Joel Joshua Goldberg (October 13, 1936 – September 5, 2002), known professionally as Cliff Gorman, was an American actor.
[1] He won an Obie Award in 1968 for the stage presentation of The Boys in the Band,[1] and went on to reprise his role in the 1970 film version.
[1] 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).
[citation needed] On the September 13, 1965 episode of To Tell The Truth, Gorman sat in seat #1 as an imposter for game #3 of the evening.
When asked what he actually did for a living, he responded that he sold room air conditioners for the Republic Water Heater Company.