Charles "Chuck" Silverman

­­Charles (Chuck) Silverman was born June 25, 1943 in Los Angeles, California, and passed away on May 12, 2025 in Lakewood, Colorado, after a short illness.

Chuck grew up on the beaches of California, surfing, playing beach volleyball, riding motorcycles and cruising the Pacific Coast Highway. He graduated from Santa Monica College with a degree in journalism and began his copywriting career at Sears. That first job ended abruptly when he wrote a full-page ad in the LA Times with the headline, “Introducing the Big Thing in Men’s Pants”. He became an advertising agency writer (“Kawasaki Lets the Good Times Roll”) and was the Creative Director at several big agencies in LA, Chicago and Denver. He launched Mitsubishi Motors into the US, pitched and rebranded Datsun/Nissan, developed the memorable Wrigley’s Doublemint Gum “twins” campaign, advised Pepsi, Pioneer, Jim Beam and Marlboro and created 5 Super Bowl commercials. While he won many advertising awards, he was most proud of doing great work that worked and was known for his ability to come up with “the phrase that pays.” Most recently, he founded the Silverman Agency in Denver, working for years with Taco Johns, the clients he enjoyed most.

Although he never had children, Chuck was a mentor to many people through work and through life. His tough love and counsel on everything from which car to buy, navigating careers, how to deal with the curveballs of life and the rules of real estate have benefited the lives of us all. He loved cars, animals, sports, the mountains and making people laugh. He leaves a fan club of locals in the Denver/Golden area, life-long friends around the country and a little black cat with golden eyes named Alley