Henry Silva, a prolific character actor best known for playing villains and tough guys in “The Manchurian Candidate,” “Ocean’s Eleven” and other films, has died at age 95.
Silva’s son Scott Silva told Variety that his father died Wednesday of natural causes at the Motion Picture and Television Country House and Hospital in Woodland Hills, California.Silva was a New York City native who dropped out of school as a teenager, in the 1940s. He was accepted the following decade into the Actors Studio, where fellow students included Shelley Winters and Ben Gazzara.
He had a breakthrough role on stage and screen in the 1950s as a drug dealer in “A Hatful of Rain” and supporting parts in two of Frank Sinatra’s best known movies, both from the early 1960s: “Ocean’s Eleven,” the Las Vegas heist film that was a showcase for Sinatra, Dean Martin and other “Rat Pack” members; and “The Manchurian Candidate,” the Cold War thriller about brainwashing and the attempted assassination of a presidential nominee that starred Sinatra, Laurence Harvey and Janet Leigh. .
Silva was also seen on such television series as “Wagon Train” and “The F.B.I.,” and in such films as Warren Beatty’s “Dick Tracy,” Jerry Lewis’ “Cinderfella” and “Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai,” in which he played a mobster in the 1999 release directed by one of his admirers, Jim Jarmusch.Ken Starr, whose criminal investigation of Bill Clinton led to the president’s impeachment, died Sept. 13, 2022. He was 76.
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Henry Silva, prolific actor known for roles in 'Ocean's 11' and 'Manchurian Candidate,' dies at 95Henry Silva, a veteran actor with a long list of film credits that spanned the 1950s to the beginning of the 21st century and included 'Ocean's 11' and 'The Manchurian Candidate,' has died at the age of 95.
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Henry Silva, prolific actor known for roles in 'Ocean's 11' and 'Manchurian Candidate,' dies at 95Henry Silva, a veteran actor with a long list of film credits that spanned the 1950s to the beginning of the 21st century and included 'Ocean's 11' and 'The Manchurian Candidate,' has died at the age of 95.
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