Actor and longtime political activist Ron Silver died Sunday morning, succumbing to a long battle with esophageal cancer after battling the disease for the past two years. He was 62.
Per NY Post:
“Ron Silver died peacefully in his sleep with his family around him this morning,” said Robin Bronk, executive director of the Creative Coalition, which Silver helped create. “He had been fighting esophageal cancer for two years and his family is making arrangements for a private service.”
The actor started the left-leaning Creative Coalition in 1989 but switched to the GOP following the Sept. 11 attacks, speaking at the 2004 Republican National Convention. His “West Wing” character Bruno Gianelli underwent a similar conversion on that TV show. His early credits included “The Mac Davis Show,” “Rhoda” and “The Stockard Channing Show.” Silver is best known for playing legal scholar Alan Dershowitz in 1990′s “Reversal of Fortune,” a movie about the successful appeal of Claus von Bulow’s conviction for putting his socialite wife into a permanent coma. He had also won a Tony Award as a take-no-prisoners Hollywood producer in David Mamet’s “Speed-the-Plow.”
Ron was married to Lynne Miller from the December 1975 untill July 1997. They have two children, a son named Adam who was born in 1979 and a daughter named Alexandra who was born in 1983.
Very sad news. Our condolences go out to his family.
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