Henry Silva, an actor with credits in hundreds of films including “Ocean’s Eleven” and “The Manchurian Candidate,” died of natural causes Wednesday at the age of 95, his son says.
Silva, who was often cast as a villain, starred as Chunjin in one of his most memorable roles "The Manchurian Candidate" in 1962.Link copiedHenry Silva, an actor with a striking look who often played villains and had credits in hundreds of films including “Ocean’s Eleven” and “The Manchurian Candidate,” died of natural causes Wednesday at the Motion Picture Picture and Television Country House and Hospital in Woodland Hills, Calif., his son Scott confirmed. He was 95.
In later years, he appeared in Burt Reynolds vehicle “Sharky’s Machine” , the Chuck Norris movie “Code of Silence” , Steven Seagal movie “Above the Law” , Warren Beatty’s “Dick Tracy” and Jim Jarmusch’s “Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai” ; Silva’s final screen appearance was a cameo in the “Ocean’s Eleven” remake in 2001.
Speaking of his career, the actor told the journalist, ” ‘I think the reason that I haven’t disappeared is that the heavies I play are all leaders. I never play a wishy-washy anything. They’re interesting roles, because when you leave the theater, you remember these kinds of guys.’ ” In Audrey Hepburn-Anthony Perkins vehicle “Greens Mansions” , he played the evil son of the chief of a primitive tribe in the Venezuelan jungle; he also played a Native American in “Five Savage Men” and “Sergeants 3” .
Other European credits during the ’70s include Andrea Bianchi’s brutal crime drama “Cry of a Prostitute,” Umberto Lenzi’s “Almost Human,” “Manhunt in the City” and “Free Hand for a Tough Cop,” “Weapons of Death” and finally 1979’s “Crimebusters.” “Manhunt in the City” showed a somewhat more vulnerable side of Silva as an ordinary man driven to seek vengeance when the law fails to punish the killers of his daughter.
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