Danny Goldman, the actor who voiced Brainy Smurf and played the persistent medical student whose prying questions drove Gene Wilder’s irate doctor to stab his own leg with a scalpel in the opening scene of Young Frankenstein, died Sunday at his home in Los Angeles from complications of two recent strokes.
He was 80. His family made the announcement.The cause of death was not related to COVID-19. A casting director of television commercials for nearly 30 years, Daniel Goldman — he always went by Danny– also was a familiar face on episodic TV throughout the 1970s, ’80s and into the ’90s, appearing on "The Good Life," "Room 222," "Get Smart," "The Partridge Family," "Love," "American Style," "Needles and Pins," "Columbo," "Baretta," "Chico".