Len Goodman, a British ballroom dancer known as the cockney-accented judge on “Dancing With the Stars,” died at 78. He dispensed one-liners that made him an audience favorite on BBC, like “You floated across that floor like butter on a crumpet.”
For many seasons, the “Dancing With the Stars” judging panel consisted of Mr. Goodman and two colleagues, dancer-choreographers Carrie Ann Inaba and Bruno Tonioli. But “there was a sense,” said Thompson, that Mr. Goodman “was kind of its anchor.”He was direct in his judgments but never cruel, often offering an encouraging word and acknowledging that the celebrity contestants, whatever the quality of their performance, were not professional dancers.in 2005.
He worked at his grandfather’s produce stand before finding a job at the shipbuilding firm Harland and Wolff. He left that job to pursue professional dancing and later ran the Goodman Dance Academy in Dartford, England.In addition to serving as a judge on the two dance TV programs, Mr. Goodman was a presenter for BBC radio programs and made a 2012 PBS documentary about the sinking in 1912 of the Titanic ocean liner, which had been built by Harland and Wolff.He was married in 2012 to Sue Barrett.
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