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Anthony Howard "Tony" Goldwyn (born May 20, 1960) is an American actor and director. He portrayed the villain Carl Bruner in Ghost, Kendall Dobbs in Designing Women and the voice of the title character of the Disney animated Tarzan and Kingdom Hearts. Image File history File links This is a lossless scalable vector image. ... is the 140th day of the year (141st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1960 (MCMLX) was a leap year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Los Angeles and L.A. redirect here. ... // April 12 - Actor Morgan Mason marries The Go-Gos Belinda Carlisle Actor Arnold Schwarzenegger marries television journalist Maria Shriver. ... Samuel Goldwyn, Jr. ... Jennifer Howard, born Clare Jenness Howard, (1925-1993) was the daughter of prominent author and screenwriter Sidney Howard (1891-1939) and actress Clare Eames (1896-1930). ... is the 140th day of the year (141st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1960 (MCMLX) was a leap year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... For other uses, see Actor (disambiguation). ... Director Herbert Brenon with actress Alla Nazimova on the set of War Brides, 1916 A director is a person who directs the making of a film. ... Bad guy redirects here. ... For other uses, see Ghost (disambiguation). ... Killing All the Right People is an episode of the sitcom Designing Women. ... Designing Women is an American television sitcom that centered around the working and personal lives of four women in an interior design firm in Atlanta, Georgia. ... For other uses, see Tarzan (disambiguation). ... This article is about the 1999 film. ... This article contains information on the first Kingdom Hearts video game. ...

Biography

Personal life

Goldwyn was born in Los Angeles, California, the son of Jennifer Howard and film producer Samuel Goldwyn, Jr. Goldwyn's paternal grandparents were movie mogul Samuel Goldwyn and film actress Frances Howard,^[1] while his maternal grandparents were playwright Sidney Howard and actress Clare Eames. Goldwyn attended Hamilton College in Clinton, New York, Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts (where he received his B.F.A), and the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. Goldwyn is married to production designer Jane Musky and the couple have two daughters. Los Angeles and L.A. redirect here. ... This article is about the U.S. state. ... Jennifer Howard, born Clare Jenness Howard, (1925-1993) was the daughter of prominent author and screenwriter Sidney Howard (1891-1939) and actress Clare Eames (1896-1930). ... Samuel Goldwyn, Jr. ... Samuel Goldwyn (July 1882 (some sources say 17 August 1882, others 1879 [1]) – 31 January 1974) was an Academy Award and Golden Globe Award-winning producer, also a well-known Hollywood motion picture producer and founding contributor of several motion picture studios. ... Frances Howard (June 4, 1906 – July 2, 1976) was a minor American actress, also the second (2nd) wife of Academy Award-winning producer Samuel Goldwyn. ... Sidney Coe Howard, born June 26, 1891 in Oakland, California, United States – died August 23, 1939 in Tyringham, Massachusetts, was a playwright and screenwriter who became the first person to win both a Pulitzer Prize and an Academy Award. ... For other colleges with the same name, see Hamilton College (disambiguation). ... Clinton is the name of some places in the U.S. state of New York: Clinton, Clinton County, New York Clinton, Dutchess County, New York Clinton, Oneida County, New York Clinton also is a name used to refer to the Hells Kitchen neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City. ... Brandeis University is a private university located in Waltham, Massachusetts, United States. ... One of the early centers of the Industrial Revolution in northern America, Waltham is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States. ... The Bachelor of Fine Arts, usually abbreviated BFA, is the standard undergraduate degree for students seeking a professional education in the visual or performing arts. ... Main LAMDA building on Talgarth Road The MacOwan Theatre The London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA), founded 1861, is a leading British drama school in west London. ...

Career

Goldwyn is well-known for his turn on the comedy series, Designing Women in which he played a young interior designer named Kendall Dobbs who was HIV positive, and asked the women of Sugarbakers to design his funeral. In the HBO miniseries From the Earth to the Moon, Goldwyn played astronaut Neil Armstrong, commander of Apollo 11. He also provided the voice of the title character of the 1999 Disney animated film, Tarzan. He reprised the role in the video games "Tarzan Untamed" and "Kingdom Hearts." Designing Women is an American television sitcom that centered around the working and personal lives of four women in an interior design firm in Atlanta, Georgia. ... Killing All the Right People is an episode of the sitcom Designing Women. ... For other uses, see HBO (disambiguation). ... The projectile, as pictured in an engraving from the 1872 Illustrated Edition. ... For other uses, see Astronaut (disambiguation). ... This article is about the former American astronaut. ... This article covers the Apollo 11 mission itself. ... This article is about the 1999 film. ... This article contains information on the first Kingdom Hearts video game. ...

Also a stage actor, Goldwyn has appeared twice in Off-Broadway shows at Second Stage Theatre and on Broadway at Circle in The Square Theatre. At Second Stage he appeared in Theresa Rebeck's Spike Heels (1992) alongside Kevin Bacon and Julie White. Most recently, in the summer of 2006 at Second Stage Theatre he starred opposite Kate Burton in another Rebeck play, The Water's Edge. He recently appeared in the episodes "Brother's Keeper" and "Endgame" on Law & Order: Criminal Intent, playing Det. Robert Goren's estranged older brother, Frank. Off-Broadway plays or musicals are performed in New York City in smaller theatres than Broadway, but larger than Off-Off-Broadway, productions. ... Second Stage Theatre // Director Carole Rothman and actress Robyn Goodman founded Second Stage Theatre in 1979 to give second stagings to contemporary American plays that originally failed to find an audience due to scheduling problems, inappropriate venues or limited performance runs. ... For other uses of Broadway, see Broadway. ... Theresa Rebeck (born 1958?) is a writer for the stage, screen, television, and radio. ... Kevin Norwood Bacon[1] (born July 8, 1958) is an American film and theater actor who has starred in Footloose, Animal House, Stir of Echoes, Wild Things, JFK, and Apollo 13, among many others. ... Julie White is an American actress. ... Second Stage Theatre // Director Carole Rothman and actress Robyn Goodman founded Second Stage Theatre in 1979 to give second stagings to contemporary American plays that originally failed to find an audience due to scheduling problems, inappropriate venues or limited performance runs. ... Kate Burton (born on 10 September 1957 in Geneva, Switzerland) is an American actress. ... Law & Order: Criminal Intent is a United States crime drama television series that began in 2001. ... This article or section contains a plot summary that is overly long or excessively detailed compared to the rest of the article. ...

Filmography

• Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives (1986)
• Gaby: A True Story (1987)
• Ghost (1990)
• Kuffs (1991)
• The Pelican Brief (1993)
• Nixon (1995)
• Kiss the Girls (1997)
• Tarzan (1999) (voice)
• The 6th Day (2000)
• Bounce (2000)
• Joshua (2002)
• Kingdom Hearts (2003) (voice of Tarzan)
• The Last Samurai (2003)
• The Last Kiss (2006) (director)
• Grey's Anatomy (2006) (director of two episodes)
• Dexter (2006) (actor in one episode and director of four episodes)

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References

External links

• Tony Goldwyn at the Internet Movie Database