Indie producer Raphael D. Silver died March 4 in Salt Lake City, Utah, two days after a skiing accident in Deer Valley. He was 83.
The real estate developer lived in New York City and East Hampton. The production company Silverfilm, which he ran with his wife of 57 years, director Joan Micklin Silver, produced her 1975 debut film “Hester Street” and others including her 1988 “Crossing Delancey, which earned Amy Irving a Golden Globe nomination, and Boston-area film “Between the Lines,” starring Jeff Goldblum and John Heard. Silver directed two micro-budget films, 1978’s “On the Yard,” starring Heard,” and “A Walk on the Moon” in 1987.
Silver pioneered the entrepreneurial model of filmmaking that continues to this day, according to Ira Deutchman, the chairman of Columbia University’s film program. Silver was a director of the Independent Film Project. Early on, Silver participated in Robert Redford’s Sundance Institute and was also on the board of the Big Apple Circus. He had turned to writing fiction in the last decade. He is survived by his wife and three L.A.-based daughters, Dina, Marisa and Claudia Silver.
See the full obituary from the Easthampton Star here.
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