Silva was a prolific character actor, known for his roles in titles such as ‘The Manchurian Candidate’, ‘Ocean Eleven’, ‘Wagon Train’, etc.
Silva was a prolific character actor, known for his roles in titles such as ‘The Manchurian Candidate’, ‘Ocean Eleven’, ‘Wagon Train’, etc.
Henry Silva, a prolific character actor, known for playing villains and tough guys Manchurian candidate, Ocean’s Eleven And other films have died at the age of 95.
Silva’s son Scott Silva told Diversity That his father died of natural causes on Wednesday 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. Over the next decade he was accepted into the Actors Studio, where fellow students included Shelley Winters and Ben Gazzara. He had a long and busy career in film and television with hundreds of credits before retiring from acting in 2001.
He had a breakthrough role on stage and screen as a drug dealer in the 1950s a hatful of rain and supporting parts in two of Frank Sinatra’s best-known films 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 Manchurian candidate, a Cold War thriller about brainwashing and attempted assassination of a presidential candidate starring Sinatra, Lawrence Harvey and Janet Leigh. In his last film, Silva was cast in Ocean’s Eleven Remake from 2000 starring George Clooney and Brad Pitt.
“Our hearts are broken at the loss of our dear friend Henry Silva, one of the nicest, kindest and most talented men out there,” Dean Martin’s daughter, Dean Martin, tweeted. The Last Living Star of the Original Ocean 11 Movie.”
Silva was also seen in such television series as: wagon train And FBIand in movies like Warren Beatty Dick TracyJerry Lewis’ cinderfella And Ghost Dog: Path of the Samuraiin which he played a mobster in the 1999 release directed by one of his fans, Jim Jarmusch.