This tall, gangly, stage-trained character lead is best known for playing quirky neurotics and likable oddballs, often too smart or too innocent for their own good. Goldblum made his film debut as a rapist in "Death Wish" (1974) and followed up with a bit part as a frustrated actor in Robert Altman's "California Split.” In Altman's "Nashville" (1975), he played the more substantial role of a silent motorcyclist/magician. Goldblum did an indelible bit in Woody Allen's "Annie Hall" (1977) as the nervous Los Angeles party guest overheard fretting on the telephone that he'd forgotten his mantra.