Cliff Gorman
Date of birth: 1936-10-13
Place of birth: Queens, New York City, New York, USA
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Joel Joshua Goldberg
Biography
Cliff Gorman 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 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 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.
Movie Credits
Angel
1984-04-19
Molly Stewart, a teen at the top of her class who survives by working nights as a prostitute on Holl
Rosebud
1975-03-24
In a bold coup a Palestinian terrorist group captures the yacht Rosebud and kidnaps the millionaires
Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai
1999-10-06
A Black hitman who models after the samurai of old finds himself targeted for death by the mob.
Kill the Poor
2003-05-09
When a marriage of convenience becomes the real thing, Joe moves his pregnant French wife to a tenem
The Boys in the Band
1970-03-16
A witty, perceptive and devastating look at the personal agendas and suppressed revelations swirling
The Bunker
1981-04-15
Dramatization depicting the events surrounding Adolf Hitler's last weeks in and around his undergrou
Night and the City
1992-10-16
Looking to get rich quick, an unsuccessful lawyer uses dishonest means to try to become a boxing pro
Justine
1969-08-06
In Alexandria, in 1938, Darley, a young British schoolmaster and poet, makes friends through Pursewa
Night of the Juggler
1980-06-06
A tough, New York City ex-cop relentlessly searches for his kidnapped teenage daughter whom is held
An Unmarried Woman
1978-05-24
A wealthy woman from Manhattan's Upper East Side struggles to deal with her new identity and her sex
All That Jazz
1979-12-16
Joe Gideon is at the top of the heap, one of the most successful directors and choreographers in mus
Cops and Robbers
1973-08-15
Two disillusioned New York policemen plan a $10 million robbery to fuel their low pensions, only to
Down Came a Blackbird
1995-10-22
A woman struggles with the death of her lover. He was killed by South-American fascists.
King of the Jungle
2000-10-12
Seymore is a young man with the mind of a child. He loves three things in life: basketball, sneaking
Strike Force
1975-04-12
A New York City detective teams up with a federal agent and a state trooper to bust up a drug ring.
The Chicago Conspiracy Trial
1970-10-04
A BBC-produced docudrama based on trial transcripts and aired in the United Kingdom in October 1970
Class of '63
1973-03-14
A jealous husband uses a college reunion to gauge whether or not his wife is still in love with her
Vestige of Honor
1990-12-30
A hospital administrator and a former Green Beret join forces to try to aid a group of Montagnards,
Paradise Lost
1971-02-25
Playwright Clifford Odets' portrait of the Great Depression unfolds in the modest two-family home of
The Forget-Me-Not Murders
1994-03-29
A detective tries to track down a serial killer who is thought to be targeting the policeman's god-d
The '60s
1999-02-07
The Herlihys are a working class family from Chicago whose three children take wildly divergent path
Hoffa
1992-12-25
A portrait of union leader James R. Hoffa, as seen through the eyes of his friend, Bobby Ciaro. The
Cocaine and Blue Eyes
1983-01-02
Michael Brennen, a San Francisco private eye gets dragged into a drug-smuggling operation while sear
Murder Times Seven
1990-10-14
For the third time, Lieutenant Janek is forced to face alone a difficult case, which has some brutal
Internal Affairs
1988-11-06
A skilled police detective in a case involving the strange, sadistic murder of a young prostitute wh
Doubletake
1985-11-24
Two corpses are found in different locations with their heads severed and exchanged. Frank Janek is
Having Babies II
1977-10-28
The story of various couples who get caught up in the personal and emotional crises of birth, adopti
Terror on Track 9
1992-09-20
A New York detective tracks a serial killer who injects his victims with poison at Grand Central Sta
Janek: The Silent Betrayal
1994-12-20
Police lieutenant Frank Janek is investigating a series of murders in a building owned by a famous B
The Silence
1975-11-06
A cadet at West Point is subjected to "internal exile," which means that other students refuse to ta
Brinks: The Great Robbery
1976-03-26
In this telling of the infamous 1950 robbery, James McNally is portrayed as the one gang member who
Murder in Black and White
1990-01-07
A recently appointed black police commissioner is killed. So, Frank Janek is assigned to investigate
Making a Case for Murder
1989-12-04
In December, 1986, 3 black men ran into car trouble in Howard Beach, a middle-class neighborhood in