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henry silva is dead
09/17/2022, 09:08 am
Henry Silva always wanted to be an actor. He acted in more than 100 films throughout his life. He died at the age of 95 in a retirement home in California.
American actor Henry Silva, who primarily played the villain in front of the camera, is dead. His son Scott told the film sheet “The Hollywood Reporter” on Friday (local time) that the New York native was in a retirement home in California. Woodland Hills was killed on Wednesday. Silva was 95 years old.
After dropping out of school at age 13 to take acting classes, Silva was discovered in the mid-1950s and had her first appearance on Broadway. The square-faced actor has appeared in over 100 films since the 1950s, mostly as a supporting villain. With “Ratpack” stars around Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis Jr., and Dean Martin, he shot the comedy “Frankie and His Cronies” (“Ocean’s Eleven”) and the western “The Victorious Three” (1962) in 1960.
One of the “Most Talented Men”
He also starred opposite Sinatra in the political thriller The Manchurian Candidate. Dean Martin’s daughter Deena Martin, 74, paid tribute on Instagram and Twitter on Friday to Silva as a “brilliant” actor and as one of the “best and most talented men” to be counted among his friends.
In the 1963 mafia thriller “Johnny Cool”, Silva played a major role as an assassin. In 1972 he shot the thriller “The Mafia Boss – They Kill Like Jackals” with Mario Adorf, and in 1982 the political satire “Flamen am Horizont” with Sean Connery and Hardy Kruger. Jim Jarmusch brought him to the camera in 1999 for the Mafia drama “Ghost Dog – The Way of the Samurai” with Forrest Whitaker.
Silva, who was of Puerto Rican descent, was fluent in Spanish and Italian in addition to English. He was married and had two sons.
