Ron Silver

Ron Silver

1946-07-02 New York City, New York, USA 73 Credits

Biography

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.

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PoliWood

PoliWood

2009

as Self

6.5
Acting

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

My Father's Will

My Father's Will

2009

as Dunbar

5.3
Acting

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

Acting
The Ten

The Ten

2007

as Fielding Barnes

4.8
Acting

Ten stories, each inspired by one of the ten commandments.

The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays

The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays

2006

as Charlie Fox (segment "Speed-the-Plow")

Acting

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

Find Me Guilty

2006

as Sidney Finestein

6.6
Acting

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

Red Mercury

2005

as Sidney

4.0
Acting

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)

Acting

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

Directing Producing

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

Fahrenhype 9/11

2004

3.7
Acting

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

Jack

Jack

2004

as Paul

4.9
Acting

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

Master Spy: The Robert Hanssen Story

2002

as Mike Fine

4.7
Acting

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

The Wisher

2002

as Campbell

4.6
Acting

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

Exposure

2001

as Gary Whitford

4.4
Acting

A photographer's life becomes dangerous when one of his models is murdered.

Ali

Ali

2001

as Angelo Dundee

6.8
Acting

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

Festival in Cannes

2001

as Rick Yorkin

5.5
Acting

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

When Billie Beat Bobby

2001

as Bobby Riggs

5.5
Acting

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

American Tragedy

American Tragedy

2000

as Robert Shapiro

4.8
Acting

Johnnie Cochran defends O.J. Simpson who is on trial for his wife's murder.

Cutaway

Cutaway

2000

as Lt. Brian Margate

5.0
Acting

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

Ratz

2000

as Herb Soric

5.6
Acting

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

Black & White

1999

as Simon Herzel

5.5
Acting

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

In the Company of Spies

1999

as Tom Lenahan

2.0
Acting

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

Love Is Strange

1999

as Tom Ainsworth

Acting

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

Heat Vision and Jack

1999

as Self

5.9
Acting

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

The White Raven

1998

as Tully Windsor

3.5
Acting

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

Rhapsody in Bloom

1998

as Mitch Bloom

7.0
Acting

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?

Who Is Henry Jaglom?

1997

as Self

6.6
Acting

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

Skeletons

1997

as Peter Crane

4.1
Acting

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

The Beneficiary

1997

as Guy Girard

5.7
Acting

Lust, desire and money motivate a greedy woman to murder her philandering rich husband.

Shadow Zone: The Undead Express

Shadow Zone: The Undead Express

1996

as Valentine

5.2
Acting

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

Danger Zone

1996

as Maurice Dupont

4.2
Acting

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

The Arrival

1996

as Gordian

6.0
Acting

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

Girl 6

1996

as Director #2 - LA

4.9
Acting

A struggling actress in New York City takes a job as a phone sex operator.

Deadly Outbreak

Deadly Outbreak

1996

as Colonel Baron

5.2
Acting

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

Kissinger and Nixon

1995

as Henry A. Kissinger

7.9
Acting

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

Almost Golden: The Jessica Savitch Story

1995

as Ron Kershaw

5.5
Acting

The story of one of America's first female reporters.

Timecop

Timecop

1994

as Senator Aaron McComb

6.0
Acting

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

Loyalty & Betrayal: The Story of the American Mob

1994

as Narrator

Acting

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

Lifepod

1993

as Terman

5.1
Acting

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

Lifepod

1993

Director

5.1
Directing

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

Blind Side

1993

as Doug Kaines

5.4
Acting

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

Mr. Saturday Night

1992

as Larry Meyerson

5.7
Acting

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

Live Wire

1992

as Frank Traveres

5.3
Acting

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

Married to It

1991

as Leo Rothenberg

5.9
Acting

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

The Good Policeman

1991

as Isaac Seidel

Acting

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

The Good Policeman

1991

Executive Producer

Producing

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

Forgotten Prisoners: The Amnesty Files

1990

as Jordan Ford

Acting

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

Reversal of Fortune

1990

as Alan Dershowitz

6.6
Acting

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

Night of 100 Stars III

1990

as Self

4.0
Acting

A celebrity benefit for The Actors' Fund of America, featuring music, songs, dance and comedy.

Blue Steel

Blue Steel

1990

as Eugene Hunt

5.8
Acting

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

Enemies, a Love Story

1989

as Herman Broder

6.3
Acting

A ghostwriter finds himself romantically involved with his current wife, a married woman and his long-vanished wife.

Fellow Traveller

Fellow Traveller

1989

as Asa Kaufman

4.0
Acting

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

A Father's Revenge

1988

as Max Greenwald

7.0
Acting

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

Billionaire Boys Club

1987

as Ron Levin

6.6
Acting

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

Eat and Run

1987

as Mickey McSorely

4.5
Acting

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

Trapped In Silence

1986

as Dr. Jeff Tomlinson

5.8
Acting

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

Oh, God! You Devil

1984

as Gary Frantz

5.6
Acting

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

Garbo Talks

1984

as Gilbert Rolfe

6.2
Acting

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

The Goodbye People

1984

as Eddie Bergson

Acting

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

Romancing the Stone

1984

as Vendor

6.8
Acting

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

Silkwood

1983

as Paul Stone

7.0
Acting

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

Lovesick

Lovesick

1983

as Ted Caruso

5.5
Acting

Sigmund Freud's ghost advises a married New York psychiatrist in love with a patient.

Best Friends

Best Friends

1982

as Larry Weisman

5.1
Acting

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

The Entity

1982

as Phil Sneiderman

6.7
Acting

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

Silent Rage

1982

as Dr. Tom Halman

6.0
Acting

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

Word of Honor

1981

as David Lerner

6.0
Acting

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

Dear Detective

1979

as Det. Schwartz

Acting

A female homicide detective is assigned to solve the murders of a series of local officials.

Betrayal

Betrayal

1978

as Bob Cohen

Acting

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

Murder at the Mardi Gras

1978

as Larry Cook

Acting

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

Semi-Tough

1977

as Vlada

5.6
Acting

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.

Welcome to L.A.

1976

as Massuese (uncredited)

5.0
Acting

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

The Return of the World's Greatest Detective

1976

as Dr. Collins

Acting

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

Tunnel Vision

1976

as Dr. Manuel Labor

4.5
Acting

A committee investigating TV's first uncensored network examines a typical day's programming, which includes shows, commercials, news programs, you na...