Joel Silver

Joel Silver
Silver at the Tribeca Film Festival in May 2008 for the premiere of Speed Racer, which he produced
Born	July 14, 1952 South Orange, New Jersey

Joel Silver (born July 14, 1952) is an American Hollywood film producer, director and co-inventor of the sport of Ultimate.

Life and career

Silver grew up in South Orange, New Jersey, the son of a writer and a public relations executive.^[1] He attended Columbia High School in Maplewood, New Jersey and Northfield Mount Hermon School, where he is credited with inventing the sport of Ultimate Frisbee (now known as just "Ultimate").^[2] In 1970, he entered Lafayette College, where he formed the first collegiate Ultimate team. He finished his undergraduate studies at the New York University's Tisch School of the Arts.

Silver began his career at Lawrence Gordon Productions, where he ultimately ascended to president of motion pictures for the company. He earned his first screen credit as the associate producer on The Warriors and, with Gordon, produced 48 Hrs., Streets of Fire and Brewster's Millions. In 1985, he formed Silver Pictures and produced hit action films such as Commando (1985), the "Lethal Weapon" franchise, the first two films of the "Die Hard" and the "The Matrix" franchise of action films.

He appears on-screen at the beginning of Who Framed Roger Rabbit as Raoul J. Raoul, the director of the animated short Something's Cookin'.

Silver directed Split Personality, (1992), an episode of the HBO horror anthology, Tales From the Crypt.

He currently runs two production companies, Silver Pictures and Dark Castle Entertainment co-owned by Robert Zemeckis.

On July 10, 1999, Silver married his production assistant Karyn Fields.

Frank Lloyd Wright houses

Joel Silver is well known as an aficionado of architect Frank Lloyd Wright. In 1984 he bought the Wright-designed Storer House in West Hollywood and made considerable investments to restore it to the original condition. The Storer House's squarish relief ornament then became the company logo of Silver Pictures. In 1986 he purchased the long-neglected C. Leigh Stevens Auldbrass Plantation, in Yemassee, South Carolina and has been restoring it since then.^[3]

Producer credits

References

External links

• Joel Silver at the Internet Movie Database
• Silver on Warner Bros