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Actor Silver dies -
16 March 2009
-Actor and political activist Ron Silver has lost his battle with esophageal cancer. He was 62.-
-The award-winning stage actor passed away on Sunday (15Mar09) following a lengthy battle with the disease, and was surrounded by his family, according to friend and col
Ron Silver - what members say
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Blue Steel 14 October 2003
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Good film, Bad disc 25 January 2004
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Dreadful thriller 21 May 2004
Ron Silver - filmography
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Ali
on DVD
(2001)
Starring: Mario Van Peebles, Mykelti Williamson, Jamie Foxx
Director: Michael Mann
Certificate: 
Will Smith plays boxing legend Muhammad Ali in this much-anticipated biopic from director Michael Mann. Beginning with Ali's 1964 World Heavyweight Championship victory over Sonny Liston, and moving through his subsequent involvement with the Nation of Islam and refusal to be drafted during the ..read more »
 
59%
from 16,104 members
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Cutaway
on DVD
(2000)
Starring: Casper Van Dien, Ron Silver, Tom Berenger
Director: Guy Manos
Certificate: 
U.S. Customs agent Victor Caruso (Stephen Baldwin) has a good record of bringing drug dealers to justice and is much admired by his colleagues. But when he goes deep undercover in an attempt to apprehend a group of drug-dealing skydivers, he soon becomes caught up in the exciting lifestyle of his ..read more »
53%
from 164 members
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Black And White
on DVD
(1998)
Starring: Ron Silver, Gina Gershon, Rory Cochrane
Director: Yuri Zeltser
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Action thriller starring Gina Gershon as hard-edged, experienced cop Nora 'Hugs' Hugosian, who is assigned a new partner - rookie cop Chrids O'Brien (Rory Cochrane) - to help her with the serial killer case she is working on. The two begin a passionate affair - but it isn't long before Chris starts ..read more »
48%
from 193 members
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Love Is Strange
on DVD
(1998)
Starring: Joseph Kell, Jeanine Jackson, Ron Silver
Director: Annette Haywood-Carter
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Kathryn (Kate Nelligan) and Tom (Ron Silver) were opposites whose marriage ended in divorce and bitterness. However, when Kathryn discovers that she has breast cancer, she determines to reunite her son and ex-husband, as well as making peace with her own mother. Her efforts do not only bring the ..read more »
53%
from 6 members
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The Arrival
(1996)
Starring: Charlie Sheen, Ron Silver, Lindsay Crouse
Director: David N. Twohy
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Charlie Sheen stars as radio astronomer Zane Ziminsky, who listens to cosmic noise every night, waiting to hear any kind of emission from space that could signify an alien presence. When he picks up a shockwave from space he thinks he could have found what he has been waiting for, but after taking ..read more »
58%
from 1,844 member
Currently unavailable
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Timecop
on DVD
(1994)
Starring: Jean-Claude Van Damme, Ron Silver, Mia Sara
Director: Peter Hyams
Certificate: 
Based on a comic book story, this futuristic film follows the time-travel exploits of policeman Max Walker (Claude Van Damme). In 1994, Walker's wife Melissa (Mia Sara) is about to tell him that she is expecting their first child when they are attacked by a group of criminals. Walker is shot and ..read more »
58%
from 7,308 members
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Timecop - Blu-ray
(1994)
Starring: Jean-Claude Van Damme, Ron Silver, Mia Sara
Director: Peter Hyams
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Jean-Claude Van Damme stars in this time-travelling sci-fi thriller. In Washington, 1994, Max Walker (Van Damme) is an average cop enjoying life with his new wife (Mia Sara). One night she is murdered and the following morning Walker volunteers for a dangerous assignment in a new police department. ..read more »
61%
from 454 members
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Mr Saturday Night
on DVD
(1992)
Starring: Helen Hunt, Billy Crystal, David Paymer
Director: Billy Crystal
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Billy Crystal stars as stand-up comic Buddy Young Jr. in this fictional story about a former TV variety host whose career is in decline. Crystal created the character for his 'Saturday Night Live' performances and spent nearly 10 years perfecting him. Here, in a film co-written and directed by ..read more »
54%
from 176 members
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Live Wire
(1992)
Starring: Pierce Brosnan, Ron Silver, Ben Cross
Director: Christian Duguay
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An action/thriller in which U.S. Senators are being assassinated by a series of mysterious explosions. FBI bomb expert Danny O'Neill is tasked with finding the villain...
54%
from 57 members
Currently unavailable
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Reversal Of Fortune
on DVD
(1990)
Starring: Glenn Close, Jeremy Irons, Ron Silver
Director: Barbet Schroeder
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In 1979, American heiress Martha 'Sunny' von Bulow (Glenn Close) lapses into a coma after being injected with insulin. Her husband, Claus (Jeremy Irons), is charged with murder. Sentenced to thirty years in prison, Claus gets out on bail for a million dollars and convinces lawyer Alan M. ..read more »
62%
from 814 members
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Blue Steel
on DVD
(1989)
Starring: Jamie Lee Curtis, Ron Silver, Clancy Brown
Director: Kathryn Bigelow
Certificate:
Watch now: Unavailable
Megan Turner (Jamie Lee Curtis) is a rookie cop who witnesses a robbery in progress on her first night on the job. With her more experienced partner using the men's room, Megan decides to take action on her own. She creeps into the supermarket where a man (Tom Sizemore in a small role) is holding ..read more »
57%
from 1,395 member
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Enemies: A Love Story
(1989)
Starring: Ron Silver, Anjelica Huston, Lena Olin
Director: Paul Mazursky
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Director Paul Mazursky's haunting and atmospheric drama, based on the novel by Isaac Bashevis Singer, stars Ron Silver as Herman, a Jewish refugee who escapes the horrors of WWII and struggles to start his life anew in New York, working as a ghostwriter for a prominent New York rabbi (Alan King). ..read more »
45%
from 14 members
Currently unavailable
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A Father's Revenge
on DVD
(1988)
Starring: Joanna Cassidy, Brian Dennehy, Ron Silver
Director: John Herzfeld
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After their daughter is kidnapped by a terrorist group a family are left to wrangle with the criminals for her release whilst she is used as a pawn in their political game. As the time ticks by, her father must take matters into his own hands...
55%
from 63 members
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Billionaire Boys Club
(1987)
Starring: Ron Silver, Judd Nelson, Fredric Lehne
Director: Marvin J. Chomsky
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Two-part 1980s American television drama starring Judd Nelson and Ron Silver. A group of wealthy young investment partners led by Joe Hunt (Nelson) conspire to oust wealthy Beverly Hills wheeler dealer Ron Levin (Silver) and take over his dubious money-making projects. But Hunt's appetite for money ..read more »
73%
from 6 members
Not available for rental
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Kane And Abel - The Complete Series
(2 discs)
on DVD
(1985)
Starring: Reed Birney, Veronica Hamel, Fred Gwynne
Director: Buzz Kulik
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The complete TV drama, based on the novel by Jeffrey Archer, which sees two men, one a Harvard educated socialite, the other a Polish orphan, waging a bitter war in the boardroom. Peter Strauss stars as the Polish immigrant made good who shares his birthday with his bitter rival, played by Sam Neill.
77%
from 127 members
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Garbo Talks
on DVD
(1984)
Starring: Catherine Hicks, Hermione Gingold, Howard Da Silva
Director: Sidney Lumet
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Thrown in prison on a regular basis, Estelle (Anne Bancroft) is the type of woman who will climb to the top of a construction site in her orthopaedic shoes to chew out a cat-calling hard hat. Gilbert (Ron Silver) a rather unambitious accountant, is something of a disappointment to his mother, but ..read more »
54%
from 106 members
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The Entity
(1982)
Starring: Barbara Hershey, Ron Silver
Director: Sidney J. Furie
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A young woman (Barbara Hershey) is continuosly attacked and raped by a demonic invisible entity and no one believes her. She is referred to a psychiatrist who thinks it's all in her mind, but some parapsychologists manage to isolate the creature. Based on events which were alleged to have taken ..read more »
63%
from 3,696 members
Currently unavailable
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Silent Rage
on DVD
(1982)
Starring: Brian Libby, William Finley, Stephen Furst
Director: Michael Miller
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Chuck Norris is a small-town sherrif who has to fight off and kill (hopefully) a virtually indestructible psychopath. The psychopath is a zombie which has been constructed by a doctor of the Frankenstein variety - so get ready for a tough battle...but don't you be forgetting that Chuck Norris is a ..read more »
57%
from 348 members
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Eat And Run
on DVD
Starring: R.L. Ryan, Ron Silver, Sharon Schlarth
Director: Christopher Hart
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This whacky science fiction spoof is about a huge space alien that comes to Earth and devours an Italian sausage maker. Henceforth the uncompromising alien develops a real taste for Italian food!
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from 36 members
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Ron Silver facts
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...aken as a serious actress in her own right, this film did it for her big style. Ron Silver is also one of the best and most believable baddies ever! At the start he's jus...
