Actor Ron Silver Dead At 62

Cancer Obit The Tony Award-winner and Emmy nominee has died after a long battle with esophageal cancer.
by Associated Press
Published: Mon, March 16, 2009 - 5:46 am CST Last Updated: Mon, March 16, 2009 - 5:48 am CST
UNDATED (AP) - Actor Ron Silver is being remembered for his
performances as well as his political activism. The Tony
Award-winner and Emmy nominee died in New York Sunday after a long
battle with esophageal cancer. He was 62. Silver won his Tony for
playing a take-no-prisoners Hollywood producer in David Mamet's
"Speed-the-Plow." He was nominated for an Emmy for a recurring
role as a slick political stategist in "The West Wing." Silver
had a long history of balancing acting with left-leaning social and
political causes, but became a Republican activist in the wake of
9/11.

(Copyright 2009 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)
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