Allen Garfield
Date of birth: 1939-11-22
Place of birth: Newark, New Jersey, USA
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Alan Garfield, Alen Garfield, Allan Goorwitz, Allen Goorwitz
Biography
Allen Garfield, born and sometimes credited as Allen Goorwitz (November 22, 1939 - April 7, 2020), was an American film and television actor. Garfield was born in Newark, New Jersey, the son of Alice (née Lavroff) and Philip Goorwitz.A graduate of Weequahic High School, he was a sports reporter and Golden Gloves boxer before becoming an actor. He studied acting at The Actors Studio in New York City, studying with both Lee Strasberg and Elia Kazan, and worked in stage before film. Garfield was a quirky and prolific actor who appeared in over 100 films and television shows. He was known for playing nervous villains, corrupt businessmen and politicians. In addition he appeared in two art films by German director Wim Wenders, Der Stand der Dinge and Bis ans Ende der Welt. Garfield had one sister, Lois. Description above from the Wikipedia article Allen Garfield, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Movie Credits
Beverly Hills Cop II
1987-05-18
Axel Foley returns to the land of sunshine and palm trees to investigate the near-fatal shooting of
The Front Page
1974-11-01
A journalist suffering from burn-out wants to finally say goodbye to his office – but his boss doesn
The Conversation
1974-04-07
A paranoid, secretive surveillance expert has a crisis of conscience when he suspects that the coupl
The Ninth Gate
1999-08-25
A rare book dealer finds himself at the heart of a string of paranormal events when he is hired to f
Nashville
1975-06-11
The intersecting stories of twenty-four characters—from country star to wannabe to reporter to waitr
My Best Friend's Birthday
1987-01-01
An unfinished black-and-white comedy written, directed, and co-produced by Quentin Tarantino. Shot o
Diabolique
1996-03-22
The wife and mistress of a cruel school master collaborate in a carefully planned and executed schem
The Majestic
2001-12-21
Set in 1951, a blacklisted Hollywood writer gets into a car accident, loses his memory and settles d
The State of Things
1982-03-22
On location in Portugal, a film crew runs out of film while making their own version of Roger Corman
White Boy
2002-03-10
An Italian street hood gets romantically involved with a woman who is the ex-girlfriend of a leader
The Candidate
1972-06-29
Bill McKay is a candidate for the U.S. Senate from California. He has no hope of winning, so he is w
Teachers
1984-10-05
A teacher reconnects with an old student who is now an attorney representing a family who is suing t
The Brink's Job
1978-12-08
In 1950, a group of unlikely criminal masterminds commits the robbery of the century. Led by Tony Pi
The Black Stallion Returns
1983-03-25
"Black" is a stunning fire-and-silk stallion celebrated the world over. But to his young American ow
Putney Swope
1969-07-10
Swope—the only black man on the executive board of an advertising firm—is accidentally put in charge
Continental Divide
1981-09-18
A hard-nosed Chicago journalist has an unlikely love affair with an eagle researcher.
Wild Side
1996-06-22
A bank accountant who moonlights as a high-priced call girl becomes embroiled in the lives of a mone
Footsteps
1972-10-03
A football coach is hired by a small college to shape up its football team, and he finds himself in
Get Crazy
1983-08-05
Mega-promoter Colin Beverly plans to sabotage the New Year's 1983 concert of small-time operator Max
One Trick Pony
1980-10-03
An aging rock star trying to put together a new album in the face of an indifferent record label and
The Stunt Man
1980-06-27
A fugitive stumbles onto a movie set just when they need a new stunt man, takes the job as a way to
Hi, Mom!
1970-04-27
Vietnam vet Jon Rubin returns to New York and rents a rundown flat in Greenwich Village. It is in th
The Owl and the Pussycat
1970-11-03
Meek, owlish Felix and strident, catty Doris live in the same apartment building. His incessant typi
Cyborg 2
1993-11-24
In the year 2074, the cybernetics market is dominated by two rival companies: USA's Pinwheel Robotic
Irreconcilable Differences
1984-09-28
Alternating between the past and the present, a precocious little girl sues her selfish, career-driv
Let It Ride
1989-08-18
An average kind of guy who has a slight problem with gambling goes to the track, and mystically, it
Absence of the Good
1999-10-15
Salt Lake City homicide detective Caleb Barnes is under increasing pressure from all sides to crack
The Organization
1971-10-20
After a group of young revolutionaries break into a company's corporate headquarters and steal $5,00
Miracle Beach
1992-09-15
Down on his luck, Scotty McKay becomes the master of a very lonely genie, who brings him wealth, pow
Busting
1974-02-27
Defying orders to lay-off the case, two Los Angeles vice-squad cops go after a local mobster and use
Believe in Me
1971-12-08
Remy is a medical student who has a flair for making his patients comfortable. His genuine concern f
You Ruined My Life
1987-02-01
"You Ruined My Life" was a cute TV movie (from the Wonderful World of Disney movies that they show o
Obsession
1997-08-28
Two men become entangled in a torrid love affair with the same woman. Pierre is Miriam's longtime lo
Cry Uncle!
1971-08-17
Private detective Jack Masters takes on a case and gets mixed up in murder, sex and blackmail.
Get to Know Your Rabbit
1972-06-07
A young businessman goes to a magic expert to learn hardness and skill with his cynical and greedy c
Night Visitor
1989-05-12
A teenager insists he saw a satanist kill the call girl next door, and tries to prove it.
Desert Bloom
1986-01-22
The story involves Rose Chismore's youth. She flashes back and remembers her coming-of-age. Her reco
Report from Hollywood
1985-01-01
“It may be worse than Portugal,” observes cinematographer Henri Alekan about a Los Angeles film lab
Club Fed
1990-08-09
A powerful gangster is murdered. However, All of his holdings were in his girlfriend's name. So she
Leave 'Em Laughing
1981-04-29
Real-life clown Jack Thum, along with his devoted wife, Shirlee, cared for dozens of homeless childr
Stuart Saves His Family
1995-04-12
A self-help advocate struggles to put his dysfunctional family in its place.
Nowhere to Run
1978-01-16
Harry's married to Marian and things are not going all that well, so he wants out but somehow feels
Serpico: The Deadly Game
1976-04-24
This pilot film for the TV series is the story of Officer Frank Serpico, a New York City cop who fou
Top of the Heap
1972-06-02
A Black cop is pushed over the edge when he is passed over for a promotion, leading him on a violent
The Million Dollar Rip-Off
1976-09-22
An electronics genius, who is an ex-con, and four of his lady friends devise a plot to steal million
Gable and Lombard
1976-02-11
A biography about the love affair between 1930s Hollywood superstars Clark Gable and Carole Lombard.
The Cotton Club
1984-12-14
Harlem's legendary Cotton Club becomes a hotbed of passion and violence as the lives and loves of en
Slither
1973-03-07
While searching for a small fortune of embezzled money, an ex-con, a small-time bandleader, his doti
Crime of the Century
1996-09-14
In 1932, the nation was shocked when the 14-month-old son of Charles Lindbergh was kidnapped, held f
Paco
1976-06-04
Paco is an orphaned Colombian boy who leaves the family farm to search for his uncle in the big big
Orgy Girls '69
1968-12-12
A five-part story detailing women and sex. In "The Housewife", a door-to-door salesman makes love to
Mother, Jugs & Speed
1976-05-26
To beat out competing ambulance services, an ace driver, an office secretary/paramedic and a suspend
Until the End of the World
1991-09-12
In 1999, a woman's life is forever changed after she survives a car crash with two bank robbers, who
You've Got To Walk It Like You Talk It or You'll Lose That Beat
1971-09-19
This oddball counterculture comedy/drama follows Zalman King through a series of kooky misadventures
Judgment: The Trial of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg
1974-01-28
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg died for betraying atomic secrets. Were they guilty beyond a reasonable d
Chief Zabu
2016-10-28
An outrageous social comedy about a New York realtor who dreams of having political influence by tak
Fyre
1979-02-01
After an innocent country girl is violently raped, her family is killed in a car accident before she
The Good, the Bad and the Beautiful
1970-01-01
A look into the cruelties and perversions of politicians.
Jack and His Friends
1992-01-01
Jack is a middle aged, overweight shoe store owner with a secure upper middle class lifestyle, inclu
Sketches of a Strangler
1978-01-01
An art student living with his sister is actually a maniac strangling dancers and prostitutes. One v
The Patriots
1994-05-18
Ariel, a young French Jew, decides to leave his family to go to Israel and secretly become an agent
Grave Images
1991-01-01
Anthology suspense / horror film with the creepy caretaker of a cemetery introducing some of its occ
One from the Heart
1982-02-11
The five-year romance of a window dresser and her boyfriend breaks up, as each of them finds a more
Dick Tracy
1990-04-05
The comic strip detective finds his life vastly complicated when Breathless Mahoney makes advances t
Trial by Terror
1983-01-01
A couple moves into a new home and find success and happiness, but soon their dream becomes a nightm
Killer in the Mirror
1986-03-31
A woman's truly evil twin steals her sister's wealthy beloved and marries him. After his death, she
Taking Off
1971-03-28
Unable to deal with her parents, Jeannie Tyne runs away from home. Larry and Lynn Tyne search for he
Virginia Hill
1974-11-19
The story of Virginia Hill, a former prostitute who was the girlfriend of '40s killer and gangster B
Greetings
1968-12-15
Three friends in New York City discuss how to dodge the draft and Vietnam, JFK's assassination, voye
Citizen Cohn
1992-08-22
As lawyer and power broker Roy Cohn lies dying of AIDS in a private hospital room, ghosts from his p
Destiny Turns on the Radio
1995-04-28
Johnny Destiny burns into Las Vegas in his hot Plymouth RoadRunner, stopping only to pick up a stran
Ring of Passion
1978-02-04
Fact-based drama about the two Joe Louis-Max Schmeling heavyweight fights and the way both boxers un
March of the Spring Hare
1971-02-17
Henry, an apathetic file clerk at the All-State Collection Agency in New York City, spends most of h
Incident at Vichy
1973-12-06
Adapted from Arthur Miller's play, film focuses on a group of Frenchmen who are detained at Vichy, t
Skateboard
1978-03-05
A Hollywood agent finds himself in debt to a powerful bookie. To make a fast buck, he creates a team
Bananas
1971-04-28
When a bumbling New Yorker is dumped by his activist girlfriend, he travels to a tiny Latin American
The Marcus-Nelson Murders
1973-03-08
A homicide detective begins to suspect that the black teenager accused of murdering two white girls
Get a Job
1998-01-01
Jay is a young slacker who has to get a job in order to receive his inheritance. Rather than physica