Early life

Gould was born in Brooklyn, New York. His mother, Lucille (née Raver), sold artificial flowers to beauty shops, and his father, Bernard Goldstein, worked in the garment business as a textiles buyer. His family was Jewish, and his grandparents were immigrants from Ukraine, Poland, and Russia. He graduated from the Professional Children's School.

Career

Gould began acting in the Broadway theatre in the late 1950s, eventually landing a starring role in I Can Get It for You Wholesale (where he met Barbra Streisand) in 1962. Other credits include Irma La Douce, Say, Darling, Drat! The Cat!, and Little Murders. He purchased the screen rights to Little Murders, and in addition to acting in the film version, served as uncredited executive producer.

As a film actor, Gould's performance in Paul Mazursky's successful 1969 comedy Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice proved to be his breakout role. Indeed, he earned a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.

Gould soon became one of the most prominent American film actors of the early 1970s. He is perhaps 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".

Gould played the detective Philip Marlowe in Altman's landmark 1973 film noir The Long Goodbye. The role had previously been played by such distinguished actors as Humphrey Bogart and Dick Powell, and would later be essayed by Robert Mitchum, but Gould's naturalistic performance represented Altman's modern, somewhat controversial revision of the material. He soon collaborated with Altman again, as a gambling addict alongside George Segal in California Split (1974). He later cameoed as himself in the Altman films Nashville (1975) and The Player (1992).

He hosted Saturday Night Live six times, his final time being the first episode of the disastrous Jean Doumanian season (season 6) in November 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 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 (1980) and The Devil and Max Devlin (1981), in which he co-starred with Bill Cosby.

Other notable roles during this time include performances in A Bridge Too Far (1977), Capricorn One (1978), and a remake of The Lady Vanishes (1979).

His career slowed down after a series of critical and commercial flops in the mid-to-late 1970s, but he has still appeared in a number of supporting and character roles in prominent television shows and movies. He starred in a sitcom called E/R in 1984-1985, and had a notable recurring guest role on Friends as Jack Geller, the father of Monica and Ross Geller. More recently he has had a prominent recurring role on Ray Donovan and had a regular role in the sitcom Mulaney.

Gould received critical praise for his performances as an aging mobster in Warren Beatty's 1991 film Bugsy and as the boyfriend of the protagonist's mother in American History X (1998). He also co-starred as Reuben Tishkoff in the popular "caper" film Ocean's Eleven (2001) and its sequels: Ocean's Twelve (2004) and Ocean's Thirteen (2007). Other recent films roles include supporting turns in Contagion (2011) and Ruby Sparks (2012).

In 2005 he was the guest star in a feature-length episode of the UK TV series Poirot, The Mystery of the Blue Train and he has recently guest starred on a number of television series including Law & Order and CSI. He has also loaned his voice to several animated series, most notable among them, the Disney Channel animated series Kim Possible and the 2006 video game Scarface: The World Is Yours.

Gould currently serves on the Screen Actors Guild National Board of Directors.

Personal life

Gould has said that he has a "very deep Jewish identity". He has been married three times, twice to the same woman:

• Barbra Streisand (March 21, 1963 - July 9, 1971; divorced; 1 child, actor Jason Gould)
• Jennifer Bogart (December 8, 1973 - 1975; June 9, 1978 - 1979). They were divorced twice. The couple had two children. Jennifer's father was director Paul Bogart.

Gould became one of the many celebrity producers of The 1 Second Film collaboration in June 2009 and is known for his association to charitable causes such as Save Ellis Island.

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1964	Quick, Let's Get Married!	The Mute
1968	The Night They Raided Minsky's	Billy Minsky
1969	Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice	Ted Henderson	Nominated - Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor Nominated - BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role Nominated - Laurel Awards for Male New Face Nominated - New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Supporting Actor
1970	Move	Hiram Jaffe
	I Love My Wife	Richard Burrows
	Getting Straight	Harry Bailey
	M*A*S*H	Capt. "Trapper" John Francis Xavier McIntyre	Laurel Awards for Comedy Performance, Male Nominated - Golden Globe Award for Best Actor - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy
1971	The Touch	David Kovac
	Little Murders	Alfred Chamberlain
1973	Who?	Sean Rogers
	The Long Goodbye	Philip Marlowe
1974	California Split	Charlie Waters
	Busting	Vice Detective Michael Keneely
	S*P*Y*S	Griff
1975	Mean Johnny Barrows	The Professor
	Nashville	Himself	Cameo
	Whiffs	Dudley Frapper
1976	I Will, I Will... for Now	Les Bingham
	Harry And Walter Go To New York	Walter Hill
1977	A Bridge Too Far	Col. Bobby Stout
1978	Matilda	Bernie Bonnelli
	The Silent Partner	Miles Cullen
	Capricorn One	Robert Caulfield
1979	Escape to Athena	Charlie Dane
	The Lady Vanishes	Robert Condon
	The Muppet Movie	Beauty Contest master of ceremonies	Cameo
1980	Falling in Love Again	Harry Lewis
	The Last Flight of Noah's Ark	Noah Dugan
1981	The Devil and Max Devlin	Max Devlin
	Dirty Tricks	Prof. Colin Chandler
1983	Tramps	Willie Zobel
1984	The Muppets Take Manhattan	Cop in Pete's	Cameo
	The Naked Face	Angeli
	Over the Brooklyn Bridge	Alby Sherman
1986	Inside Out	Jimmy Morgan
1987	Lethal Obsession	Serge Gart
	My First Forty Years	Nino Ranuzzi
	The Telephone	Rodney
1988	Dangerous Love	Rick
1989	Night Visitor	Ron Devereaux
	The Big Picture	Lawyer
	Massacre Play	Theo Steiner
1990	I'll Be Going Now	Alcide
	The Lemon Sisters	Fred Frank
1991	Dead Men Don't Die	Barry Barron
	Bugsy	Harry Greenberg
1992	The Player	Himself	Cameo
	Wet and Wild Summer!	Mike McCain
	Beyond Justice	Lawyer
	Judgement	Judge Callow	Video
1993	Amore!	George Levine
	Hoffman's Hunger	Felix Hoffman
1994	Naked Gun 33⅓: The Final Insult	Himself	Cameo
	The Glass Shield	Greenspan
	The Dangerous	Levine
	Bleeding Hearts	Mr. Baum
1995	A Boy Called Hate	Richard
	Cover Me	Capt. Richards
	Kicking and Screaming	Grover's Dad
	The Feminine Touch	Kahn	Video
1996	johns	Manny Gold
	Busted	TV Show Host
1997	Inside Out	Aaron's Father	Short film
	City of Industry	Gangster
	Camp Stories	Older David Katz
1998	Michael Kael vs. the World News Company	Coogan
	The Big Hit	Morton Shulman
	Getting Personal	Jack Kacmarczyk
	American History X	Murray
2000	Picking Up the Pieces	Father LaCage
	Boys Life 3	Aaron's Father	Segment: Inside Out
	Playing Mona Lisa	Bernie Goldstein
2001	Ocean's Eleven	Reuben Tishkoff
	The Experience Box	Dr. Keith Huber
2002	Puckoon	Dr. Goldstein
	The Cat Returns	Toto	English dub Voice role
2004	Ocean's Twelve	Reuben Tishkoff
2006	Open Window	John
2007	Saving Sarah Cain	Bill
	Ocean's Thirteen	Reuben Tishkoff
	The Ten Commandments	God	Voice role
2008	The Deal	Rabbi Seth Gutterman
	The Caller	Frank Turlotte
	Little Hercules in 3-D	Socrates
2009	Noah's Ark: The New Beginning	God	Voice role
	Morning	Male Doctor Goodman
2010	Expecting Mary	Horace Weitzel
2011	The Encore of Tony Duran	Jerry Braill
	Contagion	Dr. Ian Sussman
2012	Ruby Sparks	Dr. Rosenthal
	Divorce Invitation	Paul Lipnicks
	Dorfman	Burt Dorfman
	Fred Won't Move Out	Fred
	Switchmas	Sam Finkelstein
2013	Live at the Foxes Den	Paul Munchak

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1964	Once Upon a Mattress	Jester	TV Movie
1972	The Special London Bridge Special	The Villain	TV special
1975-1980	Saturday Night Live	Juror/Host/Himself	TV series 8 episodes
1982	The Rules of Marriage	Michael Hagen	TV movie
1983	Faerie Tale Theatre	The Giant	Episode: "Jack and the Beanstalk"
1983-1985	E/R	Dr. Howard Sheinfeld	TV series 23 episodes
1986	Vanishing Act	Lieutenant Rudameyer	TV movie
1986	The Twilight Zone	Harry Folger	"The Misfortune Cookie"
1986	Tall Tales and Legends	Casey	TV series One episode
1987	Conspiracy: The Trial of the Chicago 8	Leonard Weinglass	TV movie
	Frog	Bill Anderson	TV movie
1988	Act of Betrayal	Callaghan	TV movie
1989	Murder, She Wrote	Lt. J. T. Hanna	TV series One episode
1990	Stolen: One Husband	Martin Slade	TV movie
1991	Frogs!	Bill Anderson	TV movie
1992	Somebody's Daughter	Hindeman	TV movie
1993	Bloodlines: Murder in the Family	Stewart Woodman	TV movie
1993	L.A. Law	Ed Morrison	TV series 3 episodes
1994	Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman	Vincent Winninger	TV series One episode
1994-2003	Friends	Jack Geller	TV series 20 episodes
1995	Cybill	Himself
1995	P.C.H	Randy's Father	TV movie
1997	The Shining	Stuart Ullman	TV miniseries
	Hotel Shanghai	Hutchinson	TV miniseries
	Hey Arnold	Rabbi Goldberg	TV series Two episodes
1998	Diagnosis: Murder Episode 100	Peyton Cartwright	TV series One episode
1999	Mentors	Albert Einstein	TV series One episode
2003	Las Vegas	The Professor	TV series One episode
2003-2006	Kim Possible	Mr. Stoppable	TV series Voice role 6 episodes
2004	Bad Apple	Buddha Stanzione	TV movie
2005	Agatha Christie's Poirot	Rufus Van Aldin	TV series One episode
2006	Masters of Horror	Barney	TV series One episode
2010	The Life & Times of Tim	Dr. Fishman	TV series One episode Voice role
	Uncorked	Paul Browning	TV movie
2011	The Cape	Samuel	TV series 2 episodes
2013-2015	Ray Donovan	Ezra Goldman	TV series 17 episodes
2014	Sensitive Skin	Dr. H. Cass	TV series 3 episodes
2014-2015	Mulaney	Oscar	TV series regular 13 episodes
2015	Maron	Himself	TV series One episode
2015	Hawaii 5-0

Web series

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2015	Oscar's Hotel for Fantastical Creatures	Sir Loin (voice)

[ Source: Wikipedia ]