| rdfs:comment | - __NOEDITSECTION__ Image:Information-silk.png|Character Template rect 0 0 20 20 Staff Template desc none Maurice Gosfield Real Name Unknown Job Titles Voice Actor First publication Unknown
- 'Maury' Gosfield was born in New York in 1913, but was raised in Philadelphia and later in Evanston, Illinois. He began acting with the Ralph Bellamy and Melvyn Douglas Players in Chicago, and joined the Summer Stock theatre circuit in 1930. During World War II he served in the U. S. Army's Tec 4 unit in the 8th Armoured Division, and gained the rank of Sergeant. In 1950 he played an uncredited role in the film Ma and Pa Kettle Go to Town. He also appeared in Toast of the Town in 1956. In 1955 Gosfield first appeared as Private Duane Doberman in the television show You'll Never Get Rich; this was renamed The Phil Silvers Show in 1956. Because of the popularity of Private Doberman in the show DC Comics published eleven issues of a Private Doberman comic from 1957 to 1960. Gosfield again pla
- Maurice Lionel Gosfield was born on January 28, 1913, in New York City, but was raised in Philadelphia and later Evanston, Illinois. In Evanston, 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 included The Petrified Forest, Three Men on a Horse and Room Service. During World War II, he served in the U.S. Army as a Tec 4 in the 8th Armored Division.
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| abstract | - 'Maury' Gosfield was born in New York in 1913, but was raised in Philadelphia and later in Evanston, Illinois. He began acting with the Ralph Bellamy and Melvyn Douglas Players in Chicago, and joined the Summer Stock theatre circuit in 1930. During World War II he served in the U. S. Army's Tec 4 unit in the 8th Armoured Division, and gained the rank of Sergeant. In 1950 he played an uncredited role in the film Ma and Pa Kettle Go to Town. He also appeared in Toast of the Town in 1956. In 1955 Gosfield first appeared as Private Duane Doberman in the television show You'll Never Get Rich; this was renamed The Phil Silvers Show in 1956. Because of the popularity of Private Doberman in the show DC Comics published eleven issues of a Private Doberman comic from 1957 to 1960. Gosfield again played Private Doberman in the 1959 television show Keep in Step. He next appeared in the made for television movie The Teenage Millionaire (1961). Gosfield also provided the voice for Benny the Ball on the cartoon series Top Cat which was partially based on the Sergeant Bilko series. His last role was in the 1963 film The Thrill of It All, playing a truck driver. In 1964 he unsuccessfully tested for the role of Uncle Fester in the tv series The Addams Family. Phil Silvers, the star of The Phil Silvers Show, in his 1973 autobiography, said of Gosfield that he had a pomposity and condescension off-screen, behaving 'like Clark Gable playing a fat man'. Gosfield died at Saranac Lake, New York, of a sudden heart attack at the age of 51 on October 19, 1964. He is buried at Long Island National Cemetery, Farmingdale, Suffolk County in New York.
- __NOEDITSECTION__ Image:Information-silk.png|Character Template rect 0 0 20 20 Staff Template desc none Maurice Gosfield Real Name Unknown Job Titles Voice Actor First publication Unknown
- Maurice Lionel Gosfield was born on January 28, 1913, in New York City, but was raised in Philadelphia and later Evanston, Illinois. In Evanston, 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 included The Petrified Forest, Three Men on a Horse and Room Service. During World War II, he served in the U.S. Army as a Tec 4 in the 8th Armored Division. From 1955 to 1959, Gosfield played Pvt. Duane Doberman in The Phil Silvers Show (originally titled You'll Never Get Rich in its first season). In 1959, Gosfield was nominated for a Primetime Emmy for Best Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series. He was also the voice of Benny the Ball in the animated cartoon series Top Cat (Series) (1961/62), which was partly based on the Sergeant Bilko series. On October 14, 1964, while he was performing in a play at New York Theatre, Gosfield kept losing his balance and repeatedly falling asleep. He was diagnosed as having critical hypertension and was given seven different medications, which he was told to take for the rest of his life. On October 17, Gosfield suffered a heart attack and was rushed to New York Hospital, where he was reportedly not breathing and CPR was performed. After he was admitted, his condition improved, and as a result, his close friend Arnold Stang (the voice of Top Cat) told him that a remake of Top Cat was in the works, and that Gosfield's role was waiting for him when he recovered. Tragically, only two hours after Stang left, Gosfield suffered a second and instantly fatal heart attack on October 19, 1964, and Stang was phoned the next morning. Stang then told producers William Hanna and Joseph Barbera, who were both devastated by Gosfield's sudden death, and they decided not to make a new Top Cat series, as they couldn't find an adequate replacement for Benny the Ball's voice. Maurice Gosfield was buried at Long Island National Cemetery, Suffolk County, New York.
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