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.
Goins attended high school in Le Roy, New York and college at University of Michigan and SUNY Brockport. He performed in college theater productions while a student at Michigan.
Apart from The Greatest American Hero, Goins has appeared on TV shows including Hill Street Blues, The White Shadow, Trapper John, MD, 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..
Goins' best-known film role is that of Joe Cox, a member of Clarence Boddicker's gang in the 1987 science fiction movie RoboCop.