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Thu Oct 31, 2024, 09:16 AM Oct 31

On October 30, 1939, Danny Goldman, of "Young Frankenstein," was born.

Movies! TV ran a bunch of Mel Brooks movies on Sunday, and I caught the first half-hour or so of "Young Frankenstein." I wondered who played the med student.

Danny Goldman


Goldman in 2008

Born: Daniel Goldman; October 30, 1939; New York City, U.S.
Died: April 12, 2020 (aged 80); Los Angeles, California, U.S.

Daniel Goldman (October 30, 1939 – April 12, 2020) was an American actor and casting director. He was the voice of Brainy Smurf in Hanna-Barbera's The Smurfs (1981–1989).

Early life

Goldman graduated from Far Rockaway High School in Queens, New York City, in 1957. He subsequently attended and graduated from Columbia University in Manhattan, in 1961.

Career

One of his first roles was that of Nick Dutton, the son of an industrialist who knew the truth about his family's new butler and housekeeper, and helped them get acquainted in their new jobs in the 1971 situation comedy The Good Life. Among his other early roles on television were appearances in the TV shows That Girl; Room 222; The Partridge Family; Love, American Style; Needles and Pins; Columbo; Baretta and Chico and the Man. He was a regular member of the cast of the situation comedy Busting Loose in 1977. Goldman was also featured as Ozzie the Answer in the 1980s detective drama Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer and as Dr. Denton on Get Smart, Again! He acted in the episode "I'll Kill 'Em Again" of police drama Hawaii Five-O and in the episodes "Brain Child" and "42" in Trapper John, M.D. Goldman appeared as a panelist on the What's My Line? TV program during its syndicated run, and on the live stage version in Hollywood several years later. In 2005, he appeared in an episode of the sitcom The King of Queens.

His feature film debut was in MASH (1970). Other credits included a small role as a persistent medical student who asks Dr. Frankenstein (Gene Wilder) about his grandfather in Young Frankenstein (1974), and roles in Busting (1974), Linda Lovelace for President (1975), Tunnel Vision (1976), The Missouri Breaks (1976), Swap Meet (1979), Wholly Moses! (1980) and My Man Adam (1985). He also portrayed Porter in Where the Buffalo Roam (1980).

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