Harold Vernon Gould (December 10, 1923 – September 11, 2010) was an American actor best known for playing Miles Webber on the 1985-1992 sitcom The Golden Girls and Martin Morgenstern in the 1974-1978 sitcom Rhoda.n Soap, Gould played the hospital roommate of Jody Dallas (Billy Crystal) who has suicidal feelings while deciding whether or not to undergo a sex change. Gould's character sometimes refers to Jody as a 'fagela', which is Yiddish for a homosexual man. Gould as Martin Morgenstern on The Mary Tyler Moore Show in 1973.