American actor Henry Silva, a prolific character actor and a regular staple of international genre cinema, usually playing criminals or gangsters, has died. He died on September 14, 2022, at age 95.
He died nine days before his 96th birthday at the Los Angeles Motion Picture & Television Fund home.
Silver was one of the eleven casino robbers in the 1960 Rat Pack caper film, Ocean’s 11, starring Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr and Peter Lawford.
He played communist agent Chunjin in the original The Manchurian Candidate (1962) opposite Sinatra and portrayed a Native American in Sinatra’s and Martin’s Rat Pack Western Sergeants 3 that same year.
In 2012, he contributed to Eurocrime! The Italian Cop and Gangster film that ruled the 70s is a feature-length documentary directed by Mike Malloy.