Frank Silvera

Actor, director, producer, teacher, Frank Silvera aka Man of a Thousand Faces, (July 24, 1914 - June 11, 1970), young emerging actor, in the American Negro Theatre, during the early stages of his career in theatre, film and television. Due to his looks, ability to transcend color, race, his skill with language, the new nearly dead art of make-up, and perhaps the surname of Silvera, Frank moved into the new elite inner circles of the leading American Theatre groups, where he became an active member of the famed Actors' Studio of New York, a "spin-off" of the old Group Theatre, of the Thirties.

Frank Silvera in the film, "Hombre."

Frank Silvera in the film, "Viva Zapata."