Are Geno Silva and Henry Silva related?

Geno Silva and Henry Silva are not related, although they share the same last name.

Geno Silva was a Mexican-American, while Henry Silva was born in America but his mother was from Northern Spain and his father was an Italian.

Geno Silva was born on January 20, 1948 in Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States. He went on to have a career on stage and screen. In Scarface (1983), his Skull is one of the most memorable characters as he is the one who kills Al Pacino’s Tony Montana during the movie’s climax.

He also appeared in Mulholland Drive (2001), Amistad (1997), The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997), A Man Apart (2003), 1941 (1979) and Tequila Sunrise (1988).

Geno Silva owned a dance studio with his wife, Pam, in Hollywood, California.

He died on May 9, 2022, at age 72 in Los Angeles of complications from frontotemporal degeneration.

While actor Henry Silva was born on September 15, 1926 in Brooklyn, New York, United States.

Silva was a New York City native who dropped out of school as a teenager, in the 1940s.

Henry was accepted the following decade into the Actors Studio, where fellow students included Shelley Winters and Ben Gazzara. He went on to have a long and busy career in film and television, with hundreds of credits before retiring from acting in 2001.

His film appearances include Ocean’s 11, The Manchurian Candidate, Johnny Cool, Sharky’s Machine, Code of Silence and Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai.

Henry Silva died on September 14, 2022, at age 95 in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California, United States.