Stu Silver is an American actor who is probably better known as a writer and producer. He appeared as the Paramedic who came to attend on the recently (but not for long) deceased, Arnold Wanker after he drops dead in the McConnell's Music Store in Season 1's To Tell the Truth.
Biography[]
Career[]
Stu Silver has credits as actor, writer and producer, running from the 70's through the 2010's. Though his on screen credits are fewer than his as writer and producer, his first came in an acting role, that of the Paramedic in Mork & Mindy.
Filmography (Actor)[]
| Year | TV Series / Movie | Episode | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1978 | Mork & Mindy | To Tell the Truth | The Paramedic #1 |
| 1987 | Throw Momma from the Train | n/a | Ramon |
| 1990 | Good Grief | Viva Las Dacron | Piano Player |
| 2015 | Yellow Day | n/a | Mr. Smith |
As a writer he penned multiple episodes of ABC shows Soap (1978-81) Soap along with episodes of Benson (1979) and Bosom Buddies (1981), producing on both Soap and Bosom Buddies. He went on to create the shows Webster (1983 - 1989), writing and producing here and there through it's run, before doing the same with It's A Living (1980 - 1989) and Good Grief (1990 -1991), directing an episode of the latter.
During this same period he also wrote episodes of Star of the Family (1982), The New Odd Couple (1983), Brothers (1984-85), the TV Movie Joanna (1985), and what is possibly his most remembered creation, the comic adaptation of Hitchcock's Strangers on a Train 1987's Throw Momma from the Train, starring Billy Crystal, Danny DeVito and Anne Ramsay.
His most recent credit (as an actor and script consultant) came on the family fantasy movie Yellow Day in 2015.[1]
Mork & Mindy[]
Stu Silver appears as one of the two paramedics who arrive to attend Arnold Wanker the McConnell's Music Store's landlord. His paramedic confirming Fred's diagnosis to Mindy that he is dead, having collapsed in the middle of her berating him for his terrible behaviour.
Behind the Scenes[]
The appearance in this episode is notable, as Arnold Wanker was played by Logan Ramsay, the husband of Anne Ramsay, who would go on to play the monstrous 'Momma' that Stu would create for 'Throw Momma from the Train', nine years later.
Nor was this his only movie writing link with the show, Silver going on to write the first half of Good Morning Vietnam, the movie that would put Robin Williams truly on the map as a dramatic actor. Though the creative process/frustrations meant that he ultimately did not get credit for it. [2]