Background
Gorman was born in New York City, New York, the son of Ethel (née Kaplan) and Samuel Gorman.
Gorman was born in New York City, New York, the son of Ethel (née Kaplan) and Samuel Gorman.
He was raised Jewish. Although the film version, directed by Bob Fosse, featured Dustin Hoffman, Gorman was recruited to portray a Dustin Hoffman-like character portraying Lenny Bruce, in a side-story in Fosse"s autobiographical film All That Jazz (1979). He played Joseph Goebbels in the 1981 television movie The Bunker, and co-starred as Lieutenant
Andrews in the film Angel (1984).
He also had roles in movies like Cops and Robbers (1973), Rosebud (1975), Brinks: The Great Robbery (1976), An Unmarried Woman (1978) with Jill Clayburgh, Night of the Juggler (1980), Hoffa (1992) with Jack Nicholson and Danny DeVito, and Night and the City (1992) with Robert De Niro. His television work included performances in series like Law and Order, Murder, She Wrote and the 1970s drama Police Story, written by former LAPD Detective Sergeant Joseph Wambaugh.
Gorman died of leukemia in 2002, aged 65, although his final film, Kill the Poor, was not released until 2006.
