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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


  • Blue Steel
  • Blue Steel review by from Cheshire
    Rated - 5.0 stars Blue Steel 14 October 2003
    ...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...   Read customer review
  • The Arrival
  • The Arrival review by from Abydos
    Rated - 4.0 stars Good film, Bad disc 25 January 2004
    ...en one of his better roles, and the script is tight and the story entertaining. Ron Silver is excellent as the devious Manager attempting to subvert Sheen's discovery of ...   Read customer review
  • Black And White
  • Black And White review by from London
    Rated - 1.0 stars Dreadful thriller 21 May 2004
    ...l Chris stand by his partner? Or will he assist shady investigator Simon Herzel(Ron Silver) in her arrest? Who cares? This is a basic, predictable, trashy affair. Gers...   Read customer review

Ron Silver - filmography


  • Ali on DVD (2001)
    Starring: Mario Van Peebles,  Mykelti Williamson,  Jamie Foxx
    Director: Michael Mann
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    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 »
    3 stars out of 5 59% from 16,102 members
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  • Cutaway on DVD (2000)
    Starring: Casper Van Dien,  Ron Silver,  Tom Berenger
    Director: Guy Manos
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    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 »
    2.5 stars out of 5 53% from 164 members
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  • Black And White on DVD (1998)
    Starring: Ron Silver,  Gina Gershon,  Rory Cochrane
    Director: Yuri Zeltser
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    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 »
    2.5 stars out of 5 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
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    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 »
    2.5 stars out of 5 53% from 6 members
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  • The Arrival (1996)
    Starring: Charlie Sheen,  Ron Silver,  Lindsay Crouse
    Director: David N. Twohy
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    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 »
    3 stars out of 5 58% from 1,844 member
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  • Timecop on DVD (1994)
    Starring: Jean-Claude Van Damme,  Ron Silver,  Mia Sara
    Director: Peter Hyams
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    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 »
    3 stars out of 5 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
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    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 »
    3 stars out of 5 61% from 454 members
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  • Live Wire (1992)
    Starring: Pierce Brosnan,  Ron Silver,  Ben Cross
    Director: Christian Duguay
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    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...
    2.5 stars out of 5 54% from 57 members
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  • Mr Saturday Night on DVD (1992)
    Starring: Helen Hunt,  Billy Crystal,  David Paymer
    Director: Billy Crystal
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    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 »
    2.5 stars out of 5 54% from 176 members
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  • Reversal Of Fortune on DVD (1990)
    Starring: Glenn Close,  Jeremy Irons,  Ron Silver
    Director: Barbet Schroeder
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    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 »
    3 stars out of 5 62% from 813 members
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  • Enemies: A Love Story (1989)
    Starring: Ron Silver,  Anjelica Huston,  Lena Olin
    Director: Paul Mazursky
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    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 »
    2.5 stars out of 5 45% from 14 members
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  • Blue Steel on DVD (1989)
    Starring: Jamie Lee Curtis,  Ron Silver,  Clancy Brown
    Director: Kathryn Bigelow
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
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    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 »
    3 stars out of 5 57% from 1,395 member
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  • A Father's Revenge on DVD (1988)
    Starring: Joanna Cassidy,  Brian Dennehy,  Ron Silver
    Director: John Herzfeld
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    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...
    2.5 stars out of 5 55% from 63 members
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  • Billionaire Boys Club (1987)
    Starring: Ron Silver,  Judd Nelson,  Fredric Lehne
    Director: Marvin J. Chomsky
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    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 »
    3.5 stars out of 5 73% from 6 members
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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
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    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.
    4 stars out of 5 77% from 126 members
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  • Garbo Talks on DVD (1984)
    Starring: Catherine Hicks,  Hermione Gingold,  Howard Da Silva
    Director: Sidney Lumet
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    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 »
    2.5 stars out of 5 54% from 106 members
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  • The Entity (1982)
    Starring: Barbara Hershey,  Ron Silver
    Director: Sidney J. Furie
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    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 »
    3 stars out of 5 63% from 3,696 members
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  • Silent Rage on DVD (1982)
    Starring: Brian Libby,  William Finley,  Stephen Furst
    Director: Michael Miller
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    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 »
    3 stars out of 5 57% from 348 members
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  • Eat And Run on DVD
    Starring: R.L. Ryan,  Ron Silver,  Sharon Schlarth
    Director: Christopher Hart
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    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!
    1.5 stars out of 5 30% from 36 members
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Ron Silver facts

5 most recent films

The Ten - 1.5 stars
Ali - 3.0 stars
Cutaway - 2.5 stars
Black And White - 2.5 stars
Love Is Strange - 2.5 stars

5 highest-rated films

Kane And Abel - The Complete Series - 4.0 stars
The Entity - 3.0 stars
Reversal Of Fortune - 3.0 stars
Timecop - Blu-ray - 3.0 stars
Ali - 3.0 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Eat And Run - 1.5 stars
Oh, God! You Devil - 2.0 stars
Enemies: A Love Story - 2.5 stars
Lovesick - 2.5 stars
Love Is Strange - 2.5 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Jada Pinkett Smith - 3 times - show films
Mykelti Williamson - 3 times - show films
Jon Voight - 3 times - show films
Mario Van Peebles - 3 times - show films
Will Smith - 3 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Michael Mann - 3 times - show films
Buzz Kulik - 3 times - show films
Peter Hyams - 2 times - show films
Kathryn Bigelow - 2 times - show films
Marvin J. Chomsky - 1 times - show films