Cliff Gorman (October 13, 1936 â€" September 5, 2002) was an American
stage and screen actor. He won an Obie award in 1968 for the stage
presentation of The Boys in the Band, and went on to reprise his role
in the 1970 film version.Gorman was born Joel Joshua Goldberg in
Queens, New York, the son of Jewish parents, Ethel (née Kaplan) and
Samuel Goldberg, who later changed their surname to Gorman. He
attended The High School of Music & Art in Manhattan.Gorman won a Tony
Award in 1972 for playing Lenny Bruce in the play Lenny. Although the
film version, directed by Bob Fosse, featured Dustin Hoffman, Gorman
was recruited to portray a Dustin Hoffman-like character portraying
Lenny Bruce, in a side-story in Fosse's autobiographical film All That
Jazz (1979).He played Joseph Goebbels in the 1981 TV movie The Bunker,
and co-starred as Lt. Andrews in the film Angel (1984). He had roles
in the movies Cops and Robbers (1973), Rosebud (1975), Brinks: The
Great Robbery (1976), An Unmarried Woman (1978) with Jill Clayburgh,
Night of the Juggler (1980), Hoffa (1992) with Jack Nicholson and
Danny DeVito, and Night and the City (1992). His TV work included
performances in the series Law and Order, Murder, She Wrote, Friday
the 13th: the Series, and the 1970s drama Police Story, written by
former LAPD Detective Sergeant Joseph Wambaugh.
stage and screen actor. He won an Obie award in 1968 for the stage
presentation of The Boys in the Band, and went on to reprise his role
in the 1970 film version.Gorman was born Joel Joshua Goldberg in
Queens, New York, the son of Jewish parents, Ethel (née Kaplan) and
Samuel Goldberg, who later changed their surname to Gorman. He
attended The High School of Music & Art in Manhattan.Gorman won a Tony
Award in 1972 for playing Lenny Bruce in the play Lenny. Although the
film version, directed by Bob Fosse, featured Dustin Hoffman, Gorman
was recruited to portray a Dustin Hoffman-like character portraying
Lenny Bruce, in a side-story in Fosse's autobiographical film All That
Jazz (1979).He played Joseph Goebbels in the 1981 TV movie The Bunker,
and co-starred as Lt. Andrews in the film Angel (1984). He had roles
in the movies Cops and Robbers (1973), Rosebud (1975), Brinks: The
Great Robbery (1976), An Unmarried Woman (1978) with Jill Clayburgh,
Night of the Juggler (1980), Hoffa (1992) with Jack Nicholson and
Danny DeVito, and Night and the City (1992). His TV work included
performances in the series Law and Order, Murder, She Wrote, Friday
the 13th: the Series, and the 1970s drama Police Story, written by
former LAPD Detective Sergeant Joseph Wambaugh.
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