Cliff Gorman

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.

Known For

Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai

as Sonny Valerio

Law & Order

as Gary Feldman

All That Jazz

as Davis Newman

Murder, She Wrote

as Police Chief Cooper

Murder, She Wrote

as NYPD Lt. Parnell

Hoffa

as Solly Stein

Hawaii Five-O

as Robert Huston

The Boys in the Band

as Emory

Angel

as Lt. Andrews

The Streets of San Francisco