Ron Silver

Ron Silver

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

Morte : 2009-03-15

História

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.

Perfil

Ron Silver
Ron Silver

Filmes

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.
Dez Mandamentos Muito Loucos!
Fielding Barnes
O filme conta dez histórias, cada uma tendo como inspiração um dos Dez Mandamentos bíblicos que mostram como comportamentos que são considerados pecados, podem virar situações engraçadas.
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.
Sob Suspeita
Sidney Finestein
Após anos de investigação de autoridades federais, 20 membros da família Lucchese, a maior família de mafiosos nos Estados Unidos, foram levados a julgamento para responderem por 76 diferentes crimes. O governo americano se preparava para derrubar os Lucchese, até que um dos réus decide fazer o impensável: dispensar seus advogados e passar a fazer sua própria defesa. Munido de determinação implacável e um senso de humor aguçado, ele surpreende todo o tribunal com um estilo de defesa nada convencional.
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
Angelo Dundee
Cassius Clay era um grande lutador nos ringues de boxe e uma pessoa inteligente fora deles, onde impressionava pelo seu fácil palavreado. Ele logo se tornou uma das principais personalidades do esporte mundial nos anos 60, principalmente após se converter ao islamismo, trocar seu nome para Muhammad Ali e se recusar a lutar na Guerra do Vietnã.
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.
Instinto Radical
Lt. Brian Margate
Agente especial tem fama de desbaratar quadrilhas e levar grandes criminosos para a cadeia. Até que ele comete um erro e acaba expondo sua equipe ao ridículo. Afastado do serviço, ele inicia uma investigação por conta própria, infiltrando-se em um grupo de paraquedistas radicais.
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...
Espiões em Perigo
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.
O Corvo Branco
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.
Zona de Perigo
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.
A Invasão
Phil Gordian
Zane Ziminski (Charlie Sheen), um astrônomo, capta sinais do espaço sideral. Como acredita que estejam sendo enviados por uma vida inteligente, reporta ao seu superior, Phil Gordian (Ron Silver), que alega uma desculpa e o demite, destruindo em seguida a gravação dos sons. Mas Zane decide investigar os sinais por conta própria e capta sinais semelhantes vindos do México. Ele deduz então que estes sinais possam ser uma "conversa" com alienígenas escondidos na Terra e já em uma aldeia mexicana se une a Ilana Green (Lindsay Crouse), uma cientista que tem suspeitas de algo estranho após testemunhar uma aceleração do efeito estufa.
Garota 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.
Uma Mulher Independente
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.
Timecop: O Guardião do Tempo
Senator Aaron McComb
Quando a viagem no tempo é aperfeiçoada e pode ser utilizada com segurança, os criminosos se aproveitam dessa tecnologia para cometerem novos delitos. Um novo tipo de policiamento é criado para garantir que a invenção não seja usada de maneira abusiva. O policial Max Walker (Jean-Claude Van Damme), que trabalha nessa divisão, descobre que o político corrupto McComb (Ron Silver) quer usar a viagem no tempo para se tornar presidente. A perseguição começa quando o senador descobre que o policial esta em seu encalço para desmascará-lo. Depois que sua esposa morre em mais uma tentativa de aniquilar Max, este tenta reverter toda a situação, voltando no tempo antes do ocorrido.
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 - O 9º Passageiro
Director
O Lifepod registra a viagem de oito passageiros depois que a nave em que viajavam explodiu na véspera de Natal. Imediatamente as pessoas começam a morrer. Os passageiros começam a investigar por que a nave explodiu e como isso está relacionados com eles. Remake de "Um Barco e Nove Destinos" de 1944.
Lifepod - O 9º Passageiro
Terman
O Lifepod registra a viagem de oito passageiros depois que a nave em que viajavam explodiu na véspera de Natal. Imediatamente as pessoas começam a morrer. Os passageiros começam a investigar por que a nave explodiu e como isso está relacionados com eles. Remake de "Um Barco e Nove Destinos" de 1944.
Chantagem Fatal
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
Mr. Saturday Night - A Arte de Fazer Rir
Larry Meyerson
Cinquenta anos na vida de dois irmãos, Buddy e Stan, que desde pequenos fazem todos rir. Buddy vira comediante e Stan, seu empresário. Mas a crescente arrogôncia e o péssimo temperamento de Buddy o levam a intermináveis confrontos, inclusive com o irmão.
O Detonador de Alta Voltagem
Frank Traveres
Danny O'Neil, um especialista em explosivos do FBI sempre encara suas missões. Mas um desafio ainda maior se aproxima: sua esposa está tendo um caso justamente com o homem que ele acaba sendo designado para proteger de possíveis ataques terroristas.
Sarilhos de Casados
Leo Rothenberg
História de três casais diferentes (Yuppies, Hippies e Folk da Sociedade) que encontram alguns pontos em comum e se tornam amigos após serem designados para o mesmo projeto escolar. Suas vidas foram viradas de cabeça para baixo por divórcio, acusação e sexo, mas sua amizade continua forte.
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.
O Reverso da Fortuna
Alan Dershowitz
Em 1979, a milionária Sunny Von Bülow entra em um coma irreversível. Os filhos descobrem que Claus, seu marido, pode ter dado altas doses de insulina a ela e, então, o levam ao tribunal. O caso ganha as manchetes dos jornais e passa a ser acompanhado por todo o país. Baseado em uma história real.
Night Of 100 Stars III
Self
A celebrity benefit for The Actors' Fund of America, featuring music, songs, dance and comedy.
Jogo Perverso
Eugene Hunt
Depois de matar um ladrão que se recusou a largar a arma durante um roubo, Megan Turner, uma policial novata de Nova York, se transforma em uma obsessão e fantasia de um perigoso assassino em série
Inimigos, uma História de Amor
Herman Broder
Herman (Ron Silver) está a ponto de perder a cabeça. Existem três mulheres na sua vida, e ele pode acabar casado com as três. Apesar de eternamente grato à camponesa (Margaret Sophie Stein) que o protegeu dos nazistas, e com quem se casou, Herman mantem uma paixão avassaladora com uma sobrevivente de campo de concentração. E se a bigâmia não fosse suficiente, ele acaba reencontrando sua primeira esposa, que miraculosamente também sobreviveu.
Inimigos da Liberdade
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.
O Céu Continua Esperando
Gary Frantz
Harry é o típico empresário explorador de novos talentos. Sempre com a sua jaqueta vermelha e o charuto aceso, Harry (George Burns, de "Alguém lá em Cima Gosta de MIm") é uma verdadeira tentação para os jovens artistas que buscam o sucesso. Por um precinho "super" especial, ele é capaz de transformar qualquer pessoa numa grande estrela do "Show Biz". E para Bobby Shelton, um jovem músico capaz de tudo para conquistar a fama, Harry teria "caído do céu", mas pelo contrário, o inmescrupuloso empresário oferece ao pobre Shelton (Ted Wass) mais um de seus contratos diabólicos.
Garbo Talks
Gilbert Rolfe
Quando o contador de Nova York Gilbert Rolfe descobre que sua mãe tem um tumor no cérebro, ele fica arrasado. Sua mãe incorrigível, Estelle, tem um último desejo: conhecer a grande Greta Garbo. Gilbert, querendo fazer esta última coisa por ela, sai em uma perseguição selvagem pelas ruas de Nova York para rastrear a estrela icônica, às custas de sua vida pessoal e para desgosto de sua esposa, Lisa. Ele pode encontrar Garbo antes que seja tarde demais?
Tudo Por Uma Esmeralda
Vendor
Joan Wilder (Kathleen Turner) é uma romancista mimada que vai ajudar a irmã, que foi seqüestrada na Colômbia. Se ela não levar um mapa que mostra a localização de um tesouro, sua irmã será morta. Mas enquanto tenta cumprir a exigência, conhece Jack Colton (Michael Douglas), um aventureiro e mercenário que a ajuda e por quem se apaixona. Juntos, os dois se envolvem em diversas aventuras.
Silkwood - O Retrato de uma Coragem
Paul Stone
The story of Karen Silkwood, a metallurgy worker at a plutonium processing plant who was purposefully contaminated, psychologically tortured and possibly murdered to prevent her from exposing blatant worker safety violations at the plant.
O Amor Tem Seu Preço
Ted Caruso
Sigmund Freud's ghost advises a married New York psychiatrist in love with a patient.
Amigos Muito Íntimos
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."
O Enigma do Mal
Phil Sneiderman
Uma mulher é atormentada e abusada sexualmente por um demônio invisível.
Fúria Silenciosa
Dr. Tom Halman
O xerife durão de uma pequena cidade do Texas usa todas as suas habilidades de luta para derrotar um assassino psicótico e quase invencível, que foi geneticamente desenvolvido por um grupo de pesquisadores inconsequentes.
Palavra de Honra
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.
A Disputa dos Sexos
Vlada Kostov
Uma amizade a três entre dois jogadores de futebol profissional de espírito livre e a filha do proprietário fica comprometida quando dois deles se envolvem romanticamente.
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.