Cliff Gorman's Birth Card: The 9 of Clubs

In the record

Joel Joshua Goldberg (October 13, 1936 – September 5, 2002), known professionally as Cliff Gorman, was an American actor. The birth-card coordinate for October 13 is the 9 of Clubs — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 1972 Best Actor in a Play (Lenny) win.

Tony Award record (leading acting)

• 1972 Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play — Lenny as Lenny Bruce

The 9 of Clubs coordinate

Cliff Gorman's birthday maps to the 9 of Clubs (The Humanitarian Builder). Card Blueprints treats that as a 365-day coordinate: solar value = 55 − (2 × month + day), and the year is unused. It is not a prediction about a Tony Award and not a verdict on Cliff Gorman. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You let a used-up framework go and keep the part that still works.

Live 9 of Clubs meaning page

Cliff Gorman in the public record

He won an Obie Award in 1968 for the stage presentation of The Boys in the Band, and went on to reprise his role in the 1970 film version. Gorman was born Joel Joshua Goldberg in Queens, New York, the son of Jewish parents, Ethel (née Kaplan) and Samuel Goldberg, who later changed their surname to Gorman. He attended the High School of Music & Art in Manhattan. Gorman won a Tony Award in 1972 for playing Lenny Bruce in the play Lenny. Although the film version, directed by Bob Fosse, featured Dustin Hoffman, Gorman was recruited to portray a Dustin Hoffman-like character portraying Lenny Bruce in a side-story in Fosse's autobiographical film All That Jazz (1979). He was originally cast as the lead in the 1978 sitcom Hello, Larry, but was replaced by McLean Stevenson after Gorman was involved in an altercation with costar Donna Wilkes. This bad blood between Gorman and Wilkes would spill over onto the production of the 1984 film Angel, where Wilkes was the lead, and Gorman had a supporting role as Lt. Andrews.

Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Cliff Gorman (CC BY-SA 4.0). No biographical facts were written for this page beyond that article.

Where the record meets the cards

No sentence in the sourced record shows a clear echo of the published language for 9♣, 6♦, Q♥, 2♥, A♣, 9♠, K♥, K♦, 6♥, 4♣, 2♦, J♠, 8♣, 4♠. None is claimed here. The coordinate rests on the calendar date alone, and this page does not forecast a Tony.

Also on the record

1. He played Joseph Goebbels in the 1981 television film The Bunker.
2. He had roles in the films Cops and Robbers (1973), Rosebud (1975), Brinks: The Great Robbery (1976), An Unmarried Woman (1978) with Jill Clayburgh, Night of the Juggler (1980), Hoffa (1992) with Jack Nicholson and Danny DeVito, and Night and the City (1992).
3. His TV work included performances in the series Law and Order, Murder, She Wrote, Friday the 13th: the Series, and the 1970s drama Police Story, written by former LAPD Detective Sergeant Joseph Wambaugh.
4. On the September 13, 1965 episode of To Tell The Truth, Gorman sat in seat #1 as an imposter for game #3 of the evening.

Other leading Tony winners with this card

• Al Pacino — 1977 Best Actor in a Play (The Basic Training of Pavlo Hummel)
• Anthony LaPaglia — 1998 Best Actor in a Play (A View from the Bridge)
• Carol Channing — 1964 Best Actress in a Musical (Hello, Dolly!)
• Helen Gallagher — 1971 Best Actress in a Musical (No, No, Nanette)
• Judi Dench — 1999 Best Actress in a Play (Amy's View)
• Judy Holliday — 1957 Best Actress in a Musical (Bells Are Ringing)
• Maureen Stapleton — 1971 Best Actress in a Play (The Gingerbread Lady)
• Phyllis Frelich — 1980 Best Actress in a Play (Children of a Lesser God)
• Stephen Dillane — 2000 Best Actor in a Play (The Real Thing)

FAQ

What is Cliff Gorman's birth card?

The 9 of Clubs. October 13 maps to that card through the public Card Blueprints formula. The year of birth is not used.

Does a birth card predict a Tony Award?

No. These pages are coordinates, not fortune-telling. A birth card names a calendar day in a 52-card year. It does not forecast awards, character, or fate.

Where do Cliff Gorman's dates come from?

Birth date 1936-10-13 is the day-precision date on Cliff Gorman's Wikipedia person page, verified against Wikidata P569 (CC0, day precision, Gregorian preferred). The two sources match. Year-only Wikipedia dates and Wikipedia↔Wikidata conflicts are dropped, not guessed. Tony Award wins come from the Wikipedia leading-acting lists, which record the Tony Awards. Page hooks and evidence come from the Wikipedia REST summary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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