David Anthony "Tony" Silver (April 15, 1935 – February 1, 2008) was an American documentary filmmaker known for directing the film Style Wars.
[1] He directed the 1983 documentary Style Wars, one of the earliest accounts of hip-hop culture that documented the lives of subway graffiti artists in New York City during the early 1980s.
[4] Silver died at his home in Los Angeles on February 1, 2008.
He married film producer and later acting chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts Joan Shigekawa.
[1] Their daughter is Mariko Silver, former president of Bennington College and CEO of the Henry Luce Foundation.