Background
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.
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Danny Goldman
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Goldman graduated from Far Rockaway High School in Queens, New York City, New York, in 1957. He subsequently attended and graduated from nearby Columbia University in Manhattan, New York City, in 1961.
Career
He is most widely recognized as the voice of Brainy Smurf in Hanna-Barbera"s The Smurfs and as the inquisitive medical student in the opening of Young Frankenstein. Among his other early roles on television were appearances in the television shows That Girl, Room 222, The Partridge Family, Love, American Style, Needles and Pins, Columbo, Baretta and Chico and the Manitoba Goldman was also featured as Ozzie the Answer in the 1980s detective drama Mickey Spillane"s Mike Hammer and as Doctor Denton on Get Smart, Again!.
He acted in the episode "I"ll Kill "Econometrica Again" of police drama Hawaii Five-O and in the episodes "Brain Child" and "42" in Trapper John, Doctor of Medicine Goldman appeared as a panelist on the What"s My Lincolnshire? television 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.
He portrayed Porter on Where the Buffalo Roam in 1980 and Captain Murrhardt in M*A*South*H in 1970. He returned to the voice of Brainy Smurf for the television show Robot Chicken in a segment that parodied the movie Seven. The show"s creators remarked that of all the casting coups on their show, of which there are many, their greatest was getting Goldman to voice Brainy Smurf in The Smurfs.
He has reprised the role several more times on Robot Chicken, whenever Brainy Smurf appears in a sketch, only missing one appearance in "House of Smurfs" (likely due to Skeet Ulrich"s voice being funnier for that skit).
Foreign nearly 30 years, Goldman was a prominent casting director of television commercials in Hollywood.
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Membership
He was a regular member of the cast of the situation comedy Busting Loose in 1977.
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