1. Ronald Arthur Silver was an American actor, director, producer, radio host, and activist.
22 Facts About Ron Silver
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Ron Silver was awarded a Tony in 1988 for Best Actor for Speed-the-Plow, a satirical dissection of the American movie business, and was nominated for an Emmy for his recurring role as political strategist Bruno Gianelli in The West Wing.
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Ron Silver was raised Jewish on the Lower East Side of Manhattan and attended Stuyvesant High School.
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Ron Silver went on to graduate from the State University of New York at Buffalo, with a Bachelor of Arts in Spanish and Chinese, and received a master's degree in Chinese History from St John's University in New York and the Chinese Culture University in Taiwan.
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Ron Silver attended Columbia University's Graduate School of International Affairs and studied acting at the Herbert Berghof Studio, and later at The Actors Studio.
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Ron Silver got his big acting break starring in El Grande de Coca-Cola in 1974.
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Producers Richard Flanzer and Roy Ron Silver opened it at the famed Whisky a Go Go on the Sunset Strip in Los Angeles.
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Ron Silver starred as Jerry Lewis's character's son in the multi-episode "Garment District Arc" of the television crime series Wiseguy.
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Ron Silver portrayed two well-known attorneys in films based on actual events, playing defense attorney Alan Dershowitz in the drama Reversal of Fortune, based on the trial of Claus von Bulow and defense attorney Robert Shapiro in the television film American Tragedy, the story of the O J Simpson trial.
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From 1991 to 2000, Ron Silver served as president of the Actors' Equity Association.
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Ron Silver played a film producer in Best Friends opposite Burt Reynolds and Goldie Hawn, an actor in Lovesick and a film director in Mr Saturday Night.
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Ron Silver portrayed a corrupt, rogue senator in the 1994 Jean-Claude Van Damme sci-fi thriller Timecop.
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In other films based on true stories, Ron Silver portrayed tennis player Bobby Riggs in the TV docudrama When Billie Beat Bobby, about Riggs' real-life exhibition tennis match against Billie Jean King, which Riggs lost.
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Ron Silver was featured as Muhammad Ali's boxing trainer and cornerman Angelo Dundee in Michael Mann's 2001 biopic Ali.
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Additionally, Ron Silver narrated the audiobook versions of several Philip Roth novels, including American Pastoral, The Plot Against America, and Portnoy's Complaint.
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In February 2008, Silver began hosting The Ron Silver Show on Sirius Satellite Radio, which focused on politics and public affairs.
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Ron Silver traveled to more than 30 countries and spoke fluent Mandarin Chinese and Spanish.
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Ron Silver taught at the high school level and was a social worker for the Department of Social Services.
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Ron Silver was a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
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Ron Silver spoke at the 2004 Republican National Convention, continued to support President Bush, and was appointed Chairman for the Millennium Committee by New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani.
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On September 8,2006, it was announced that Ron Silver had joined an advisory committee to the Lewis Libby Legal Defense Trust.
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Ron Silver is buried at Westchester Hills Cemetery in Hastings-on-Hudson, New York.