John F. Goff

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: woodyanders

Known For: Acting

Born: null, 1939-05-24

Died: null

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1971	The Godchildren	Bobby Lee O'Toole (as Noel Lyons)	20
2	1973	The Devil and Leroy Bassett	Leroy Bassett	30
3	1973	The Black Bunch	Billy	35
4	1974	Dames and Dreams	Crooked Cop	30
5	1975	Virgin Cowboy	Bartender	10
6	1975	Ilsa: She Wolf of the SS	Nazi Guard with Mustache (uncredited)	60
7	1975	Lady Cocoa	The Sicilian	44
8	1975	The Adventures of the Wilderness Family	Doctor #1	60
9	1975	That Girl from Boston		0
10	1976	The Witch Who Came from the Sea	Molly's Father	60
11	1976	Ilsa: Harem Keeper of the Oil Sheiks	Sheik Kalam (uncredited)	47
12	1976	Country Doc	Moose	0
13	1976	Drive-In Massacre	Det. Mike Leary	39
14	1976	C.B. Hustlers	Boots Clayborn	20
15	1977	Bad Georgia Road	Mr. Shields	64
16	1978	The Kid from Not-So-Big	Ben	0
17	1978	My Boys Are Good Boys	Lecherous Man (as John Goff)	72
18	1978	SexWorld	Bearded Technician	66
19	1978	The Buddy Holly Story	T.J.	72
20	1978	The Alpha Incident	Jack Tiller	36
21	1978	Nurse Sherri	Dr. Andrews (as Jack Barnes)	45
22	1979	Up Yours	John / Devil	26
23	1979	Summer Camp	Herman	43
24	1979	The Capture of Bigfoot	Burt	42
25	1979	The Ecstasy Girls	Charlie Appleton	49
26	1979	Gas Pump Girls	Redneck	49
27	1980	The Fog	Al Williams	67
28	1980	Alligator	Ashe	61
29	1981	Charli	Wayne	50
30	1981	Getting Over	Arnold Stanfield Stone	10
31	1981	Under the Rainbow	Bartender	52
32	1982	Butterfly	Truck Driver	50
33	1982	Society Affairs	Dan Bushnell	100
34	1983	Dixie Ray: Hollywood Star	Partner (as Tom Reece)	60
35	1983	It's Called 'Murder', Baby	Partner	73
36	1983	Hundra	Would-be back alley rapist (uncredited)	48
37	1983	Hustler Video Magazine 1		30
38	1984	Hustler Video Magazine 2	NonSex	30
39	1985	Rigged	West	97
40	1986	The Night Stalker	Captain	37
41	1987	Party Favors		35
42	1987	Distortions	Coroner Tompkins	0
43	1987	Berserker	Officer Hill	44
44	1987	Takin' It All Off	Eliot	43
45	1988	Deadly Intent	Detective Bergman	45
46	1988	Maniac Cop	Jack's Lawyer	61
47	1988	Grotesque	Producer	42
48	1988	They Live	Well Dressed Customer	73
49	1989	Crime of Crimes	Gas Stattion Attendant	40
50	1989	Hit List	Prosecutor	60
51	1989	Relentless	Doctor Park	54
52	1990	Dragonfight	Slim	41
53	1991	Party Plane	Lee	58
54	1991	Total Exposure	Arthur	15
55	1992	Dead On: Relentless II	Dr. Park	54
56	1992	The Bikini Carwash Company	A.B. Quinn	51
57	1993	Skeeter	Clay Crosby	43
58	1994	Tammy and the T-Rex	Uncle Bob	50
59	1995	Ripper Man	Coroner	39
60	1995	Takin' It Off Out West	Virgil Nelly	46
61	2000	The Screaming	Jerry Steiner	50
62	2006	Azira: Blood from the Sand	Old Monk Tendow	10
63	2016	Manson's Lost Girls	George Spahn	56
64	2016	Tides and Nightmares	Himself	0

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