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Elliott Gould (born Elliott Goldstein on August 29, 1938) is an Academy Award nominated American actor. Gould was born in Brooklyn, New York to Lucille and Bernie Goldstein, Eastern European Jewish immigrants. He graduated from the Professional Children's School.
Contents
- 1 Personal life
- 2 Notable Roles
- 3 Critical Praise
- 4 TV and Film Career
- 4.1 1960s
- 4.2 1970s
- 4.3 1980s
- 4.4 1990s
- 4.5 2000s
- 5 External links
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Personal life
He has married three times:
Notable Roles
He was one of the most prominent
American film
actors in the early-
1970s, best known for playing
Trapper John in
Robert Altman's satirical
1970 film MASH.
Time magazine placed him on one of its covers in 1970, when he was at the brief height of his long career, calling him a "star for an uptight age". Other notable film roles include
Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice (which earned him an
Oscar nomination),
A Bridge Too Far,
Capricorn One, and
The Lady Vanishes. Gould joined such distinguished company as
Humphrey Bogart and
Robert Mitchum when he played the
detective Philip Marlowe in Altman's
1973 film
The Long Goodbye. He hosted
Saturday Night Live six times, his final time being the first episode of the disastrous
Jean Doumanian season (season 6) in November of 1980, where he was shocked to find that the original cast and producer had left and a new cast and producer had taken their place. He has never hosted after that, but has appeared in a season 16 (1990-1991) episode hosted by Tom Hanks where Hanks is welcomed into the Five-Timers club, a society for celebrities who have hosted SNL five times or more. Also in 1980, Gould filmed two movies for
Disney studios,
The Last Flight of Noah's Ark and
The Devil and Max Devlin, in which he co-starred with
Bill Cosby.
Gould's Broadway theatre credits include Irma La Douce, Say, Darling, I Can Get It for You Wholesale (in which he met Barbra Streisand), Drat! The Cat!, and Little Murders.
His career slowed down after a series of critical and commercial flops in the mid-to-late 1970s, but he has remained steadily employed in supporting and character roles in television and movies. He starred in a sitcom called E/R in 1984-1985, and had a recurring guest role on Friends as Jack Geller, the father of Monica and Ross Geller. He was also a regular in the Ocean's Eleven series of films.
Critical Praise
Gould received critical praise for his role as an aging mobster in
Warren Beatty's
1991 film
Bugsy. In addition, he appeared in
American History X as the boyfriend of
Edward Norton's character's mother. He also co-starred in the popular "caper" film
Ocean's Eleven (
2001) and its sequel
Ocean's Twelve (
2004), and soon
Ocean's Thirteen (
2007).
TV and Film Career
1960s
1970s
1980s
1990s
2000s
