Patrick Gorman(I)
- Actor
- Additional Crew
- Executive
Patrick has appeared as a performer in almost all phases of
entertainment. He was born in Visalia, California. Although he's been
in SAG over 50 years, he began his professional career as a dancer. He
was with Judy Garland at the Palace on
Broadway and Donald O'Connor and
Sammy Davis Jr. in Las Vegas.
After his military service, he was a clown at the Cirque Medrano (in
Paris, France) and was the only American in "How To Succed In Business
Without Really Trying" (also in Paris). Patrick performed in
television, film and stage in France before appearing in
Joseph Papp's New York Shakespeare Festival.
He has appeared on and off-Broadway and spent time in such prestigious
repertory companies as Seattle Rep, ACT (San Francisco) and Actor's
Theatre Louisville, among others. His two favorite roles in theatre
were "Truffaldino" in "The Servant of Two Masters" and the prosecuting
attorney in "In the Matter of J. Robert Oppenheimer", both at Seattle
Rep. In television and film, his favorites are "Jacques Du Bois", the
arrogant French fencer on
The Duel (1979)
and "Major General John Bell Hood" in the films,
Gettysburg (1993) and
Gods and Generals (2003).
Patrick still trains, is a Black Belt in Aikido and, along with acting,
his passions are poker, chess, Japanese calligraphy and the Foreign
Language Committee for the Oscars.
