Ron Silver

Ron Silver

出生 : 1946-07-02, New York City, New York, USA

死亡 : 2009-03-15

略歴

Ronald Arthur "Ron" Silver (July 2, 1946 – March 15, 2009) was an American actor, director, producer, radio host, and political activist. Description above from the Wikipedia article Ron Silver, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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PoliWood
Self
An in-depth look at the Democratic and Republican national conventions held during the 2008 U.S. Presidential election year.
My Father's Will
Dunbar
Ferro Olivetti, a billionaire playboy and businessman, promises to fulfill his dying father's final request: to live one month without his wealth.
The Ten
Fielding Barnes
Ten stories, each inspired by one of the ten commandments.
The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays
Charlie Fox (segment "Speed-the-Plow")
The Great White Way comes into your living room via this disc of rare performances from some of Broadway's brightest luminaries. Culled from clips from the Tony Awards shows, this unique collection features acting powerhouses James Earl Jones, Annette Bening, Joan Allen, Joe Mantegna, Gary Sinise and Maggie Smith, among others, performing works by such playwrights as August Wilson, David Mamet, Wendy Wasserstein and more.
Find Me Guilty
Sidney Finestein
Based on the true story of Jack DiNorscio, a mobster who defended himself in court for what would be the longest mafia trial in U.S. history.
Red Mercury
Sidney
Three young Muslim men, part of a terror cell, are making a bomb in a London flat, when they get a call to vacate immediately with their gear. The police have been alerted and they are under suspicion.
Broken Promises: The United Nations at 60
Narrator (voice)
The history of the United Nations highlighting the gap between the good intentions and ideals of its inception and the sad reality of its present state of inefficiency and corruption.
Broken Promises: The United Nations at 60
Executive Producer
The history of the United Nations highlighting the gap between the good intentions and ideals of its inception and the sad reality of its present state of inefficiency and corruption.
Broken Promises: The United Nations at 60
Co-Director
The history of the United Nations highlighting the gap between the good intentions and ideals of its inception and the sad reality of its present state of inefficiency and corruption.
Master Spy: The Robert Hanssen Story
Mike Fine
True story about the cat and mouse game between the FBI trying to find a Soviet mole in their ranks and Robert Hanssen, one of the top FBI agents and said mole
The Wisher
Campbell
Mary is a horror-movie junkie whose obsession is out of control, leading her over-protective father to ban her from seeing scary flicks. But when she and her friends sneak out to see a film called The Wisher, its creepy antagonist seems to escape into her life and make her darkest desires come true.
Exposure
Gary Whitford
A photographer's life becomes dangerous when one of his models is murdered.
ALI アリ
Angelo Dundee
相手を挑発する仕草や言動、ベトナム戦争の徴兵拒否……。リングの外でも数多くの伝説を残した男、モハメド・アリ。彼の生き様を描いた人間ドラマ。ウィル・スミスが真実を求め闘うアリを好演。
Festival in Cannes
Rick Yorkin
Cannes, 1999. Alice, an actress, wants to direct an indie picture. Kaz, a talkative (and maybe bogus) deal maker, promises $3 million if she'll use Millie, an aging French star. But, Rick, a big producer, needs Millie for a small part in a fall movie or he loses his star, Tom Hanks. Is Kaz for real? Can Rick sweet-talk Alice and sabotage Kaz to keep Millie from taking that deal? Millie consults with Victor, her ex, about which picture to make, Rick needs money, an ingenue named Blue is discovered, Kaz hits on Victor's new love, and Rick's factotum connects with Blue. Knives go in various backs. Wheels spin. Which deals - and pairings - will be consummated?
When Billie Beat Bobby
Bobby Riggs
The historic 1973 tennis match between middle-aged champion Bobby Riggs and young feminist Billie Jean King.
American Tragedy
Robert Shapiro
Johnnie Cochran defends O.J. Simpson who is on trial for his wife's murder.
Cutaway
Lt. Brian Margate
The successful undercover agent Victor Cooper is assigned for his ninth mission: to find how the loadings of drug is being brought to Miami. He suspects that the drug is coming through the air and joins a team of sky diving, under the leadership of Red Line, a fanatic and considered the athlete number one in this sport in the world. Due to his profile of winner, Vic gets involved with the group and he "disconnects" from his position of infiltrated agent, "connecting" with the team.
Ratz
Herb Soric
Like lots of young ladies their age, Marci (Vanessa Lengies) and Summer (Caroline Elliott) have boys on their feverish brains. But the closer the girls get to their school's Spring Fling dance, the further they seem from finding dates. A desperate search for dance partners doesn't turn up any leads until the duo finds a magic ring. Aided by their newfound powers, they transform two pet rats into teen dreamboats -- with nightmarish results.
Black & White
Simon Herzel
Chris O'Brien, devote Catholic and rookie cop with LAPD, is assigned to partner with the hard-edged, street-smart Nora Hugosian. A serial killer is loose, and all the victims are low-life guys whom Nora has dealt with. So, when the tire tracks of a police car are found at a murder scene, she's the prime suspect of internal affairs investigator Simon Hertzel...
In the Company of Spies
Tom Lenahan
An operative for the CIA is captured and interrogated by Korean officials; his bosses, in order to protect national security, decide to bring an old operative out of retirement to retrieve both the agent and the vital information in his possession.
Love Is Strange
Tom Ainsworth
As the closest-guarded secrets of a troubled family gradually begin to emerge from the shadows, a desperate mother struggles to bring the ones she loves together in this family drama starring Kate Nelligan and Ron Silver.
Heat Vision and Jack
Himself
As the result of a NASA miscalculation, Astronaut Jack Austin flew too close to the sun, the rays expanding his mind and making him the smartest man on the planet. Now he and his talking motorcycle (who contains the mind of his former roommate) are on the run from NASA and their assassin, actor Ron Silver who want to take his brain. They travel from place to place solving paranormal mysteries with the help of Jack's newfound ability to become a super genius when his brain absorbs sunlight.
The White Raven
Tully Windsor
A journalist gets pulled into an intrigue by his editor that involves a story that he received a Pulitzer for years before. It seems that the second largest diamond ever mined was used during World War II to buy a Jewish woman freedom from a prison camp. Only trouble is it disappeared after the war and now everyone is after it, including the Russians, former Nazis, gangsters, and the original owner. Somehow, the story that the journalist originally wrote about a camp survivor is believed to have leads to the diamond.
Rhapsody in Bloom
Mitch Bloom
Artist Lilah Bloom's life is upended when her widowed brother decides to remarry a strong-willed business woman. Humor and self-awareness emerge as she ventures out to start a new life with a charming musician.
Who Is Henry Jaglom?
Self
Hailed by some as a cinematic genius, a feminist voice and a true maverick of American cinema, dismissed by others as a voyeuristic fraud and the "world's worst director," Henry Jaglom obsessively confuses and abuses the line between life and art. Featuring scores of interviews (including Orson Welles, Dennis Hopper, Milos Forman and Peter Bogdanovich) and rare behind-the-scenes footage, this hilarious documentary explores the fascinating question of Who Is Henry Jaglom?
Skeletons
Peter Crane
A heart attack moves a Pulitzer winning journalist to leave NY for the peace of a small New England town, but he soon finds himself pulled into a case of a man accused of killing his gay lover with the blade of a shovel. Wanting to keep the case quiet, the town turns against the journalist and his family when he begins digging into its secrets, until finally the accused man is found hanging in his cell and the truth comes out about more than just the killing.
The Beneficiary
Guy Girard
Lust, desire and money motivate a greedy woman to murder her philandering rich husband.
Shadow Zone: The Undead Express
Valentine
A teen obsessed with horror films befriends a vampire who leads him to a whole coven of vampires that hide beneath the New York subways.
Danger Zone
Maurice Dupont
Rick Morgan, an American engineer who runs a mine in East Africa, is approached one day by his friend Jim Scott, who needs someplace to store canisters of toxic waste. Unfortunately, a spill occurs a short time later, resulting in deaths and Morgan having to leave the country. A year later, he is approached by a government agent looking for a missing supply of potentially hazardous poison, which in truth hides something even more valuable.
アライバル/侵略者
Phil Gordian
宇宙観測所に務める科学者ゼインは、ある夜、正体不明の電波をキャッチする。地球外生命の証拠に間違いないとデータをNASAに提出するが、ボスであるゴーディはそれを黙殺し、ゼインも突然解雇されてしまう。納得のいかないゼインは自宅に観測所を作り、隣に住む黒人の少年キキと共に観測を続け、その電波がメキシコから発している事を突き止めた。到着した現地で謎の男に命を狙われながらも、ゼインは山奥に存在するオムニテック社の巨大プラントに行き当たる。
Girl 6
Director #2 - LA
A struggling actress in New York City takes a job as a phone sex operator.
Deadly Outbreak
Colonel Baron
Dutton Hatfield, played by Jeff Speakman, is working for the American embassy. He finds himself inside a biochemical weapon laboratory when terrorists headed by Colonel Baron (played by TimeCop villain Ron Silver) take over the place. Baron is looking for a sample of a deadly virus that is being developed inside the facility.
Kissinger and Nixon
Henry A. Kissinger
A dramatization of the relationship between Kissinger and Nixon during the six-month period in 1972-73 when Kissinger was negotiating an end to the Vietnam War and Nixon was grandstanding politically.
Almost Golden: The Jessica Savitch Story
Ron Kershaw
The story of one of America's first female reporters.
A Woman of Independent Means
Arthur
Bess Steed marries her childhood sweetheart in the early part of the 20th century and begins a life in the high society of Dallas, Texas. As time goes by, things do not work out as she expects. Her husband dies of influenza, and she finds that she must pick up and carry along with her life. She proves to be a strong, committed, and loving individual who attracts new loves into her life and finds that she can take good care of the old ones. Despite further tragedy in losing her oldest son, and a second marriage that is not all that she expects it to be she continues to survive as independently as she has discovered the courage to do so.
タイムコップ
Senator Aaron McComb
タイムマシンの開発によって時間犯罪が多発。そこで時空間の管理を行なう警察組織が創設された。2004年、その任務にあたっていた捜査官のウォーカーはある事件の黒幕が次期大統領候補でもあるマコームであることに気づく。1994年に赴き、その調査を行なうウォーカーだったが、それは彼の妻が死亡した年でもあった。
Loyalty & Betrayal: The Story of the American Mob
Narrator
This historic documentary only aired once on July 25th 1994 on FOX. A special on organized crime as told by the people who lived it, as well as historical footage, newsreels and government surveillance tapes.
Lifepod
Director
Lifepod cronicles the trip of eight passengers after the ship they were traveling on blew up on Christmas Eve. Immediately people start dying. The passengers begin to investigate why the ship blew up and how it relates to them
Lifepod
Terman
Lifepod cronicles the trip of eight passengers after the ship they were traveling on blew up on Christmas Eve. Immediately people start dying. The passengers begin to investigate why the ship blew up and how it relates to them
Blind Side
Doug Kaines
A couple visits Mexico to scout a new location for their furniture manufacturing business and hit a cop with their car on the way back stateside. Realizing that if they report it they could land in a Mexican jail (guilty until proven innocent) they clean up the car and return home. A few days later an insistent man shows up wanting a job and insinuating that he saw something in Mexico that he would not want to report, and the couple must make a decision about how far they will allow themselves to be blackmailed. Written by Ed Sutton
ミスター・サタデー・ナイト
Larry Meyerson
Buddy Young was the comic's comic, beloved by everyone. Now, playing to miniscule crowds in nursing homes, it seems like everybody but Buddy realizes that he should retire. As Buddy looks for work in show business, he realizes that the rest of the world has forgotten the golden days of Buddy Young, and that there just may not be room in the business for an old comic like himself.
Live Wire
Frank Traveres
Danny O'Neill is a bomb disposal expert assigned to a case where terrorists have developed an "invisible" liquid explosive which is activated within the human body.
Married to It
Leo Rothenberg
Tale of three different couples (Yuppies, Hippies, and Society Folk) who find some common ground and become friends after being assigned to the same school project. Their lives are turned upside down by divorce, indictment, and sex but their friendship remains strong.
The Good Policeman
Executive Producer
Isaac Seidel is a highly unconventional New York police-commissioner. He is well-abled in dealing with trouble at the headquarter, the maffia and situations in the streets. His loyalty to his profession and the city he so loves make him do the utmost to solve the problems, even if it means he has to bend the rules.
The Good Policeman
Isaac Seidel
Isaac Seidel is a highly unconventional New York police-commissioner. He is well-abled in dealing with trouble at the headquarter, the maffia and situations in the streets. His loyalty to his profession and the city he so loves make him do the utmost to solve the problems, even if it means he has to bend the rules.
Forgotten Prisoners: The Amnesty Files
Jordan Ford
A lawyer representing Amnesty International tries to find the whereabouts and condition of 17 political prisoners detained in a country known for its systematic torture of prisoners.
運命の逆転
Alan Dershowitz
アメリカで実際に起きた“クラウス・フォン・ビューロー事件”を映画化したサスペンス。妻の殺害を企て、植物人間状態にした罪に問われている大富豪を、ジェレミー・アイアンズが迫真の演技で演じている。
Night Of 100 Stars III
Self
A celebrity benefit for The Actors' Fund of America, featuring music, songs, dance and comedy.
ブルースチール
Eugene Hunt
女性警官メーガンが、遭遇した強盗を射殺。だが犯人の銃が見つからず、彼女は停職処分になる。やがて発生した連続殺人事件を巡り、メーガンにサイコパスが迫る……。キャスリーン・ビグロー監督によるサスペンス。
敵、ある愛の物語
Herman Broder
A ghostwriter finds himself romantically involved with his current wife, a married woman and his long-vanished wife.
Fellow Traveller
Asa Kaufman
In the Golden Age of Hollywood, two men had it all; one was a top screenwriter, the other a film idol. But when the witch hunts of McCarthyism swept into Tinseltown, it drove one out of the country and the other to suicide.
A Father's Revenge
Max Greenwald
German terrorists kidnap the crew of an aeroplane as they leave the airport. The terrorists demand the release of two of their colleagues, who are to be extradited to the USA. The father of one of the stewardesses decides he can no longer wait for diplomacy, and so flies out to Germany. There, frustration leads him to hire a former SAS counter-terrorism expert. Together they hunt down the terrorists.
Billionaire Boys Club
Ron Levin
The Billionaire Boys Club is based on the true story of Joe Hunt (Nelson), a shady investor who built an empire on B.S. back in the early '80s. Known as the BBC, the story involves a couple of guys recruited into Hunt's company on the promise of making millions. However, every time Hunt's lapdogs think his boss has used his cleverness to make them filthy rich, they instead find themselves with financial losses. Trying to recoup a mounting pile of debt made from giant b.s. deals, the ruthless Hunt involves select members of the BBC to aid in the worst of crimes to get what they want. But a few, scared of how far Hunt will go, try to stop Hunt's brutal reign of terror possibly before real damage begins.
Eat and Run
Mickey McSorely
A humanoid alien lands on earth, and soon discovers he likes to eat Italian. Italian people, that is. Incompetent detective McSorely is the only one with a clue about what's going on, and even his grasp of the situation isn't too firm. The rest of the police force thinks he's crazy, while the alien continues sampling the Italian cuisine of New York City.
Trapped In Silence
Dr. Jeff Tomlinson
A compelling drama about a silent, violent teenager. Kevin suffers from elective mutism and no one has ever heard him utter a word.
The Goodbye People
Eddie Bergson
An elderly man is determined to reopen the Coney Island boardwalk hot dog stand he closed twenty-two years earlier for renovation, despite the fact he's recovering from a severe heart attack and it's the middle of February.
Oh, God! You Devil
Gary Frantz
George Burns is back as God, but oops, here he is as Satan, too. A young rock star is ready to sell his soul to Satan, and Satan is all too happy to oblige. Oops! Seems the fellow was watched over by God as a baby, so now the almighty and his nemesis have to duke it out over the soul.
Garbo Talks
Gilbert Rolfe
When New York accountant Gilbert Rolfe finds out his mother has a brain tumor, he is devastated. His incorrigible mother, Estelle, has one last wish: to meet the great Greta Garbo. Gilbert, wanting to do this last thing for her, sets out on a wild goose chase through the streets of New York City to track down the iconic star, at the expense of his personal life and much to the chagrin of his wife, Lisa. Can he find Garbo before it's too late?
ロマンシング・ストーン 秘宝の谷
Vendor
姉がコロンビアで誘拐されたことを知った、女流作家ジョーン。姉から届いた1枚の地図を持って救出に向かうが、それはエメラルドの在り処を示す宝の地図だった!? 密林を舞台に繰り広げられるアクション・アドヴェンチャー。
シルクウッド
Paul Stone
実際にあった“カレン・シルクウッド事件”を映画化した社会派サスペンス作。カレンが働くプルトニウム工場で放射能漏事故が起こった。自身が被爆していた彼女は会社の不正を正そうと闘い始める。
Lovesick
Ted Caruso
Sigmund Freud's ghost advises a married New York psychiatrist in love with a patient.
Best Friends
Larry Weisman
When a professional couple, who have lived and worked together for many years, finally decide to marry, their sudden betrothal causes many unexpected difficulties. They soon find that being married is often quite different from being "best friends."
エンティティー/霊体
Phil Sneiderman
霊体にレイプされるというショッキングな実話を基に製作されたオカルト・ホラー。ある夜、ロサンゼルスに住む2人の子持ちのシングル・マザー、カーラ(バーバラ・ハーシー)は自室で就寝中、何者かに強姦されかけたために驚いて起きるが、周りには誰もいない。その後もたびたび、不可解な現象に襲われ続けるカーラは、偶然知り合った精神科医師(ロン・シルヴァー)に相談するが、「幻覚じゃないか」と言われる。謎の現象はなおも起こり続け、ついには息子までもが怪我をしてしまう。困ったカーラは超心理学者を頼り、そして現場を訪れたクーリー博士(ジャクリーン・ブルックス)は、「この謎の現象はエンティティーの仕業である」と断定する。まもなくカーラは、恋人(アレックス・ロッコ)の目の前で全裸に剥かれ、犯されてしまう。
Silent Rage
Dr. Tom Halman
A mentally ill man in a small Texas town goes on a killing rampage and is fatally wounded by police. When doctors use an experimental serum to bring him back to life, the killer develops superhuman strength and the town sheriff must pursue him.
Word of Honor
David Lerner
A reporter refuses to reveal his source in the case of the murder of a young girl. As a result, he and his family are shunned by the residents of the small town in which they live. Virtually no one comes to his daughter's wedding, and at his office, the police search his desk, and his boss threatens to fire him.
Dear Detective
Det. Schwartz
A female homicide detective is assigned to solve the murders of a series of local officials.
Betrayal
Bob Cohen
A woman accuses her psychiatrist for having forced her to maintain a sexual relationship with him as a therapy. The following examination of the case is very difficult for the police.
Murder at the Mardi Gras
Larry Cook
A bubble-brained Philadelphia waitress witnesses a murder during the Mardi Gras festivities in New Orleans and finds herself stalked by the killer.
Semi-Tough
Vlada Kostov
A three-way friendship between two free-spirited professional football players and the owner's daughter becomes compromised when two of them become romantically involved.
Welcome to L.A.
Massuese (uncredited)
The lives of a group of Hollywood neurotics intersect over the Christmas holidays. Foremost among them, a songwriter visits Los Angeles to work on a singer's album. The gig, unbeknownst to him, is being bankrolled by his estranged father, a dairy magnate, who hopes to reunite with his son. When the songwriter meets an eccentric housewife who fancies herself a modern-day Garbo, his world of illusions comes crashing down.
The Return of the World's Greatest Detective
Dr. Collins
A Los Angeles cop falls off his motorcycle, strikes his head and wakes up believing himself to be Sherlock Holmes. Along with the social worker who is treating him, he sets out to solve the murder of an embezzler.
Tunnel Vision
Dr. Manuel Labor
A committee investigating TV's first uncensored network examines a typical day's programming, which includes shows, commercials, news programs, you name it. What they discover will surely crack you up! This outrageous and irreverent spoof of television launched the careers of some of the greatest comedians of all time.