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

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

Apart from The Greatest American Hero, Goins has appeared on TV shows includingHill 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 andAgents 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 movieRoboCop.^[1]

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