Robert A. Silverman
Also Known As: Bob Silverman, Robert Silverman
Biography: Robert A. Silverman is a Canadian actor cast five times by writer/director David Cronenberg. He is sometimes credited as Bob Silverman or Robert Silverman. Wikipedia
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Adult: No
Birthday: February 24, 1943
Age: 82 years old
Gender: Male
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eXistenZ
Overview: A game designer on the run from assassins must play her latest virtual reality creation with a marketing trainee to determine if the game has been damaged.
Genres: Action Thriller Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-04-14
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Naked Lunch
Overview: Blank-faced bug killer Bill Lee and his dead-eyed wife, Joan, like to get high on Bill's pest poisons while lounging with Beat poet pals. After meeting the devilish Dr. Benway, Bill gets a drug made from a centipede. Upon indulging, he accidentally kills Joan, takes orders from his typewriter-turned-cockroach, ends up in a constantly mutating Mediterranean city and learns that his hip friends have published his work -- which he doesn't remember writing.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-12-27
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Scanners
Overview: After a man with extraordinary, and frighteningly destructive, telepathic abilities is nabbed by agents from a mysterious rogue corporation, he discovers he is far from the only possessor of such strange powers. Some of the other “scanners” have their minds set on world domination, while others are trying to stop them.
Genres: Science Fiction Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-01-14
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The Brood
Overview: A man tries to uncover an unconventional psychologist's therapy techniques on his institutionalized wife, while a series of brutal attacks committed by a brood of mutant children coincides with the husband's investigation.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-05-25
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125 Rooms of Comfort
Overview: The film stars Tim Henry as Billie Joyce, a gay and transvestite former musician who has been institutionalized in an asylum due to mental illness. Inheriting the smalltown hotel formerly owned by his deceased father, he returns home intending to sell the hotel to real estate developer Oscar Kidd (Robert A. Silverman), but soon finds himself in the position of defending the rights of the hotel's staff against Kidd's renovation plans.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-11-07
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Rabid
Overview: After undergoing radical surgery for injuries from a motorcycle accident, a young woman develops a retractable, vampiric stinger in her armpit and a thirst for human blood—the only nourishment that will now sustain her.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-04-08
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One Night Stand
Overview: Carol Bolt's adaptation of her stage play locks its audience in a claustrophobic bachelor flat for a night of black comedy, lust and terror. Jilted on her birthday by her boyfriend, Daisy picks up night club singer Rafe and takes him home. Is he a lover, liar or psychotic serial killer?
Genres: Drama Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-03-08
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The Ruining
Overview: The Troma Team is proud to present THE RUINING, a striking new work by filmmaker Chris Burgard. Filmed over ten years, The Ruining succeeds in echoing the grime and grit of late 70's and early 80's horror cinema. Traditional family values are disturbingly challenged when two Los Angeles couples run into trouble on a remote mountain camping trip. Thirty years ago government drilling poisoned the water in a small town. Half of the town died. Those that are left are horribly addicted to psychedelic eggs bred by old Henry Behrens. When the strangers enter into his domain the stage is set for selective breeding and feeding of human flesh. Henry's 17-year-old daughter Becky is beautiful and thinks that she is a German shepherd. - Written by Troma Entertainment
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-09-04
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Partners
Overview: When a business competitor assassinates her father when the father refuses to sell his firm, young woman takes over her father's paper company and with the help of her gangster boyfriend learns how to fight back against competitors.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-01-10
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Jason X
Overview: In the year 2455, Old Earth is now a contaminated planet abandoned for centuries -- a brown world of violent storms, toxic landmasses and poisonous seas. Yet humans have returned to the deadly place that they once fled, not to live, but to research the ancient, rusting artifacts of the long-gone civilizations. But it's not the harmful environment that could prove fatal to the intrepid, young explorers who have just landed on Old Earth. For them, it's Friday the 13th, and Jason lives!
Genres: Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-11-09
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Prom Night
Overview: At a high school senior prom, a masked killer stalks four teenagers who were responsible for the accidental death of a classmate six years prior.
Genres: Horror Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-07-18
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984: Prisoner of the Future
Overview: A corporate executive is taken prisoner by an underground organization known as The Movement, and is turned over to a ruthless interrogator.
Genres: Science Fiction Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-08-22
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Caressed
Overview: Busy navigating his final year of high school, brainy aspiring teacher Tom is determined to land an elusive scholarship, but his hard work is constantly interrupted by his real obsession: pursuing the opposite sex. Before long, he develops a romance with former classmate Elaine, who persistently declines his sexual advances. This inspires Tom to consider other options, including his good-natured study buddy Kathy. But when they take their friendship to the next level, shocking complications threaten to derail Tom’s future, inspiring his friends to take drastic action.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-11-01
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Waterworld
Overview: In a futuristic world where the polar ice caps have melted and made Earth a liquid planet, a beautiful barmaid rescues a mutant seafarer from a floating island prison. They escape, along with her young charge, Enola, and sail off aboard his ship. But the trio soon becomes the target of a menacing pirate who covets the map to 'Dryland'—which is tattooed on Enola's back.
Genres: Adventure Action Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-07-28
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It Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time
Overview: Sweeney is a playwright on a career decline. He spends much of his time wheedling money and beer out of his artistic friend Moriarty. One of his few highlights is weekly sex with his ex-wife Georgia. She is remarried to a rich but vile construction developer, but Sweeney and Gorgina are still in love.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-09-11
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