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Joel Silver Biography
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| Name : | Joel Silver |
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Profession :
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Producer
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Birth Details :
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born July 14, 1952
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Personal quotes :
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"I want an explosion the size of Cleveland."
[After seeing the poor box office of "Streets of Fire."] "Tonight is what it means
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Spouse :
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Karyn Fields (10 July 1999 - present)
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Joel Silver Trivia
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- Caricatured in Grand Canyon (1991), True Romance (1993), and I'll Do Anything (1994)
- Collects houses designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.
- He is credited with creating the sport of Ultimate Frisbee.
- Attended the New York University Film School.
- Produced three hit action movies that take place at Christmas time, Lethal Weapon (1987), Die Hard (1988) and Die Hard 2 (1990).
- Considered the primary founder of Ultimate frisbee in 1968 at Columbia High School in Maplewood, New Jersey.
- Runs two production companys - Silver Pictures and DarkCastle Entertainment. Co-owned by Robert Zemeckis.
- Attended Lafayette College where he formed the first collegiate Ultimate Frisebee team in 1970.
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Joel Silver Detailed Biography
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Joel Silver (born July 14, 1952) is a successful Jewish-American Hollywood film producer.
Silver grew up in South Orange, New Jersey. He attended Columbia High School in Maplewood, New Jersey, where he is credited as helping invent the sport of Ultimate. In 1970, he entered Lafayette College, where he formed the first collegiate Ultimate Frisbee team. He finished his undergraduate studies at the New York University's Tisch School of the Arts.
He earned his first on-screen credit as the associate producer on The Warriors.
On July 10, 1999, Silver married his production assistant Karyn Fields.
He currently runs two production companies, Silver Pictures and Dark Castle Entertainment.
He is one of the world's foremost experts on Frank Lloyd Wright, and owns several houses he designed. However he once said: “I buy art - I don't make it.”
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