Richard Farnsworth

Richard Farnsworth has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 1560 Vine Street. They have one son, Jason Gould. He is interred with his wife in the Forest Lawn, Hollywood Hills Cemetery in Los Angeles, California. He was married to Barbra Streisand from 1963 to 1971. Having been diagnosed with terminal cancer, Farnsworth committed suicide by shooting himself at his ranch in Lincoln, New Mexico. He also co-starred in the popular "caper" film Ocean's 11 (2001) and its sequel Ocean's 12 (2004). In 1979 Farnsworth was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for Comes a Horseman and in 2000 he was nominated for Best Actor for The Straight Story. Gould recieved critical praise for his role as an aging mobster in Warren Beatty's 1991 film Bugsy.

Farnsworth's career was largely in Western films, although he did appear in the television miniseries Roots and in 1985 he appeared in the Canadian miniseries Anne of Green Gables. He appeared in an episode of the popular television series Touched By An Angel where he played a concentration camp survivor. He received his first credit, as "Dick Farnsworth", in Texas Across the River in 1966. His career slowed down after a series of critical and commercial flops in the mid to late 70's, but he has remained steadily employed in supporting and character roles in television and movies, including a recurring guest role on Friends. Born in Los Angeles, California, he began his film career as a stunt man, performing several horse riding stunts in such films as the Marx Brothers' A Day at the Races at the age of 17. Also in 1980, Gould filmed two movies for Walt Disney studios The Last Flight Of Noah's Ark and The Devil And Max Devlin, in this he co-starred with Bill Cosby. Richard Farnsworth (September 1, 1920 - October 6, 2000) was an American actor. He hosted Saturday Night Live six times through the 1980 season premiere, although he has not done so since (in the late 80's he had a cameo role in a sketch about a secret club for people who had hosted 5 or more times).

Gould joined such distinguished company as Humphrey Bogart and Robert Mitchum when he played legendary shamus Phillip Marlowe in the 1973 film The Long Goodbye. Other notable film roles include Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice, A Bridge Too Far, Capricorn One and, The Lady Vanishes. Time magazine put him on its cover in 1970, when he was at the brief height of his long career, calling him a "star for an uptight age.". Elliott Gould (born August 29, 1938), born Elliott Goldstein, was one of the most prominent American film actors in the early '70s, best known for playing Trapper John in the satirical 1970 film M*A*S*H.