Joel Silver

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Biography

Silver grew up in South Orange, New Jersey. 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"). [ [http://www.lafayette.edu/news.php/view/167 Collegiate Ultimate Frisbee Began at Lafayette ] ] 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.

He earned his first screen credit as the associate producer on "The Warriors".

He appears on-screen at the beginning of "Who Framed Roger Rabbit" as 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".

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

He currently runs two production companies, Silver Pictures and Dark Castle Entertainment.

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, which "catapulted him into joyous rounds of restoration and building". However he once said: “I "buy" art - I don't "make" it.

Producer credits

*"The Warriors" (1979)
*"Xanadu" (1980)
*"48 Hrs." (1982)
*"Jekyll & Hyde... Together Again (1982)
*"Streets of Fire" (1984)
*" Brewster's Millions" (1985)
*" Weird Science" (1985)
*"Commando" (1985)
*"Jumpin' Jack Flash" (1986)
*"Lethal Weapon" (1987)
*"Predator" (1987)
*"Action Jackson" (1988)
*"Die Hard" (1988)
*"Road House" (1989)
*"Tales from the Crypt" (TV) (1989)
*"Lethal Weapon 2" (1989)
*"" (1990)
*"The Adventures of Ford Fairlane" (1990)
*"Predator 2" (1990)
*"Parker Kane (1990)
*"Hudson Hawk" (1991)
*"Ricochet" (1991)
*"The Last Boy Scout" (1991)
*"Two-Fisted Tales" (1991)
*"Lethal Weapon 3" (1992)
*"Demolition Man" (1993)
*"Richie Rich" (1994)
*"Demon Knight" (1995)
*"W.E.I.R.D. World (1995)
*"Assassins" (1995)
*"Fair Game" (1995)
*"Executive Decision" (1996)
*"Bordello of Blood" (1996)
*"Fathers' Day" (1997)
*"Perversions of Science" (TV) (1997)
*"Conspiracy Theory" (1997)
*"Double Tap" (1997)
*"Lethal Weapon 4" (1998)
*"The Matrix" (1999)
*"Made Men" (1999)
*"Action" (TV) (1999)
*"The Strip (TV) (1999)
*"House on Haunted Hill" (1999)
*"Romeo Must Die" (2000)
*"Freedom" (TV) (2000)
*"" (2000)
*"Exit Wounds" (2001)
*"Proximity" (2001)
*"Swordfish" (2001)
*"Osmosis Jones" (2001)
*"Thir13en Ghosts" (2001)
*"The Matrix Revisited" (2001)
*"Jane Doe" (2001)
*"Ritual" (2001)
*"Ghost Ship" (2002)
*"Cradle 2 the Grave" (2003)
*"The Animatrix" (2003)
*"The Matrix Reloaded" (2003)
*"Enter the Matrix" (Video game) (2003)
*"The Matrix Revolutions" (2003)
*"Gothika" (2003)
*"Newton" (TV) (2003)
*"Next Action Star" (TV) (2004)
*"Bet Your Life (TV) (2004)
*"Veronica Mars" (TV) (2004)
*"House of Wax" (2005)
*"Kiss, Kiss, Bang, Bang" (2005)
*"V for Vendetta" (2005)
*"The Reaping" (2007)
*"The Invasion" (2007)
*"The Brave One" (2007)
*"Return to House on Haunted Hill" (2007)
*"Fred Claus" (2007)
*"Moonlight" (TV) (2007)
*"Speed Racer" (2008)
*"RocknRolla" (2008)
*"Ninja Assassin" (2009)
*"Sherlock Holmes"

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