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Ron Silver

Age

62 (passed away Mar. 15th, 2009)

Birthday

Jul. 2nd, 1946

Born in

New York City, New York, USA

Height

5' 8 1/2"

Ron Silver's Main TV Roles

Show Name

Characters Played

Ep Count

Rhoda

Gary Levy

Bruno Gianelli

Tommy Wilmette

David Sternberg

Bernie Adler

Sam Weiser

Kolodny

Shelly Levine

Lamar

Ted Haller

BIOGRAPHY:

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TRIVIA:

Campaigned for 'Michael Dukakis' (qv) in the 1988 US presidential race.
Was a founding president of the Creative Coalition, a nonprofit, nonpartisan social and political advocacy organization made up of arts and entertainment figures. He was also a founding member of One Jerusalem, an educational foundation with a goal of "maintaining a united Jerusalem as the undivided capital of Israel".
Alumnus of the State University of New York at Buffalo. Earned a master's degree in Chinese history from St. John's University. He also studied drama at the Herbert Berghof Studio and the Actors Studio.
President of the Actors Equity Association, the stage actors union, 1991-2000.
Was exempt from the draft during the Vietnam War era. He traveled to Vietnam, however, as well as Cambodia, India, Japan and the Soviet Union in the late 1960s.
He taught Spanish for several years in the 1960s at The Roosevelt School, a Jewish boarding school in Shippan Point, Stamford, Connecticut. Because of his knowledge of Chinese, he got a job with the US Government and traveled to Taiwan in the early 1970s.
Began his acting career on the New York stage in 1971.
Was considered for the role of Steve Christy in _Friday the 13th (1980)_ (qv).

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