Maurice Gosfield

Maurice Lionel Gosfield was born on January 28, 1913 in New York City, but 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 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 Tech 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 it's first season). In the biography of the show's creator Nat Hiken, he detailed the casting of the role and the effect that Gosfield had on him, the producer and Phil Silvers when he appeared in front of them: "The dumpy, spectacularly ugly Maurice Gosfield ambled into an open casting call one day, brandishing an enormous list of credits. A handful of his bit parts