Major Frank Burns, also known as Ferret Face, played by actor Larry Linville, who sadly passed away at the age of 60 after being Lieutenant Colonel (later Colonel) Samuel Flagg is played by Edward Winter. WebHe died on April 10, 2000 in New York City Major Franklin Marion Burns (120 episodes, 1972-1977) 6. In the series finale, while releasing POWs from a holding pen in the path of an artillery barrage, he is nearly killed and loses most of his hearing when a shell explodes at close range. Watchlist. He actively avoids the finality of farewells, but when the 4077th is disbanded in the series finale, he is last seen riding his Indian motorcycle away from camp, while Hawkeye sees from a helicopter that B.J. Major Margaret J "Hot Lips" Houlihan appears in the novel, the film (played by Sally Kellerman), and the TV series (Loretta Swit). He is devoted to his wife Peg (ne Hayden) who writes many letters to him while he is in Korea. The character of Igor debuted in the second season and appeared sporadically until the series finale. In "Henry Please Come Home" Hammond is personally responsible for Henry's short-lived transfer to Tokyo. In "The Price of Tomato Juice", Igor identifies himself as "Maxwell", and Major Frank Burns also refers to him as "Maxwell" in the following line of dialogue. Trapper spends much of his time on the series engaging in mischief with Hawkeye Pierce, with the two playing practical jokes on Majors Frank Burns and "Hot Lips" Houlihan, drinking, and trying to seduce women. Dennis has glasses and straight, light hair, and usually has a mustache. In the M*A*S*H 30th Anniversary Special that aired on Fox in 2002, Arbus was the only non-regular cast member to be featured on the special. Private Igor Straminsky was generally portrayed by actor Jeff Maxwell, although Peter Riegert played him in two sixth-season episodes. While most of the staff is not religious, they treat Mulcahy with some respect. As for Klinger's religion, in an early show, Klinger said he gave up being an atheist for Lent. Ginger appears to be a competent nurse who is well-liked by the medical staff but occasionally runs afoul of Frank Burns who blames her for his mistakes, leading to Hawkeye and Trapper coming to her defense by pulling pranks on Frank. In talking to psychiatrist Sidney Freedman he first says that the woman had suffocated a chicken, until Freedman led him to admit the repressed memory - the horror of a mother smothering her own baby. In the movie, he is played by Bud Cort, and Boone's humiliation at the hands of Maj. Burns leads to Trapper striking Burns later that day. She once told Frank that half of her salary went to support her mother; half of that money went towards drying her out, the other half for bail money (her mother was a kleptomaniac). However, the producers added a final scene to his last episode in which Radar delivers news that Blake's plane has been shot down with no survivors. "[6]He is also a chronic alcoholic, for three years in Korea drinking every day three times as heavily as the average person [his homemade still; daily tabs at the MASH officer Club and Rosie's Bar]. This success is demonstrated by the unit's outstanding 97% casualty survival rate. [14] That means he was an enlisted man for at least eight years before he becomes a doctor. The character also appeared as a new central character in AfterMASH, a spin-off starring the three cast members who had voted (unsuccessfully) to continue the first series. Potter is well-liked by his subordinates, especially Radar, who comes to see him as a mentor and father figure after Blake's transfer stateside and subsequent death. In "Officer of the Day", while with another soldier, he is referred to as either Carter or Willis (it is not clear which of the two is which). [53] Zale is the supply sergeant[54] for the 4077th MASH and also is the camp's electrician; he is shown trying to keep the camp's generator going until it blows up. out of the shower after giving him a hard time. He was educated at Stanford University and was a member of the Tau Phi Epsilon fraternity. Nothing further is known about the character's fate post-show from the TV series. ", "Dear Sigmund", "Hawk's Nightmare", "War of Nerves" (in which he qualified for a Purple Heart by being wounded while performing therapy follow-up on one of his patients), "The Billfold Syndrome", "Goodbye, Cruel World", "Bless You, Hawkeye", "Pressure Points", and the series finale, "Goodbye, Farewell and Amen". Instagram. In the novel, the extent of the relationship between Burns and Houlihan is unclear and only rumored to be sexual. [citation needed] He was introduced in the show's sixth season as a replacement for Frank Burns, both in the unit's surgical team and as a foil for Hawkeye and B.J. However, she continued to be featured in the opening credit montage sequence (wherein the MASH staff runs toward approaching helicopters) for most of the show's run. The Swampmen, who are very fond of Ho-Jon, arrange to have him sent to Hawkeye's old college in the US. In 1984, Burghoff guest-starred in two episodes of AfterMASH as Radar, now living on the family farm in Iowa. I mean, he wanted nothing more than to have people leave him alone so he could enjoy his martini, you know? The announcer on the public address system is heard throughout the film and in most episodes of the series. After Freedman had finished the report, he quietly took Klinger in for an interview and told him that while Klinger was not mentally ill, he was willing to declare him a transvestite and a homosexual. Burns's only friend in the unit is head nurse Major Margaret Houlihan, with whom he has an ongoing affair. Blake had affairs with a call girl, an underage girl, three nurses at the 4077th MASH, and a recent college graduate member of the press corps (the last so serious that Henry came close to deserting his family for her). When Frank botches his work, he blames Ginger and tells Maj. Houlihan that Ginger is, "an incompetent bungler. In one episode, "Officer of the Day", he appears with another soldier and his last name is said to be Carter or Willis (it is unclear who is being referred to). However, he is scorned for it by those who prefer strict military disciplines, such as Frank Burns and Margaret "Hot Lips" Houlihan. The character's name is a reference to the character "Captain Spaulding" played by Groucho Marx in the film Animal Crackers. One of Ginger's most prominent roles comes in the season 2 episode, "Dear DadThree" where a wounded soldier requests that he be given blood only from white donors. Despite Trapper's efforts, however, she becomes romantically linked with Hawkeye in a few episodes. [9] While Henry is in command of the 4077th, his wife called Mildred in earlier episodes, Lorraine in later ones (the reason is never explained) gives birth to a son back in Bloomington. In the series finale, following the sudden death of the Chinese POWs he has been teaching a work by Mozart, Winchester states that music has transformed into a haunting reminder of the horrors of the war. There is a running joke that Mulcahy always wins the betting pools. He replaced Trapper John, both in his position within the unit and as an ally of Hawkeye Pierce and a foil of Frank Burns, appearing in all but one episode of the rest of the series. Rizzo enjoys shooting craps and seems to win more than he loses. A hospital orderly who is innocent and not especially bright. It is established in the novel that Jones is from Duke Forrest's hometown of Forest Park, Georgia, and knew Duke's father. According to his own account he has been in practice 10 years {apparently he went to Medical School at age 14; graduated at 18 and somehow missed service in World War II). Gary Burghoff was an actor from the 1970 M*A*S*H film that reprised his role for the series. He also has exceptionally good hearing, able to hear helicopters before anyone else and to tell from the rotor sounds if they are coming in loaded or not. In the pilot episode, Ho-Jon is accepted at Hawkeye's old college, just as in the novel. Potter initially takes a hard line against Klinger's attempts to get discharged but is convinced to let him continue cross-dressing and eventually assigns him to be his new company clerk. Staff Sergeant Zelmo Zale was portrayed by Johnny Haymer. Radar is briefly promoted to Second Lieutenant as the result of a poker game debt ("Lt. Radar O'Reilly") but soon returns to Corporal after discovering that life as a commissioned officer is more complicated than he had originally thought. She is good-natured and has a bubbly personality. His medical incompetence causes Colonel Blake to instead assign Trapper John as Chief Surgeon. I'm just crazy!" Now played by Pernell Roberts, the character is depicted in the then-present day as the middle-aged Chief of Surgery at a San Francisco hospital. However, she faced racial discrimination and he turned to bookmaking, and is only able to escape prison time when Sherman Potter offers a character reference and hires him as his assistant at the veteran's hospital in Missouri where he now works. In the early part of the series he was a stock character of comic relief who usually talked about the Korean orphans taken care of by Catholic Nuns. Mulcahy understands that many of his "flock" are non-religious or have other faiths, and does not evangelize them overtly. He also is the camp loan shark, getting Charles on his hook at one point to the extent he had to have money sent from home to clear his debt with the cigar-chewing sergeant. Corporal (briefly Second Lieutenant) Walter Eugene "Radar" O'Reilly appears in the novels, film, and TV series. He is a Catholic priest and serves as a US Army chaplain assigned to the 4077th. In the film, he has a dry, sardonic, deadpan sense of humor, while in the M*A*S*H TV series he is more of a class clown. On one occasion, he borrowed a deactivated hand grenade from Igor and used it to scare B.J. )[27], She is the head nurse of the 4077th MASH, the highest-ranking female officer in the unit, and fiercely protective of the women under her command. Potter receives more respect than Blake did from Major Houlihan, but Major Burns harbors a grudge against him after being passed over for command. Trapper John, along with The Mary Tyler Moore Show's Lou Grant, thus became one of a handful of 1970s television characters to be successfully adapted from situation comedy to drama. Perhaps because his appearances are so fleeting, the production staff may have been felt that Troy could be seen without distraction to the audience in settings other than the 4077th. It was these abilities that earned him the nickname "Radar". Muldoon". Winchester's commanding officer in Tokyo transferred him to the 4077th on temporary duty in retaliation for the major's gloating attitude about beating him at cribbage for $672.17 (equivalent to about $7,130 in 2022). Radar frequently looks to the doctors for advice, and increasingly regards Henry Blake and then Sherman Potter as father figures, having lost his elderly father at a young age. In the novel, he serves as a moral center and author's alter ego, chiding Trapper John for calling Major Houlihan "H CNN . In the book, he was an American who had "trained in the States with McIntyre". In the book, the character's full name is Hamilton Hartington Hammond, and he is stationed in Seoul. Midway through the series, the "Hot Lips" nickname phases out, with characters addressing her as either Margaret or Major Houlihan, though her nickname is still referenced occasionally. Claim: The cast of <em>M*A*S*H</em> did not learn of Col. Blake's death until they were actually filming the scene in which it was announced. Tall, dark, handsome, and muscular, he is a graduate of West Point whom Major Margaret "Hot Lips" Houlihan (Loretta Swit) meets while she is on leave in Tokyo. Klinger was the first main character introduced on M*A*S*H not to have appeared in either the original novel or the subsequent film. Klinger vociferously denied, "I ain't any of those things! It is framed and hung behind his desk during his tenure at the 4077th. He is as cultured as Burns was low-brow; in one episode during a verbal joust with Pierce and Hunnicutt, Winchester can match them a true story for the true story due to his cultured upbringing and skill, culminating in him revealing he even once dated actress Audrey Hepburn (producing a candid photograph of them as proof) to the astonishment and chagrin of B.J. Among the resident in-patients is one of Potter's subordinates from World War I, who addresses him as "Sarge" as opposed to his retired rank of colonel. [36] After Burns ran amok in Seoul on leave and was promoted and transferred back to the United States, Colonel Potter asked for, and got, Winchester's permanent transfer to the Double Natural. He was given the nickname "Hawkeye" by his father, Benjy (Sr.), in the novel and in the series from the character in the novel The Last of the Mohicans, "the only book my old man ever read". Age during show: 44-47. Lieutenant Colonel Henry Braymore Blake is introduced in the 1968 novel M*A*S*H and is also a character in the film (played by Roger Bowen) and television series (played by McLean Stevenson). [21] In the season 3 episode "O.R. Goldman appears off and on throughout the run of the series, usually when a soldier is needed for a random line or reaction. Lieutenant Colonel Donald Penobscott was played by two actors, Beeson Carroll and former football player and Tarzan actor Mike Henry. During his brief run on the show, it was implied that he and nurse Ginger Bayliss (played by Odessa Cleveland) were romantically involved. ", "Quo Vadis, Captain Chandler? The same thing happened to the character in the television series. After completing his medical residency (possibly in Chicago; he has a familiarity with the city that implies extended time spent there, e.g., "Adam's Ribs"); he had a common law marriage with a nurse, Carlye Breslin, but they broke up after a year. As portrayed by Skerritt in the film, he stands at 6'1" and is dark-haired. Calvin Spalding, played by Loudon Wainwright III, is a guitar-playing and singing surgeon who appeared in three episodes in season three (197475), "Rainbow Bridge", "There is Nothing Like a Nurse", and "Big Mac". As he prepares to depart the 4077th to rejoin his unit, he thanks the doctors then turns and salutes Ginger, who returns the salute and wishes him well. Radar left his teddy bear behind on Hawkeye's bunk as a parting gift and symbol of his maturity. [26] An example of his childishness was shown when Burns is passed over for command of the 4077th in favor of Colonel Potter; Frank has a temper tantrum and runs away until he gets cold, tired and hungry.[14]. Burns became even more erratic than usual after Houlihan's engagement and even a little before, such as when she was attending a meeting in Tokyo during Season 4 without him. Behind his snobbery, he was raised with a sense of noblesse oblige and was capable of profound albeit sometimes misguided acts of kindness. He alternately claims to be affiliated with the CIA, the CIC, or the CID. Hailing from the fictional small town of Forrest City, Georgia, Duke ends up sharing a tent with Hawkeye, Frank Burns, and Trapper John. As the orphanage director apologizes, Winchester reflects: "It is I who should be sorry. In the TV series, he is very high-strung, with a penchant for uttering what are often bizarre or redundant cliches and malapropisms; one example is from "The Interview" (season 4, episode 24), in which Burns describes marriage as "the headstone of American society". She had great pride in her Asian American heritage and frequently took umbrage at racial slurs leveled by Frank Burns. In the book and the film, Hawkeye had played football in college; in the series, he is non-athletic. Gelbart, Larry & Marks, Lawrence. "[citation needed], Hammond is a brigadier general who is in charge of several medical outfits, including the 4077th. Burns is also M*A*S*H 4077's Physical Fitness instructor, Food Procurement Officer, Food Inspector (where he came down with a case of food poisoning), and Sanitary Disposal Officer, positions normally filled by a much junior officer. For example, in the episode "Preventative Medicine" he refuses to participate in a scheme to relieve an overzealous officer of command by performing an unnecessary appendectomy on him. Company clerk Radar can usually anticipate his wishes and turn them into efficient military orders, but Henry often gets flustered when an important decision needs to be made. The Korean doctor who examines Ho-Jon discovers that Hawkeye has given him drugs to induce hypertension and tachycardia (so that he will fail the induction physical). Captain "Trapper" John Francis Xavier McIntyre appears in the novels, the film (played by Elliott Gould), the M*A*S*H TV series (played by Wayne Rogers), and the spin-off Trapper John, M.D. He once refers to Henry Blake as "a dear friend", though Blake always addresses him as "General." Initially outraged to find that they were traded on the black market, he learns that the candies were sold to buy an entire month's worth of food for the orphans. Initially, he is transferred to the 4077th to help them win a football game (Jones is said to have played with the NFL's San Francisco 49ers) against the 321st Evac Hospital. ", Freedman told those gathered in the operating room: "Ladies and gentlemen, take my advice: Pull down your pants and slide on the ice." He makes it a point to play up his antics to visiting high-ranking officers in an attempt to gain their sympathy and convince them that he is unfit to serve. She served in World War II but it is unknown if she served Stateside or overseas. Henry is a good man and a capable surgeon but an ineffectual commanding officer. She falls in love with him on the spot, and he quickly asks her to marry him. In the TV series, he is first played by Bruno Kirby, though only in the pilot (in which he has no lines, is not spoken to, and is only visible in the background of a few shots). Series writer Larry Gelbart stated during the M*A*S*H 30th Anniversary Reunion special that Klinger's antics were inspired by stories of Lenny Bruce attempting to dodge his military service by dressing himself as a U.S. Navy WAVE. The Death of Henry Blake M*A*S*H producer Gene Reynolds on facing down viewers outrage for killing off a popular character. He accosted a blonde female WAC, a blonde female Red Cross worker, and an army general and his blonde wife in an offoro bath, mistaking the couple for the Penobscots. Captain Oliver Harmon "Spearchucker" Jones is a character who appears in the novel MASH (and its sequels), and was portrayed by Fred Williamson in the movie and Timothy Brown in the television series. Hunnicutt was created to replace him, with the two part Season Four opener created to explain his absence (the third episode introducing Col. Potter was intended to be the premiere episode). In the film and the subsequent TV series, Frank Burns' rank is that of major. In addition, Potter, who had been managing administrative work before his assignment to the 4077th with the asset of knowing many his superiors as personal acquaintances, possesses formidable skills as a surgeon and for keeping morale high in the operating room. Freedman's first appearance was in the episode "Radar's Report". She appeared in 86 episodes of the series, more episodes than some main characters, such as Henry Blake and Trapper John. His wife eventually learns of the affair and threatens him with divorce; he denies it, describing Houlihan as an "old warhorse" and an "army mule with bosoms", beginning a rift that leads to her engagement to Donald Penobscott, a handsome lieutenant colonel stationed in Tokyo. In real life, Jamie Farr is a devout Antiochian (Greek) Orthodox. In the final episodes of the series, Klinger gets engaged to Soon Lee Han (Rosalind Chao), a Korean refugee; when proposing to her, he suggests she wear the wedding dress he had himself worn in one of his attempted Section Eight escapades and explains to her what white means in his culture. ", Frank has a quiet, insightful conversation with Trapper, where he admits that he grew up in a strict family where he couldn't talk at meals, and that he became a snitch, "so I could talk to somebody.".
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