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Ron Silver

Ronald Arthur Silver was an American actor, director, producer, and radio host who was considered one of the most politically aware personalities in Hollywood. He was also a champion of human rights, environmental activism and anti-nuclear campaigns.

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Ali

2001
as Angelo Dundee

Garbo Talks

1984
as Gilbert Rolfe

Silkwood

1983
as Paul Stone

Oh, God! You Devil

1984
as Gary Frantz

When Billie Beat Bobby

2001
as Bobby Riggs

Cutaway

2000
as Lt. Brian Margate

Skin

2003
as Larry Goldman

Kane & Abel

1985
as Thaddeus Cohen

Live Wire

1992
as Frank Traveres

Blind Side

1993
as Doug Kaines

Rhapsody in Bloom

1998
as Mitch Bloom

Heat Vision and Jack

1999
as Ron Silver

The Beneficiary

1997
as Guy Girard

Skeletons

1997
as Peter Crane

Married to It

1993
as Leo Rothenberg

Enemies: A Love Story

1989
as Herman Broder

Eat and Run

1987
as Mickey McSorely

A Father's Revenge

1988
as Max Greenwald

Silent Rage

1982
as Dr. Tom Halman

Fahrenhype 9/11

2004
as Ron Silver

Baker's Dozen

1982
as Mike Locasale

The Entity

1982
as Phil Sneiderman

In the Company of Spies

1999
as Tom Lenahan

Trapped In Silence

1986
as Doctor Jeff Tomlinson

Mr. Saturday Night

1992
as Larry Meyerson

A Secret Promise

2011
as Sam Dunbar

Deadly Outbreak

1996
as Colonel Baron

Semi-Tough

1977
as Vlada Kostov

Red Mercury

2005
as Sidney

Blue Steel

1990
as Eugene Hunt

The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays

2006
as Charlie Fox (segment "Speed-the-Plow")

Reversal of Fortune

1990
as Professor Alan Dershowitz

The Ten

2007
as Fielding Barnes

The White Raven

1998
as Tully Windsor

American Tragedy

2000
as Robert Shapiro

Best Friends

1982
as Larry Weisman

Jack

2004
as Paul

The Good Policeman

1993
as Isaac Seidel

Fellow Traveller

1990
as Asa Kaufman

The Wisher

2002
as Campbell

Lifepod

1993
as Terman

The Goodbye People

1984
as Eddie Bergson

The Arrival

1996
as Phil Gordian

Danger Zone

1996
as Maurice Dupont

Lovesick

1983
as Ted Caruso

Kissinger and Nixon

1995
as Henry A. Kissinger

Ratz

2000
as Herb Soric

Rhoda

1974
as Gary Levy

Timecop

1994
as Senator Aaron McComb

Tunnel Vision

1976
as Dr. Manuel Labor

Girl 6

1996
as Director #2 - LA

Word of Honor

1981
as David Lerner

Festival in Cannes

2001
as Rick Yorkin

Director

Movie Broken Promises - The United Nations at 60 2005
Movie Lifepod 1993

Producer

Movie Broken Promises - The United Nations at 60 2005
Movie The Good Policeman 1993

Guest Star

Episode Law & Order
Paradigm
2004
Episode The West Wing
Duck and Cover
2006
Episode Law & Order: Trial by Jury
Eros in the Upper Eighties
2006
Episode The West Wing
The Debate (East Coast)
2005
Episode Real Time with Bill Maher
January 16, 2004
2004
Episode Wiseguy
7th Avenue Freeze Out
1988
Episode Wiseguy
Next of Kin
1988
Episode The Rockford Files
The Italian Bird Fiasco
1976
Episode Wiseguy
All or Nothing
1989
Episode Here's Boomer
Private Eye
1981
Episode The West Wing
Election Day (1)
2006
Episode Wiseguy
Where's the Money
1989
Episode Rhoda
Mucho, Macho
1975
Episode The Tonight Show starring Johnny Carson
Bob Hope, Ron Silver, Crowded House
1991
Episode Crossing Jordan
Night of the Living Dead
2007
Episode The West Wing
The Debate (West Cost)
2005
Episode The Tonight Show starring Johnny Carson
Joan Embery, Art Donovan, Ron Silver
1990
Episode Law & Order
Talking Points
2007
Episode McMillan and Wife
Secrets for Sale
1975