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Ron Silver

Full / Real Name: Ronald Silver
Born: 02 July 1946 (78 years old)
Gender: Male

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Ron Silver is an American actor, director and producer best known for his role as Bruno Gianelli on the television drama The West Wing.

Silver made his film debut in Tunnel Vision in 1976. Additional screen roles include an Al Pacino-like actor in Lovesick (1983), the devoted son of Anne Bancroft in Garbo Talks (1984), an incompetent detective in Eat and Run (1986), and the lead in Paul Mazursky's Oscar-nominated Enemies: A Love Story (1989).

He also portrayed defense attorney Alan Dershowitz in Reversal of Fortune (1990), based on the trial of Claus von Bülow.

Silver has been featured in such diverse films as Billy Crystal's Mr. Saturday Night (1992), Timecop (1994) with Jean Claude Van Damme, and as Muhammad Ali's boxing cornerman Angelo Dundee in Michael Mann's Ali.

From 1991 to 2000, Silver served as president of the Actors' Equity Association.

From 2001 to 2002 and 2005 to 2006, Silver portrayed presidential campaign advisor Bruno Gianelli on The West Wing.


Television Roles

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Angelo Dundee

Sam Weiser

Bernie Adler

Bernie Adler

Atty. John Mockler

Bruno Gianelli

Bruno Gianelli

Bruno Gianelli

Bruno Gianelli


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