Elliott Gould

• Birthplace: Brooklyn, New York
• Birthday: August 29, 1938

A tall and charming Brooklyn boy at heart, actor Elliott Gould carved a path into Hollywood with hulking, dark-haired looks that veered away from the traditional matinee archetype. His career began on Broadway, but Gould went on to briefly became the embodiment of a disenchanted youth culture in antiestablishment films such as “Bob & Ted & Carol & Alice” (1969) and “M*A*S*H” (1971). His strong synergy with ‘70s audiences went adrift in the 1980s, however, before NBC’s popular 1990s sitcom “Friends” (1994-2004) managed to up the …more