Henry Silva, prolific character actor,

NEW YORK (AP) — Henry Silva, a prolific character actor best known for playing villains and touch guys in “The Manchurian Candidate,” “Ocean’s Eleven” and other films, has died. He was 95. Silva was a New York City native who dropped out of school as a teenager, in the 1940s, and was accepted the following decade into the Actors Studio, where fellow students included Shelley Winters and Ben Gazzarra. He went on to have a long and busy career in film and television, with hundreds of credits before retiring from acting in 2001.