Jesse D. Goins

Jesse D. Goins is an American film and television character actor. He is known for his role in the 1980s television series The Greatest American Hero as Cyler Johnson and as a member of a criminal gang in RoboCop .

Early life

Goins attended high school in Le Roy, New York and college at University of Michigan and SUNY Brockport. ^[1] He performed in college theater productions while a student at Michigan. ^[2]

Acting career

Apart from The Greatest American Hero, Goins has appeared on TV shows including Hill Street Blues , The White Shadow , Trapper John, MD , ^[1] Benson , Taxi , Diff'rent Strokes , Desperate Housewives , Buck Rogers in the 25th Century , Boy Meets World , The A-Team , Cold Case , ER , Seinfeld , Boston Legal and Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. .^{[ citation needed ]}

Goins' best-known film role is that of Joe Cox, a member of Clarence Boddicker's gang in the 1987 science fiction movie RoboCop . ^[1]

Filmography

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1980	Diff'rent Strokes (2 episodes)	Cameraman/Thomas (credited as Jesse Goins)	Episodes: “The Election” & “The Bank Job"
1980	White Mama	Intern
1981	The Greatest American Hero	Cyler Johnson
1982	Jekyll and Hyde... Together Again	Dutch
	The Dukes of Hazzard	Don Purcell	Episode: A Little Game of Pool
1983	Second Thoughts	Security Guard
	WarGames	Sergeant
1984	Up the Creek	Brown
1987	RoboCop	Joe Cox
1988	The Presidio	MP Bygrave
1992	Patriot Games	FBI Agent Shaw
1993	RoboCop 3	Joe Cox (archive footage)	Flashback sequence, uncredited
1994	Seinfeld	Cop	Episode: "The Hamptons"
1995	A Bucket of Blood	Art
1996	Larger than Life	Airport Guard
	Street Corner Justice	Troy
	Suddenly	Ben
1997	In the Company of Men	Bank patron
1998	Soldier	Chester
1999	Tuesdays with Morrie	Sports Fan #2	TV film
2001	Echos of Enlightenment	Paul
2007	American Zombie	Officer Hannigan
2009	The Ugly Truth	Cliff
2010	Once Fallen	Bookman
2017	Deadly Expose	Captain Collins

References

1. Smith, Andy (24 August 1987). "Villain in 'Robo' is Brockport grad with many screen credits". Democrat and Chronicle. p. 3B. Retrieved 12 August 2025.
2. Gibson, Norman (23 March 1975). "They'll Come Tap, Tap, Tapping Into Your Heart". The Ann Arbor News. p. 25. Retrieved 12 August 2025.

External links

• Jesse D. Goins at IMDb