Henry Silva, a charismatic performer with roles as villains in numerous movies like "Ocean's Eleven" and "The Manchurian Candidate," passed away on Wednesday at the Motion Picture and Television Country House and Hospital in Woodland Hills, California, according to his son Scott. He was 95.

In John Frankenheimer's timeless thriller "The Manchurian Candidate" (1962), Silva played Chunjin, the Korean houseboy for Laurence Harvey's Raymond Shaw who doubles as a Communist agent and engages in an exciting, choreographed martial arts duel with Frank Sinatra's Major Bennett Marco in Shaw's New York apartment. This was one of Silva's most iconic roles.

Silva starred alongside Sinatra in a number of other films, such as the 1960 Rat Pack classic "Ocean's Eleven," which also starred Dean Martin and Sammy Davis Jr., and the 1962 Western "Sergeants 3."

His death was first reported by Dean Martin’s daughter Deana Martin, who wrote on Twitter, “Our hearts are broken at the loss of our dear friend Henry Silva, one of the nicest, kindest and most talented men I’ve had the pleasure of calling my friend. He was the last surviving star of the original Oceans 11 Movie. We love you Henry, you will be missed.”

In the later years of his career, he appeared in Burt Reynolds's vehicle “Sharky’s Machine” (1981), the Chuck Norris movie “Code of Silence” (1985), Steven Seagal's movie “Above the Law” (1988), Warren Beatty’s “Dick Tracy” (1990) and Jim Jarmusch’s “Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai” (1999); Silva’s final screen appearance was a cameo in the “Ocean’s Eleven” remake in 2001.

Knight-Ridder journalist Diane Haithman's 1985 piece with the following headline: “Henry Silva: The Actor You Love to Hate” began this way: “His face looms on screen. A face with sharp, high cheekbones and a blunt, tiny nose, a face that looks like it was cut out of steel and always is behind a gun. And eyes that see only the next victim. Cold eyes. The eyes of a psychopath. He doesn’t have to say a thing before you know you hate him. … Silva has made a lifelong career with that face (which, by the way, looks fatherly off-camera).”

According to Silva, growing up in Spanish Harlem helped him prepare for the kinds of characters he would later play in movies. He told Haithman this. “ ‘I saw a lot of things in Harlem,’ he recalled in an accent rich with his New York origins. ‘It was the kind of place where if you lived on one block and you wanted to go a few blocks away, you had to take a couple of guys with you, or else you would get your ass kicked.’ “

He occasionally displayed a sense of humour in the 1980s when he played characters that mocked his earlier work, like in "Cannonball Run 2." Silva was raised in Spanish Harlem after being born in Brooklyn. His parents were Italian and Puerto Rican, according to the book "Hispanics in Hollywood." He dropped out of school at the age of 13 and started taking acting classes, supporting himself by working as a dishwasher and then as a server. In 1955, Silva applied to the Actors Studio and was selected as one of five pupils out of 2,500 candidates.

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