Danny Goldman
Biography
Danny Goldman was an American actor and casting director who spent nearly 30 years in Hollywood casting television commercials but was best known for voicing Brainy Smurf on Hanna-Barbera's The Smurfs from 1981 to 1989. Born in New York City, he graduated from Columbia University in 1961 and made his feature debut in MASH (1970). He played a persistent medical student opposite Gene Wilder in Young Frankenstein (1974), and his other films included Busting (1974), The Missouri Breaks (1976) and Where the Buffalo Roam (1980), in which he portrayed Porter. On television he was a regular on the sitcom Busting Loose in 1977, appeared as Ozzie the Answer in Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer, and played Dr. Denton in Get Smart, Again! (1989). He died in 2020.
80years old at death
- Born New York City
- Died Los Angeles
- Star sign: ScorpioThe sign runs October 23 to November 21
- Also credited as Daniel Goldman
Movie Career
- Films
- 9
- Career span
- 19 years1970 to 1989
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Beyond film
Goldman voiced the pedantic Brainy Smurf on The Smurfs from 1981 to 1989, then returned to the same role years later for several segments of Robot Chicken.
A change of course
Goldman spent close to 30 years in Hollywood working as a casting director, and his work focused on television commercials.
Danny Goldman movies on Netflix
Best known for
The films on Netflix they are best known for, with the part played in each.
Most often with
Kenneth Mars appears in three of them, more than any other actor. Pick a number on the chart or a name in the list to see the films they share.
Films together
Kenneth Mars's page
Peter Boyle's page
Liam Dunn's page
Ivor Francis's page
Online
Official profiles and reference pages.