- Born
- Died
- Birth nameHarold Vernon Goldstein
- Height5′ 10½″ (1.79 m)
- Harold Gould earned a Ph.D. in theater and taught speech and drama at Cornell University.
Pursuing off-Broadway work in the 1950s, he decided to practice what he preached and became a full-time professional actor in the 1960s.
He appeared in hundreds of TV programs during his distinguished performing career, usually playing a father, grandfather, or other varieties of authority figures.
- IMDb mini biography by: Ray Hamel
- SpouseLea Vernon(August 20, 1950 - September 11, 2010) (his death, 3 children)
- ParentsLouis GoldsteinLillian Goldstein
- On the TV series Love, American Style (1969), Gould originated the "Howard Cunningham" role in the episode Love and the Happy Days/Love and the Newscasters (1972) in 1972. The producers of Happy Days (1974) asked him to appear in the show's pilot episode, but he declined because he had a previous commitment to appear in a play abroad, and the role was given to Tom Bosley.
- Graduated from Albany Teachers' College (later renamed the State University of New York at Albany); earned a master's degree and doctorate in theater at Cornell University.
- In September 2005, began a 12-city tour in the title role of "Tuesdays with Morrie" in Miami, Philadelphia, Boston, Chicago, Indianapolis, Washington D.C., Nashville, Atlanta, Louisville, Minneapolis, Appleton, and Fort Lauderdale.
- During World War II, he spent two years in the Army, serving first in a mortar platoon that saw combat in France. After recovering from trench foot in an English infirmary, he was reassigned to a railroad transportation unit in France.
- He was the son of Lillian and Louis Goldstein. His parents were both born in New York, and all of his grandparents were Russian Jewish immigrants.
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