John F. Goff

John F Goff rates highly as an extremely prolific versatile and shamefully underrated jack of all trades in the delightfully downndirty 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 lowkey 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 Goffs most memorable roles are one of Ralph Meekers vicious flunkies in the brutal revenge potboiler Johnny Firecloud Millie Perkins 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 scifi item The Alpha Incident a helpful psychiatrist in Al Adamsons 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 Carpenters 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 whos rude to Roddy Piper in They Live and Tracy Griffiths weary rancher dad in Skeeter Goff has sizable supporting roles in the first two notoriously nasty Ilsa pictures hes 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 LA 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 drivein flick duo of Goff and Flower collaborated on the scripts for Death Falls In Search of A Golden Sky Joyride to Nowhere DriveIn Massacre and Teenage Seductress Goff has cowritten screenplays for the Matt Cimber features FakeOut Butterfly A Time to Die Hundra and the recent Miriam Goff often has small roles in Cimbers movies as well Goff also cowrote the script for William Lustigs 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