Henry Silva

Gender: Male
Born: 15th September 1928 (currently 83 years old)
Nationality: United States of America
Movies: Above the Law, The Manchurian Candidate, Mad Dog Time, Man Hunt, Lust in the Dust, Allan Quatermain and the Lost City of Gold, The Law and Jake Wade, Bulletproof, Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai, Love and Bullets, Code of Silence, Alligator, Cry of a Prostitute, White Fang to the Rescue, The Italian Connection, The Boss, Green Mansions, The Secret Invasion, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, The Hills Run Red, Escape from the Bronx, A Hatful of Rain, Almost Human, The Harvest, Johnny Cool, Sergeants Three, Thirst, Chained Heat, Man and Boy, Never a Dull Moment, Cinderfella, Sharky's Machine, Shoot, Five Savage Men, Wrong Is Right, Happy, Fukkatsu no hi, The Bravados, The Tall T, Matchless, Kidnap, The Jayhawkers!, Ride a Crooked Trail, 3 Days to a Kill, Free Hand for a Tough Cop, Contract on Cherry Street

Henry Silva (born 1927) is an American film and television actor.

Silva was born in Brooklyn, New York of Sicilian and Spanish descent.

He grew up in Harlem and quit school when he was 13 years old to attend drama classes, supporting himself as a dishwasher and waiter in a Manhattan hotel. By 1955, Silva felt ready to audition for the Actors Studio. He was one of five students chosen out of more than 2,500 applicants. When the Studio staged Michael V. Gazzo's play, A Hatful of Rain as a classroom project, it proved so successful that it was presented on Broadway, with students Ben Gazzara, Shelley Winters, Harry Guardino, Tony Franciosa, and Silva in key roles. Silva also appeared in the play's film version.

In Hollywood, he played a succession of villains in films including The Tall T, The Bravados, Green Mansions, Johnny Cool, and the original The Manchurian Candidate. He was one of the 11 casino robbers in the 1960 Rat Pack caper film Ocean's 11.

He had a comic role as one of the stepbrothers in the 1960 Jerry Lewis film Cinderfella, a parody of Cinderella with Lewis in the title role, and appeared in starring roles in several filmed episodes of The Outer Limits, a

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