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Joe Silver

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Actor 1922–1989 On stage 19421988

Joe Silver (September 28, 1922 – February 27, 1989) was an American stage, television, film and radio actor. His distinctive deep voice was once described as "the lowest voice in show business; so low that when he speaks, he unties your shoelaces."

On stage 10 productions, 46 years

1942 Tobacco Road Forrest Theatre · Return-Engagement 34 perf.
1957 Nature's Way Coronet Theatre · Original 61 perf.
1959 Gypsy Broadway Theatre · Revival · directed by Jerome Robbins 702 perf.
1963 The Heroine Lyceum Theatre · Original · directed by Larry Arrick 23 perf.
1965 The Zulu and the Zayda Cort Theatre · Original 179 perf.
1967 You Know I Can't Hear You When the Water's Running Ambassador Theatre · Original · directed by Alan Schneider 756 perf.
1971 Lenny Brooks Atkinson Theatre · Original 453 perf.
1980 The Roast Winter Garden Theatre · Original · directed by Carl Reiner 4 perf.
1982 The World of Sholom Aleichem Rialto Theatre · Original · directed by Milton Moss 21 perf.
1988 Legs Diamond Mark Hellinger Theatre · Original · directed by Robert Allan Ackerman 64 perf.

Each row is a staging this name appears in the cast list of, read from the production record rather than from the person record. The person record names works instead, and a work cannot say which run somebody was in — that is how Elaine Stritch ends up filed under Show Boat 1927 when she was in the 1994 revival. No row here says what part was played, because no cast list records it.

In the literature8 passages

  • Cast: Ethel Merman, Jack Klugman, Sandra Church, Lane Bradbury, Maria Karnilova, Paul Wallace, Jacqueline Mayro, Karen Moore, Joe Silverebooks/Green, Stanley/Broadway Musicals, Show By Show - Seventh Edition - Stanley Green & Cary Ginell.txt
  • Top Right: Paul Lieber, Warren Meyers, Robert Weil, Joe Silver, Jane House, James Wigfall Below: Clifif Gormantheatre-pdfs/Theatre World/Theatre World, 1971-72 Season, v. 28 (Willis).txt
  • rector, Joe Silver; Lighting, Stephen Harty; Stage Gelb, Sharon Shaw. CAST: Liesha Gullison (Niele),theatre-pdfs/Theatre World/Theatre World, 1973 74 Season, v. 30 (Willis).txt
  • Joe Silver (Host), Malita Barron (Leading Lady), Michael Hayward (Leading Man), Bob Morrisey (Juvenile), Sally Ann Swarm (Ingenue), Stan Free (Piano), Frank G. Martenez (Bass)theatre-pdfs/Theatre World/Theatre World, 1978-79, v. 35 (Willis).txt
  • Bob Morrisey, Sally Ann Swarm, Joe Silver, Michael Hayward, Malita Barron in “Encore” ACTORS PLAYHOUSE May 7 through June 3, 1979 (5 performances)theatre-pdfs/Theatre World/Theatre World, 1978-79, v. 35 (Willis).txt
  • Top: Bill Macy, David Huddleston, Larry Gelman, Antonio Fargas, Joe Silver, Barney Martintheatre-pdfs/Theatre World/Theatre World, 1979-80 Season, v. 36 (Willis).txt

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  • What this person played. No cast list we hold records a character against a performer.
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  • Which of the credits above the roles on this record — actor — apply to. The roles sit on the person and never on a credit, so a director who also acted looks the same here as one who did not.

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