MUMBAI: Easily recognisable character actor in TV, films and theater, Harold Gould died of prostate cancer on 11 September. He was 86.

Gould, best known for playing Marty Morgenstern, father of the title character in the 1970s sitcom Rhoda, is also remembered playing the con man Kid Twist in the The Sting.

Gould was equally comfortable in comedy and drama. Starting in the early ‘60s, he appeared in episodes of such TV classics as The Twilight Zone, The Untouchables, Perry Mason, Mr. Ed, Get Smart, The Fugitive, Hogan‘s Heroes, I Dream of Jeannie, Columbo, The Love Boat and Gunsmoke.

His final screen role was in an episode of the final season of Nip/Tuck that aired in February last.

His film career included memorable turns in Woody Allen‘s Love and Death that featured Gould in a riotous pistol duel with a hapless Allen in Russia and Mel Brooks‘ Silent Movie.