Robert A. Silverman

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Known Credits

0.4881

Gender

Male

Birthday

24-Feb-1943

Age

(83 years old)

Place of Birth

Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Also Known As
  • Bob Silverman
  • Robert Silverman

Robert A. Silverman

Biography

Robert A. Silverman is a Canadian actor cast five times by writer/director David Cronenberg. He is sometimes credited as Bob Silverman or Robert Silverman. Wikipedia


Credits

Partners Partners (1976) Character: Hayes
When a business competitor assassinates her father when the father refuses to sell his firm, young woman takes over her father's paper company and with the help of her gangster boyfriend learns how to fight back against competitors.
The Ruining The Ruining (2004) Character: Henry
The Troma Team is proud to present THE RUINING, a striking new work by filmmaker Chris Burgard. Filmed over ten years, The Ruining succeeds in echoing the grime and grit of late 70's and early 80's horror cinema. Traditional family values are disturbingly challenged when two Los Angeles couples run into trouble on a remote mountain camping trip. Thirty years ago government drilling poisoned the water in a small town. Half of the town died. Those that are left are horribly addicted to psychedelic eggs bred by old Henry Behrens. When the strangers enter into his domain the stage is set for selective breeding and feeding of human flesh. Henry's 17-year-old daughter Becky is beautiful and thinks that she is a German shepherd. - Written by Troma Entertainment
125 Rooms of Comfort 125 Rooms of Comfort (1974) Character: N/A
The film stars Tim Henry as Billie Joyce, a gay and transvestite former musician who has been institutionalized in an asylum due to mental illness. Inheriting the smalltown hotel formerly owned by his deceased father, he returns home intending to sell the hotel to real estate developer Oscar Kidd (Robert A. Silverman), but soon finds himself in the position of defending the rights of the hotel's staff against Kidd's renovation plans.
One Night Stand One Night Stand (1978) Character: Nick
Carol Bolt's adaptation of her stage play locks its audience in a claustrophobic bachelor flat for a night of black comedy, lust and terror. Jilted on her birthday by her boyfriend, Daisy picks up night club singer Rafe and takes him home. Is he a lover, liar or psychotic serial killer?
984: Prisoner of the Future 984: Prisoner of the Future (1982) Character: Prisoner
A corporate executive is taken prisoner by an underground organization known as The Movement, and is turned over to a ruthless interrogator.
Rabid Rabid (1977) Character: Man in Hospital
After undergoing radical surgery for injuries from a motorcycle accident, a young woman develops a retractable, vampiric stinger in her armpit and a thirst for human blood.
eXistenZ eXistenZ (1999) Character: D'Arcy Nader
A game designer on the run from assassins must play her latest virtual reality creation with a marketing trainee to determine if the game has been damaged.
Winter Kept Us Warm Winter Kept Us Warm (1965) Character: N/A
It is the 1960s at the University of Toronto. Doug is a well-liked senior with an equally popular girlfriend. Peter is a shy Finnish freshman who is new to the big city. The two become best friends and begin doing all sorts of activities together — until Doug starts viewing their relationship differently.
Jason X Jason X (2001) Character: Dieter Perez
In the year 2455, Old Earth is now a contaminated planet abandoned for centuries -- a brown world of violent storms, toxic landmasses and poisonous seas. Yet humans have returned to the deadly place that they once fled, not to live, but to research the ancient, rusting artifacts of the long-gone civilizations. But it's not the harmful environment that could prove fatal to the intrepid, young explorers who have just landed on Old Earth. For them, it's Friday the 13th, and Jason lives!
Sweet Substitute Sweet Substitute (1964) Character: Al
Busy navigating his final year of high school, brainy aspiring teacher Tom is determined to land an elusive scholarship, but his hard work is constantly interrupted by his real obsession: pursuing the opposite sex. Before long, he develops a romance with former classmate Elaine, who persistently declines his sexual advances. This inspires Tom to consider other options, including his good-natured study buddy Kathy. But when they take their friendship to the next level, shocking complications threaten to derail Tom’s future, inspiring his friends to take drastic action.
It Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time It Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time (1975) Character: Lawyer
Sweeney is a playwright on a career decline. He spends much of his time wheedling money and beer out of his artistic friend Moriarty. One of his few highlights is weekly sex with his ex-wife Georgia. She is remarried to a rich but vile construction developer, but Sweeney and Gorgina are still in love.
Naked Lunch Naked Lunch (1991) Character: Hans
Blank-faced bug killer Bill Lee and his dead-eyed wife, Joan, like to get high on Bill's pest poisons while lounging with Beat poet pals. After meeting the devilish Dr. Benway, Bill gets a drug made from a centipede. Upon indulging, he accidentally kills Joan, takes orders from his typewriter-turned-cockroach, ends up in a constantly mutating Mediterranean city and learns that his hip friends have published his work -- which he doesn't remember writing.
The Brood The Brood (1979) Character: Jan Hartog
A man tries to uncover an unconventional psychologist's therapy techniques on his institutionalized wife, while a series of brutal attacks committed by a brood of mutant children coincides with the husband's investigation.
Prom Night Prom Night (1980) Character: Mr. Sykes
At a high school senior prom, a masked killer stalks four teenagers who were responsible for the accidental death of a classmate six years prior.
Scanners Scanners (1981) Character: Benjamin Pierce
After a man with extraordinary, and frighteningly destructive, telepathic abilities is nabbed by agents from a mysterious rogue corporation, he discovers he is far from the only possessor of such strange powers. Some of the other “scanners” have their minds set on world domination, while others are trying to stop them.
Waterworld Waterworld (1995) Character: Hydroholic
In a futuristic world where the polar ice caps have melted and made Earth a liquid planet, a beautiful barmaid rescues a mutant seafarer from a floating island prison. They escape, along with her young charge, Enola, and sail off aboard his ship. But the trio soon becomes the target of a menacing pirate who covets the map to 'Dryland'—which is tattooed on Enola's back.



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