
John F. Goff
Known for ActingBorn 1939-05-24 (age 87)
John F. Goff rates highly as an extremely prolific, versatile and shamefully underrated jack of all trades in the delightfully down'n'dirty annals of 70s Grade B exploitation cinema. He was born on May 24 and was raised on the Gulf Coast of Mississippi in the small town of Kreole. Moreover, John attended Mississippi Southern College on a scholarship. Big and burly, with gray hair, a gentle twangy voice, and an engagingly low-key manner, Goff bears a striking resemblance to a beefy Hal Holbrook. John decided to forsake a promising athletic career to pursue acting instead while attending college. He started acting in summer stock stage theater productions and wrote movie reviews for both "Variety" and "The Hollywood Reporter" prior to becoming involved with the film business. Among Goff's most memorable roles are one of Ralph Meeker's vicious flunkies in the brutal revenge potboiler "Johnny Firecloud," Millie Perkin's vile abusive and alcoholic sea captain father in the deeply disturbing "The Witch Who Came from the Sea," an excitable railroad worker in the nifty sci-fi item "The Alpha Incident," a helpful psychiatrist in Al Adamson's "Nurse Sherri," the Nashville music producer who gets punched in the mouth by Gary Busey in "The Buddy Holly Story," a redneck hunter in "The Capture of Bigfoot," a doomed fisherman in John Carpenter's splendidly spooky "The Fog," a sleazy lawyer in "Maniac Cop," a sarcastic police psychiatrist in "Relentless" (Goff reprised this part in the first sequel), the arrogant alien at the newsstand who's rude to Roddy Piper in "They Live," and Tracy Griffith's weary rancher dad in "Skeeter." Goff has sizable supporting roles in the first two notoriously nasty "Ilsa" pictures: he's the Nazi prison camp guard who gets his throat cut wide open in the original and an oil sheik in the second one. Goff has done guest spots on the TV shows "L.A. Law," "The Dukes of Hazzard," and "The Big Valley." Moreover, Goff and his longtime best buddy George "Buck" Flower appeared in dozens of enjoyably trashy movies together; they even play brothers in both "Berserker" and "The Devil and Leroy Bassett." The dynamic drive-in flick duo of Goff and Flower collaborated on the scripts for "Death Falls," "In Search of A Golden Sky," "Joyride to Nowhere," "Drive-In Massacre," and "Teenage Seductress." Goff has co-written screenplays for the Matt Cimber features "Fake-Out," "Butterfly," "A Time to Die," "Hundra," and the recent "Miriam." Goff often has small roles in Cimber's movies as well. Goff also co-wrote the script for William Lustig's entertaining action romp "Hit List" and pops up in a small part as a prosecuting attorney. In addition to his substantial acting and writing credits, John F. Goff has worked as a grip on two Cimber films and handled second unit director chores on both "My Boys Are Good Boys" and "Bad Georgia Road." - IMDb Mini Biography By: woodyandersRead more
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Rigged
1985 · Movie
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Distortions
1987 · Movie
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That Girl from Boston
1975 · Movie
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Society Affairs
1982 · Movie
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The Kid from Not-So-Big
1978 · Movie
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My Boys Are Good Boys
1978 · Movie
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They Live
1988 · Movie
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Power Rangers
1993 · Series
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The Buddy Holly Story
1978 · Movie
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It's Called 'Murder', Baby
1983 · Movie
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The Fog
1980 · Movie
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Breakin'
1984 · Movie
The Screaming
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The Screaming
2000 · Movie
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In Search of a Golden Sky
1984 · Movie
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SexWorld
1978 · Movie
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Hit List
1989 · Movie
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Dixie Ray: Hollywood Star
1983 · Movie
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Maniac Cop
1988 · Movie
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Party Plane
1991 · Movie
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Alligator
1980 · Movie
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The Adventures of the Wilderness Family
1975 · Movie
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Ilsa: She Wolf of the SS
1975 · Movie
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The Witch Who Came from the Sea
1976 · Movie
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Manson's Lost Girls
2016 · Movie
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Bad Georgia Road
1977 · Movie
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The Ecstasy Girls
1979 · Movie
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Charli
1981 · Movie
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Dead On: Relentless II
1992 · Movie
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Deadly Intent
1988 · Movie
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Relentless
1989 · Movie
Azira: Blood from the Sand
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Azira: Blood from the Sand
2006 · Movie
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Tammy and the T-Rex
1994 · Movie
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The Bikini Carwash Company
1992 · Movie
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Under the Rainbow
1981 · Movie
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Death Falls
1991 · Movie
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Getting Over
1981 · Movie
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Gas Pump Girls
1979 · Movie
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Skeeter
1993 · Movie
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Hundra
1983 · Movie
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Butterfly
1982 · Movie
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The Capture of Bigfoot
1979 · Movie
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Ilsa: Harem Keeper of the Oil Sheiks
1976 · Movie
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Dragonfight
1990 · Movie
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Takin' It Off Out West
1995 · Movie
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Berserker
1987 · Movie
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Takin' It All Off
1987 · Movie
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Lady Cocoa
1975 · Movie
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Nurse Sherri
1978 · Movie