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Ronald Arthur "Ron" Silver (July 2, 1946 – March 15, 2009) was an American actor, director, producer, radio host, and political activist. Description above from the Wikipedia article Ron Silver, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Complete Filmography

PoliWood
2009
as Self
An in-depth look at the Democratic and Republican national conventions held during the 2008 U.S. Presidential election year.

My Father's Will
2009
as Dunbar
Ferro Olivetti, a billionaire playboy and businessman, promises to fulfill his dying father's final request: to live one month without his wealth.
Xenophobia
2008
as President

The Ten
2007
as Fielding Barnes
Ten stories, each inspired by one of the ten commandments.

The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays
2006
as Charlie Fox (segment "Speed-the-Plow")
The Great White Way comes into your living room via this disc of rare performances from some of Broadway's brightest luminaries. Culled from clips fro...

Find Me Guilty
2006
as Sidney Finestein
Based on the true story of Jack DiNorscio, a mobster who defended himself in court for what would be the longest mafia trial in U.S. history.

Red Mercury
2005
as Sidney
Three young Muslim men, part of a terror cell, are making a bomb in a London flat, when they get a call to vacate immediately with their gear. The pol...
Broken Promises: The United Nations at 60
2005
as Narrator (voice)
The history of the United Nations highlighting the gap between the good intentions and ideals of its inception and the sad reality of its present stat...
Broken Promises: The United Nations at 60
2005
Co-Director, Executive Producer
The history of the United Nations highlighting the gap between the good intentions and ideals of its inception and the sad reality of its present stat...

Fahrenhype 9/11
2004
A documentary which refutes and debunks facts made by Michael Moore in his film "Fahrenheit 9/11".

Jack
2004
as Paul
Jack, in full puberty, not only has to deal with his parents' divorce, but also feels his world is falling apart when his dad tells him he is living w...

Master Spy: The Robert Hanssen Story
2002
as Mike Fine
True story about the cat and mouse game between the FBI trying to find a Soviet mole in their ranks and Robert Hanssen, one of the top FBI agents and ...

The Wisher
2002
as Campbell
Mary is a horror-movie junkie whose obsession is out of control, leading her over-protective father to ban her from seeing scary flicks. But when she ...

Exposure
2001
as Gary Whitford
A photographer's life becomes dangerous when one of his models is murdered.

Ali
2001
as Angelo Dundee
In 1964, a brash, new pro boxer, fresh from his Olympic gold medal victory, explodes onto the scene: Cassius Clay. Bold and outspoken, he cuts an enti...

Festival in Cannes
2001
as Rick Yorkin
Cannes, 1999. Alice, an actress, wants to direct an indie picture. Kaz, a talkative (and maybe bogus) deal maker, promises $3 million if she'll use Mi...

When Billie Beat Bobby
2001
as Bobby Riggs
The historic 1973 tennis match between middle-aged champion Bobby Riggs and young feminist Billie Jean King.

American Tragedy
2000
as Robert Shapiro
Johnnie Cochran defends O.J. Simpson who is on trial for his wife's murder.

Cutaway
2000
as Lt. Brian Margate
The successful undercover agent Victor Cooper is assigned for his ninth mission: to find how the loadings of drug is being brought to Miami. He suspec...

Ratz
2000
as Herb Soric
Like lots of young ladies their age, Marci (Vanessa Lengies) and Summer (Caroline Elliott) have boys on their feverish brains. But the closer the girl...

Black & White
1999
as Simon Herzel
Chris O'Brien, devote Catholic and rookie cop with LAPD, is assigned to partner with the hard-edged, street-smart Nora Hugosian. A serial killer is lo...

In the Company of Spies
1999
as Tom Lenahan
An operative for the CIA is captured and interrogated by Korean officials; his bosses, in order to protect national security, decide to bring an old o...

Love Is Strange
1999
as Tom Ainsworth
As the closest-guarded secrets of a troubled family gradually begin to emerge from the shadows, a desperate mother struggles to bring the ones she lov...

Heat Vision and Jack
1999
as Self
As the result of a NASA miscalculation, Astronaut Jack Austin flew too close to the sun, the rays expanding his mind and making him the smartest man o...

The White Raven
1998
as Tully Windsor
A journalist gets pulled into an intrigue by his editor that involves a story that he received a Pulitzer for years before. It seems that the second l...

Rhapsody in Bloom
1998
as Mitch Bloom
Artist Lilah Bloom's life is upended when her widowed brother decides to remarry a strong-willed business woman. Humor and self-awareness emerge as sh...

Who Is Henry Jaglom?
1997
as Self
Hailed by some as a cinematic genius, a feminist voice and a true maverick of American cinema, dismissed by others as a voyeuristic fraud and the "wor...

Skeletons
1997
as Peter Crane
A heart attack moves a Pulitzer winning journalist to leave NY for the peace of a small New England town, but he soon finds himself pulled into a case...

The Beneficiary
1997
as Guy Girard
Lust, desire and money motivate a greedy woman to murder her philandering rich husband.

Shadow Zone: The Undead Express
1996
as Valentine
A teen obsessed with horror films befriends a vampire who leads him to a whole coven of vampires that hide beneath the New York subways.

Danger Zone
1996
as Maurice Dupont
Rick Morgan, an American engineer who runs a mine in East Africa, is approached one day by his friend Jim Scott, who needs someplace to store canister...

The Arrival
1996
as Gordian
Zane Ziminski is an astrophysicist who receives a message that seems to have extraterrestrial origins. Eerily soon after his discovery, Zane is fired....

Girl 6
1996
as Director #2 - LA
A struggling actress in New York City takes a job as a phone sex operator.

Deadly Outbreak
1996
as Colonel Baron
Dutton Hatfield, played by Jeff Speakman, is working for the American embassy. He finds himself inside a biochemical weapon laboratory when terrorists...

Kissinger and Nixon
1995
as Henry A. Kissinger
A dramatization of the relationship between Kissinger and Nixon during the six-month period in 1972-73 when Kissinger was negotiating an end to the Vi...

Almost Golden: The Jessica Savitch Story
1995
as Ron Kershaw
The story of one of America's first female reporters.

Timecop
1994
as Senator Aaron McComb
In 2004, an officer for a security agency that regulates time travel must fend for his life against a shady politician who has a tie to his past.

Loyalty & Betrayal: The Story of the American Mob
1994
as Narrator
This historic documentary only aired once on July 25th 1994 on FOX. A special on organized crime as told by the people who lived it, as well as histor...

Lifepod
1993
as Terman
Lifepod cronicles the trip of eight passengers after the ship they were traveling on blew up on Christmas Eve. Immediately people start dying. The pas...

Lifepod
1993
Director
Lifepod cronicles the trip of eight passengers after the ship they were traveling on blew up on Christmas Eve. Immediately people start dying. The pas...

Blind Side
1993
as Doug Kaines
A couple visits Mexico to scout a new location for their furniture manufacturing business and hit a cop with their car on the way back stateside. Real...

Mr. Saturday Night
1992
as Larry Meyerson
Buddy Young was the comic's comic, beloved by everyone. Now, playing to miniscule crowds in nursing homes, it seems like everybody but Buddy realizes ...

Live Wire
1992
as Frank Traveres
Danny O'Neill is a bomb disposal expert assigned to a case where terrorists have developed an "invisible" liquid explosive which is activated within t...

Married to It
1991
as Leo Rothenberg
While setting up a school pageant, the parents at an elite private academy in New York City with contrastive lifestyles and professional paths reflect...

The Good Policeman
1991
as Isaac Seidel
Isaac Seidel is a highly unconventional New York police-commissioner. He is well-abled in dealing with trouble at the headquarter, the maffia and situ...

The Good Policeman
1991
Executive Producer
Isaac Seidel is a highly unconventional New York police-commissioner. He is well-abled in dealing with trouble at the headquarter, the maffia and situ...

Forgotten Prisoners: The Amnesty Files
1990
as Jordan Ford
A lawyer representing Amnesty International tries to find the whereabouts and condition of 17 political prisoners detained in a country known for its ...

Reversal of Fortune
1990
as Alan Dershowitz
Wealthy Sunny von Bülow lies brain-dead, husband Claus guilty of attempted murder; but he says he's innocent and hires Alan Dershowitz for his appeal.

Night of 100 Stars III
1990
as Self
A celebrity benefit for The Actors' Fund of America, featuring music, songs, dance and comedy.

Blue Steel
1990
as Eugene Hunt
Rookie cop Megan Turner orders a burglar to drop his gun. He whirls to shoot. Too late. Turner fires, killing him instantly. When someone lifts the as...

Enemies, a Love Story
1989
as Herman Broder
A ghostwriter finds himself romantically involved with his current wife, a married woman and his long-vanished wife.

Fellow Traveller
1989
as Asa Kaufman
In the Golden Age of Hollywood, two men had it all; one was a top screenwriter, the other a film idol. But when the witch hunts of McCarthyism swept i...

A Father's Revenge
1988
as Max Greenwald
German terrorists kidnap the crew of an aeroplane as they leave the airport. The terrorists demand the release of two of their colleagues, who are to ...

Billionaire Boys Club
1987
as Ron Levin
The Billionaire Boys Club is based on the true story of Joe Hunt (Nelson), a shady investor who built an empire on B.S. back in the early '80s. Known ...

Eat and Run
1987
as Mickey McSorely
A humanoid alien lands on earth, and soon discovers he likes to eat Italian. Italian people, that is. Incompetent detective McSorely is the only one w...

Trapped In Silence
1986
as Dr. Jeff Tomlinson
A compelling drama about a silent, violent teenager. Kevin suffers from elective mutism and no one has ever heard him utter a word.

Oh, God! You Devil
1984
as Gary Frantz
George Burns is back as God, but oops, here he is as Satan, too. A young rock star is ready to sell his soul to Satan, and Satan is all too happy to o...

Garbo Talks
1984
as Gilbert Rolfe
When New York accountant Gilbert Rolfe finds out his mother has a brain tumor, he is devastated. His incorrigible mother, Estelle, has one last wish: ...

The Goodbye People
1984
as Eddie Bergson
An elderly man is determined to reopen the Coney Island boardwalk hot dog stand he closed twenty-two years earlier for renovation, despite the fact he...

Romancing the Stone
1984
as Vendor
Though she can spin wild tales of passionate romance, novelist Joan Wilder has no life of her own. Then one day adventure comes her way in the form of...

Silkwood
1983
as Paul Stone
The story of Karen Silkwood, a metallurgy worker at a plutonium processing plant who was purposefully contaminated, psychologically tortured and possi...

Lovesick
1983
as Ted Caruso
Sigmund Freud's ghost advises a married New York psychiatrist in love with a patient.

Best Friends
1982
as Larry Weisman
When a professional couple, who have lived and worked together for many years, finally decide to marry, their sudden betrothal causes many unexpected ...

The Entity
1982
as Phil Sneiderman
Single mother Carla Moran is raped and attacked by an invisible force. She begins therapy with Dr. Phil Sneiderman, a psychiatrist who believes Carla'...

Silent Rage
1982
as Dr. Tom Halman
A mentally ill man in a small Texas town goes on a killing rampage and is fatally wounded by police. When doctors use an experimental serum to bring h...

Word of Honor
1981
as David Lerner
A reporter refuses to reveal his source in the case of the murder of a young girl. As a result, he and his family are shunned by the residents of the ...

Dear Detective
1979
as Det. Schwartz
A female homicide detective is assigned to solve the murders of a series of local officials.

Betrayal
1978
as Bob Cohen
Dramatization of the 1971 case involving a young woman who sued her psychiatrist for luring her into a sexual relationship with him under the guise of...

Murder at the Mardi Gras
1978
as Larry Cook
A bubble-brained Philadelphia waitress witnesses a murder during the Mardi Gras festivities in New Orleans and finds herself stalked by the killer.

Semi-Tough
1977
as Vlada
A three-way friendship between two free-spirited professional football players and the owner's daughter becomes compromised when two of them become ro...

Welcome to L.A.
1976
as Massuese (uncredited)
The lives of a group of Hollywood neurotics intersect over the Christmas holidays. Foremost among them, a songwriter visits Los Angeles to work on a s...

The Return of the World's Greatest Detective
1976
as Dr. Collins
A Los Angeles cop falls off his motorcycle, strikes his head and wakes up believing himself to be Sherlock Holmes. Along with the social worker who is...

Tunnel Vision
1976
as Dr. Manuel Labor
A committee investigating TV's first uncensored network examines a typical day's programming, which includes shows, commercials, news programs, you na...