Tony Goldwyn
Highest Rated: 89% Tarzan (1999)
Lowest Rated: 14% Reckless (1995)
Birthday: May 20, 1960
Birthplace: Los Angeles, California, USA
The grandson of movie mogul Samuel Goldwyn, actor Tony Goldwyn favored his grandmother's side of the family (she was film actress Frances Howard) by pursuing an acting rather than an executive career. Goldwyn's first major film was 1987's Gaby: A True Story, in which he was eighth-billed. His breakthrough feature was 1990's Ghost, in which he played Carl, the "lying snake" who sets up the murder of his best friend (Patrick Swayze) and then callously moves in on the dead man's grieving girlfriend (Demi Moore). A master at playing charming-but-shallow yuppies, Goldwyn went on to appear in films ranging from The Pelican Brief (1994) to Nixon (1995) to the thriller Kiss the Girls (1997). In 1998, Goldwyn played astronaut Neil Armstrong in the made-for-TV docudrama series From the Earth to the Moon; the following year he made his directorial debut with the similarly-titled A Walk on the Moon. Starring Diane Lane as a dissatisfied housewife who finds physical and emotional enlightenment with a blouse salesman (Viggo Mortensen) in 1969 upstate New York, the film enjoyed an overwhelmingly favorable reception. Also in 1999, Goldwyn earned additional kudos for voicing the title character of Disney's animated Tarzan. Audiences were able to see more of the actor in 2000, when he appeared in Don Roos' romantic drama Bounce and in the Arnold Schwarzenegger sci-fi thriller The 6th Day. When his sophomore effort as a director, the romantic comedy Someone Like You..., failed to generate much interest, Goldwyn would turn toward television to helm episodes of The L Word, Without a Trace, Grey's Anatomy, and Law & Order (many of which he also appeared in as an actor) while racking up an impressive list of credits in such efforts as the Christian-themed drama Joshua, The Last Samurai, and as a haunted writer whose attempt to clean the skeletons out of the family closet lead to tragedy in Ghosts Never Sleep. A 2005 performance as a cop whose life is profoundly affected by a firearm in American Gun found Goldwyn as strong as ever in front of the camera, and the following year it was time once again to take the reins for the romantic comedy drama re-make The Last Kiss; a contemporary tale of love and anxiety starring Scrubs and Garden State actor Zach Braff. .
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Highest Rated Movies
Filmography
Movies
| Credit | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18% | All I Wish (A Little Something for Your Birthday) | Actor | — | 2018 |
| No Score Yet | Back to Life: The Torin Yater-Wallace Story | Actor | — | 2018 |
| 35% | Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down the White House | Ed Miller | $0.8M | 2017 |
| 53% | The Belko Experiment | Barry Norris | $10.2M | 2017 |
| No Score Yet | Outlaw Prophet: Warren Jeffs | Warren Jeffs | — | 2014 |
| 42% | Divergent | Andrew | $129.6M | 2014 |
| 53% | The Mechanic | Dean Sanderson | $29.2M | 2011 |
| 67% | Conviction | Producer Director | $6.8M | 2010 |
| 41% | The Last House on the Left | John Collingwood | $32.8M | 2009 |
| No Score Yet | Pocahontas: The Legend | Sir Edwin Wingfield | — | 2008 |
| 46% | The Last Kiss | Director | $11.6M | 2006 |
| No Score Yet | Ghosts Never Sleep | Jared Dolan | — | 2006 |
| 30% | The Sisters | Vincent Antonelli | — | 2006 |
| No Score Yet | The Godfather of Green Bay | Big Jake Norquist | — | 2006 |
| 39% | American Gun | Frank | — | 2006 |
| 66% | The Last Samurai | Col. Bagley | $111.1M | 2003 |
| No Score Yet | Beyond the Ashes | Elliot | — | 2003 |
| No Score Yet | Ash Tuesday | Actor | — | 2003 |
| 16% | Abandon | Dr. David Schaffer | $10.7M | 2002 |
| 22% | Joshua | Joshua | — | 2002 |
| 55% | An American Rhapsody | Peter | — | 2001 |
| 42% | Someone Like You | Director | $26.8M | 2001 |
| 52% | Bounce | Greg Janello | — | 2000 |
| 41% | The 6th Day | Michael Drucker | $33.9M | 2000 |
| No Score Yet | The Song of the Lark | Fred Ottenburg | — | 2000 |
| 89% | Tarzan | Tarzan | — | 1999 |
| 72% | A Walk on the Moon | Producer Director | — | 1999 |
| 60% | The Lesser Evil | Frank | — | 1998 |
| 29% | Kiss The Girls | Will Rudolph | — | 1997 |
| 60% | The Substance of Fire | Aaron Geldhart | — | 1996 |
| No Score Yet | The Boys Next Door | Jack Palmer | — | 1996 |
| 74% | Nixon | Harold Nixon | — | 1995 |
| 14% | Reckless | Tom | — | 1995 |
| 88% | Truman | Clark Clifford | — | 1995 |
| No Score Yet | The Last Word | Stan | — | 1995 |
| No Score Yet | A Woman of Independent Means | Actor | — | 1995 |
| No Score Yet | Doomsday Gun | Duvall | — | 1994 |
| No Score Yet | The Last Tattoo | Capt. Michael Starwood | — | 1994 |
| 53% | The Pelican Brief | Fletcher Coal | — | 1993 |
| No Score Yet | Taking The Heat | Michael | — | 1993 |
| No Score Yet | Love Matters | Cecil | — | 1993 |
| 29% | Traces of Red | Steve | — | 1992 |
| 28% | Kuffs | Ted Bukovsky | — | 1992 |
| No Score Yet | Iran: Days of Crisis | Jody Powell | — | 1991 |
| 73% | Ghost | Carl Bruner | — | 1990 |
| No Score Yet | Dark Holiday | Actor | — | 1989 |
| No Score Yet | Gaby: A True Story | David | — | 1987 |
| 52% | Friday the 13th, Part VI - Jason Lives | Darren | — | 1986 |
TV
| Credit | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 42% |
Chambers 2019 |
Ben Lefevre |
2019 |
| No Score Yet |
The Late Late Show With James Corden 2015-2019 |
Guest |
2018 2017 |
| No Score Yet |
The Ellen DeGeneres Show 2003 |
Guest |
2018 2014 |
| No Score Yet |
Jimmy Kimmel Live 2003 |
Guest |
2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 |
| 93% |
Scandal 2012-2018 |
Director President Fitzgerald Grant President Fitzgerald "Fitz" Grant |
2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 |
| No Score Yet |
Today 2017 |
Guest |
2017 |
| No Score Yet |
The Talk 2010 |
Guest |
2017 2014 2013 2012 |
| No Score Yet |
The Late Show With Stephen Colbert 2015 |
Guest |
2016 |
| No Score Yet |
Watch What Happens Live With Andy Cohen 2009-2019 |
Guest |
2016 |
| No Score Yet |
The Chew 2011-2018 |
Guest |
2015 |
| No Score Yet |
Who Do You Think You Are? 2010-2018 |
Appearing |
2015 |
| No Score Yet |
The View 1997 |
Guest |
2015 2014 2013 |
| 92% |
The Divide 2014 |
Co-creator Director Executive Producer Producer |
2014 |
| 97% |
Justified 2010-2015 |
Director |
2012 2011 2010 |
| 72% |
Drop Dead Diva 2009-2014 |
2011 |
|
| 91% |
Damages 2007-2012 |
Director |
2010 |
| 94% |
The Good Wife 2009-2016 |
Judge Baxter |
2009 |
| 68% |
Dirty Sexy Money 2007-2009 |
Director |
2007 |
| 67% |
Kidnapped 2006-2007 |
Director |
2007 |
| No Score Yet |
Law & Order: Criminal Intent 2001-2011 |
Michael Goren Frank Goren |
2007 |
| 51% |
Private Practice 2007-2013 |
Director |
2007 |
| 42% |
Six Degrees 2006-2007 |
Director |
2007 |
| 72% |
Dexter 2006-2013 |
Director |
2007 2006 |
| No Score Yet |
Law & Order 1990-2010 |
Director |
2006 |
| 83% |
Grey's Anatomy 2005 |
Director |
2006 2005 |
| 57% |
The L Word 2004-2009 |
Director Burr Conner Burr Connor |
2005 2004 |
| No Score Yet |
Without a Trace 2002-2009 |
Director Rick/Greg Knowles |
2004 2003 |
| 94% |
Frasier 1993-2004 |
Guest |
2001 |
| No Score Yet |
From the Earth to the Moon 1998 |
Neil Armstrong |
1998 |
| 82% |
Tales from the Crypt 1989-1996 |
Guest |
1991 |
| No Score Yet |
Murphy Brown 1988-2019 |
Bobby Powell |
1988 |
| No Score Yet |
Designing Women 1986-1993 |
Kendall |
1987 |
| No Score Yet |
Matlock 1986-1995 |
Dr. Campion |
1987 |
| No Score Yet |
The Unknown 2012 |
QUOTES FROM Tony Goldwyn CHARACTERS
Kerchak says: Everyone, we will avoid the strangers. Do not let them seek you and do not seek them out.
Tarzan says: They mean us no harm.
Kerchak says: Tarzan, I don't know them.
Tarzan says: But I do. I spent time with them.
Kerchak says: You may be willing to risk our family, but I'm not.
Tarzan says: Why are you threatened by anyone different than you?!
Tarzan says: Why are you threatened by anyone different than you?
Kerchak says: Protect this family, and stay away from them!
Clayton says: I'm so sorry about the rude welcome, oh boy, but I couldn't have you making a scene when we put your furry friends in their cages.
Tarzan says: Why?
Clayton says: Why? For three hundred pounds sterling ahead. Actually, I have you to thank, dear boy. Couldn't have done it without you.
Tarzan says: *to kerchak* why are you threatened by anyone different than you?
Tarzan says: *to Kerchak* Why are you threatened by anyone different than you?
Tarzan says: No matter where I go, you will always be my mother.
Kala says: And you will always be in my heart.
Darren says: We're going to scare him.
Lizbeth says: We're going to scare him?
Darren says: That's right, just drive towards him. He'll move. Nobody wants to die.
Lizbeth says: Well, that's a freaking fact. Least of all...US!
Lizbeth says: Well, that's a freaking fact. Least of all, us!
Darren says: Will you just drive? He'll get out of our way.
Lizbeth says: (she drives up to Jason and stops and Jason doesn't move) - Yeah. That really scared the sh*t out of him.
Dean Sanderson says: I'm going to put a price on your head so big, that when you look in the mirror your reflection's gonna want to shoot you in the face.