gofer

He began his career in the film industry in the mid-1930s working as an extra and was a gofer at Denham Film Studios, where he first met Lean, an editor, in 1942.

Our heroine, a funny, foul-mouthed gofer who’s racking up miles driving in Bucharest, has just told her passenger about a road outside the city that has more memorials edging it than it has kilometers.

The two first met at a Western Sizzlin steakhouse in Memphis, at a benefit for Don Ezell, the longtime gofer at Sun Records.

He entered show business at age 16 as a TV mailroom gofer.

“I happened to be sitting in the gofer’s seat. Nothing personal. It’s just the way the very rich and powerful are different.”