After studying drama at the Actors Studio, Silver made his film debut in 1976's Tunnel Vision, the same year he landed a role on the sitcom "Rhoda." Splitting his time between stage and screen, Silver won a Tony Award in 1988 for his role in "Speed-the-Plow" and received his first Emmy nod the same year for his work in Billionaire Boys Club.
Silver's other notable parts include that of lawyer Alan Dershowitz in Reversal of Fortune (1990) and White House strategist Bruno Gianelli on "The West Wing." Silver, who served as president of the Actors' Equity Association from 1991 to 2000, died March 15, 2009.
Enemies, A Love StoryHerman (Ron Silver) is a Jewish ghostwriter whose life is turned upside down by the reappearance of his wife, Tamara (Anjelica Huston), long believed to have died during World War II. Now, Herman must juggle Tamara, his current gentile wife (Margaret Sophie Stein) and his Holocaust-damaged mistress... Read More
Silent RageA small-town sheriff (Chuck Norris) shoots a killer (Brian Libby) in the act of murder and takes his corpse to three doctors, who seize the opportunity to secretly test an experimental serum that has the ability to reanimate the dead. The serum works in spades, and the murderer is back on another... Read More
A Father's RevengeBrian Dennehy stars as Paul Hobart, a basketball coach who's forced to step up to the line when a band of terrorists kidnaps his daughter (Joanna Cassidy) and the rest of her flight crew at an airport and holds them hostage in exchange for the release of two German prisoners. Concerned with the lack... Read More
A Woman of Independent MeansOscar winner Sally Field stars as Texas belle Bess Steed, who blossoms from a high-society wife into a prominent businesswoman over seven tumultuous decades in this lavish 1995 miniseries, based on the novel by Elizabeth Forsythe-Hailey. A talented cast, including Tony Goldwyn, Charles Durning, Ron... Read More
Black & WhiteOn joining the Los Angeles Police Department, rookie cop Chris O'Brien (Rory Cochrane from "CSI: Miami") is partnered with world-weary detective Nora Hugosian (Gina Gershon). Already tense, their relationship grows more complicated when the two become lovers and Nora is investigated by internal... Read More
For Love of Liberty (2010) | NR | |
Find Me Guilty (2006) | R | |
Law & Order: Trial by Jury (2005) | NR | |
Red Mercury (2005) | R | |
Raw Footage (2005) | NR | |
FahrenHYPE 9/11 (2004) | UR | |
Jack (2003) | PG-13 | |
R | ||
R | ||
When Billie Beat Bobby (2001) | PG | |
Ali (2001) | R | |
Festival in Cannes (2001) | PG-13 | |
Exposure (2000) | R | |
Cutaway (2000) | R | |
PG-13 | ||
Ratz (2000) | NR | |
NR | ||
The Arrival / The Arrival 2 (1998) | R | |
Black & White (1998) | R | |
The White Raven (1998) | R | |
Girl 6 (1996) | R | |
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A Woman of Independent Means (1995) | NR | |
Timecop (1994) | R | |
Blind Side (1993) | R | |
Lifepod (1993) | UR | |
Married to It (1993) | R | |
Mr. Saturday Night (1992) | R | |
Live Wire (1992) | R | |
Reversal of Fortune (1990) | R | |
Blue Steel (1990) | R | |
Enemies, A Love Story (1989) | R | |
Big Time (1989) | NR | |
R | ||
Billionaire Boys Club (1987) | NR | |
Trapped in Silence (1986) | NR | |
Garbo Talks (1984) | PG-13 | |
Romancing the Stone (1984) | PG | |
Oh God! You Devil! (1984) | PG | |
Silkwood (1983) | R | |
Lovesick (1983) | PG | |
Best Friends (1982) | PG | |
Silent Rage (1982) | R | |
Word of Honor (1981) | NR | |
The Entity (1981) | R | |
The Stockard Channing Show (1979) | NR | |
Tunnel Vision (1976) | R | |
Rhoda (1974) | NR | |
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