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Actor Henry Silva, known for many tough-guy roles, dies at 95

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Henry Silva, a prolific character actor best known for playing villains and tough guys in “The Manchurian Candidate,” “Ocean’s Eleven” and other films, has died at age 95.

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Silva’s son Scott Silva told Variety that his father died Wednesday of natural causes at the Motion Picture and Television Country House and Hospital in Woodland Hills, Calif.

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Silva was a New York City native who dropped out of school as a teenager, in the 1940s.

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He was accepted the following decade into the Actors Studio, where fellow students included Shelley Winters and Ben Gazzara.

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He went on to have a long and busy career in film and television, with hundreds of credits before retiring from acting in 2001.

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He had a breakthrough role on stage and screen in the 1950s as a drug dealer in “A Hatful of Rain.”

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He was the last surviving star of the original Oceans 11 Movie.

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Silva was also seen on such television series as “Wagon Train” and “The F.B.I.”

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