Maurice Gosfield

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Maurice Gosfield (center) as Duane Doberman in The Phil Silvers Show.
Maurice Gosfield (center) as Duane Doberman in The Phil Silvers Show.

Maurice Gosfield (January 28, 1913 in New York City –October 19, 1964 in New York City) was an American comic actor, most famous for his portrayal of Private Doberman on the 1950s sitcom The Phil Silvers Show.

Gosfield also provided the voice for Benny on the cartoon series Top Cat which was partially based on the Sergeant Bilko series.

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'.[1]


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  1. ^ Silvers, Phil, with Robert Saffron. This Laugh is on Me: The Phil Silvers Story. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, 1973

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