Elliott Gould

Mr. Gould has appeared in over 100 films including M*A*S*H, Ocean’s Eleven, Twelve, and Thirteen, Nashville, Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice, The Silent Partner, A Bridge Too Far, Getting Straight, California Split,  and The Long Goodbye, while being nominated for an Academy Award as well as a Golden Globe.  He has acted for such notable directors as Robert Altman, Richard Attenborough, William Dieterle, Darryl Duke, Irvin Kershner, Barry Levinson, Paul Mazursky, Dino Risi, Richard Rush, Mark Rydell, Steven Soderbergh and Ingmar Bergman among others.

He began his career in the theater in New York. On television – he hosted “Saturday Night Live” 6 times, the first of which won the show its first Emmy. Gould was frequently seen as the father of Monica and Ross Geller on the popular television sitcom Friends. As a producer Mr. Gould has presented such films as Woody Allen’s Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Sex But Were Afraid To Ask and Jules Feiffer’s Little Murders. Elliott currently serves on the Board of Directors of the Screen Actors Guild.

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