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**Featured Alumni**

**Harold Gould '47: Harold Gould's career spans almost fifty years of performing in motion pictures, television, and on the stage.During his years in New York, he won the off-Broadway OBIE Award for his performance in the play The Increased Difficulty of Concentration, and in his work on Broadway he has appeared in such plays as Neil Simon's Fools, Jules Feiffer's Grown Ups, Tom Stoppard's Artist Descending a Staircase, and John Guare's House of Blue Leaves.

In the Los Angeles area he toured with his one man show Freud, won a L.A. Drama Circle Award as Ezra Pound in the play Incommunicado, and appeared in leading roles in such plays as Visiting Mr. Green, Old Wicked Songs, Substance Of Fire, I Never Sang For My Father. His Shakespearen roles at Shakespeare Festivals in Ashland, Oregon, and Cedar City, Utah include Much Ado About Nothing, Merchant of Venice, as well as the title role in King Lear, and Prospero in The Tempest. In his tour throughout the East and mid West Gould earned acclaim in the play Tuesdays With Morrie. Most recently in the Los Angeles area he performed a role in the David Mamet play, Duck Variations.

Gould's list of films includes The Sting, The Lawyer, Silent Movie, Love and Death, The Front Page, Seems Like Old Times, Patch Adams, Masters of Disguise, and Freaky Friday.

He has received the Ace Cable TV Award for his role in Ray Bradbury's To The Chicago Abyss as well as five Emmy nominations for his extensive television work. This includes, among many others, multiple appearances on Rhoda, Mary Tyler Moore, Hawaii Five-O, Big Valley, Gunsmoke, The Golden Girls, and his co-starring role with Katharine Hepburn in the television movie Mrs. Delafield Wants To Marry.Much of Gould's early television areer was spent working in comedy with Red Skelton, Jack Benny, Danny Kaye, Carol Burnett, Bob Newhart, Red Buttons and Carl Reiner. His movie comedy work includes films with Woody Allen, Mel Brooks, Peter Sellers, Billy Crystal, and Robin Williams. Continuing his interest in comedy, Gould now occasionally tours the U.S. with an original; burlesque-vaudeville play entitled Viagra Falls.

**D. B. Woodside '91: David Bryan "D.B." Woodside (born July 25, 1969 in Jamaica, Queens, New York) is an American actor, best known for his varied television roles.

After injuring his knee while playing American football in his high school's (Roy C. Ketcham High School) team, Woodside heard the drama club performing a scene from a play and was interested. Since then, Woodside has fallen in love with acting.

Woodside got his start in the second season of Murder One in 1996, playing Aaron Mosley. After that series' cancellation, he guest starred on The Practice, Snoops, The Division and Once and Again. He also appeared in the 2000 film Romeo Must Die as Aaliyah's on-screen brother. In 1998, D.B. played Melvin Franklin, Motown's solid bass singer in The Temptations. He made a guest appearance on JAG in its final season as FBI Agent Rod Benton.

From 2002 to 2003, Woodside guest starred in 14 episodes of Buffy the Vampire Slayer's final season, as Principal Robin Wood, Buffy's boss and son of a Slayer. He followed this up in the following television season, playing the pragmatic Wayne Palmer, the Chief of Staff and brother to President David Palmer during the third season of 24. In the fifth season of the series, he returned to reprise the role as a uest star in episodes 1–2 and 14–18. Woodside returned as a series regular for the sixth season as the President of the United States.He had a guest role as Marlon Waylord in the episode of CSI Harvest in 2004. In 2007, he was a guest star on the hit TV show Grey's Anatomy in that show's 4th season episode, Forever Young, wherein he played the character of Marcus.

Woodside is a graduate of the University at Albany and the Yale School of Drama. Woodside also taught courses (Black Action Theatre) and acted in several plays including Shakespeare's Hamlet at the University of Iowa in the early 1990s.