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Jamie Farr (born Jameel Joseph Farah; July 1, 1934) is an American comedian and actor.He is best known for playing Corporal Klinger, a soldier who tried getting discharged from the army by cross-dressing, on the CBS sitcom M*A*S*H.
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 is an Arab-American of Lebanese descent from Toledo, Ohio (like Farr himself). As for Klinger's religion, in an early show, Klinger said he gave up being an atheist for Lent.
Rosalind Chao (born September 23, 1957) [a] is an American actress, best known for playing Soon-Lee Klinger in the mid-1980s CBS show AfterMASH, Rose Hsu Jordan in the 1993 movie The Joy Luck Club, the recurring character Keiko O'Brien on Star Trek: The Next Generation and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine in the 1990s, and Dr. Kim on The O.C. in 2003.
Alan Alda (left), Wayne Rogers (right), McLean Stevenson (in back) and Loretta Swit (in front) from the first season of M*A*S*H. M*A*S*H is an American television series developed by Larry Gelbart and adapted from the 1970 feature film MASH (which was itself based on the 1968 novel MASH: A Novel About Three Army Doctors by Richard Hooker). [1]
The following is a list of cast members from the television series adaptation of M*A*S*H.The term cast members includes one-episode guest appearances. The popularity of M*A*S*H is reflected in the fact that "Goodbye, Farewell and Amen", the show's series finale, was the most watched TV series finale ever when it first aired in 1983, and it remains in that position four decades later.
Jamie Farr is introduced as the cross-dressing Corporal Maxwell Q. Klinger. Sorrell Booke , later star in The Dukes of Hazzard , plays the visiting general. William Christopher does not appear in this episode.
On Monday, Jan. 1, M*A*S*H fans are invited to ring in the new year with M*A*S*H: The Comedy That Changed Television, a two-hour special airing on Fox and featuring new interviews with series vets ...
Winchester eventually receives a letter confirming his appointment to the position, but becomes angry after learning from Klinger that Margaret had intervened in the selection process by having a relative pull strings. Klinger falls in love with a refugee named Soon-Lee Han, who wants to return to the combat zone to find her missing parents.