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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.
Frank Silvera. Actor: Killer's Kiss. He was a highly successful black actor/director in the 1950s and 1960s who - because of his light-skinned appearance - transcended race and ethnicity in his performances.
Jun 12, 1970 · PASADENA, Calif., June 11 (AP)—Frank Silvera, the actor, director and producer who played the role of a Mexican ranch owner on television's “High Chaparral” series, was accidentally...
Frank Silvera. Actor: Killer's Kiss. He was a highly successful black actor/director in the 1950s and 1960s who - because of his light-skinned appearance - transcended race and ethnicity in his performances.
Mar 29, 2009 · By the 1960s, Frank Silvera had become emotionally invested in the ongoing civil rights movement. He openly protested the demeaning roles given African American actors and actively expressed his dissatisfaction with racist and discriminatory practices in Hollywood and across America.
Silvera was a multilingual, racially ambiguous, light-skinned, loose-textured man of Jamaican and Cuban descent, whose last name hinted at a possible Portuguese Jewish heritage. Frank exploited these attributes to elevate his career during a time where racism and discrimination were rampant.
Frank Silvera (July 24, 1914 – June 11, 1970) was an American actor and theatrical director. Silvera was born in Kingston, Jamaica the son of a mixed race Jamaican mother, Gertrude Bell and Spanish Jewish father, Alfred Silvera.
Actor. Born in Kingston, Jamaica, he was raised in Boston and attended Northeastern Law School before initiating his acting career in the Broadway drama Big White Fog (1940). During World War II, he served with the US Naval Reserves and launched his Hollywood career in the 1952 picture The Cimarron Kid. Silvera, a...
Aug 20, 2012 · African-American actor Frank Silvera starred in many top-tier Hollywood shows and films as a white man. The Kingston, Jamaica native held his strongest roles in the 1950’s and 60’s. With a fair-skinned complexion, Silvera usually played the leading white man on Broadway.
Frank Silvera. Highest Rated: 94% Hombre (1967) Lowest Rated: 40% The Stalking Moon (1968) Birthday: Jul 24, 1914. Birthplace: Kingston, Jamaica, British West Indies.
