Trevor Goddard

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Trevor Joseph Goddard
Trevor Goddard as Cdr. Brumby from JAG
Born	14 October 1962(1962-10-14) Croydon, Surrey, England
Died	7 June 2003 (aged 40) Los Angeles, California, United States
Occupation	Boxer, actor
Spouse(s)	Ruthann Goddard (1991 - 7 June 2003)

Trevor Goddard (14 October 1962 – 7 June 2003) was a former professional boxer turned actor. His best known roles are Kano in the first Mortal Kombat movie and Lieutenant Commander Mic Brumby on JAG.

Contents 1 Career 2 Death 3 Filmography 4 References 5 External links

[edit] Career

Goddard was born in Croydon, Surrey in 1962, however, during his life, he said in interviews that he was born in 1965. He was said to have an affinity for the Australian lifestyle, and had apparently seriously considered permanently moving to Perth, Western Australia. For much of his career, he claimed to be of Australian descent and often played Australian characters. It was only after his death that his father revealed that Goddard was actually English. Goddard attempted to tap into the Hollywood demand for Australian actors by disguising his thick London accent with an Australian one and was so successful that he was accepted by the Australian entertainment industry as one of its own.

He appeared in cameo roles in many television shows before his movie career took off. In 1995, Trevor played possibly his best known role as Kano in the film adaptation of Mortal Kombat. Originally, Kano's character was an American orphan raised in Japan, but because of the praise Goddard received from fans of the game for his Australian rendition of the character, Kano was retconned to being of Australian descent. Additionally, the latest appearance of the Kano character in Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe is also modeled after Goddard's look in the film.

Goddard also was known for his role in the television drama series JAG as Lieutenant Commander Mic Brumby. After his death, the series paid tribute to him by reshowing a scene from a prior episode at the end of a regular episode that showed the cast and crew singing "Waltzing Matilda", an Australian folk song as his character Mic Brumby left a bar where a going away party was taking place prior to returning home to Australia. He would go on to act in other movies such as Gone in Sixty Seconds and Hollywood Vampyr. Goddard was also featured in TV commercials for Hoover FloorMate. He made his last on-screen appearance in the 2003 movie Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl.

[edit] Death

On 7 June 2003, Goddard was found dead in his home in Los Angeles, California. An autopsy later showed that Goddard died from a drug overdose of heroin and cocaine. His death was ruled accidental.^[1]

[edit] Filmography

Film
Year	Film	Role	Notes
1992	Inside Out	The Other Criminal	Segment: "The Leda" Direct-to-video release
1994	Men of War	Keefer
1995	Mortal Kombat	Kano
	Illegal in Blue	Mickey Fuller	Direct-to-video release
	The Break	Nails
1996	Fast Money	Regy
	Prey of the Jaguar	Damian Bandera	Direct-to-video release
1997	First Encounter
	Dead Tides	Scott
1998	Deep Rising	T. Ray
	She's Too Tall	Warner
	Some Girl	Ravi	Alternative titles: Men Girl Talk
1999	Gut Feeling
2000	Gone in Sixty Seconds	Don	Uncredited
2001	Dead Man's Run	Jason
2002	Torture TV	Trevor "Dogger" McDougan
	Hollywood Vampyr	Blood
2003	Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl	Grapple
Television
Year	Title	Role	Notes
1989	Tour of Duty	Williams	1 episode
1992	The Commish	Ozzy Van Spyk	2 episodes
	Dark Justice	Travis	1 episode
1992-1994	Silk Stalkings	Steiner Oscar LeMay	2 episodes
1992-1995	Renegade	Digger Macy Ty Waitly	2 episodes
1993	Murphy Brown	Colin	1 episode
	Down the Shore	Stench	1 episode
	Baywatch Hawaii	Wiley Brown	1 episode
	Empty Nest	Joe	1 episode
1996	Yesterday's Target	Agent Riggs	Television movie
	Murder, She Wrote	Boyd Hendrix	1 episode
	Nowhere Man	Mackie	1 episode
1997	Assault on Devil's Island	Fraker	Television movie Alternative title: Shadow Warriors
1998	Babylon 5	Trace	1 episode
	Legion	Cutter	Television movie
	The X-Files	The 1st British Crewman	1 episode
1998-2001	JAG	Lieutenant Commander Mic Brumby	42 episodes
2000	18 Wheels of Justice	Paul Stocker	1 episode
2001	When Billie Beat Bobby	Barry Court	Television movie
2002	Rendez-View		1 episode

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Trevor Goddard at the Internet Movie Database
• Trevor Goddard at TV.com
• Toasting Trevor Goddard
• Actor's Compendium
• Trevor Goddard at Find a Grave

Persondata
NAME	Goddard, Trevor
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
SHORT DESCRIPTION	Boxer, actor
DATE OF BIRTH	14 October 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH	Croydon, Surrey, England
DATE OF DEATH	7 June 2003
PLACE OF DEATH	Los Angeles, California