Harold Gould Filmography

ESL: English as a Second Language

Actors: Kuno Becker, Danielle Camastra, Maria Conchita Alonso, John Michael Higgins

Synopsis: An illegal day Mexican laborer and a club-hopping Los Angeles hipster form an unusual connection that leads the lives of both down paths neither could have ever anticipated. Bolivar de la Cruz (Kuno Becker) had just made the arduous journey from Mexico to Los Angeles when the wagon that was Read More

Brother Bear

Actors: Joaquin Phoenix, Jeremy Suarez, Jason Raize, Rick Moranis, Dave Thomas

Synopsis: In the Disney-animated adventure Brother Bear, Joaquin Phoenix provides the voice of Kenai, a young Native American boy whose brother, Sitka (voice of D.B. Sweeney), is killed by a mother bear protecting her cubs. With revenge in mind, Kenai sets out into the woods only to find himself magically Read More

Freaky Friday

Actors: Jamie Lee Curtis, Lindsay Lohan, Mark Harmon, Harold Gould, Chad Michael Murray

Synopsis: A high-strung mom and her punky daughter learn what it's like to walk in each other's shoes -- literally -- in Disney's second update of their 1977 teen fantasy comedy. The new-millennium Freaky Friday has disgruntled teen Anna Coleman (Lindsay Lohan) living, sans father, with her uptight Read More

Master of Disguise

Actors: Erick Avari, Bo Derek, Robert Loggia, Dana Carvey, Jennifer Esposito, Harold Gould, James Brolin

Synopsis: Dana Carvey ventures into the world of PG-rated, family-oriented entertainment as star and co-writer of this light adventure comedy, which requires the actor to assume more than three dozen different identities. Carvey's primary role in Master of Disguise, however, is that of Pistachio Disguisey Read More

Touched By an Angel: The Face of God

Synopsis: Geneticist Sarah Conover (Annabella Sciorra) hopes to make medical history by being the first to clone a human being. When Monica (Roma Downey) tries to warn her of the ethical and spiritual ramifications of this undertaking, Sarah insists that her idol, Albert Einstein (Harold Gould), would have Read More

Patch Adams

Actors: Robin Williams, Daniel London, Monica Potter, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Bob Gunton

Synopsis: The fact-based story of an unconventional physician who attempted to heal patients with laughter, based on his own book and mixing equal doses of scatological humor and pathos. Robin Williams stars as Hunter Adams, a troubled young man who commits himself to a mental institution in the late 1960s. Read More

My Giant

Actors: Billy Crystal, Kathleen Quinlan, Gheorghe Muresan, Joanna Pacula, Zane Carney

Synopsis: Third-rate talent agent Sammy Kanin (Billy Crystal) is more devoted to his career than his wife Serena (Kathleen Quinlan) and son Nick (Zane Carney), so instead of going to Nick's birthday party, he chooses to travel to Romania where his teen client Justin Allen (Rider Strong) is acting in a Read More

Brown's Requiem

Actors: Michael Rooker, Tobin Bell, Selma Blair, Jack Conley, Kevin Corrigan

Synopsis: Based on a novel by acclaimed crime writer James Ellroy, this film stars Michael Rooker as Fritz Brown, a former L.A.P.D. detective who was kicked off the force due to his drinking. Now struggling to remain sober, Brown works as a private eye when he can, but he makes most of his money Read More

The Love Bug

Actors: Bruce Campbell, John Hannah, Alexandra Wentworth, Kevin J. O'Connor, Dana Gould

Synopsis: This 1997 remake of the '60s successful, sequel-spawning The Love Bug (the highest grossing film in the U.S. in 1969) includes a cameo by Dean Jones, star of the original Love Bug. Herbie, a 1963 VW Bug with personality, is saved from destruction by former race-car driver Hank Cooper (Bruce Campbell Read More

For Hope

Synopsis: Comic actor Bob Saget served as producer and director of this made-for-TV film, inspired by the true story of Saget's sister Gay, who died in 1994 at the age of 47. Despite the pressures of single motherhood, schoolteacher Hope Altman (Dana Delany) seems to have her life in order until she is Read More

Touched By an Angel: Written in Dust

Synopsis: Still bitter over the fact that his Jewish grandfather Sam (Harold Gould) had opposed his marriage to a Catholic girl named Roseanne (Holly Fulger), archaeologist Henry Moskowitz (Corey Parker) stubbornly resists Sam's attempts at reconciliation. At the same time, Henry is at odds with a group of Read More

Romero

Actors: Raul Julia, Richard Jordan, Ana Alicia, Tony Plana, Harold Gould

Synopsis: In El Salvador in the late '70s, the wealthy few rule the impoverished many. To maintain the status quo against peasant insurgents and labor organizations, the military regime brutalizes the populace, in particular, rebels who espouse Marxism. Assassinations, executions, and disappearances become Read More

Get Smart, Again!

Actors: Dave Ketchum, Bernie Kopell, King Moody, Dick Gautier, Don Adams, Barbara Feldon

Synopsis: The second feature-length revival of the Get Smart television series (1965-1970) of blessed memory, Get Smart Again reunited Don Adams as bumbling secret agent Maxwell Smart and Barbara Feldon as his wife, sultry "fellow" agent 99. Smart coerces 99 to drop her public-sector job and join him in Read More

Playing for Keeps

Actors: Daniel Jordano, Matthew Penn, Leon Grant, Mary Ward, Marisa Tomei

Synopsis: In this comedy drama, three exuberant high-school graduates finally find a direction in life when they decide to fix-up a ramshackle Catskill resort and turn it into a little slice of rock & roll heaven for teens. They work hard to make the repairs and pay the over $8,000 in back taxes. When Read More

Mrs. Delafield Wants to Marry

Actors: Katharine Hepburn

Synopsis: Mrs. Delafield Wants to Marry was especially written by playwright James Prideaux for Katharine Hepburn. It would have been impractical to attempt a live staging, so the script was committed to a TV movie, under the direction of Hallmark Hall of Fame veteran George Schafer. Hepburn plays another Read More

Night Court: New Year's Leave

Synopsis: On New Year's Eve, Harry (Harry Anderson) takes pity on elderly, pajama-clad lawbreaker Walter Wise (Harold Gould), who turns out to be an escaped convict with a price on his head. Risking the wrath of the authorities, Harry does his best to allow Walter a visit to Times Square to commemorate his Read More

The Fourth Wise Man

Synopsis: Made for television, The Fourth Wise Man was syndicated to local TV stations during Easter week of 1985. Martin Sheen, a devout Catholic who is no stranger to religious television, heads the all-star cast. Sheen plays Artaban, a wealthy Persian doctor of Biblical times, who embarks upon a search Read More

The Red Light Sting

Synopsis: Originally and imprudently titled The Whorehouse Sting, this fact-based, made-for-TV melodrama casts Beau Bridges as federal agent Frank Powell, who makes it his mission to bring slick but deadly racketeer Oliver Sully (Harold Gould) to justice. This undertaking requires Powell and his fellow Read More

The Dream Chasers

Synopsis: Harold Gould and Justin Dana are the Dream Chasers in this low-key family film. Gould is a curmudgeonly septuagenarian facing bankruptcy. Dana is an 11-year-old boy battling cancer. Together, these two lost souls try to forge a new life in the darkest days of the Depression. Though by and large Read More

The Skin of Our Teeth

Synopsis: The cast of the Old Globe Theater's acclaimed early-'80s revival of Thornton Wilder's Pulitzer Prize-winning classic reunited to re-create their roles for this made-for-TV production, taped for PBS's anthology series American Playhouse. The Skin of Our Teeth follows the often funny and Read More

The Gambler: The Adventure Continues

Synopsis: This two-part TV movie was originally titled Kenny Rogers as The Gambler: The Adventure Continues. A follow-up to Rogers' phenomenally successful 1980 made-for-TV The Gambler, the film charts the further adventures of frontier "plunger" Brady Hawkes (played by Rogers, of course). Also making a Read More

Help Wanted: Male

Actors: Suzanne Pleshette, Gil Gerard, Bert Convy, Dana Elcar, Harold Gould

Synopsis: A career woman is so desperate to conceive a child that when her boyfriend the sportswriter comes up short, she goes looking for a fertile stranger in this made-for-TV comic outing. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Baby Broker

Actors: Lynda Carter, Dean Stockwell, Harold Gould, Sharon Farrell, Philip Sterling

Synopsis: A compassionate social worker puts her own life in jeopardy when she begins investigating a powerful businessman suspected of selling babies on the black market. Kate Carlin (Lynda Carter) has dedicated her entire life to helping children. When Kate discovers that a local businessman has been Read More

King Crab

Synopsis: This drama chronicles the rivalry between two brothers vying for their father's love. They choose to wage their private war within the family seafood business. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Moviola: The Silent Lovers

Actors: Kristina Wayborn, Barry Bostwick, Harold Gould

Synopsis: Adapted from a chapter of Garson Kanin's Movieola, The Silent Lovers details the Hollywood romance of silent stars John Gilbert and Greta Garbo. Garbo (Kristina Wayborn) comes to America from her native Sweden as part of a "package deal" with famed director Mauritz Stiller (Brian Keith). As Read More

The Silent Lovers

The Scarlett O'Hara War

Actors: Tony Curtis, Sharon Gless, Harold Gould, Bill Macy, George Furth

Synopsis: Based on a portion of Garson Kanin's book Moviola, The Scarlet O'Hara War mixes fact with fiction in recreating producer David O. Selznick's search for an actress to star in Gone With the Wind. Tony Curtis plays Selznick, who turns his search into a major publicity ploy to sustain interest in his Read More

The Gambler

Actors: Kenny Rogers, Bruce Boxleitner

Synopsis: When first telecast on April 8, 1980, this made-for-TV movie was titled Kenny Rogers as The Gambler. Jim Byrnes' teleplay is loosely inspired by Rogers' Grammy award-winning song. Rogers plays high-rolling gambler Brady Hawkes, who is en route from El Paso to Yuma to see the son he never knew. Read More

Seems Like Old Times

Actors: Goldie Hawn, Chevy Chase, Charles Grodin, Robert Guillaume, Harold Gould

Synopsis: For the first (and thus far the only) time in his career, Chevy Chase plays a genuinely sympathetic character in Neil Simon's Seems Like Old Times. This time around, Chase is a divorced novelist who is abducted by crooks and set up as the fall guy in a bank robbery. Arrested, Chase manages to Read More

The Rockford Files: Never Send a Boy King to Do a Man's Job, Part 2

Synopsis: In the conclusion of a two-part story, Jim (James Garner) has cooked up an elaborate sting operation to save the printing plant owned by the father of fellow private eye Richie Brockelman (Dennis Dugan) from the clutches of crooked sports promoter Coombs (Robert Webber). The scam is wide-ranging Read More

Aunt Mary

Actors: Robert Emhardt

Synopsis: This TV movie stars Jean Stapleton as the real-life "Aunt" Mary Dobkin, a physically handicapped woman living in the Baltimore of the 1940s. Concerned that juvenile delinquency is destroying her neighborhood, Aunt Mary organizes the "Dobkin Dynamiters", a baseball team comprised of disadvantaged Read More

11th Victim

Actors: Bess Armstrong

Synopsis: The 11th Victim was partially based on the activities of California's Hillside Strangler. Bess Armstrong stars as a Des Moines TV journalist whose younger sister, an aspiring actress, has entered a life of prostitution in Los Angeles. When the sister becomes the eleventh victim of a sex murderer Read More

Better Late Than Never

Actors: Harold Gould, Strother Martin, Tyne Daly, Harry Morgan, Marjorie Bennett

Synopsis: The elderly residents of a nursing home tire of being oppressed and stage a revolution in this made-for-television comedy. Following the ensuing riot they rush out and commandeer a passing train to go out for a few final adventures. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Rockford Files: Never Send a Boy King to Do a Man's Job, Part 1

Synopsis: In the first half of a two-part story, greenhorn detective Richie Brockelman (Dennis Dugan) asks Jim (James Garner) to help get back the printing plant that has been swindled from Richie's father (Harold Gould) by sleazy sports promoter Harold Jack Coombs (Robert Webber). This undertaking requires Read More

The Man in the Santa Claus Suit

Synopsis: Made for TV, The Man in the Santa Claus Suit jumped the gun a bit by premiering December 23, 1979. The title "character" is threefold: John Byner, Gary Burghoff and Bert Convy all don Santa suits for various reasons. Byner is a fugitive tramp, Burghoff a lonely schoolteacher, and Convy a divorced Read More

Actor: The Paul Muni Story

Synopsis: The life of famous theatre and film star Paul Muni provides the basis for this musical. It begins in Hungary where he worked as a traveling actor and ends with his successful life in New York. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The One and Only

Actors: Henry Winkler, Kim Darby, Gene Saks, William Daniels, Polly Holliday

Synopsis: Brash young Andy Schmidt (Henry Winkler) can't make a go of it as an actor in the early 1950s. Still, he wins the hand of Mary Crawford (Kim Darby), and the two of them try to make ends meet in New York City. Andy is on the verge of starvation when he befriends wrestling-promoter Sidney Seltzer (Gene Saks Read More

Rhoda: Season 05

Actors: Valerie Harper, Julie Kavner, Nancy Walker, Harold Gould

Washington: Behind Closed Doors

Synopsis: This 12-hour TV miniseries (expanded from a 2-hour concept) was based on the political "roman a clef" The Company, by Watergate coconspirator John Erlichman. It was originally titled simply Washington; the Behind Closed Doors part was added to avoid a potential lawsuit from Gore Vidal Read More

Never Con a Killer

Synopsis: Filmed as the 72-minute pilot episode for the weekly ABC adventure series, The Feather and Father Gang, Never Con a Killer was held back from view until May 13, 1977, by which time the series proper had already been on for two months...and had already been canceled. Stefanie Powers and Harold Gould Read More

Rhoda: Season 04

Actors: Valerie Harper, Julie Kavner, Nancy Walker, Harold Gould

The Feather and Father Gang

Actors: Stefanie Powers, Harold Gould, John Forsythe, Jim Backus, Frank Delfino

Synopsis: First telecast March 7, 1977, The Feather and Father Gang is the pilot episode for the weekly TV series of the same name. Stefanie Powers stars as Toni "Feather" Dalton, a clever female lawyer. Harold Gould co-stars as Feather's dad Harry Danton, a "reformed" con artist. Feather and Father work Read More

How to Break up a Happy Divorce

Synopsis: Housewife Barbara Eden loses her husband Peter Bonerz to seductive Liberty Williams. After the divorce, Eden becomes incensed that Williams is flaunting her victory. To get even, Eden begins dating notorious playboy Hal Linden. Now it's Bonerz' turn to suffer the pangs of jealousy. Made for Read More

The Big Bus

Actors: Joseph Bologna, Stockard Channing, John Beck, René Auberjonois, Ned Beatty

Synopsis: The Big Bus is set aboard a nonstop, nuclear-powered luxury bus commandeered by Joseph Bologna. Naturally, Bologna is a tortured hero with a deep dark secret (he keeps insisting he didn't eat all those passengers on his last disastrous drive). Stockard Channing and Harold Gould play the designers Read More

Gus

Actors: Ed Asner, Don Knotts, Gary Grimes, Tim Conway, Liberty Williams

Synopsis: In this Disney film, Hank Cooper (Ed Asner) the owner of a losing professional football team, recruits Gus, a Yugoslavian soccer player, to his team. Even though Gus is a mule, he figures the animal can be taught to make field-goal kicks. Despite the outrage of his team, and sabotage efforts by Read More

Silent Movie

Actors: Mel Brooks, Marty Feldman, Dom DeLuise, Bernadette Peters, Sid Caesar

Synopsis: Silent Movie is just that: a totally nonverbal comedy, save for one single line. Director Mel Brooks stars as a once-famous comedy director, who with his faithful assistants Dom DeLuise and Marty Feldman return to Hollywood with plans for a comeback. Brooks wants to return to the good old days by Read More

Rhoda: Season 02

Actors: Valerie Harper, Julie Kavner, David Groh, Nancy Walker, Harold Gould

Love and Death

Actors: Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, Harold Gould, Sol Frieder, Olga Georges-Picot

Synopsis: Woody Allen's Love and Death is purportedly a satire of all things Russian, from Leo Tolstoy and Fyodor Dostoyevsky novels to Sergei Eisenstein films, but it plays more like a spin on Bob Hope's Monsieur Beaucaire. Allen plays Boris, a 19th century Russian who falls in love with his distant (and Read More

The Strongest Man in the World

Actors: Kurt Russell, Joe Flynn, Eve Arden, Cesar Romero, Phil Silvers

Synopsis: Kurt Russell returns as Dexter Riley, the dedicated student of Medfield College who just can't stay out of trouble, in this follow-up to The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes and Now You See Him, Now You Don't. In this story, Dexter is trying to devise a formula for a chemistry project that will increase Read More

Medical Story

Synopsis: In this pilot film for the NBC TV series Medical Story, idealistic young intern Dr. Steve Drucker (Beau Bridges) clashes with three of his superiors over whether a prominent actress should have a hysterectomy. The woman in question is played by Harriet Karr, who had undergone a similar experience Read More

Rhoda: Season 01

Actors: Valerie Harper, Julie Kavner, David Groh, Nancy Walker, Harold Gould

The Streets of San Francisco: Death and the Favored Few

Synopsis: Stone (Karl Malden) and Keller (Michael Douglas) mingle with the cream of San Francisco society in search of a murderer. The victim was the blackmailing publisher of a sleazy tell-all magazine--and as a result, the detectives are confronted with a veritable "Who's Who" of suspects. This is the Read More

Double Solitaire

Actors: Susan Clark, Norma Crane, Richard Crenna, Norman Foster, Harold Gould

The Front Page

Actors: Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau, Carol Burnett, Susan Sarandon, Vincent Gardenia

Synopsis: This third film version of the 1928 Ben Hecht/Charlie MacArthur Broadway hit The Front Page was the first one permitted to utilize all the salty profanities in the original play. Director Billy Wilder cast his two favorite leading men, Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau, as ace reporter Hildy Johnson Read More

The Partridge Family: Beethoven, Brahms and Partridge

Synopsis: Keith (David Cassidy) falls in love yet again, this time with pretty-but-pompous cello player Rachel Weston (Barbara Sigel). An avowed enemy of rock-and-roll, Rachel insists that Keith stop squandering his talent and switch to classical music. The result is a juicy slice of pseudo-intellectual Read More

Murdock's Gang

Synopsis: Murdock's Gang stars former TV newscaster Alex Dreier as celebrated trial attorney Bartley James Murdock. Framed for a crime, Murdock is disbarred and incarcerated. Upon his release, he becomes a private detective, assembling a gang of reformed criminals as his assistants. Murdock's team is Read More

The Sting

Actors: Paul Newman, Robert Redford, Robert Shaw, Charles Durning, Ray Walston

Synopsis: Four years after setting box offices ablaze in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Paul Newman, Robert Redford, and director George Roy Hill re-teamed with similar success for The Sting. Redford plays Depression-era confidence trickster Johnny Hooker, whose friend and mentor Luther Coleman (Robert Earl Jones Read More

Ironside: The Armageddon Gang

Synopsis: Ironside (Raymond Burr) investigates the mysterious disappearance of Michael Brandon (Ted Hartley), a brilliant scientist who was working on a top-secret missile project at the Gregory Institute. There are those who are convinced that Brandon has defected to the Soviets or Red Chinese, but his Read More

Where Does It Hurt?

Actors: Peter Sellers

Synopsis: Where Does It Hurt? is a hospital comedy which is carefully designed to leave no interest group unoffended. In the broadest of broad comic manners, it recounts its tale of greed, ignorance and corruption in the medical profession. Dr. Albert T. Hopfnagel (Peter Sellers), a hospital administrator Read More

The F.B.I.: The Test

Synopsis: Inspector Erskine (Efrem Zimbalist Jr.) order round-the-clock surveillance on Paul Hale (Robert Foxworth), the weak-willed son of kidnap victim George Hale (Harold Gould). Though he has only a fraction of the ransom money, Paul is supposed to "bluff it out" and make the drop--but he may never get Read More

The Streets of San Francisco: The Takers

Synopsis: The title characters in this episode are two pretty but avaricious young ladies, a flight attendant and a nurse, who specialize in using their sexual wiles to entrap unwary males and "take" them for all they've got. Evidently the girls have gone one step too far with one of their victims, who has Read More

The F.B.I.: The Stalking Horse

Synopsis: Erskine (Efrem Zimbalist goes undercover in Dallas to smash up a spy ring. At the same time, Lee Barrington (Steve Forrest), who is unhappily married to the daughter of a nuclear research plant owner, falls in love with Joanne Kinston (Diana Hyland). Little suspecting that Joanne is actually an Read More

A Death of Innocence

Actors: John Randolph, Ann Sothern, Tisha Sterling

Synopsis: Shelly Winters and John Randolph star in Death of Innocence as distraught small-town parents who learn that their estranged daughter is on trial for murder. They journey to New York City and attend the girl's trial, where the mother learns several details of her daughter's recent life that she'd Read More

Columbo: Ransom for a Dead Man

Actors: Peter Falk, Lee Grant

Synopsis: Peter Falk revived his Lieutenant Columbo characterization, first seen in 1967's Prescription: Murder, for the made-for-TV Ransom for a Dead Man. Lee Grant plays a wily lawyer who murders her husband, then arranges to make it appear that he's been kidnapped. The plan is to allow the body to be Read More

Mrs. Pollifax -- Spy

Synopsis: A widow finds her life unbearably dull and so becomes a volunteer CIA agent. She is sent to Mexico City for her first assignment and though her intentions are good, she ends up tossed into a jail. This was one of actress Rosalind Russel's final films and is sadly, considered among her very worst. Read More

Hogan's Heroes: Lady Chitterly's Lover, Part Two

Actors: