William Sylvester

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1922-01-31 (73 years old)

Deathday

1995-01-25

Place of Birth

Oakland, California, USA

William Sylvester

Biography

William Sylvester (January 31, 1922 – January 25, 1995) was an American TV and film actor. His most famous film credit was Dr. Heywood Floyd in Stanley Kubrick's 2001 A Space Odyssey (1968). Born in Oakland, California and married at one time to the British actress Veronica Hurst, he moved to England after the Second World War and became a staple of British B films at a time when American and Canadian actors were much in demand in order to give indigenous films some appeal in the US. As a result, he gained top billing in one of his very first films, House of Blackmail (1953), directed by the veteran filmmaker Maurice Elvey, for whom he also ...

Acting

1968

2001: A Space Odyssey

as Dr. Heywood Floyd

1973

1961

Gorgo

as Sam Slade

1964

Devil Doll

as Mark English

1975

The Hindenburg

as Luftwaffe Colonel

1980

First Family

as TV Commentator Howard

1968

The Hand of Night

as Paul Carver

2001

2001: The Making of a Myth

as Dr. Heywood R. Floyd (archive footage) (uncredited)

1965

Devils of Darkness

as Paul Baxter

1974

Busting

as Mr. Weldman

1949

Give Us This Day

as Giovanni

1964

Blind Corner

as Paul Gregory

1954

The Stranger Came Home

as Philip Vickers

1961

Offbeat

as Layton / Steve Ross

1957

High Tide at Noon

as Alec Douglas

1955

Portrait of Alison

as Dave Forrester

1953

1958

Dublin Nightmare

as John Kevin

1959

Whirlpool

as Hermann

1961

1964

Ring of Spies

as Gordon Lonsdale

2013

1963

Incident at Midnight

as Vince Warren

1953

The Yellow Balloon

as Len Turner

1995

Roger Moore: A Matter of Class

as Self (archive footage)

1976

Riding with Death

as Leonard Driscoll

1968

The Syndicate

as Burt Hickey

1970

The Challengers

as Brad York

1954

1968

Red and Blue

as Trumpeter

1953

Albert R.N.

as Texas

1950

They Were Not Divided

as American Soldier (uncredited)

1970

The Lawyer

as Paul Harrison

1978

Heaven Can Wait

as Nuclear Reporter

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