- Has hosted Saturday Night Live (1975) six times.
- Director Ingmar Bergman denounced Gould as "difficult" after the two worked together in The Touch (1971) ("The Touch"), one of the great master's least memorable films.
- He and James Brolin co-starred in Capricorn One (1977). Gould was married to Barbra Streisand from 1963 to 1971 while Brolin has been married to her since 1998.
- His family were Jewish immigrants (from Romania, Belarus, and Russia).
- The only actor to have a cameo appearance in more than one Muppet film: The Muppet Movie (1979) and Đại Nhạc Hội Rối Tới Manhattan (1984).
- He and MASH (1970) co-star Donald Sutherland both own apartments in same Manhattan high-rise luxury building.
- Father, with singer-actress Barbra Streisand, of actor Jason Gould.
- Was a major box office star in 1970 and 1971, but according to Robert Altman, Gould hadn't been able to find a job for six months when he hired him for The Long Goodbye (1973). Critic Hollis Alpert speculated that Gould's anti-heroic character was extremely popular with campus radicals, and once radicalism declined around the time of Richard Nixon's re-election in 1972, Gould's popularity also declined.
- Was the first actor to play the character of Trapper John, in the film version of MASH (1970). The second actor was Wayne Rogers in the TV series (M*A*S*H (1972)) and the third was Pernell Roberts for the TV series Trapper John, M.D. (1979).
- MASH (1970) director Robert Altman originally wanted him to play Duke Forrest. It was only at his request that he played Trapper John.
- Children by Jennifer Bogart: Molly Gould (b. November 18, 1971) and Samuel Gould (b. January 9, 1973).
- He and his 11 Tên Cướp Thế Kỷ (2001) / 12 Tên Cướp Thế Kỷ (2004) co-stars, Julia Roberts, George Clooney and Brad Pitt, all have guest-starred on the TV show Những Người Bạn (1994), though not in the same episodes
- Starred in The Last Flight of Noah's Ark (1980), then played God in Noah (2012).
- Was originally attached to the movie version of Dr. David Reuben's best-selling sex guide Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex * But Were Afraid to Ask (1972), but backed out. The film was made by Woody Allen in 1972.
- He was the second person to host Saturday Night Live (1975) twice, both times in the first season of the long running series. Candice Bergen was the first person to host SNL twice.
- Was the lead in the film adaptation of Herman Raucher's novel "A Glimpse of Tiger" and one day walked off the set for reasons then unclear. He had been playing a wild, clownish, unpredictable character. A new director, Peter Bogdanovich, then got involved and the project morphed into what we know as the remake of Bringing Up Baby (1938)--What's Up, Doc? (1972), with the wild, clownish, unpredictable character changing genders and played by his ex-wife, Barbra Streisand.
- He has appeared in four films that have been selected for the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically or aesthetically" significant: MASH (1970), The Long Goodbye (1973), Nashville (1975) and The Muppet Movie (1979).
- Former son-in-law of director Paul Bogart.
- Ex brother-in-law of Roslyn Kind.
- He and Jennifer Bogart lived together for 3 years and had two children out of wedlock before they married.
- His religion is Judaism.
- His birthday is August 29, the fictional date of Judgement Day in Kẻ Hủy Diệt 2: Ngày Phán Xét (1991) which starred Arnold Schwarzenegger. Schwarzenegger's second film was with Gould in The Long Goodbye (1973). Lycia Naff also has a birthday of August 29 and also starred with Schwarzenegger in Tìm Lại Ký Ức (1990).
- Ex-son-in-law of Diana Kind.
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