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
Also known As
William R. Sylvester
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
as Dr. Heywood Floyd
1973
as Tom Henderson
1961
as Sam Slade
1964
as Mark English
1975
as Luftwaffe Colonel
1980
as TV Commentator Howard
1968
as Paul Carver
2001
as Dr. Heywood R. Floyd (archive footage) (uncredited)
1965
as Paul Baxter
1974
as Mr. Weldman
1949
as Giovanni
1964
as Paul Gregory
1954
as Philip Vickers
1961
as Layton / Steve Ross
1957
as Alec Douglas
1955
as Dave Forrester
1953
as Jimmy
1958
as John Kevin
1959
as Hermann
1961
as Rick Hogan
1964
as Gordon Lonsdale
2013
as Sam Slade (archive footage)
1963
as Vince Warren
1953
as Len Turner
1995
as Self (archive footage)
1976
as Leonard Driscoll
1968
as Burt Hickey
1970
as Brad York
1954
as Jim Barnes
1953
as Mac
1968
as Trumpeter
1953
as Texas
1950
as American Soldier (uncredited)
1970
as Paul Harrison
1978
as Nuclear Reporter
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