cornerman of Muhammad Ali, Angelo Dundee. Ronald Silver performed as campaign advisor Bruno Gianelli in the years 2001 & 2002 and also 2005 & 2006 on The West Wing. Ronald Silver worked as Actors' Equity Association’s president between 1991 and 2000. From February 2008, Silver has been hosting The Ron Silver Show that airs on Sirius Satellite Radio. Ronald Silver is proficient in Spanish and Mandarin languages. Ron has also been a frequent traveler who has visited not less than 30 countries in the past. Ronald Silver has shown keen interest towards social services, the fact is well substantiated through the records of American Social Service Department. As the member of the Council concerned with Foreign Relations, Ronald Silver opposed the Oslo Peace Agreement and founded the organization One Jerusalem in 2000. Ronald Silver, who was earlier a democrat, presently supports President George W. Bush. He has raised his voice against terrorism and has spoken at Republican National Convention (2004) in the U.S. Rudy Giuliani, the Mayor of New York appointed Ronald Silver as the Chairman of the Millennium Committee. Ronald Silver owns a popular blog on the website of Pajamas Media. On 7th October, 2005, President George Bush nominated Ronald Silver as one of the Board of Directors of the US Institute of Peace. On September 8th, 2006, Ronald Silver was announced to have joined the advisory committee of the Legal Defense Trust named after Lewis Libby.

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Ron Silver Information:

Eye color:dark brown

Height: 5' 8½" (1.74 m)

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Education: Alumnus of the State University of New York at Buffalo

Family: Ron was married to Lynne Miller from the 24 December 1975 till July 1997. They have two children, a son who was born in 1979 and a daughter, named Alexandra, who was born in 1983.

Resides in: New York City

Religious affiliations:jewish

Political affiliation: a Democrat

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Charities/Causes: He was a co-founder of the organizations the Creative Coalition & One Jerusalm-which opposed the Oslo Peace Agreement (its purpose was to maintain a united jerusalem & Israel)

Other He campaigned for Michael Dukakis in the 1988 US presidential race.
He taught Spanish for several years in the 1960s at The Roosevelt School in Stamford, Connecticut.

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