Harold Gould Biography

Fast Facts

• Served two years as a mortar gunner in the U
• S
• Army during World War II
• Met and married his wife of 60 years while they were both attending Cornell University
• Taught acting for several years at the collegiate level prior to embarking on a career as a performer
• Won an Obie Award in 1970 for his portrayal of Dr
• Eduard Huml in famed playwright Vaclav Havel's off-Broadway production The Increased Difficulty of Concentration
• Played the role of Howard Cunningham, patriarch of the Cunningham family, in the 1972 pilot episode for the hit ABC television series Happy Days
• Returned to his Cornell University roots in the fall of 1997 when he and his wife, Lea Vernon, costarred as Willy and Linda Loman in the university's production of Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman