Personal Info
Birth date
1932-09-09 (92 Years)
Day of death
2019-06-12
Gender
Female
Known for
Acting
Place of birth
New York City, New York, USA
Also known as
Silvia Miles
Sylvia Scheinwald
Сильвия Майлз
Sylvia Miles
Biography
Sylvia Miles (September 9, 1924 – June 12, 2019) was an American actress. She was twice nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performances in Midnight Cowboy (1969) and Farewell, My Lovely (1975). Description above from the Wikipedia article Sylvia Miles, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography
The Equalizer
7.169
Overview:
Robert McCall is a former agent of a secret government agency who is now running his own private crime fighting operation where he fashions himself as "The Equalizer." It is a service for victims of the system who have exhausted all possible means of seeking justice and have nowhere to go. McCall promises to even out the odds for them.Sex and the City
7.391
Overview:
Based on the bestselling book by Candace Bushnell, Sex and the City tells the story of four best friends, all single and in their late thirties, as they pursue their careers and talk about their sex lives, all while trying to survive the New York social scene.The Defenders
6.2
Overview:
The Defenders is an American courtroom drama series . It starred E. G. Marshall and Robert Reed as father-and-son defense attorneys who specialized in legally complex cases, with defendants such as neo-Nazis, conscientious objectors, civil rights demonstrators, a schoolteacher fired for being an atheist, an author accused of pornography, and a physician charged in a mercy killing.Miami Vice
7.451
Overview:
The story of the Miami Police Department's vice squad and its efforts to end drug trafficking and prostitution, centered on the unlikely partnership of Sonny Crockett and Ricardo Tubbs - who first meet when Tubbs is undercover in a drug cartel.Route 66
6.3
Overview:
After discovering that his late father has gone through most of the family fortune, Tod Stiles hits the title trans-America highway in his Corvette in search of adventure with friend Buz Murdock, a survivor of New York's mean streets. The two work odd jobs as they meet and interact with colorful characters and find themselves plunged into one situation after another, some of them romantic, some of them very dangerous. Later, Linc Case, a Vietnam war hero trying to find himself, takes over as Tod's travel companion.The Bob Hope Show
7
Overview:
The Bob Hope Show hosted by Bob Hope, debuted on April 9, 1950. During the 1952-1953 season, NBC rotated with other variety shows in a Sunday night block known as "The Colgate Comedy Hour" (Sept. 1950 to Dec. 1955). Also known as, "The Chevy Show with Bob Hope." When the first special debuted in October of 1950 it was the most expensive television program made up to that point - costing an astronomical $1,500 a minute to produce. Bob Hope had his own television show and radio show at the same time. For the next three seasons, The Bob Hope Show was broadcast once a month on Tuesday nights, giving Milton Berle a week off. Bob ended his radio show in April, 1956. Bob Hope also had another show by a similar name, "The Bob Hope Show (All Star Revue)". In addition, he performed in "Specials" for many years. It is the longest running variety program in television's history with a record of 45 years of televised entertainment.Naked City
5.5
Overview:
Naked City is a police drama series which aired from 1958 to 1963 on the ABC television network. It was inspired by the 1948 motion picture of the same name, and mimics its dramatic “semi-documentary” format. In 1997, the episode “Sweet Prince of Delancey Street” was ranked #93 on TV Guide’s “100 Greatest Episodes of All Time”.Life on Mars
6.505
Overview:
After a car crash, police detective Sam Tyler mysteriously finds himself transported back to 1973 and still working as a detective.Tattingers
5
Overview:
Tattingers is an American comedy-drama series that aired by the NBC television network as part of its 1988 fall lineup. After failing in the Nielsen ratings as an hour-long program, the plot and characters were briefly revived in the spring of 1989 as the half-hour situation comedy Nick & Hillary.Hi Octane
7.5
Overview:
Short-lived 4-episode Comedy Central TV show created by and starring Sofia Coppola, co-starring Zoe Cassavetes, and featuring Thurston Moore, as well as many celebrity guestsMidnight Cowboy
7.5
Overview:
Joe Buck is a wide-eyed hustler from Texas hoping to score big with wealthy New York City women; he finds a companion in Enrico "Ratso" Rizzo, an ailing swindler with a bum leg and a quixotic fantasy of escaping to Florida.Wall Street
7.165
Overview:
A young and impatient stockbroker is willing to do anything to get to the top, including trading on illegal inside information taken through a ruthless and greedy corporate raider whom takes the youth under his wing.Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps
6.081
Overview:
As the global economy teeters on the brink of disaster, a young Wall Street trader partners with disgraced former Wall Street corporate raider Gordon Gekko on a two tiered mission: To alert the financial community to the coming doom, and to find out who was responsible for the death of the young trader's mentor.Evil Under the Sun
6.905
Overview:
An opulent beach resort provides a scenic background to this amusing whodunit as Poirot attempts to uncover the nefarious evildoer behind the strangling of a notorious stage star.She-Devil
5.916
Overview:
A cunning and resourceful housewife vows revenge on her husband when he begins an affair with a wealthy romance novelist.The Funhouse
5.9
Overview:
Rebellious teen Amy defies her parents by going to a trashy carnival that has pulled into town. In tow are her boyfriend, Buzz, and their friends Liz and Richie. Thinking it would be fun to spend the night in the campy "Funhouse" horror ride, the teens witness a murder by a deformed worker wearing a mask. Locked in, Amy and her friends must evade the murderous carnival workers and escape before it leaves town the next day.The Sentinel
6.075
Overview:
As a young girl, Alison Parker attempted suicide after being traumatized by her father's sexual exploits. Now an elite fashion model, she moves to a Brooklyn Heights apartment building that houses a number of bizarre, eccentric tenants. After experiencing a string of disturbing occurrences, she attempts to uncover the building's sinister secret.Skin: A History of Nudity in the Movies
6.612
Overview:
The definitive documentary on the history of nudity in feature films from the early silent days to the present, studying the changes in morality that led to the use of nudity in films while emphasizing the political, sociological and artistic changes that shaped that history. Skin will also study the gender inequality in presenting nude images in motion pictures and will follow the revolution that has created nude gender equality in feature films today.Farewell, My Lovely
6.6
Overview:
Private eye Philip Marlowe is hired by ex-con Moose Malloy to find his girlfriend, a former lounge dancer. While also investigating the murder of a client and the theft of a jade necklace, Marlowe becomes entangled with seductress Helen Grayle and discovers a web of dark secrets that are better left hidden.Crossing Delancey
5.877
Overview:
Thirty-something Isabelle spends her time going from her tiny, solitary West Side apartment to that of her grandmother on the Lower East Side. While her grandmother plots to find her a romantic match, Isabelle is courted by a married, worldly author, Anton, yet can't seem to shake the down-to-earth appeal of Sam, a pickle vendor.Critical Condition
5.527
Overview:
Eddie is a con artist. When he's framed and comes before a judge, he hopes to get off the hook by climbing insanity—but instead ends up in a hospital for a mental assessment. That night, a storm causes a power failure and, in the ensuing chaos, Eddie is mistaken for a doctor and suddenly finds himself in charge of the hospital.The Cockettes
6.7
Overview:
Documentary about the gender-bending San Francisco performance group who became a pop culture phenomenon in the early 1970s.Parrish
5.4
Overview:
Parrish McLean lives with his mother Ellen on Sala Post's tobacco plantation in the Connecticut River Valley. His mother winds up marrying Sala's rival Judd Raike, ruthless planter who wants to drive Sala out of business. Judd insists that Parrish learn the business from the ground up.Shalimar
5.9
Overview:
Kumar, a thief by profession poses as the son of Raja Bahadur Singh to accept an invitation to the island of Sir John Locksley. The guests include K.P.W. Iyengar aka Romeo, Dr. Dubari, Colonel Columbus, and Countess Sylvia Rasmussen. A stunned Kumar finds out that all of these invitees are master criminals. Kumar's guise does not fool anyone, nevertheless Sir John permits him to stay on. The reason why John has invited them is to find a successor to take his place as he is dying of cancer. He feels that one of his invitees can be trusted to take his place and for this he has arranged for them to steal a ruby (Shalimar) worth 135 crores of rupees. This gem is placed in a secure room within his palace, which is alarmed, and guarded. He challenges one of them to steal the Shalimar - but if anyone fails then they are killed by the security system. Pitted against such veterans, it looks like Kumar has got himself into a bind that he may not come out of alive.The Great Scout & Cathouse Thursday
5
Overview:
Sam Longwood, a frontiersman who has seen better days, spies the gold-mine partner, Jack Colby, who ran off with all the gold from a mine they were prospecting fifteen years earlier. He tells his other partners from that time, Joe Knox and Billy, and they confront Colby demanding not only the thousand dollars he took but an addition fifty-nine thousand for their trouble. After being thwarted in this attempt, they, and a would-be named Thursday, hatch a plan to kidnap Colby's wife, Nancy Sue, who is coincidently Sam's old flame, but find that Nancy Sue is not the sweet girl that Sam remembers.Murder, Inc.
6.4
Overview:
Chronicles the rise and fall of the organised crime syndicate known as Murder, Incorporated, focusing on powerful boss Lepke and violent hit man Reles.Superstar in a Housedress: The Life and Legend of Jackie Curtis
3
Overview:
Andy Warhol described Jackie Curtis as “A pioneer without a frontier.” In this biographical documentary, Curtis’s co-workers and friends speak of her work and her influence, along with clips from Curtis’s Warhol films as well as never-before-seen footage from her stage shows.Mary Tyler Moore: A Celebration
10
Overview:
Not only did Mary Tyler Moore “turn the world on with her smile,” as her show’s theme song declared, she also influenced a generation of women to become more independent and to pursue successful and fulfilling careers. Moore’s own 50-plus-year career has spanned award-winning films and Broadway shows, as well as two beloved television series that broke ground and continue to entertain viewers. This one-hour special includes highlights from a recent interview with Mary Tyler Moore, tributes from her co-stars and clips from iconic moments throughout her career. The program looks at her breakthrough role on The Dick Van Dyke Show, her iconic turn as TV's first independent career woman on The Mary Tyler Moore Show and her Academy Award-nominated work on Ordinary People.Acting
2020Skin: A History of Nudity in the Movies as Self
2019Japanese Borscht as Mary Tess
2015Mary Tyler Moore: A Celebration as Sally Rogers / Pilot-Head of the Family (archive footage)
2010Con Artist as Self
2010Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps as Realtor
2008Life on Mars (1 Episode) as Mrs. Salvaggio
2007Go Go Tales as Lilian Murray
2006Controversy and Acclaim: The Timelessness of a Groundbreaking Film as Self
2004Superstar in a Housedress: The Life and Legend of Jackie Curtis as Self
2004After Midnight: Reflecting on a Classic 35 Years Later as Unknown
2003High Times Potluck as Ma
2003Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex 'n' Drugs 'n' Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood as Self
2002The Cockettes as Self
2000The Boys Behind the Desk as Unknown
1999Confession of a Florist as Ms. P
1998Sex and the City (1 Episode) as Joan
1995Denise Calls Up as Sharon, Gail's Aunt
1994Hi Octane (1 Episode) as Self
1994Nelson Sullivan's World Of Wonder as Self
1991Robert Mitchum: The Reluctant Star as Self (archive footage)
1990Superstar: The Life and Times of Andy Warhol as Self
1989She-Devil as Mrs. Fisher
1989Nelson Sullivan as Unknown
1989Nelson Sullivan's Video Diaries as Herself
1988Spike of Bensonhurst as Congresswoman
1988Tattingers (1 Episode) as Unknown
1988Crossing Delancey as Hannah Mandelbaum
1987Wall Street as Dolores the Realtor
1987Sleeping Beauty as Red Fairy
1987Andy Warhol as Self
1987Critical Condition as Nurse Maggie Lesser
1986The Ever Popular Tortured Artist Effect as Unknown
1985Cindy Eller: A Modern Fairy Tale as Sweet Susie
1985The Equalizer (1 Episode) as Mother
1984Miami Vice (1 Episode) as Muriel Goldman
1983No Big Deal as Peincipal Bellows
1982Evil Under the Sun as Myra Gardener
1982The Making of Agatha Christie's 'Evil Under the Sun' as Self / Myra Gardener
1981The Funhouse as Madame Zena
1978Shalimar as Countess Rasmussen
1978Zero to Sixty as Flo Ames
1977The Sentinel as Gerde Engstrom
1976The Great Scout & Cathouse Thursday as Mike
197592 in the Shade as Bella
1975Farewell, My Lovely as Mrs. Florian
1972Heat as Sally Todd
1972Andy Warhol as Self
1971Who Killed Mary Whats'ername? as Christine
1971The Last Movie as Script Clerk
1969Midnight Cowboy as Cass
1964Pie in the Sky as Rose
1963Violent Midnight as Silvia
1961The Defenders (1 Episode) as Miss Constanto
1961Parrish as Eileen
1960Route 66 (2 Episodes) as Unknown
1960Murder, Inc. as Sadie
1958Naked City (1, 1, 1 Episode) as Jenny Barr, Girl In Bar, Woman #1
1950The Bob Hope Show (1 Episode) as Self