Harvey Friedman (actor)

Harvey Friedman (born 1959), sometimes credited as Harvey Friedmann, is an American film, television and theatre actor.

Early life and education
He was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and studied drama at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh.

Career
Friedman began his acting career in the theatre. He toured Germany with a theater company and settled in Berlin, Germany.

He has appeared on German television and in international co-productions since the 1980s and played Dr. Joseph Goebbels in the film Valkyrie (2008), directed by Bryan Singer.

Partial film and television work

 * 1988: Midnight Cop
 * 1989: Fool's Mate
 * 1990: The Being from Earth
 * 1997: Trouville Beach
 * 1997: Meschugge
 * 1999: How Norman Mailer Stabbed His Wife in the Breast
 * 2001: My Sweet Home
 * 2002: Berlin Beshert
 * 2003: Hitler: The Rise of Evil, television miniseries
 * 2004: Beyond the Sea''
 * 2008: Speed Racer
 * 2008: Valkyrie
 * 2009: Ceasefire (2009 film)
 * 2013: Global Player (film)
 * 2013: The Voices
 * 2015: Sense8
 * 2015: Die Akte General
 * 2015: Stefan Zweig: Farewell to Europe
 * 2017: Submergence
 * 2018: Murer – Anatomie eines Prozesses
 * 2020: Unorthodox

Personal life
After settling in Germany, Friedman married Cynthia Barcomi, an American coffee-roaster and cookbook author.