--- name: "Harry Goaz" canonical: "https://film.one/person/harry-goaz" fi1m_id: "harry-goaz" imdb_id: "nm0323556" tmdb_id: 213799 wikidata_id: "Q3783501" roles: ["Actor"] born: "27 December 1960" reviewed_on_fi1m: 2 average_fi1m_score: 74 average_as: "actor" average_over: 2 updated: "2026-09-17T16:48:06.671179+00:00" licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL." --- # Harry Goaz ## Identity Harry Goaz - **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/harry-goaz - **Type:** Person - **Fi1m ID:** harry-goaz - **IMDb ID:** nm0323556 - **TMDB ID:** 213799 - **Wikidata ID:** Q3783501 - **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Goaz, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3783501, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0323556/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/213799 Actor. Born 27 December 1960 in Jacksonville, North Carolina, USA. ## Details - **Work:** Actor - **Born:** 27 December 1960, Jacksonville, North Carolina, USA - **Active:** 1990–1995 - **Average Fi1m score:** 74, as actor, over 2 titles - **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Goaz, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3783501, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0323556/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/213799 ## Streaming the US now - **Apple TV:** [*Twin Peaks*](https://film.one/tv/twin-peaks.md) (86) For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country. ## Fi1m on Harry Goaz > Harry Goaz is good at playing men who mean well and cope badly. His Andy Brennan in *Twin Peaks* is funny and affecting, though the smaller film parts give us less to assess. Harry Goaz’s wide-eyed delivery gives Deputy Andy Brennan the air of someone hoping that goodwill will help him through the job. In *Twin Peaks* (1990), the awkwardness and weak will make him useful for comedy, but the earnestness gives us a reason to care. We were touched by Andy because Goaz makes him seem so sincere even when he is bumbling. That ordinary human response matters in a series which makes soap-opera jealousy funny, frightening and unexpectedly sad. The move to *Eerie, Indiana* (1991), where he played Sgt. Knight, kept him in paranormal television after his breakthrough. His usefulness in such company is easy to understand: an earnest supporting player gives us someone recognisable when the surroundings become strange. He played Guard Casey in Steven Soderbergh’s *The Underneath* (1995), among the independent-film supporting parts that followed. The credits broadened, but Andy remained the role that defined him, with relatively few leading parts to challenge that association. *The Underneath* is a useful caution against recommending a film simply because a familiar face appears in it. We found Soderbergh’s film intelligently cut and handsomely lit, yet cold, with a central character who gives it little to explore. Goaz’s supporting part is no reason to lay that failure at his door, or to set the reservation aside. David Lynch’s *Twin Peaks* gives us much firmer grounds for appreciating him: its ensemble has room for the comic relief and sincere everyman presence he supplies. The return to Andy in *Twin Peaks* (2017) reinforced how much of his reputation rests on this one character. The Texas accent and wide-eyed sincerity are useful tools, although they tell us little about how he might carry a film on his own. That narrow evidence is worth acknowledging, especially when the temptation is to turn affection for Andy into praise for every credit. Start with the original *Twin Peaks*, and allow for the stretches when the series’ patience becomes drift. ## Biography Harry Goaz is an American actor. He is known for playing Deputy Andy Brennan in the television series *Twin Peaks* (1990–1991, 2017) and Sgt. Knight in *Eerie, Indiana* (1991–1992). He appeared as Guard Casey in the film *The Underneath* (1995). Goaz was born in Jacksonville, North Carolina, and grew up in Beaumont, Texas. He graduated from the University of Texas at Austin with a degree in fine arts and later studied acting under William Traylor at the Loft Studio in Los Angeles. He first met director David Lynch while working as a driver and was cast in *Twin Peaks* shortly afterwards. Goaz has appeared in independent films including *Deadroom* (2005), *St. Nick* (2009) and *Earthling* (2010). A piece of his micro-fiction, "Donald's Holy Head", was published in *Blacktop Passages* in 2013. *Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, themoviedb.org.* ## On Fi1m (2) - *The Underneath* (1995), Fi1m 62, as Guard Casey — [page](https://film.one/film/the-underneath.md) - *Twin Peaks* (1990), Fi1m 86, as Andy Brennan — [page](https://film.one/tv/twin-peaks.md) ## Complete filmography (12) Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page. - *The Vandal* (2021), as Art dealer - *On the Couch* (2019), Thanks - *Figurehead* (2015), as Harry - *Twin Peaks: The Missing Pieces* (2014), as Deputy Andy Brennan - *Earthling* (2011), as Thomas Head - *St. Nick* (2009), as Detective - *Deadroom* (2005), as Layton - *The Underneath* (1995), as Guard Casey — Fi1m 62, [page](https://film.one/film/the-underneath.md) - *Eerie, Indiana* (1991), series, as Sgt. Knight - *Twin Peaks* (1990), series, as Andy Brennan — Fi1m 86, [page](https://film.one/tv/twin-peaks.md) - *Twin Peaks* (1989), as Deputy Andy Brennan - *Urban Genome: A Paleoanthropological mapping of homo-urbanicus*, as Homo-Boxus ## Gallery - ![Harry Goaz](https://film.one/media/person/9921/gallery-3d264215dd27.jpg) Harry Goaz — Nidzovantije, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b9/Harrygoaz.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled) - ![Harry Goaz](https://film.one/media/person/9921/gallery-5b403b0a9914.jpg) Harry Goaz — Image via TMDB - ![Harry Goaz](https://film.one/media/person/9921/gallery-4d99bde1dd50.jpg) Harry Goaz — Image via TMDB --- © Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL. Canonical: https://film.one/person/harry-goaz