Boston University Northeastern University School of Law
Occupation(s)
Actor, theatrical director
Years active
1934–1970
Spouse
Anna Lillian Quarles
(m. 1942; div. 1963)
Children
2
Frank Alvin Silvera (July 24, 1914 – June 11, 1970) was a Jamaican-born American character actor and theatrical director.[1]
Born in Kingston, Jamaica and raised in Boston, Silvera dropped out of law school in 1934 after winning his first stage role. During the 1930s and 1940s, he was active in numerous stage productions on and off Broadway and appeared in radio shows. Silvera made his film debut in 1952. Over the course of his 36-year career, he was cast in a wide variety of ethnic roles in film and television. Silvera also remained active in theatre. Silvera was nominated for a Best Actor Tony Award in 1963 for his role in The Lady of the Camellias. He founded the Theatre of Being, a Los Angeles theatre for black actors, in 1965. At the time of his death he had a recurring role in the NBC Western series The High Chaparral.
^Hinton, Garfield (April 2, 1957). "The 'man with a thousand faces' comes to Baltimore". Baltimore Afro-American. p. 6. Retrieved January 8, 2013.
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downriver, with a dying Mac and a delirious Sidney. David Allen as Narrator FrankSilvera as Sgt. Mac Kenneth Harp as Lt. Corby / The General Paul Mazursky as...
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by Denis Sanders, adapted by Walter Newman and starring Mary Murphy, FrankSilvera, Marian Seldes, Eve McVeagh, and George Hamilton (his first credited...
is unconverted. Kidnapped by provincial administrator Artur Santos (FrankSilvera; unrelated to Lúcia Santos), the children are first offered bribes,...
Richards Ziva Rodann Jackie Russell Eddie Ryder Vito Scotti Karen Sharpe FrankSilvera Jan Sterling Stella Stevens Randy Stuart Karl Swenson Dan Tobin Franchot...
Saxon, Emilio Fernández, Alex Montoya, Míriam Colón, Rafael Campos, FrankSilvera, Larry D. Mann Italy spaghetti Western Arizona Colt Michele Lupo Giuliano...
March 23, 1962 (1962-03-23) Guest appearances Richard Long: David Gurney FrankSilvera: Doctor Koslenko Shirley Ballard: Wilma #1 Julie Van Zandt: Wilma #2...
April 1965. Produced by Maria Cole, the production was directed by FrankSilvera, with Scenic Design by Vantile Whitfield. Internet Broadway Database(IBDB)...
Pascal Lamorisse Pierre Moureaux-Nery Francois Perie Laurent Roche FrankSilvera as Narrator (English language) Les Marshak as Narrator (English language)...
Chapman, Salem Ludwig, Lois Nettleton, Alfred Ryder, Eva Marie Saint, FrankSilvera, Kim Stanley, Jan Sterling, Ray Walston and Dennis Weaver. Willis, John...
Tufts, 58, American actor, The Virginian, Government Girl June 11 - FrankSilvera, 55, Jamaican actor, Viva Zapata!, Hombre June 14 - William Daniels...
Award Audience Development Committee (Audelco) Award Mademoiselle Award FrankSilvera Writers' Workshop Award, 1978 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Poetry...
2005. He had three children. In 1963, Whitfield co-founded with actor FrankSilvera the American Theatre of Being in Los Angeles. While there he taught...
reprised their roles for the Corman film: Celia Lovsky, Milton Frome, and FrankSilvera. An indifferently received television movie production of In the Presence...
Valdez Is Coming Edwin Sherin Burt Lancaster, Susan Clark, Jon Cypher, FrankSilvera, Héctor Elizondo, Richard Jordan, Phil Brown, Richard Jordan, Barton...
Clayton Riley to establish the FrankSilvera Writers Workshop, located in Harlem, as a tribute to its namesake, FrankSilvera, a character actor, theater...
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