Henry Silva, a prolific character actor finest known for enjoying villains and difficult guys in The Manchurian Candidate, Ocean’s Eleven and different movies, has died at age 95.
Silva’s son Scott Silva advised Variety that his father died Wednesday of pure 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 college as an adolescent, within the 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 an extended and busy profession in film and tv, with a whole lot of credit earlier than retiring from performing 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 components in two of Frank Sinatra’s finest known motion pictures, each from the early Sixties: Ocean’s Eleven, the Las Vegas heist film that was a showcase for Sinatra, Dean Martin and different Rat Pack members; and The Manchurian Candidate, the Cold War thriller about brainwashing and the tried assassination of a presidential nominee that starred Sinatra, Laurence Harvey and Janet Leigh. (In his final film look, Silva was solid within the “Ocean’s Eleven” remake from 2000 that starred George Clooney and Brad Pitt).
“Our hearts are damaged at the lack of our pricey buddy Henry Silva, one of many nicest, kindest and most gifted 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 Movie.”
Silva was additionally seen on such tv sequence as Wagon Train and The F.B.I., and in such movies as Warren Beatty’s Dick Tracy, Jerry Lewis’ Cinderfella and Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai, by which he performed a mobster within the 1999 launch directed by one among his admirers, Jim Jarmusch.