Henry GoodmanFilmography

Occupation:: Actor
Biography:: British supporting actor Henry Goodman has been involved with everything from classical theater to television mysteries to movie comedies. On stage, he performed with the Royal National Theatre and the Royal Shakespeare Company. Goodman made his feature film debut playing a cabbie in Queen of Hearts...Read More

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The Damned United

Actors: Michael Sheen, Timothy Spall, Colm Meaney, Jim Broadbent, Henry Goodman, Maurice Roeves, Stephen Graham, Brian McCardie, Peter McDonald, Giles Anderson, Mark Bazeley

Synopsis: The creators of such docudramas as The Queen and Frost/Nixon re-team for this period sports chronicle set in 1974. In England, the Leeds United players retain a status as the preeminent champions of their football league. Unfortunately, the manager to whom the team owes much of its success Read More

10/9/09
Taking Woodstock

Actors: Demetri Martin, Dan Fogler, Imelda Staunton, Emile Hirsch, Eugene Levy, Jonathan Groff, Henry Goodman

Synopsis: Academy Award-winning director Ang Lee tells the story of the Greenwich Village interior designer who inadvertently helped to spark a cultural revolution by offering the organizers of the Woodstock Music and Arts Festival boarding at his family's Catskills motel. The year is 1969. Change is Read More

8/28/09
Color Me Kubrick

Actors: John Malkovich, Jim Davidson, Richard E. Grant, Terence Rigby

Synopsis: In the mid-'90s, an Englishman by the name of Alan Conway (John Malkovich) conned many people into believing that he was the reclusive American director Stanley Kubrick, despite the fact that Conway was openly gay, bore no physical resemblance to Kubrick, and knew little about the director's work. Read More

3/23/07
Green Street Hooligans

Actors: Elijah Wood, Charlie Hunnam, Claire Forlani, Marc Warren, Leo Gregory, Henry Goodman

Synopsis: An American abroad is introduced to the heady but dangerous pleasures of violence in this powerful drama from Great Britain. Matt Buckner (Elijah Wood) is a journalism student from America who is expelled from college when his roommate sets him to take the fall after drugs are found in their dorm Read More

9/9/05
The Life and Death of Peter Sellers

Actors: Geoffrey Rush, Charlize Theron, Emily Watson, John Lithgow, Miriam Margolyes

Synopsis: The often-troubled life of one of the greatest comic actors in the history of the British cinema provides the basis for this biopic. Peter Sellers (Geoffrey Rush) was raised by a domineering mother (Miriam Margolyes) and meek father (Peter Vaughan), and at an early age discovered he liked to hide Read More

2004
The Final Curtain

Actors: Peter O'Toole, Adrian Lester, Aidan Gillen, Julia Sawalha, Ralph Brown

Synopsis: Patrick Harkins makes his directorial debut with the satirical dark comedy The Final Curtain, written by screenwriter John Hodge (Trainspotting, Shallow Grave). Serious author Jonathan Stitch (Adrian Lester) accepts a job writing a biography of unscrupulous U.K. game show host J.J. Curtis (Peter O'Toole Read More

2003
Foyle's War: Fifty Ships

Actors: Henry Goodman

2003
Hamilton Mattress

2001
The Merchant of Venice

Actors: David Bamber, Henry Goodman, Derbhle Crotty, Peter De Jersey

Synopsis: This adaptation of Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice was directed by Trevor Nunn, who has become one of the most respected British stage directors of his time. The production transplants the setting of the film to Germany on the cusp of World War II, and is similar to the milieu of Bob Fosse's Cabaret Read More

2001
Dirty Tricks

Actors: Martin Clunes, Julie Graham, Lindsay Duncan, James Bolam, Neil Dudgeon, Matt Bardock

2000
Notting Hill

Actors: Julia Roberts, Hugh Grant, Hugh Bonneville, Emma Chambers, James Dreyfus, Gina McKee

Synopsis: Can a beautiful and internationally famous American actress find happiness with a frumpy British bookstore clerk? She can -- at least for a while, it seems -- in Notting Hill. William Thacker (played by Hugh Grant) is a bookseller at a shop in the Notting Hill district in West London, who shares a Read More

5/28/99
The Saint

Actors: Val Kilmer, Elisabeth Shue, Rade Serbedzija, Valery Nikolaev, Henry Goodman

Synopsis: Based on the popular novels about that other suave, globe-trotting man of action, this genre picture from director Phillip Noyce mixed romance and character development with dangerous stunts, geopolitical intrigue, and a variety of elaborate disguises, resulting in an uneven stew of a spy Read More

4/4/97
Private Parts

Actors: Howard Stern, Robin Quivers, Mary McCormack, Fred Norris, Paul Giamatti, Jackie Martling

Synopsis: Based on a best-selling autobiography, this comedy drama is the surprisingly sweet-natured life story of a controversial radio personality. Howard Stern, who stars as himself, is a nerdy New York kid who dreams of a disc jockey career despite being a self-loathing klutz who lacks a traditional Read More

1997
Mary Reilly

Actors: Linda Bassett, Julia Roberts, John Malkovich, Glenn Close, George Cole, Kathy Staff

Synopsis: Based on the novel by Valerie Martin, this gothic suspense story offers a fresh perspective on Robert Louis Stevenson's classic horror tale Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by presenting the material from a different viewpoint -- that of Mary Reilly (Julia Roberts), an Irish servant girl who has come to Read More

1996
Broken Glass

Actors: Elizabeth McGovern, Mandy Patinkin, Henry Goodman, Margot Leicester

Synopsis: A Mobil Masterpiece Theater adaptation of the Arthur Miller play, the film is set in 1938 Brooklyn and involves unhappily married Jewish couple Mr. and Mrs. Gellburg. When Mrs. Gellburg suffers paralysis in her legs, Dr. Hyman (Mandy Patinkin) diagnoses her problem as psychologically stemming from Read More

1996
Cold Lazarus

Actors: Frances de la Tour, Grant Masters, Albert Finney, Ciarán Hinds, Ganiat Kasumu

1996
Son of the Pink Panther

Actors: Roberto Benigni, Herbert Lom, Claudia Cardinale, Debrah Farentino, Jennifer Edwards

Synopsis: After the death of Peter Sellers in 1980, writer/director Blake Edwards assembled a new "Pink Panther" film from outtakes of Sellers as Inspector Clouseau from previous movies in the series (the result was called The Trail of the Pink Panther) and later made two attempts to revive the series with Read More

1993
The Gravy Train Goes East

Actors: Christoph Waltz, Ian Richardson, Anita Zagaria, Jacques Sereys, Judy Parfitt

Synopsis: This four-part, four-hour British miniseries was a sequel to Malcolm Bradbury's 1990 TV effort The Gravy Train. Christoph Waltz returned to the role of Dorfman, a terminally idealistic member of the European Economic Council. This time around, the teeny-tiny Balkan state of Slaka hoped to join the Read More

1991
Secret Weapon

Actors: Karen Allen, Griffin Dunne

Synopsis: This film is based upon the true story of Mordechai Vanunu, an Israeli lab technician who left his job and country in protest of the nuclear arms project to which he'd been assigned. Going public, he hoped to deter the hellish mission and sway world opinion against those within his country Read More

1990
Queen of Hearts

Actors: Vittorio Duse, Joseph Long, Anita Zagaria, Eileen Way, Vittorio Amandola

Synopsis: The Queen of Hearts is an essentially Italian story given full and proper treatment by a virtually all-British crew. Anita Zagaria plays a lovely Italian lass, consigned to an arranged marriage with a wealthy Sicilian man. She balks at the altar and runs off, while the jilted bridegroom swears Read More

9/20/89
Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story

Actors: Louisa Haigh, Ben Kingsley

Synopsis: Ben Kingsley stars as Simon Weisenthal, an Austrian Jew who is interred in the Malthausen concentration camp during World War II. When the camp is liberated, it is Weisenthal's eyewitness testimony, coupled with sketches that he's made of the many Nazi atrocities, that leads to the capture of Read More

1989