NEW YORK (AP) — Henry Silva, a prolific character actor greatest recognized for taking part in villains and hard guys in “The Manchurian Candidate,” “Ocean’s Eleven” and different movies, has died at age 95.
Silva’s son Scott Silva informed Selection that his father died Wednesday of pure causes on the Movement Image and Tv Nation Home and Hospital in Woodland Hills, California.
Silva was a New York Metropolis native who dropped out of faculty as a young person, within the Nineteen Forties. He was accepted the next decade into the Actors Studio, the place fellow college students included Shelley Winters and Ben Gazzara. He went on to have a protracted and busy profession in movie and tv, with a whole bunch of credit earlier than retiring from appearing in 2001.
He had a breakthrough position on stage and display screen within the Fifties as a drug supplier in “A Hatful of Rain” and supporting elements in two of Frank Sinatra’s greatest recognized films, each from the early Nineteen Sixties: “Ocean’s Eleven,” the Las Vegas heist movie that was a showcase for Sinatra, Dean Martin and different “Rat Pack” members; and “The Manchurian Candidate,” the Chilly Struggle thriller about brainwashing and the assassination of the president that starred Sinatra, Laurence Harvey and Janet Leigh. (In his final movie look, Silva was solid within the “Ocean’s Eleven” remake from 2000 that starred George Clooney and Brad Pitt).
“Our hearts are damaged on the lack of our expensive buddy Henry Silva, one of many nicest, kindest and most proficient males I’ve had the pleasure of calling my buddy,” Dean Martin’s daughter, Deana Martin, tweeted. “He was the final surviving star of the unique Oceans 11 Film.”
Silva was additionally seen on such tv sequence as “Wagon Practice” and “The F.B.I.,” and in such movies as Warren Beatty’s “Dick Tracy,” Jerry Lewis’ “Cinderfella” and “Ghost Canine: The Approach of the Samurai,” wherein he performed a mobster within the 1999 launch directed by one in every of his admirers, Jim Jarmusch.