Merwin Goldsmith

Acting

Merwin Goldsmith

Born 1937-08-07 · Detroit, Michigan, USA

Acting credits

The Hurricane poster
7.4

The story of Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, a boxer wrongly imprisoned for murder, and the people who aided in his fight to prove his innocence.

The Hurricane

1999

Cadillac Man poster
5.8

Joe's a car salesman with a problem—he has two days to sell 12 cars or he loses his job. This would be a difficult task at the best of times but Joe has to contend with his girlfriends (he's two-timing), a missing teenage daughter and an ex-wife.

Cadillac Man

1990

Rounders poster
7.0

Poker addict Mike McDermott knows the game inside out, but loses his money one night in a game to Russian-American gangster Teddy KGB. Promising his partner Jo he'll give up, he meets up with best friend Lester 'Worm' Murphy, just out of prison and owing lots of money to the wrong kind of people. McDermott becomes his co-guarantor and now there's only one way to raise the money, the pair have to get back into the game.

Rounders

1998

It Could Happen to You poster
6.7

Charlie Lang is a simple, kindhearted New York City cop. When he realizes he has no money to tip waitress Yvonne Biasi, Lang offers her half the winnings of his lottery ticket. Amazingly, the ticket happens to be a winner, in the sum of $4 million. True to his word, Lang proceeds to share the prize money with Biasi, which infuriates his greedy wife, Muriel. Not content with the arrangement, Muriel begins scheming to take all the money.

It Could Happen to You

1994

Quiz Show poster
7.3

Herbert Stempel's transformation into an unexpected television personality unfolds as he secures victory on the cherished American game show, 'Twenty-One.' However, when the show introduces the highly skilled contestant Charles Van Doren to replace Stempel, it compels Stempel to let out his frustrations and call out the show as rigged. Lawyer Richard Goodwin steps in and attempts to uncover the orchestrated deception behind the scenes.

Quiz Show

1994

Hercules in New York poster
4.1

Hercules is sent from Mount Olympus to modern-day Manhattan, where he takes up professional wrestling before getting mixed up with a gang of mobsters.

Hercules in New York

1970

Company Man poster
5.1

In the 1960's, a school teacher pretends to be a CIA spy to get his nagging wife off his back. He helps a Russian ballet dancer defect and is then sent to Cuba to locate "Agent X" for the CIA.

Company Man

2000

So Fine poster
4.7

While trying to get his father out of a financial jam, a man comes up with an idea that turns into an unexpected overnight financial fashion success - the bottomless pants.

So Fine

1981

Making Mr. Right poster
5.2

When image consultant Frankie Stone is hired by a tech company to teach a scientist’s “Ulysses Robot” how to be a man, she winds up developing very real feelings for the faux human.

Making Mr. Right

1987

Shamus poster
6.1

Millions in diamonds are stolen from a New York City safe, and later the burglar is killed. Shamus is paid $10,000 by the owner to find the diamonds or the killer.

Shamus

1973

Lily in Love poster
6.3

Insulted when his screenwriter wife writes a leading role for a younger man, aging Broadway idol Fitz Wynn disguises himself as a handsome young Italian.

Lily in Love

1984

Nearest to Heaven poster
5.1

People and life can be cruel, and in their face, Fannette is cool: toward an old acquaintance, to her daughter, to colleagues. Beneath the surface, she roils with passion for a lost love, Philippe. She watches "An Affair to Remember" again and again, and when she receives a letter from Philippe asking her to meet him atop the Empire State Building, she swoons. She's writing a book on an aged painter, so she organizes a trip to New York ostensibly to secure photographs of some of his pieces. The publisher assigns her a photographer, Matt, on the surface spontaneous and flip, but also aggressive about his attraction to her. Will she be with the one she loves? Will she smile? Written by

Nearest to Heaven

2002

Boardwalk poster
7.5

In this drama, David Rosen and his wife Becky have lived in the same Coney Island neighborhood for nearly all their married life. But the area is not what it used to be, and a gang leader named Strut has decided to make Coney Island his new turf. Strut begins shaking down the merchants in the area, demanding payment for "protection" and using violence to deal with anyone who gets in his way. David refuses to give Strut protection money for the restaurant he owns, and as a result his diner is soon firebombed, while many of his neighbors are attacked and his synagogue is desecrated.

Boardwalk

1979

Lovesick poster
5.9

Sigmund Freud's ghost advises a married New York psychiatrist in love with a patient.

Lovesick

1983

The Sunshine Boys poster
5.0

Two aging comedians, who acrimoniously dissolved their act eight years earlier, must overcome their differences when they have the chance for a lucrative movie comeback.

The Sunshine Boys

1996

How to Be a Perfect Person in Just Three Days poster
7.0

A kid strives to be perfect, and in the end realizes that individuality is more fun.

How to Be a Perfect Person in Just Three Days

1984

Soup for One poster
5.2

A neurotic young New Yorker believes he has found his perfect match and desperately tries to win her over.

Soup for One

1982

Active Adults poster
NR

Malcolm and Lily try to start their lives as they watch Malcolm's grandparents' fall apart.

Active Adults

2017

The Bellboy and the Playgirls poster
3.1

A re-edited U.S. release of the 1958 West German film Mit Eva fing die Sünde an (Sin Began with Eve), The Bellboy and the Playgirls (1962) features roughly fifteen minutes of new color footage directed by Francis Ford Coppola and edited by Jack Hill. The added material follows a bellboy who dreams of becoming a private detective and spies on a group of women at the hotel—lingerie sales representatives who give him more than enough to investigate.

The Bellboy and the Playgirls

1962

Joe Gould's Secret poster
6.0

Around 1940, New Yorker staff writer Joe Mitchell meets Joe Gould, a Greenwich Village character who cadges meals, drinks, and contributions to the Joe Gould Fund and who is writing a voluminous Oral History of the World, a record of 20,000 conversations he's overheard. Mitchell is fascinated with this Harvard grad and writes a 1942 piece about him, "Professor Seagull," bringing Gould some celebrity and an invitation to join the Greenwich Village Ravens, a poetry club he's often crashed. Gould's touchy, querulous personality and his frequent dropping in on Mitchell for hours of chat lead to a breakup, but the two Joes stay in touch until Gould's death and Mitchell's unveiling of the secret.

Joe Gould's Secret

2000

Very Close Quarters poster
9.0

Depicts a communal flat in Russia where the Government randomly assigns 20 people to live in a one-bedroom apartment.

Very Close Quarters

1986

Sessions poster
6.5

High-priced call girl Lee Churchill examines her life via therapy 'sessions'. Her double life is unknown to her parents, sister and the 'straight' man with whom she falls in love.

Sessions

1983

The Connection poster
10.0

An out-of-work newspaperman in need of money becomes the go-between for a jewel thief and an insurance company that wants to settle.

The Connection

1973

Unholy poster
3.4

Martha, a widow living in rural Pennsylvania, comes home to find her daughter about to blow her own head off with a shotgun in the basement of their house. Martha doesn't succeed in stopping her child's horrific demise, but the girl's death gradually leads the grieving mother to investigate a conspiracy that involves a legendary local witch, Nazi dabbling with the occult, and secret government experiments, with the story even referencing the fabled Philadelphia Experiment

Unholy

2007