Actor

Frank Silva

October 31, 1949 · Sacramento, CA

Frank Silva majored in theater at San Francisco State University, receiving a master's degree in light design. He worked with director David Lynch on several of his movies (Dune, Blue Velvet, Wild at Heart) as a prop master and set decorator. While Silva was working on fixing up the set for the character Laura Palmer's bedroom in the pilot episode for Twin Peaks, Lynch decided that Silva should be Bob after accidentally filming him in a reflection in a mirror. Frank Silva died on September 13, 1995, aged 44 from AIDS-related complications, in Seattle.

Notable work

8.3
Twin Peaks (1990)
as Bob and as Bob (archive footage) and as Killer BOB (uncredited)
7.4
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (1992)
as BOB
8.5
Twin Peaks (1989)
as BOB

Often works with

Kyle MacLachlan
3 titles together
Twin Peaks, Twin Peaks, Twin Peaks: The Missing Pieces
Dana Ashbrook
3 titles together
Twin Peaks, Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me, Twin Peaks
Mädchen Amick
3 titles together
Twin Peaks, Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me, Twin Peaks
Peggy Lipton
3 titles together
Twin Peaks, Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me, Twin Peaks
James Marshall
3 titles together
Twin Peaks, Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me, Twin Peaks
Ray Wise
3 titles together
Twin Peaks, Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me, Twin Peaks

Full filmography · 4

Twin Peaks: The Missing Pieces
as Bob
20147.2
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me
as BOB
19927.4
Twin Peaks
as BOB
19898.5