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Cliff Gorman (born Joel Joshua Goldberg; October 13, 1936 – September 5, 2002) was an American stage and screen actor.[1] He won an Obie award in 1968 for the stage presentation of The Boys in the Band,[1] and went on to reprise his role in the 1970 film version.[2]

Cliff Gorman
Gorman in An Unmarried Woman
Born	Joel Joshua Goldberg (1936-10-13)October 13, 1936 Queens, New York City, U.S.
Died	September 5, 2002(2002-09-05) (aged 65) Manhattan, New York City, U.S.
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1968–2002
Spouse	Gayle Gorman ​ (m. 1963)​

Life and career

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.[3][4] He attended The High School of Music & Art in Manhattan.[1]

Gorman won a Tony Award in 1972 for playing Lenny Bruce in the play Lenny.[1] 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).[5][6]

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).^{[citation needed]} 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.^{[citation needed]}

On the September 13, 1965 episode of To Tell The Truth, Gorman sat in seat #1 as an imposter for game #3 of the evening. He received two votes, one from Orson Bean, and one from Kitty Carlisle. When asked what he actually did for a living, he responded that he sold room air conditioners for the Republic Water Heater Company.[7]

Personal life

Gorman and his wife cared for his fellow The Boys in the Band cast member Robert La Tourneaux in the last few months of his battle against AIDS, until La Tourneaux's death on June 3, 1986.[8][9]

Death

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Gorman died of leukemia in 2002, aged 65, although his final film, Kill the Poor, was not released until 2003. He was survived by his wife, Gayle Gorman.

Filmography

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1969	Justine	"Toto"
1970	The Boys in the Band	Emory
1973	Cops and Robbers	Tom
1975	Rosebud	Hamlekh
1975	The Silence	Stanley Greenberg	TV movie
1976	Brinks: The Great Robbery	Danny Conforti	TV movie
1977	Having Babies II	Arthur Magee	TV movie
1978	An Unmarried Woman	Charlie
1979	All That Jazz	Davis Newman
1980	Night of the Juggler	Gus Soltic
1981	The Bunker	Joseph Goebbels	TV movie
1984	Angel	Lieutenant Andrews
1992	Night and the City	Phil Nasseros
1992	Hoffa	Soloman "Solly" Stein
1999	Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai	Sonny Valerio
2000	King of the Jungle	Jack
2003	Kill the Poor	Yakov	(final film role)

References

External links

• Cliff Gorman at IMDb
• Cliff Gorman at the Internet Broadway Database
• Cliff Gorman at the Internet Off-Broadway Database
• Cliff Gorman at Find a Grave

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Клифф Го́рман (англ. Cliff Gorman; 13 октября 1936 — 5 сентября 2002) — американский актёр. Лауреат премии «Тони».

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