---
name: "Mark Goffman"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/mark-goffman"
fi1m_id: "mark-goffman"
imdb_id: "nm0324611"
tmdb_id: 1219521
wikidata_id: "Q6767765"
roles: ["Writer"]
born: "1 January 1901"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-23T13:19:20.180907+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."
---

# Mark Goffman

## Identity

Mark Goffman

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/mark-goffman
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** mark-goffman
- **IMDb ID:** nm0324611
- **TMDB ID:** 1219521
- **Wikidata ID:** Q6767765
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Goffman, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6767765, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0324611/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1219521

Writer. Born 1 January 1901.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Born:** 1 January 1901
- **Also known as:** Mark A. Goffman
- **Frequently works with:** [Christopher Misiano](https://film.one/person/christopher-misiano.md), [Clark Johnson](https://film.one/person/clark-johnson.md), [Josh Singer](https://film.one/person/josh-singer.md), [Lesli Linka Glatter](https://film.one/person/lesli-linka-glatter.md), [Paul McCrane](https://film.one/person/paul-mccrane.md), [Steve Shill](https://film.one/person/steve-shill.md)
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Goffman, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6767765, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0324611/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1219521

## Streaming the US now

- **HBO Max:** [*The West Wing*](https://film.one/tv/the-west-wing.md) (86)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Mark Goffman is an American television writer and producer. He began his television career in 2002 as a staff writer on *The West Wing*, where he contributed stories and scripts across several seasons.

Goffman has served as showrunner and executive producer on series including *Sleepy Hollow*, *Bull* and *The Umbrella Academy*. He has also written for *White Collar*, *Limitless*, *Elementary* and *Law & Order: Special Victims Unit*, and ran the writers' room on *Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip*. He holds a B.A. from Emory University and a master's in public policy from Harvard Kennedy School.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *The West Wing* (1999), Fi1m 86, Writer, Story — [page](https://film.one/tv/the-west-wing.md)

## Complete filmography (14)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *The Irrational* (2023), series, Executive Producer, Writer
- *The Umbrella Academy* (2019), series, Teleplay, Consulting Producer, Executive Producer
- *Bull* (2016), series, Writer, Story, Teleplay
- *Limitless* (2015), series, Writer, Co-Executive Producer, Executive Producer
- *Sleepy Hollow* (2013), series, Writer, Story, Teleplay, Executive Producer
- *Elementary* (2012), series, Producer, Writer
- *Dumbstruck* (2010), Director
- *White Collar* (2009), series, Writer
- *Terry Fator: Live from Las Vegas* (2009), Director
- *Reunion* (2005), series, Writer
- *Odd Man Out* (1999), series, Writer
- *The West Wing* (1999), series, Writer, Story — Fi1m 86, [page](https://film.one/tv/the-west-wing.md)
- *Law & Order: Special Victims Unit* (1999), series, Writer
- *Touched by an Angel* (1994), series, Writer

## Gallery

- ![Lindsay Goffman and Mark Goffman in 2020.](https://film.one/media/person/61567/gallery-ca94dd52c483.jpg) Lindsay Goffman and Mark Goffman in 2020. — Christopher Michel from San Francisco, USA, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fd/Lindsay_Goffman_and_Mark_Goffman_%2849615468767%29.jpg/1280px-Lindsay_Goffman_and_Mark_Goffman_%2849615468767%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Mark Goffman in 2015.](https://film.one/media/person/61567/gallery-6caad5961524.jpg) Mark Goffman in 2015. — Christopher Michel from San Francisco, USA, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1e/Mark_Goffman_%2816922362416%29.jpg/1280px-Mark_Goffman_%2816922362416%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Mark Goffman in 2020.](https://film.one/media/person/61567/gallery-7873bfecb3dd.jpg) Mark Goffman in 2020. — Christopher Michel from San Francisco, USA, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b3/Mark_Goffman_%2849614697323%29.jpg/1280px-Mark_Goffman_%2849614697323%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)

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© 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/mark-goffman