Joel Silver is one of the most popular and richest Film Producer who was born on July 14, 1952 in South Orange, New Jersey, United States. The co-founder of Silver Pictures and Dark Castle Entertainment along with He co-founded Silver Pictures and Dark Castle Entertainment with Robert Zemeckis…
Silver appears on-screen at the beginning of Who Framed Roger Rabbit as Raoul J. Raoul, the director of the animated short Something’s Cookin. This was a prank Steven Spielberg and Robert Zemeckis pulled on then-Disney CEO, Michael Eisner, as Eisner and Silver despised each other since their days at Paramount Pictures in the early 1980s, especially with the issues they faced making 48 Hrs.. Silver trimmed his beard off, paid his own expenses, and asked to not have his name in initial cast lists. Reportedly, when production wrapped, due to the fact that Silver was unrecognizable, Eisner questioned who played Raoul and was told it was Silver, at which point, Eisner shrugged and praised his performance.
Silver is well known as an aficionado of architect Frank Lloyd Wright. In 1984, he bought the Wright-designed Storer House in Hollywood and made considerable investments to restore it to its original condition. The Storer House’s squarish relief ornament then became the company logo of Silver Pictures. Silver sold it in 2002 for $2.9 million. In 1986, he purchased the long-neglected C. Leigh Stevens Auldbrass Plantation in Yemassee, South Carolina, and has been restoring it since then. Both restorations have been managed and supervised by the architect Eric Lloyd Wright (grandson of Frank Lloyd Wright). Silver also owns the 1941 Lincoln Continental that had been customized to Frank Lloyd Wright’s design.
He got married to Karyn Fields in 1999.
He was featured in the movie Who Framed Roger Rabbit from 1988.
Joel Silver (born July 14, 1952) is an American film producer.
