Danny Goldman
Daniel Goldman (October 30, 1939 – April 12, 2020) was an American actor and casting director. He was most widely recognized as the voice of Brainy Smurf in Hanna-Barbera's "The Smurfs" (1981–1989) Early life. Goldman graduated from Far Rockaway High School in Queens, New York City, in 1957. He subsequently attended and graduated from Columbia University in Manhattan, in 1961. Career. 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". Among his other early roles on television were appearances in the TV shows "That Girl"; "Room 222"; "The Partridge Family"; "Love, American Style"; "Needles and Pins"; "Columbo"; "Baretta" and "Chico and the Man". He was a regular member of the cast of the situation comedy "Busting Loose" in 1977. Goldman was also featured as Ozzie the Answer in the 1980s detective drama "Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer" and as Dr. Denton on "Get Smart, Again!" He acted in the episode "I'll Kill 'Em Again" of police drama "Hawaii Five-O" and  in the episodes "Brain Child" and "42" in "Trapper John, M.D." Goldman appeared as a panelist on the "What's My Line?" TV 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". His feature film debut was in "MASH" (1970). Other credits included a small role as a persistent medical student who asks Dr. Frankenstein (Gene Wilder) about his grandfather in "Young Frankenstein" (1974), and roles in "Busting" (1974), "Linda Lovelace for President" (1975), "Tunnel Vision" (1976), "The Missouri  Breaks" (1976), "Swap Meet" (1979), "Wholly Moses!" (1980) and "My Man Adam" (1985). He also portrayed Porter in "Where the Buffalo Roam" (1980). Goldman voiced the pedantic Brainy Smurf (1981–1989) on the animated series "The Smurfs". He returned to the voice of Brainy Smurf for the television show "Robot Chicken" in a segment titled "Murder in Smurf Town X" that parodied the movie "Se7en". 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 would reprise the role  several more times on "Robot Chicken", whenever Brainy Smurf appears in a sketch, up until the sketch "House of Smurfs" (a parody of "House of Cards"). For nearly 30 years, Goldman was a casting director of television commercials in Hollywood and Nickelodeon shows such as "Rugrats", "Doug", "The Ren & Stimpy Show", "Rocko's Modern Life", "Aaahh!!! Real Monsters", "Hey Arnold!", "KaBlam!", "The Angry Beavers", "CatDog", "The Wild Thornberrys", "SpongeBob SquarePants" and "Rocket Power". For Cartoon Network, he did casting for "The Moxy Show" (1993), "2 Stupid Dogs" (1993), "Cow and Chicken" (1995), "Dexter's Laboratory" (1996), "Johnny Bravo" (1997), "I  Am Weasel" (1997), "The Powerpuff Girls" (1998), "Ed, Edd n Eddy" (1999), "Courage the Cowardly Dog" (1999) and "" (2002). Death. Goldman died in his home in Los Angeles on 12 April 2020, from complications of two strokes.