Elliott Gould's personal experience.

Elliott Gould was an anti-cultural idol in 1970s. He successfully played Philip Marlowe, a private detective in Raymond Chandler's novel A Farewell, and was remembered as the father of Ross and Monica in Friends and Ocean's Eleven.

Gould grew up in Brooklyn, new york, and was a descendant of Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe. 1962, he starred in the Broadway musical I Can Wholesale for You and met barbra streisand. They got married in 63 years and divorced in 7 1 year.

1969 The comedy "Two Couples in One Bed" about "Wife Swapping" is Gould's third film, which won him an Oscar nomination. After performing another stage play, he got the script of the Army Mobile Surgery Hospital. Robert altman wanted him to play donald sutherland, but Gould preferred another role. This film is the third best-selling film this year and won the Palme d 'Or in Cannes. At this time, Gould has become "a star of the uprising era" on the cover of Time magazine.

He played a campus rebel in the tailor-made Spark of Youth, and also starred in the first English film Contact by Swedish master Bergman. Bergman himself was disappointed with this work and thought Gould was difficult to cooperate with. Altman also invited Gould to star in Flower Village, but the latter refused. He chose the global comedy I Love My Life. Just divorced Streisand, when his parents' marriage ran aground, Gould hoped to shoot works closer to life.

Nevertheless, it is said that Gould had been unemployed for half a year before he collaborated with Altman again in Farewell in 1973. Film critic Hollis Herpeux explained that Gould's anti-hero image in the Army Mobile Surgery Hospital was especially admired by rebellious youths, but his popularity declined greatly after Nixon came back to power in 1972. Philip Marlowe, the hero of A Long Farewell, was played by humphrey bogart, but the versions of Altman and Gould added their personal inspiration, creating a Philip Marlowe who likes talking to himself and making one-liners and was recognized by the original author Raymond Chandler. Gould had hoped to play this role again, but he never found the opportunity.

1974, Gould and Altman collaborated on the third and final film Breakthrough in California. Later, he appeared in the star-studded World War II action movie The Distant Bridge (1977), the remake of Hitchcock's The Missing Woman (1979), and the earliest live-action animated film The Puppet Movie. , and presided over the saturday night live as many as six times.

199 1 Gould was praised by critics for playing an old-fashioned gangster in Warren Beatty's Bugsy. In Friends, which started shooting in 1994, he played Ross and Monica as disrespectful old fathers, which are well known to the younger generation. 1998, he played Edward Harrison Norton's mother's boyfriend in the American X-Files. In 200 1' s ocean's eleven, he played the financier behind the ocean's people, and the director Soderberg was also a fan of detective Marlowe played by Gould.