Cliff Gould

Cliff Gould spent the majority of his nearly 30-year writing and producing career as a journeyman, managing to rack up a substantial resume. Gould began writing for a variety of Westerns and cop shows in the 1960s, including "Rawhide" and "The Mod Squad." He also found time to pen two screenplays: "Krakatoa: East of Java," a volcano disaster film starring Maximilian Schell, and "Macho Callahan," a Civil War, vengeance-tinged Western. Those films are perhaps best known for their peculiarities--for example, Krakatoa is actually west of Java making the title among the most erroneous in cinema history. The unusual cast of "Macho Callahan" features David Janssen, Jean Seberg, and a villain who wears yellow shoes. Gould later produced the inaugural season of "The Streets of San Francisco," the protégé/mentor police drama starring Oscar winners Karl Malden and Michael Douglas as well as four episodes of the 1980s spy romance, "Scarecrow and Mrs. King."