Garry Goodrow
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Garry Goodrow is an American actor best known for his role in the original stage production of the Obie Award
-winning play The Connection
, and as one of the original cast members of The Committee
. In The Connection Goodrow played the young, intense, morose, would-be jazz musician Ernie, a heroin addict whose horn is more often than not at the pawn shop. He would reprise his role for the 1961 film The Connection
, his first film role. He has made over 50 film and television appearances. In 1973, he appeared in National Lampoon's Lemmings, which featured relative unknowns John Belushi
and Chevy Chase
. While a member of The Committee in San Francisco, he emceed several benefits featuring artists and musicians such as Allen Ginsberg
and the Grateful Dead
. Goodrow is also known for a guest role on WKRP in Cincinatti episode "Hold Up" where he plays out-of-work DJ Bob Burnett aka Bobby Boogie who hijacks a remote broadcast from an electronics store.
Obie Award
The Obie Awards or Off-Broadway Theater Awards are annual awards given by The Village Voice newspaper to theatre artists and groups in New York City...
-winning play The Connection
The Connection (1959 play)
The Connection is a 1959 play by Jack Gelber. It was first produced by the Living Theatre, directed by Living Theatre co-founder Judith Malina, and designed by co-founder Julian Beck...
, and as one of the original cast members of The Committee
The Committee (improv group)
The Committee is a San Francisco based improvisational comedy group founded by Alan Myerson and Jessica Myerson . The Myersons were both alums of The Second City in Chicago. The Committee opened April 10, 1963 at 622 Broadway in a 300 seat Cabaret theater that used to be an indoor bocce ball court...
. In The Connection Goodrow played the young, intense, morose, would-be jazz musician Ernie, a heroin addict whose horn is more often than not at the pawn shop. He would reprise his role for the 1961 film The Connection
The Connection (1961 film)
The Connection is a 1961 feature film by the noted American experimental filmmaker Shirley Clarke. It was Clarke's first feature; she had made several shorts over the previous decade....
, his first film role. He has made over 50 film and television appearances. In 1973, he appeared in National Lampoon's Lemmings, which featured relative unknowns John Belushi
John Belushi
John Adam Belushi was an American comedian, actor, and musician, best known as one of the original cast members of the NBC sketch comedy show Saturday Night Live, The Star of the Films National Lampoon's Animal House and the The Blues Brothers and for fronting the American blues and soul...
and Chevy Chase
Chevy Chase
Cornelius Crane "Chevy" Chase is an American comedian, writer, and television and film actor, born into a prominent entertainment industry family. Chase worked a plethora of odd jobs before moving into comedy acting with National Lampoon...
. While a member of The Committee in San Francisco, he emceed several benefits featuring artists and musicians such as Allen Ginsberg
Allen Ginsberg
Irwin Allen Ginsberg was an American poet and one of the leading figures of the Beat Generation in the 1950s. He vigorously opposed militarism, materialism and sexual repression...
and the Grateful Dead
Grateful Dead
The Grateful Dead was an American rock band formed in 1965 in the San Francisco Bay Area. The band was known for its unique and eclectic style, which fused elements of rock, folk, bluegrass, blues, reggae, country, improvisational jazz, psychedelia, and space rock, and for live performances of long...
. Goodrow is also known for a guest role on WKRP in Cincinatti episode "Hold Up" where he plays out-of-work DJ Bob Burnett aka Bobby Boogie who hijacks a remote broadcast from an electronics store.
External links
- Garry Goodrow at the Internet Off-Broadway Database
- Garry Goodrow at Wolfgang's Vault (Bill Graham archives)