Cliff Gorman

Cliff Gorman

Born: October 13, 1936
Died: September 5, 2002
in Queens, New York City, New York, USA
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.

Movies for Cliff Gorman...

Kill the Poor
Title: Kill the Poor
Character: Yakov
Released: May 9, 2003
Type: Movie
When a marriage of convenience becomes the real thing, Joe moves his pregnant French wife to a tenement building on New York's Lower East Side. The street is like a war zone with none of the nostalgic appeal that Joe remembers from tales of his immigrant grandparents arriving in the same neighborhood with a new life. This is the urban frontier filled with comic mixture of gentrifies, homeboys, dealers and local residents simply bent on staying a float
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King of the Jungle
Title: King of the Jungle
Character: Jack
Released: October 12, 2000
Type: Movie
Seymore is a young man with the mind of a child. He loves three things in life: basketball, sneaking out for cigarettes, and his mother. But all life's simple pleasures are brutally torn from him when he witnesses his mother gunned down by a neighborhood punk. Now Seymore must overcome the child within as he rises up to fight for some kind of justice. It's a fight that will take him out into the streets where there are few friends and many enemies -- and one of them is a killer who wants him silenced.
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Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai
Title: Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai
Character: Sonny Valerio
Released: October 6, 1999
Type: Movie
An African-American Mafia hit man who models himself after the samurai of ancient Japan finds himself targeted for death by the mob.
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The 60s
Title: The 60s
Character: Father Daniel Berrigan
Released: February 7, 1999
Type: Movie
The Herlihys are a working class family from Chicago whose three children take wildly divergent paths: Brian joins the Marines right out of High School and goes to Vietnam, Michael becomes involved in the civil rights movement and after campaigning for Bobby Kennedy and Eugene McCarthy becomes involved in radical politics, and Katie gets pregnant, moves to San Francisco and joins a hippie commune. Meanwhile, the Taylors are an African-American family living in the deep South. When Willie Taylor, a minister and civil rights organizer, is shot to death, his son Emmet moves to the city and eventually joins the Black Panthers, serving as a bodyguard for Fred Hampton.
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Down Came a Blackbird
Title: Down Came a Blackbird
Character: Nick the Greek
Released: October 22, 1995
Type: Movie
A woman struggles with the death of her lover. He was killed by South-American fascists.
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Title: New York News
Released: September 28, 1995
Type: TV
New York News is a newspaper drama which was broadcast in the United States by CBS as part of its 1995 fall lineup.
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Janek: The Silent Betrayal
Title: Janek: The Silent Betrayal
Character: Greenburg
Released: December 20, 1994
Type: Movie
Police lieutenant Frank Janek is investigating a series of murders in a building owned by a famous Broadway producer.
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The Forget-Me-Not Murders
Title: The Forget-Me-Not Murders
Character: Aaron
Released: March 29, 1994
Type: Movie
A detective tries to track down a serial killer who is thought to be targeting the policeman's god-daughter.
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Hoffa
Title: Hoffa
Character: Solly Stein
Released: December 25, 1992
Type: Movie
A portrait of union leader James R. Hoffa, as seen through the eyes of his friend, Bobby Ciaro. The film follows Hoffa through his countless battles with the RTA and President Roosevelt.
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Night and the City
Title: Night and the City
Character: Phil Nasseros
Released: October 11, 1992
Type: Movie
Looking to get rich quick, an unsuccessful lawyer uses dishonest means to try to become a boxing promoter.
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Terror on Track 9
Title: Terror on Track 9
Character: Sgt. Aaron Greenberg
Released: September 20, 1992
Type: Movie
A New York detective tracks a serial killer who injects his victims with poison at Grand Central Station.
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Vestige of Honor
Title: Vestige of Honor
Character: Sanderson
Released: December 30, 1990
Type: Movie
A hospital administrator and a former Green Beret join forces to try to aid a group of Montagnards, a pro-American people who were trapped in Thailand following the Vietnam War.
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Murder Times Seven
Title: Murder Times Seven
Character: Aaron Greenberg
Released: October 14, 1990
Type: Movie
For the third time, Lieutenant Janek is forced to face alone a difficult case, which has some brutal murders that way involving some bigwigs of the underworld. The case is complicated by the fact that one of the victims is his friend Ray Kiley. During the investigation Janek finds out that Kiley worked for counterintelligence.
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Title: Law & Order
Character: Gary Feldman
Released: September 13, 1990
Type: TV
In cases ripped from the headlines, police investigate serious and often deadly crimes, weighing the evidence and questioning the suspects until someone is taken into custody. The district attorney's office then builds a case to convict the perpetrator by proving the person guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. Working together, these expert teams navigate all sides of the complex criminal justice system to make New York a safer place.
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Murder in Black and White
Title: Murder in Black and White
Character: Aaron Greenberg
Released: January 7, 1990
Type: Movie
A recently appointed black police commissioner is killed. So, Frank Janek is assigned to investigate.
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Internal Affairs
Title: Internal Affairs
Character: Aaron Greenberg
Released: November 6, 1988
Type: Movie
A skilled police detective in a case involving the strange, sadistic murder of a young prostitute who has been killed in exactly the same fashion as a young nightclub singer in Saigon during the Vietnam War. At the same time, the detective attempts to ferret out corruption in the police ranks.
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Doubletake
Title: Doubletake
Character: Aaron Greenberg
Released: November 24, 1985
Type: Movie
Two corpses are found in different locations with their heads severed and exchanged. Frank Janek is called on to head the team of detectives investigating. Meanwhile, Janek is trying to find out why an old friend and colleague committed suicide, which eventually leads to a romantic situation with photographer Caroline Wallace and the discovery of some major corruption among his superiors, all of which has little or nothing to do with the murder story.
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Title: Janek
Character: Sergent Aaron Greenberg
Released: November 24, 1985
Type: TV
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Title: Murder, She Wrote
Character: Police Chief Cooper
Released: September 30, 1984
Type: TV
An unassuming mystery writer turned sleuth uses her professional insight to help solve real-life homicide cases.
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Angel
Title: Angel
Character: Lt. Andrews
Released: April 19, 1984
Type: Movie
Molly Stewart, a teen at the top of her class who survives by working nights as a prostitute on Hollywood Blvd, finds her world beginning to fall apart when a depraved, necrophiliac serial killer begins targeting LA’s streetwalkers.
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Cocaine and Blue Eyes
Title: Cocaine and Blue Eyes
Character: Riki Anatole
Released: January 2, 1983
Type: Movie
Michael Brennen, a San Francisco private eye gets dragged into a drug-smuggling operation while searching for the girlfriend of a deal client, leading Brennen to a politically prominent family.
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Title: Cagney & Lacey
Released: March 25, 1982
Type: TV
Mary Beth Lacey and Chris Cagney are teamed up as NYPD police detectives. Their opposing personalities (one is tough and the other sensitive) mesh to make this one of the great crime-fighting duos of all time.
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The Bunker
Title: The Bunker
Character: Joseph Goebbels
Released: April 15, 1981
Type: Movie
Dramatization depicting the events surrounding Adolf Hitler's last weeks in and around his underground bunker in Berlin before and during the battle for the city.
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Night of the Juggler
Title: Night of the Juggler
Character: Gus Soltic
Released: June 6, 1980
Type: Movie
An ex New York cop is desperate to find his kidnapped daughter.
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All That Jazz
Title: All That Jazz
Character: Davis Newman
Released: December 16, 1979
Type: Movie
Joe Gideon is at the top of the heap, one of the most successful directors and choreographers in musical theater. But he can feel his world slowly collapsing around him - his obsession with work has almost destroyed his personal life, and only his bottles of pills keep him going.
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An Unmarried Woman
Title: An Unmarried Woman
Character: Charlie
Released: May 24, 1978
Type: Movie
A wealthy woman from Manhattan's Upper East Side struggles to deal with her new identity and her sexuality after her husband of 16 years leaves her for a younger woman.
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Having Babies II
Title: Having Babies II
Character: Arthur Magee
Released: October 28, 1977
Type: Movie
The story of various couples who get caught up in the personal and emotional crises of birth, adoption and hospitalization, and also of the hospital and health care workers who take care of them.
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Brinks: The Great Robbery
Title: Brinks: The Great Robbery
Character: Danny Conforti
Released: March 26, 1976
Type: Movie
In this telling of the infamous 1950 robbery, James McNally is portrayed as the one gang member who maintains his silence in the face of extreme police pressure. When he is sent up to prison and sees the other gang members letting him take all the heat, he still doesn't come clean to the cops. He feels a loyalty to his best friend, who was also in on the crime. But what will his best friend choose to do?
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The Silence
Title: The Silence
Character: Stanley Greenberg
Released: November 6, 1975
Type: Movie
A cadet at West Point is subjected to "internal exile," which means that other students refuse to talk to him or acknowledge his existence, after he is accused of violating the school's code of honor.
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Title: Medical Story
Released: September 4, 1975
Type: TV
Medical Story is an American anthology series that aired on NBC from September 4, 1975 until January 8, 1976.
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Strike Force
Title: Strike Force
Character: Det. Joey Gentry
Released: April 12, 1975
Type: Movie
A New York City detective teams up with a federal agent and a state trooper to bust up a drug ring.
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Rosebud
Title: Rosebud
Character: Yafet Hemlekh
Released: March 24, 1975
Type: Movie
In a bold coup a Palestinian terrorist group captures the yacht Rosebud and kidnaps the millionaires five daughters on it. At first they demand film clips to be shown on major European TV stations. Undercover agent Martin is hired to hunt the terrorists down.
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Cops and Robbers
Title: Cops and Robbers
Character: Tom
Released: August 15, 1973
Type: Movie
Two disillusioned New York policemen plan a $10 million robbery to fuel their low pensions, only to run into one debacle after another in the process.
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Title: Police Story
Released: March 20, 1973
Type: TV
Police Story is an anthology television crime drama. The show was the brainchild of author and former policeman Joseph Wambaugh and represented a major step forward in the realistic depiction of police work and violence on network TV. Although it was an anthology, there were certain things that all episodes had in common; for instance, the main character in each episode was a police officer. The setting was always Los Angeles and the characters always worked for some branch of the LAPD. Notwithstanding the anthology format, there were recurring characters. Scott Brady appeared in more than a dozen episodes as "Vinnie," a former cop who, upon retirement, had opened a bar catering to police officers, and who acted as a sort of Greek chorus during the run of the series, commenting on the characters and plots.
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Class of '63
Title: Class of '63
Character: Mickey Swerner
Released: March 14, 1973
Type: Movie
A jealous husband uses a college reunion to gauge whether or not his wife is still in love with her old flame.
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Title: The Streets of San Francisco
Released: September 23, 1972
Type: TV
Two police officers, the older Lt. Stone and the young upstart Inspector Keller, investigate murders and other serious crimes in San Francisco. Stone would become a second father to Keller as he learned the rigors and procedures of detective work.
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Paradise Lost
Title: Paradise Lost
Character: Kewpie
Released: February 25, 1971
Type: Movie
Playwright Clifford Odets' portrait of the Great Depression unfolds in the modest two-family home of Leo and Clara Gordon as misfortune strikes them and the people running with them. Opened on Broadway in 1935, it became one of the Group Theatre's most controversial plays and Odets' favorite.
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Title: Great Performances
Character: Kewpie
Released: January 28, 1971
Type: TV
The best in the performing arts from across America and around the world including a diverse programming portfolio of classical music, opera, popular song, musical theater, dance, drama, and performance documentaries.
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The Chicago Conspiracy Trial
Title: The Chicago Conspiracy Trial
Released: October 4, 1970
Type: Movie
A BBC-produced docudrama based on trial transcripts and aired in the United Kingdom in October 1970
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The Boys in the Band
Title: The Boys in the Band
Character: Emory
Released: March 16, 1970
Type: Movie
A witty, perceptive and devastating look at the personal agendas and suppressed revelations swirling among a group of gay men in Manhattan. Harold is celebrating a birthday, and his friend Michael has drafted some other friends to help commemorate the event. As the evening progresses, the alcohol flows, the knives come out, and Michael's demand that the group participate in a devious telephone game, unleashing dormant and unspoken emotions.
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Justine
Title: Justine
Character: Toto
Released: August 6, 1969
Type: Movie
In Alexandria, in 1938, Darley, a young British schoolmaster and poet, makes friends through Pursewarden, the British consular officer, with Justine, the beautiful and mysterious wife of a Coptic banker. He observes the affairs of her heart and incidentally discovers that she is involved in a plot against the British, meant to arm the Jewish underground in Palestine. The plot finally fails, Justine is sent to jail and Darley decides to return to England.
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Title: Hawaii Five-O
Character: Robert Huston
Released: September 20, 1968
Type: TV
Hawaii Five-O is an American police procedural drama series produced by CBS Productions and Leonard Freeman. Set in Hawaii, the show originally aired for 12 seasons from 1968 to 1980, and continues in reruns. Jack Lord portrayed Detective Lieutenant Steve McGarrett, the head of a special state police task force which was based on an actual unit that existed under martial law in the 1940s. The theme music composed by Morton Stevens became especially popular. Many episodes would end with McGarrett instructing his subordinate to "Book 'em, Danno!", sometimes specifying a charge such as "murder one".
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Title: The Dick Cavett Show
Character: Self - Guest
Released: June 6, 1968
Type: TV
The Dick Cavett Show has been the title of several talk shows hosted by Dick Cavett on various television networks.
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Title: Tony Awards
Character: Self - Nominee
Released: April 1, 1956
Type: TV
The Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Theatre, more commonly known as a Tony Award, recognizes achievement in live Broadway theatre. The awards are presented by the American Theatre Wing and The Broadway League at an annual ceremony in New York City. The awards are given for Broadway productions and performances, and an award is given for regional theatre.