Anthony Howard "Tony" Goldwyn is an American actor, voice actor, director, producer, screenwriter, and political activist. For Disney, he voiced Tarzan in the 1999 Disney animated feature film of the same name. He also portrayed Harold Nixon in the 1995 Hollywood Pictures film Nixon and Dr. David Schaffer in the 2002 Touchstone drama Abandon.
Born in Los Angeles, California, he is the son of film producer Samuel Goldwyn, Jr, one of the founders of the studio Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Goldwyn attended various colleges including the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art and at HB Studio in New York City. He began acting in the 1980s and appeared in films, like Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives, Ghost, Pocahontas: The Legend, Bounce, An American Rhapsody, Joshua, The Last Samurai, The Last House on the Left (2009), Divergent, The Divergent Series: Insurgent, The Belko Experiment, and King Richard.
His television credits include St. Elsewhere, Matlock, Designing Women, L.A. Law, Murphy Brown, Tales from the Crypt, Frasier, The L Word, Without a Trace, Dexter, Law & Order: Criminal Intent, Chambers, Scandal, and the TV miniseries From the Earth to the Moon. Goldwyn also starred in stage productions, like Lady in the Dark, Holiday, The Water's Edge, Promises, Promises, The Sound of Music, Network, and The Inheritance.
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- He was considered for the role of Qui-Gon Jinn in Star Wars: The Phantom Menace. However, Liam Neeson was cast in the end.[1]
- His grandfather, filmmaker Samuel Goldwyn, Sr., was a good friend of Walt Disney.