Harold Gould
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Harold Gould (b. 1923), a venerable character actor known for his distinguished appearance and smooth voice, has been playing paternal roles and authority figures for more than forty years. Originally a dramatic teacher with a Ph.D., teaching speech and drama at Cornell University, Gould put his pedagogy into practice as a full time performer in the 1950s, and soon began making television appearances on The Twilight Zone, Dennis the Menace, and The Alfred Hitchcock Hour.
In keeping with his typical roles, he supplied the voice for the Dinosaur Chief in the Dinosaurs episode "Hurling Day," and more recently supplied narration as another aged tribal chief in the Disney animated feature Brother Bear.
Gould may be best known for playing Martin Morgenstern, on-screen husband to Nancy Walker and father to Valerie Harper (as Rhoda) on The Mary Tyler Moore Show and the spin-off Rhoda. Though most familiar from scores of television roles (including Albert Einstein in an episode of Touched by an Angel), Gould has been active in film as well, appearing in Mel Brooks' Silent Movie, The Sting (with Charles Durning), Stuart Little, Patch Adams, the 2003 version of Freaky Friday, and the 2005 independent film English as a Second Language.
