Henry Goodman

British actor (born 1950)

Henry Goodman

Born|  (1950-04-23) 23 April 1950 (age 74)

Whitechapel, London, England, UK

Occupation| Actor
Years active| 1972–present
Spouse|

Sue Parker

(m. 1975)​

Children| 2

Henry Goodman (born 23 April 1950) is a RADA trained British actor.[1][2] He has appeared on television and radio, in film and in the theatre.[3]

## Early life[edit]

He attended the Central Foundation Boys' School[4] and joined the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, London, in 1969.[5]

## Career[edit]

### Television[edit]

In 2003 Goodman guest starred in the ITV series Foyle's War as corrupt American industrialist Howard Paige in “Fifty Ships”, the opening episode of Season 2 of the British TV crime drama set in WWII. In 2013 he played the role of Sir Humphrey Appleby in the remake of Yes, Prime Minister which was launched on the Gold television channel.[6]

### Theatre[edit]

In 1991, he originated the role of Roy Cohn in the world premiere of Angels in America.[7]

He portrayed Charles Guiteau in the London premiere of Assassins at the Donmar Warehouse in 1992.[8] He starred as Nathan Detroit in Guys and Dolls at the Royal National Theatre in 1996.[9][10] The next year, he portrayed Billy Flynn in the West End revival of Chicago.[11]

Goodman appeared on Broadway in three shows. He briefly replaced Nathan Lane as Max Bialystock in The Producers in 2002, but was fired after one month due to creative differences with Mel Brooks.[12] The following year he returned to Broadway in Tartuffe.[13]

In 2007, he starred as Tevye in Fiddler on the Roof at the Savoy Theatre in London’s West End.[14]

In 2010 he played the role of Sir Humphrey Appleby in the stage version of Yes, Prime Minister[15] at the Chichester Festival Theatre[16] and later at the Gielgud Theatre, in London's West End from 17 September 2010.[17]

In 2012 he played the title role in The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui in Chichester and then in the West End to critical acclaim.[18][19]

In 2015 he played the title role in Ben Jonson's Jacobean comedy Volpone at the Royal Shakespeare Company, directed by Trevor Nunn and co-starring Matthew Kelly and Miles Richardson.[20] His previous RSC appearance was in 2003 as Richard III.[21]

In 2017 he played Lucian Freud in Looking at Lucian, written by Alan Franks, at the Ustinov Studio at Theatre Royal, Bath.[22][23] Of this part, he said "I share an intense hunger to want theatre to be as meaningful as he wanted painting to be."[24]

In 2022, he played Hercule Poirot in Ken Ludwig’s adaptation of Murder on the Orient Express at the Chichester Festival Theatre and the Theatre Royal, Bath.[25] He was nominated for a UK Theatre Award for his performance.[26]

### Film[edit]

In 1999 Goodman played a memorable cameo role as the Ritz concierge in Notting Hill. He portrayed a Hydra doctor in the 2014 film Captain America: The Winter Soldier, though he was not listed in the credits. He played the character again, now named Dr. List, on the second season of the TV show Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., and in the 2015 film Avengers: Age of Ultron.[27][28]

### Radio[edit]

Goodman is also a respected radio actor. He portrayed Pierre Beaumarchais in the BBC Radio 4 series Beaumarchais in 1996, "Melvin" in The Attractive Young Rabbi (BBC Radio 4, 1999-2002) and Leopold Bloom in BBC Radio 4's all-day adaptation of James Joyce's Ulysses for 'Bloomsday' in 2012.[29] He has also played author and chemist Primo Levi[30] and a large number of other, often Jewish, characters on Radio 4.[citation needed]

Goodman is the narrator in the premiere recording by the Hallé Orchestra of the complete stage music Vaughan Williams wrote for the 1909 Cambridge University production of The Wasps by Aristophanes.[31]

## Awards and reputation[edit]

His awards include the Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Musical playing Charles Guiteau in Assassins at the Donmar Warehouse directed by Sam Mendes in 1993,[32] and the Olivier Award for Best Actor for Shylock in The Merchant of Venice at the National Theatre directed by Trevor Nunn in 2000.[33] He has also been nominated for an Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Musical in 1998 for Chicago,[34] London Critics Circle Theatre Award for Best Actor (The Merchant of Venice), and Theatre Awards UK for Best Performance in a Play in 2012 (The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui).[35]

In his autobiography, Antony Sher says Goodman's Shylock is "quite simply the best". He reprised his role for a television film which was released in 2004.[citation needed]

## Personal life[edit]

Goodman is Jewish. He has five siblings.[36] He is married to Sue Parker, a choreographer and dance director.[37]

## Filmography[edit]

### Television[edit]

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* The Golden Bowl
* Bust
* This is David Lander
* London's Burning
* Three Up, Two Down
* Gentlemen and Players
* Rules of Engagement
* After the War
* Act of Will
* Capital City
* Screen Two
* El C.I.D.
* Chain
* The Bill
* The Gravy Train Goes East (1991)[38]
* Maigret
* Zorro
* Lovejoy
* Rides
* 99-1
* Performance, BBC — Measure for Measure, 1994[39]
* Smith & Jones
* Cold Lazarus (1996)[40]
* American Voices
* Murder Rooms: Mysteries of the Real Sherlock Holmes
* Masterpiece Theatre — Broken Glass, TV film, 1996[41]
* Dalziel and Pascoe
* Arabian Nights (2000) – Sultan Billah
* Spooks, (2002, "The Lesser of Two Evils")[42]
* Trust
* Foyle's War (2003)[43]
* Keen Eddie, (2004, Rabbi Mendelssohn, "Who Wants to Be in a Club That Would Have Me as a Member?", Episode 11)[44]
* M.I.T.: Murder Investigation Team
* Murder in Suburbia , "The Wedding", Series 2 – Episode 3[45]
* Mumbai Calling, (2007, Pilot)[46]
* Falcon
* Yes, Prime Minister, (2010) 6 episodes[47]
* Midsomer Murders , (2013)[48]
* New Tricks, (2013, "Cry Me a River", Series 10, Episode 5)[49]
* Playhouse Presents , Nixon's the One, (2014)[50]
* Penny Dreadful, (2014, "Grand Guignol")[51]
* Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. – Dr. List
* Snatch – Saul Gold
* The Reckoning \- Sir Ludwig Guttman[52]

### Film[edit]

Sources: Rotten Tomatoes[53] TCM[54] AllMovie[55]

* Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story
* Secret Weapon
* Son of the Pink Panther
* Degas and Pissarro Fall Out
* Mary Reilly
* Private Parts
* The Saint
* Notting Hill
* Arabian Nights
* Dirty Tricks
* The Final Curtain
* Hamilton Mattress
* The Mayor of Casterbridge
* The Life and Death of Peter Sellers
* Churchill: The Hollywood Years
* Green Street
* Shakespeare's Happy Endings
* Colour Me Kubrick: A True...Ish Story
* Out on a Limb [56]
* The Damned United
* Taking Woodstock
* The Last Days of Lehman Brothers
* The Road to Coronation Street
* Codebreaker
* The Half-Light
* Wonder
* The Challenger Disaster
* Captain America: The Winter Soldier – Dr. List
* Woman in Gold
* Avengers: Age of Ultron – Dr. List
* De Surprise
* Altamira
* Love is Thicker Than Water
* El Elegido
* Their Finest (2016)
* The Limehouse Golem (2016)
* Two Words (2018)
* Sundown (2021)

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4. ^ "Alumni". Central Foundation Boys' School. 2013. Archived from the original on 3 October 2015. Retrieved 8 October 2015.
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20. ^ Billington, Michael. " 'Volpone' review – Henry Goodman creates a magnetic monster" The Guardian, 10 July 2015
21. ^ Billington, Michael. "Review. 'Richard III' " The Guardian, 24 July 2003
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23. ^ Michael Billington (11 August 2017). "Looking at Lucian review – mesmerising portrait of the artist as an old man". The Guardian.
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## External links[edit]

* Interview with Henry Goodman on SomethingJewish Archived 10 August 2017 at the Wayback Machine
* Henry Goodman at IMDb

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* Mark Rylance (2009)
* David Suchet (2010)
* Benedict Cumberbatch (2011)
* Adrian Lester (2012)
* Lenny Henry (2013)
* Mark Strong (2014)
* Kenneth Cranham (2015)
* Stephen Dillane (2016)
* Bryan Cranston (2017)
* Kyle Soller (2018)
* Andrew Scott (2019)
* Ben Daniels (2022)
* Andrew Scott (2023)

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1976–1984
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* Alan Howard (1976)
* Ian McKellen (1977)
* Alan Howard (1978)
* Warren Mitchell (1979)
* Jonathan Pryce (1980)
* Daniel Massey (1981)
* Stephen Moore (1982)
* Derek Jacobi (1983)
* Ian McKellen (1984)
* Brian Cox (1988)

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* Paul Copley (1976)
* Michael Bryant (1977)
* Tom Conti (1978)
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* Roger Rees (1980)
* Trevor Eve (1981)
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* Jack Shepherd (1983)
* Brian Cox (1984)
* David Haig (1988)

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* Albert Finney (1986)
* Michael Gambon (1987)
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* Robert Stephens (1993)
* Mark Rylance (1994)
* David Bamber (1995)
* Alex Jennings (1996)
* Antony Sher (1997)
* Ian Holm (1998)
* Kevin Spacey (1999)
* Henry Goodman (2000)
* Conleth Hill (2001)
* Roger Allam (2002)
* Simon Russell Beale (2003)
* Matthew Kelly (2004)
* Richard Griffiths (2005)
* Brian Dennehy (2006)
* Rufus Sewell (2007)
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* Luke Treadaway (2013)
* Rory Kinnear (2014)
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* Kenneth Cranham (2016)
* Jamie Parker (2017)
* Bryan Cranston (2018)
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* Andrew Scott (2020)
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* Mark Gatiss (2024)

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* John Bardon and Emil Wolk (1987)
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