Peter Firth

More recently, he has starred as senior MI5 officer Harry Pearce in the BBC's popular spy drama series Spooks (2002-present), and played Fred Hoyle in a BBC dramatisation of the early career of Stephen Hawking. They have one son, Jason Gould. Both of these were made as part of the BBC's famous Play for Today anthology drama strand. He was married to Barbra Streisand from 1963 to 1971. In 1980 he starred as the eponymous time traveller in the BBC's feelgood science-fiction play The Flipside of Dominick Hide, and two years later starred in a sequel, Another Flip for Dominick. He also co-starred in the popular "caper" film Ocean's 11 (2001) and its sequel Ocean's 12 (2004). In parallel to his film career, Firth has continued to appear in various television productions, with several notable credits in various high-profile dramas. Gould recieved critical praise for his role as an aging mobster in Warren Beatty's 1991 film Bugsy.

Subsequent film work has included roles in The Hunt for Red October (1990) and Pearl Harbor (2001). He appeared in an episode of the popular television series Touched By An Angel where he played a concentration camp survivor. Further film work quickly followed, most notably Roman Polanski's Tess (1979), an adaptation of Thomas Hardy's novel Tess of the D'Urbervilles. 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. The film was a success, and earned Firth a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor and victory in the same category at the Golden Globe Awards. 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. The following year, Firth starred in Equus, the film adaptation of the play in which he had starred on Broadway. 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).

The adaptation was scripted by John Osborne and also starred Jeremy Brett and John Gielgud, becoming a major success with the critics. 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. His first major role as an adult was in the title role in a 1976 BBC Television Play of the Month adaptation of Oscar Wilde's novel The Picture of Dorian Gray. Other notable film roles include Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice, A Bridge Too Far, Capricorn One and, The Lady Vanishes. In 1973, he appeared on stage in Peter Shaffer's Equus, playing a teenager being treated by a psychiatrist. 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.". Firth played Scooper, the leader of the gang. 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.

Firth was a leading child actor by 1970, starring in the Double Deckers series, which was made in the USA but set in London and featured British children in the leading roles. Peter Firth (born October 27, 1953 in Bradford, Yorkshire, England, UK) is a British actor, well known for a variety of starring roles in film and on television from the 1970s to the 2000s.