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Ron Silver, best known for his roles on The West Wing and the film Reversal of Fortune, has died. The cause was esophageal cancer. He was 62.
“Ron Silver died peacefully in his sleep with his family around him this morning,” Robin Bronk, executive director of the Creative Coalition, said in a statement to the New York Post. Silver had helped found the group, which supports a range of liberal causes.
Silver, a onetime liberal activist and Actor’s Equity Association union leader, later became involved in Republican politics, even speaking at the party’s 2004 convention.
With wide-ranging interests beyond acting, Silver, who hosted a public affairs program for Sirius radio, studied Chinese culture and language in graduate school and later spent a year at Yale immersing himself in constitutional law.
In a 1993 interview with The New York Times, Silver described why he tried to use his fame for more than just a good table at a restaurant.
“We have a certain visibility, and power in the society. We’re a celebrity-ridden society. Why not use that to try to do a little good?”

This sucks. Mr. Silver was such a big part of my life. He was such a prize, such a treasure to have on the set of Heat Vision and Jack. 62 is too young. He was a great actor, full of power and charisma. It was an honor to work with him for the little time I did. I remember watching him in Mr. Saturday Night thinking -”this movie sucks but shit, he’s good.” Then he fucked everybody up in TIME COP. What a man! The scene in THE ARRIVAL where he said to Sheen ”...and now your dead” made Harmon and love him so much.

Ben Stiller was looking through issue 16 of Scud and saw in the credits that I voice cast Ron Silver as THE PRODUCER. He said “I grew up with Ron, my Mom was on Rhoda with him and he was always nice to me.”

Harmon and I took that little bit of information and wove it into the Heat Vision and Jack script. Everybody, and I mean EVERYBODY, who’s ever seen HV&J has said he was so incredible. The first time I heard Harmon’s dialog coming out of his mouth, I was in tears. Tears of joy.

I hate this. Farewell, Mr. Silver.

An upcoming episode of Nickelodeon’s Yo Gabba Gabba! called “New Friends” (airing Friday, April 3 at 1:30pm ET/PT) will star Jack Black. Co-starring with him will be the talking motorcycle: “Mini-Bike” voiced by none other than ROB SCHRAB (Owen Wilson was busy) The Yo Gabba creators are HUGE fans of Heat Vision and Jack and wanted to give a loving nod to HV&J!!

Check it out! It’s such a great show!