Which mash stars are still alive

She continued acting up until — there's a good chance you'd recognize her as the cook in "Clue" — and then focused on watercolor painting, becoming deeply involved in her local art scene.

When she passed away due to cancer in , Alan Alda offered a heartfelt tribute to her: "She was adorable and brilliant in the part [of Kellye]. But you couldn't beat what she was as a person, funnier and warmer and kinder than most people I've known. Although he was only formally credited about half the time, he appeared in 67 episodes.

He contributed a lasting bit of the show's continuity, too, in coining the name for Jeff Maxwell's character Igor. Goldman passed away in Patricia Stevens played Nurse Baker — kind of.

While Stevens had other parts over the years — she voiced Velma in several iterations of "Scooby Doo" in the '70s — she eventually transitioned to teaching acting and directing. Her onscreen roles might not have been flashy, but she had a profound effect in the real world.

When she died in , her obituary noted that "her true talent and genius both on and off stage was making people at ease through laughter. Bullish, antagonistic, and hypocritical, Sergeant Zelmo Zale makes a great low-stakes adversary: the other characters don't have to defeat him, they just have to figure out how to live with him. He's particularly a thorn in Klinger's side, but he runs afoul of almost everyone sooner or later.

He's undoubtedly irritating — but Johnny Haymer also makes him memorable, giving Zale a boisterous, combative energy. It's always entirely believable that this guy could stir things up. Yes, we went and looked up clips to see this for ourselves. Haymer died of cancer in His hardened cruelty and obsession with tracking down always nonexistent traitors and Communist spies made him a good antagonist; his over-the-top approaches made him a comedic goldmine.

According to writer Ken Levine , the show had to be careful to control his larger-than-life potency by not bringing him on too often. It's all tied together with Edward Winter's great, fully committed deadpan approach; through all the insanity, he plays Flagg completely straight.

Winter made such an indelible impression as Flagg that it's probably still what he's best known for, but he was a tremendously prolific and varied actor. Real Monsters. Winter died in of complications from Parkinson's disease. Despite almost being sent away in her very first episode, amiable Margie hangs around for quite a while as a nurse and a casual date.

Actually, it wasn't so casual on her end, as Hawkeye eventually finds out to his alarm — there are bits of Margie's last episode, "Ceasefire," that are just too awkward to watch.

Marcia Strassman had a great career after she left Margie behind. She moved on to a regular role on "Welcome Back, Kotter," as well as a boatload of guest-starring spots — and you might get a particular rush of childhood nostalgia when you recognize her as the mom in "Honey, I Shrunk the Kids. Strassman dealt with breast cancer for seven years. She passed away in , receiving numerous tributes from her friends and family. More: Alan Alda reveals he has Parkinson's disease.

Facebook Twitter Email. Show Caption. Hide Caption. Jamie Farr played Corporal Maxwell Q. At 87 years old, Farr is the oldest living main cast member from the show. He was the youngest of the main characters on the show, and he is just 78 years old today. Burghoff is notable for being the only actor from the movie MASH to reprise his role as a main cast member on the television series. He left the show in , but he returned later that year for a two-part special episode called "Goodbye Radar.

Hunnicutt, a replacement for Wayne Rogers' character "Trapper" John. Best show ever! I watch it Monday thru Friday from 7 to 8! The only show I can watch over and over and never become tired of it. Finally watched the final episode. What a powerful ending. Will never forget how truly great this show was.

Watched M. MASH is timeless, it is still funny this many years after the fact, and never gets old. Reading comments here others think so too, it has then the hallmarks of a true classic. Good to see that MEtv has it, 2 shows six days a week. Have just finished watching series 6 and loved every minute. In the beginning MASH was pretty funny back in my stoner days but after watching reruns lately it was obviously biased leftwing propaganda crap.

The best show ever made, I still watch it today, it still means something in this World full of unnecessary wars , is poignant, funny and touching all at once. I grew up watching it, it helped me develop an anti authoritarian attitude, and 30 plus years later I still have it and am still in love with this program and all its characters. Bless them all for this gift of a show. I also have the entire series on a media drive and watch an episode once or twice a day.

This show epitomizes humanity.. Or rather a humanity that we all wish could occur sans the aspect of war. I grew up on the show since I was very young. I am well into my forties now. This show reminds me about kindness and how to show it even while living in a brutal world.

Much love to all fellow mash lovers and I hope to so someday run into one of living members of mash so I can shake their hand. My wife and I hiked to the original filing site in the Malibu hills here in California. A must do trek for all lovers of mash. They still have remnants of the site left that is being taken care of by fellow mash buffs replete with the chooper pad and many other wonderful chestnuts.

The t. But I still watch my reruns or watch them on my C. I was born almost four years after mash went off but I watched the reruns and its my favorite sitcom my favorite character is Hawkeye followed by radar it is one show I think will live on forever.

I cried when Henry died when radar went home and the final episode when everybody goes home. I wish thye would make a movie where they all meet in the states. I missed out on the Mash series when I was in the country area of Australia.

We are getting the replays from 6. Cheers Robin. I love the show I laugh so much it makes me cry with laughter I am my seventies and my wife thinks I am mad I have been watching it for years. Nothing better than MASH!!! Watched Alan Alders and mine hair turn grey as the series progressed.

Lend a Hand … Dr. Anthony Borelli — The Consultant … Dr. Anthony Borelli. A wonderful show on many levels, innovative, moving,excellent blend of comedy and social criticism. Does anyone know the name Larry Dilbert.

He was my library teacher and quit teaching to be a writer for Mash Or so he said at the time. I would say that for the first 39 years I always looked forward to watching, now I say with a heavy heart that are getting old and boring. My son and I watch everyday I grew up watching masg it was one of my favorite TV shows. My son was only 11 when I found them on DVD butt he fell in love with the show. Thank you for the memories and the great times with my son.

McLean Stevenson should have stayed on…he was good! It took a character away from the show………. I watched it faithfully when it came on TV in and still watch at least 2 episodes everyday. Love them all…. This show has never been off television,, it is just so good. My late husband and myself used to watch M. I just wanted to say i have enjoyed M. H since i was a child.

I laughed, cried, and rejoiced over the years. I wanted to say thank you to all ……and God bless. One of the best written shows ever with a wonderful ensemble cast. I still watch reruns on History channel. I am only 16, but when my dad introduced me to this show years ago, I was hooked. This show is better than any lame thing that they call entertainment nowadays. I laugh and cry watching this show with my family, and I would give anything to have been alive when the show was still coming out with new episodes.

But you ARE Alive. That is the True Legacy of the show. That is why it is timeless, they knew that this was never done before nor will ever again. You are a young man. Search every scrap, every iinterview, article. Enjoy the hunt, young man.

This show raised a Nation at least the good kids hahahaha. Mash Is my favorite show ever. I was pleased to collect all seasons on dvd, and will probably do the same on bluray when available. I was young during its glory years and, I feel like I grew up with the show. I felt as if I were losing a friend when it went off. My favorite character became Charles over the years. I feel that they did a great job developing his character, and showed his more caring, giving side apart from his pompous exterior.

I certainly hope no one ever tries to remake this show. Watched it from the start. Have seen many TV re-runs. Now seeing it on TrueEntertainment again. In UK. Never tire of it, will never tire of the theme tune. David Ogden Stiers in the series is simply the best. Ive never tired of it either. This show is in my heart so much I have bought the martinis DVD kit every one of the shows the reunion, the fan I do believe that my favorite character of all time is Walter radar oReilly.

He is what I believe the most genuine character and greatest actor on the show. How I still miss not having new episodes to enchant me with the truth of war.

Loved al the cast. My son gifted me with the series. Sue miles. Right now, the local stations which carry it are back in the very first episodes and Exceptional show. So clever. Better now than when I first watched it as a kid decades ago, reflecting just how our appreciation must grow with the passage of time as we read new nuances in it. Sad to hear of some passings. I grew up with these wonderful people and think of them as a very intricate part of my life.

I loved the political justice and the closeness of the characters. It led me to the military but also led me to my husband who is very astute to political issues. Love you guys and thank you.

We have the first three seasons on DVD. Watch them all every 6 — 8 months or so. In my opinion, the most entertaining comedy series ever produced. I totally agree. Loved both those guys. I was so sad when Col. Blake was killed. That was just of the episodes that made the show real. What a great way to spend the evenings, reliving the memories. Nothing ever will. I love MASH, it is one of the best written series, ever. I watch it every night. It is painful to know that so many have died,but so many great taughs make up for the pain.

Quite simply the best television ever created. Nothing else before or since is as good. This is the best of the best. I have no favorite characters, every single one of them is as good as the next, and they all remain individuals.

MASH portrays every aspect of the human condition between tragedy and humor, and it never fails to entertain. Keep those reruns happening! I love this show it is a shame some have passed but still loving watching it on television if you can give me any update that would be good. MASH is such a wonderful show that brings me back many years when I would hear the music at the beginning and at the end of the show. I loved the humor along with the raw emotion that each cast member faced.

I could watch this show forever and never tire of it. It definitely portrayed the ravages of war and yet the reward of living in a very different era. God bless those that have passed and I would love to see that reunion show. Thank you so much for the re-runs that are so precious. I have always been a huge fan of MASH, due in part, to the fact I had served in Korea on the DMZ in the US Army and had experienced so many of the same sorts of situations and characters that the show portrayed.

I will always love that show, and could watch reruns forever. Thank you, METV for rolling back the years for me, once again! The thing I appreciate most about this show, and have since it originally aired, is that it assumed the intelligence of the viewer.

Satire, double entendre, innuendo, all were delivered with healthy doses of humor and drama. We relate to them even today because they are all, like the rest of us, damaged in some way. Their back stories are created in the form of home movies 16 MM remember?

Then there was the first party viewer, as seen by the wounded, and in one case the dead, and the TV interviewer, done in genuine black and white. It was all the right elements coming together at exactly the right time. I am in the process of watching all the shows, over of them…then I can watch them again having netflix. That was the best series ever on TV, thats why it lasted so long. It was human, and never for a moment did it play down the fact that a war was going on and people were being killed.

I loved all the characters but had a real soft spot in my heart for Sidney Freedman, the psychiatrist. He was so calm and kind under the worst conditions and sometimes had to take a lot of bad stuff. I loved the episode where Radar gives Potter the horse as a gift, I had tears in my eyes also…. A wonderful show,…. I concur. The evolution of all these characters… so realistic. He was heartbroken having to restrain a dear friend. It was quite an emotional evening Kleenex helped. I miss all the cast I wish that all the cast would come back.

To see each ather for all the fans. Could not be remade today. All the best to a tv series well done. I watch it more now, than when it was a weekly network show. My wife and I grew up in and around Ottumwa, Ia. I noticed there have not been any comments in So, just have to agree with all who have watched and watched again. I have all 11 years on DVD, I am nurse so the show was a mainstay in my dorm when it debuted. Love it more with each watching.

I can say it helped me understand the men who were returning from Viet Nam. Just love this show. Would love to have season one thru four on DVD that would play through all the shows. The writing, acting, and direction were all superb, and the ensemble simply peerless. Watching it again on Netflix now, laughing and occasionally weeping as much as the first time. I started watching the reruns played on MeTV and fell in love with this programme again. The first episode with Wincester is one of my all time favourites from this programme.

My husband and I love the reruns of Mash. We like all the characters as they give us a laugh. Mash is the best show. Bouquets to all involved for a great show. Have just watched the episode where Radar left and cried again.. Burghoff left MASH during the seventh season because he was burnt out and going through a messy divorce from his first wife, Janet Gayle.

Has to be the best comedy for its time! Alan Alda had me laughing non stop! His quick wit , he is one talented person! A real legend! God bless to the cast members that have passed! And to all the cast members you were and still are the best and will always be remembered! I used to watch M. Till Wayne Rogers left the show. Then it became the Alan Alda. I know of very few shows that can withstand the test of time as well as this show.

Which just goes to show how it had everything going for it and dealt with matters that are eternal. Have watch mash from the begining I left birthing class for my son early to watch the farewell show no series before or after can compare.

Still watching reruns. I watch reruns of episodes all the time. Although they are not part of regular cast, the five nurses running for the helio pad. Who are they? I remember Kelly, and ginger the black nurse. I thought they should of used ginger more. I will always enjoy watching the episodes! Yes that last scene when Radar left was a tough one, when he went out of the compound in the jeep with the driver.

It was not the best years of my life but I enjoyed the series very much. Gil Head. Gid bless them all. I loved mash i still watch on netflicks brings back memories and watching Allen Alden he was very good all of them but what ladys man he was funny god bless to all of them and to ones who pass on.

I love this show!! Watched it years ago when it first aired and now watching it again on Netflix. Actually, to be honest, I watch 2 or 3 episodes a night before going to bed. It puts me in a good spot with its sincerity and humor.

I love each of the characters. God bless them all including the ones who have left us. Thanks to all of them for bringing humor into my life! These people will always be my faves. I was only a young person then. I am watching the one where Radar goes home right now. Thanks for sharing what they are doing today. Gave my wife Joyce and I a great deal of pleasure during the early years of our marriage and once again now as we approach our 50th wedding anniversary. Many thanks to all the great actors and production staff who put in a great deal of effort and received little or no recognition.

Watching the hepatitis episode as I type. Have watched every episode at least 10 times and still find something I missed. Love it. In high school it was my brother Chris; in college, my roommate Steve. Later it was my youngest daughter Katrina. At one point we knew the episode Mail Call so well we pretty well quoted the whole thing once when the power went out. Thank you to all who did have a part in making this great series. MASH is one of my favorite shows. The wit displayed is so sharp and their protrayl of the war brings such realism.

So, glad its on netflix Love this show. I actually feel I know each of them personally. I came home from Vietnam in When Mash came on I watched I all the time. Mash will always be a favorite show of mine and probably for most people. It was superbly written. It always held your interest. It made you laugh and cry, often st the same time! The cast was phenomenal. It was a great portrayal of life in an Army Mash unit , during the war.

How the actors portrayed actual soldiers, under the pressures of war daily was awesome! I cannot say enough good things about it. The flashback show and interviews of actors, writers directors etc. H was first aired. As I grew up I had heard that it was a cult drama, and that it was set in korea. I am now in my middle thirties and I have been able to pick up the series on one of the freeview channels and I am absoloutely hooked!!!.

There are so many different elements to it, there is the serious side of Hawkeye and B. I think the script writing in some ways could, be compared to only fools and horses another favourite of mine, due to the fact that Alan Alda and both his counter parts Wayne Rogers and Mike Farrell played off of each other.

Some of the episodes have definitely brought a tear to my eye. I particularly enjoyed the one where Radar is told that he is being sent home, the scene where he and Hawkeye are arguing about Radar not wanting to go is great.

Now I have two kids on my own and I watch Mash with them. I still enjoy watching mash so much I have every episode on dvd. It the kind of show u never get tired of, especially if u served in the military. From my experience u meet all kinds of guys and they are all different but we all serve the same purpose be it a medic, truck driver.

Every Mos is important. This is what makes mash especially the a show u can really enjoy. Fantastic acting, great stories and often thought provoking stories.

Actors that you had empathy with, I felt they were all friends. Can i have a small complaint? Peter York England. I grew up my whole life in foster homes, group homes and other places. Hi honestly my fondest memory of the majority of my childhood is coming home after school turning on my broken down black and white TV and watching mash. Giving me something to come home to, giving me something have hope for, giving me something to laugh about. But most of all giving me some role models to look up to.

My family now just thinks my love of the show is just an obsession. But it really is love. Wish there were quality TV like that now.