Danny Goldman

Daniel "Danny" Goldman is a retired American actor, voice actor, and casting director well known for providing the voice of Brainy Smurf in The Smurfs, and for his role as the inquisitive medical student in the opening of Young Frankenstein.

Biography
Goldman was born on October 30, 1939, in New York City, New York. He is a 1957 graduate of Far Rockaway High School in Queens. He then attended nearby Columbia University in Manhattan, graduating in 1961. Some of his first acting credits include roles in The Good Life, That Girl, Room 222, The Partridge Family, Love, American Style, Needles and Pins, Columbo, Baretta, and Chico and the Man. Goldman was also a series regular on the 1977 sitcom Busting Loose, and starred in Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer and Get Smart, Again!. In addition, he guest-starred on the shows Hawaii Five-O and Trapper John, M.D. Goldman then appeared as a panelist on What's My Line?, and on the live stage version in Hollywood several years later. In 2005, he guest-starred in an episode of the sitcom The King of Queens, followed by another guest-star role on Criminal Minds in 2012.

Goldman became extremely well-known for voicing pedantic Brainy Smurf from 1981 to 1989 on the long-running animated series The Smurfs. He reprised the role several times for the TV show Robot Chicken. His other feature film credits include a small role as a persistent medical student who asks Dr. Frankenstein about his grandfather in Young Frankenstein; and other roles in Busting, Linda Lovelace for President, Tunnel Vision, The Missouri Breaks, Swap Meet, Wholly Moses!, and My Man Adam. In addition, for nearly three decades, Goldman was a prominent casting director of TV commercials in Hollywood.

On Criminal Minds
Goldman portrayed retired police detective Bob Zablonsky, who once investigated the Zodiac Killer, in the Season Seven episode True Genius.

Filmography
For a full filmography, see here.