Person · Actor

Michael B. Silver

A seasoned actor with a legendary legacy in Hollywood, Michael B. Silver navigates the cutthroat world of modern television while balancing family expectations and his own artistic ambitions.

From

New York City, New York, USA

Height

1.78 m (5'10")

Also:
Director
Writer

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Decades active

In short · Acting since 1993, 4 decades active, 39 credits.

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Biography

Michael was born and raised in Manhattan and is a graduate of Brown University. He comes from a long line of filmmakers, including his grandfather, Oscar-winning screenwriter Sidney Buchman, who ran Columbia Pictures under Harry Cohn during the 1930s and 1940s. Buchman wrote and produced films such as Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939), Here Comes Mr. Jordan (1941), The Talk of the Town (1942), The Awful Truth (1937), Sahara (1943), A Song to Remember (1945), Holiday (1938), Lost Horizon (1937), The Jolson Story (1946), Cleopatra (1934), Theodora Goes Wild (1936), and more than 20 others. He was blacklisted in 1951 but continued to write from Cannes until his death in 1975. Michael's sister, Amanda Silver, wrote The Hand That Rocks the Cradle (1992), and she and her husband, Rick Jaffa, wrote and produced Rise of the Planet of the Apes and Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, among others. They are currently writing Avatar 2, due in 2016.