Maurice Gosfield Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
Maurice Lionel Gosfield was on January 28, 1913 in New York City, but was raised in Philadelphia and later Evanston, Il., where he began acting with the Ralph Bellamy and Melvyn Douglas Players, later joining the summer stock theater circuit in 1930. He made his Broadway debut as Manero in the play Siege in 1937, and his other stage credits ...
Maurice became ill and was promptly sent to the Lenox Hill Hospital, New York. He had very high blood pressure and diabetes and what he thought was temporary blindness. The staff discharged him to a new place, the Will Rogers Memorial Hospital, Saranac Lake, New York, an institution that has treated show biz people, with diseases, without charge, since the 1920s. From here he was sent to see specialists at the Physicians' Hospital in Plattsburgh, New York, but later returned to the Will Rogers Memorial Hospital.
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At 5'2" and over 200 pounds, Gosfield never married, and had once told TV writer Bert Resnik that he was too ugly to get married, but despite that statement, he received the "TV Bachelor of the Year Award" by the Bachelor and Bachelorettes Society of America in 1957.
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In his 1973 autobiography, Phil Silvers said that Gosfield had a pomposity and condescension off-screen, behaving "like Clark Gable playing a fat man.".
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Because of Gosfield's popularity, DC Comics published eleven issues of a Private Doberman comic from 1957 to 1960.
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His last role was as a truck driver in The Thrill of It All (1963), and in 1964, he unsuccessfully tested for the role of Uncle Fester in the TV series The Addams Family (1964).
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Chubby comedy actor best remembered for his role as the gullible Private Doberman in the classic US sitcom The Phil Silvers Show (1955) (Sergeant Bilko).
Actor
Title
Year
Status
Character
The Thrill of It All
1963
Truck Driver
Top Cat
1961-1962
TV Series
Benny the Ball
The Red Skelton Hour
1961
TV Series
Millionaire
Teenage Millionaire
1961
Ernie
One Happy Family
1961
TV Series
Fred
The Detectives
1961
TV Series
Angie
The Jim Backus Show
1961
TV Series
Private Dilly Dillingham
Summer in New York
1960
TV Movie
The Phil Silvers Show
1955-1959
TV Series
Pvt. Duane Doberman / Bandit El Muchacho / Diane Doberman
Keep in Step
1959
TV Movie
Pvt Duane Doberman
The New Recruits
1955
TV Movie
Pvt. Mulrooney
Ma and Pa Kettle Go to Town
1950
New York Tour Ticket Seller (uncredited)
The Clock
1949
TV Series
Soundtrack
Title
Year
Status
Character
The Phil Silvers Show
1955-1957
TV Series performer - 2 episodes
Self
Title
Year
Status
Character
The Jack Benny Program
1960
TV Series
Himself / Pvt. Duane Doberman
The Phil Silvers Pontiac Special: Keep in Step
1959
TV Special
Pvt. Duane Doberman
The Ed Sullivan Show
1956-1958
TV Series
Pvt. Duane Doberman / Himself
The Steve Allen Plymouth Show
1958
TV Series
Himself - Guest
We, the People
1952
TV Series
Himself
Archive Footage
Title
Year
Status
Character
The Phil Silvers Show
1957
TV Series
Pvt. Duane Doberman
Nominated Awards
Year
Award
Ceremony
Nomination
Movie
1959
Primetime Emmy
Primetime Emmy Awards
Best Supporting Actor (Continuing Character) in a Comedy Series
The Phil Silvers Show (1955)
Known for movies
The Phil Silvers Show (1955-1959) as Pvt. Duane Doberman / Bandit El Muchacho / Diane Doberman
$700,000
