Elliott Gould Biography

He then traveled across the Atlantic to appear in the Leonard Bernstein Jerome Robbins Comden and Green classic On the Town at the Prince of Wales Theater on London’s legendary West End.He followed this as the court jester in the CBS TV special of Once Upon a Mattress starring Carol Burnett and staged by Joe Layton. He toured with Liza Minnelli in The Fantasticks directed by Word Baker with Shelly Winters in LUV directed by Ronnie Graham and also appeared in the original Broadway productions of Jules Feiffer’s Little Murders produced by Alexander H. Cohen and Drat the Cat written by Ira Levin and Milton Schafer before discovering the camera and embarking on a motion picture career.
The first of nearly 70 feature films was The Confession (now entitled Quick Let’s Get Married on late night television) starred Ginger Rogers and was directed by William Deterlie. He played the title role in The Night They Raided Minsky’s produced by Bud Yorkin and Norman Lear and directed by William Freidkin.His performance in the role of Ted in Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice earned him an Academy Award nomination followed by the role of Trapper John in Robert Altman’s original classic motion picture MASH.Gould was voted the Outstanding Male Newcomer by the National Association of Theater Owners and after scoring in the Columbia Pictures release of Getting Straight with Candace Bergen and Harrison Fordlanded on the cover of Time magazine as Man From MASH and Star for an Uptight Age. He was chosen to be the first American born artist to appear in the great Ingmar Bergman’s first English speaking film The Touch. He also appeared in Move Little Murders (which he produced) and Universal Pictures’ I Love My Wife produced by David Wolper written by Robert Kauffman and directed by Mel Stuart with Brenda Vaccaro.

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