Henry Goodman has appeared on television and radio, in film and in the theatre.
15 Facts About Henry Goodman
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Henry Goodman attended the Central Foundation Boys' School and joined the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, London, in 1969.
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Henry Goodman portrayed Charles Guiteau in the London premiere of Assassins at the Donmar Warehouse in 1992.
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Henry Goodman starred as Nathan Detroit in Guys and Dolls at the Royal National Theatre in 1996.
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Henry Goodman briefly replaced Nathan Lane as Max Bialystock in The Producers in 2002, but was fired after one month due to creative differences with Mel Brooks.
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Henry Goodman was nominated for a UK Theatre Award for his performance.
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In 1999 Henry Goodman played a memorable cameo role as the Ritz concierge in Notting Hill.
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Henry Goodman portrayed a Hydra doctor in the 2014 film Captain America: The Winter Soldier, though he was not listed in the credits.
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Henry Goodman portrayed Pierre Beaumarchais in the BBC Radio 4 series Beaumarchais in 1996, "Melvin" in The Attractive Young Rabbi and Leopold Bloom in BBC Radio 4's all-day adaptation of James Joyce's Ulysses for 'Bloomsday' in 2012.
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Henry Goodman has played author and chemist Primo Levi and a large number of other, often Jewish, characters on Radio 4.
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Henry Goodman is the narrator in the premiere recording by the Halle Orchestra of the complete stage music Vaughan Williams wrote for the 1909 Cambridge University production of The Wasps by Aristophanes.
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Henry Goodman's awards include the Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Musical playing Charles Guiteau in Assassins at the Donmar Warehouse directed by Sam Mendes in 1993, and the Olivier Award for Best Actor for Shylock in The Merchant of Venice at the National Theatre directed by Trevor Nunn in 2000.
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Henry Goodman has been nominated for an Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Musical in 1998 for Chicago, London Critics Circle Theatre Award for Best Actor, and Theatre Awards UK for Best Performance in a Play in 2012.
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Henry Goodman reprised his role for a television film which was released in 2004.
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Henry Goodman is married to Sue Parker, a choreographer and dance director.