All That Breathes is not Gould

Or

He's Not Glenn Gould, But He's As Dead as Gould

(Cryptic commentary from Mark)

Harold Gould, the man who could have been Mr. C, has died of prostate cancer at the age of 86. His best known role was in The Sting as Twist, the grifter who worked the telegraph office end of the con. He appeared in countless sitcoms and dramas over the last 40 years, most recently as an ex-SS officer hiding in the United States as a Holocaust survivor on Nip/Tuck, more than 30 years after playing 4 different Nazis on Hogan’s Heroes, and 50 years after fighting Nazis in World War II. On Soap, he shared a hospital room with Jody when his quarterback boyfriend dumps him, prompting a suicide attempt. On Night Court, he played a car salesman who sold cars for $1 a piece while grieving for his late wife and got arrested for grand theft auto, but Harry and the gang get him sprung for one last New Year’s Eve in Times Square. On The Golden Girls, he was a widowed college professor who dates Rose Nylund. Occasionally, his wife survived, and he played Rhoda’s father on The Mary Tyler Moore Show and Rhoda, although being married to Nancy Walker couldn’t have been that much of a treat. On Dallas, he ran the asylum J.R. gets himself committed to in order to get Clayton Farlow’s insane sister to sign over voting rights to her Westar Oil stock in J.R.’s bid to take over that company after losing Ewing Oil. He missed his big break after he played Howard Cunningham in the Love, American Style skit that launched Happy Days, but was replaced by Tom Bosley. Similarly, he lost the role of Marlo Thomas’s father in That Girl after appearing in the pilot.