Hawkeye Pierce

Hawkeye
M*A*S*H character
First appearance	MASH: A Novel About Three Army Doctors
Last appearance	"Goodbye, Farewell and Amen"
Portrayed by	Film: Donald Sutherland Television: Alan Alda
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Gender	Male
Title	Captain
Hometown	Crabapple Cove, Maine (fictional)

Trapper John
M*A*S*H character
First appearance	MASH: A Novel About Three Army Doctors
Last appearance	"Abyssinia, Henry" (M*A*S*H) "Elusive Butterfly" (Trapper John, M.D.)
Portrayed by	Film: Elliott Gould Television: Wayne Rogers (for M*A*S*H) Pernell Roberts (for Trapper John, M.D.)
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Gender	Male
Title	Captain
Hometown	Boston, Massachusetts

B. J. Hunnicutt
M*A*S*H character
First appearance	"Welcome to Korea"
Last appearance	"Goodbye, Farewell and Amen"
Portrayed by	Television: Mike Farrell
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Gender	Male
Title	Captain
Hometown	Mill Valley, California

Henry Blake
M*A*S*H character
First appearance	MASH: A Novel About Three Army Doctors
Last appearance	"Abyssinia, Henry" (on screen)
Portrayed by	Film: Roger Bowen Television: McLean Stevenson
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Gender	Male
Title	Lieutenant Colonel
Hometown	Bloomington, Illinois

Sherman T. Potter
M*A*S*H character
First appearance	"Change of Command"
Last appearance	"Saturday's Heroes" (AfterMASH)
Portrayed by	Harry Morgan
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Gender	Male
Title	Colonel
Hometown	Hannibal, Missouri

Franklin Delano Marion Burns
M*A*S*H character
Larry Linville as Major Frank Burns on the CBS-TV M*A*S*H series
First appearance	MASH: A Novel About Three Army Doctors
Last appearance	"Margaret's Marriage"
Portrayed by	Film: Robert Duvall Television: Larry Linville
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Gender	Male
Title	Captain in Hooker's novel Major in TV series; w/ a departing promotion to Lieutenant Colonel
Spouse(s)	Louise Burns
Hometown	Fort Wayne, Indiana

Margaret Houlihan RN
M*A*S*H character
First appearance	MASH: A Novel About Three Army Doctors
Last appearance	"Goodbye, Farewell and Amen"
Portrayed by	Film: Sally Kellerman Television: Loretta Swit
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Gender	Female
Title	Major
Hometown	Fort Ord, California

Charles Emerson Winchester III
M*A*S*H character
First appearance	"Fade Out, Fade In"
Last appearance	"Goodbye, Farewell and Amen"
Portrayed by	Television: David Ogden Stiers
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Gender	Male
Title	Major
Hometown	Boston, Massachusetts

Radar
M*A*S*H character
First appearance	MASH: A Novel About Three Army Doctors
Last appearance	W*A*L*T*E*R
Portrayed by	Gary Burghoff
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Gender	Male
Title	Corporal
Hometown	Ottumwa, Iowa

This is a list of characters from the M*A*S*H franchise, covering the various fictional characters appearing in the novel MASH: A Novel About Three Army Doctors and its sequels, the 1970 film adaptation of the novel, and the television series M*A*S*H, AfterMASH, W*A*L*T*E*R, and Trapper John, M.D..

M*A*S*H is a popular media franchise revolving around the staff of the 4077th Mobile Army Surgical Hospital as they attempt to maintain sanity during the harshness of the Korean War.

Captain Benjamin Franklin "Hawkeye" Pierce is the lead protagonist in the MASH novels, film, and television series. The character was played by Donald Sutherland in the film and by Alan Alda on television, where he was the only character to appear in all 251 episodes. Between long, intense sessions of treating critically wounded patients, he makes the best of his life in an isolated Army camp by making wisecracks, drinking heavily, carousing, womanizing, and pulling pranks on the people around him, especially the unpleasantly stiff and callous Frank Burns and "Hot Lips" Houlihan. Although initially just one of an ensemble of characters, in the television series Hawkeye quickly became the center of the M*A*S*H unit's medical activity as well as the dramatic center of the series itself. In the series he is Chief Surgeon of the unit.

Pierce was born and raised in New England, most often mentioning Crabapple Cove, Maine, with a few references to Vermont. The character refers to having a sister but at other times identifies himself as an only child. His mother is deceased, and he is close to this father (in the novels lobsterman/fisherman "Big Benjy" Pierce, in the TV series Dr. Daniel Pierce). In the film Hawkeye is married with children, but in the TV series he is a bachelor and something of a ladies' man. He was given the nickname "Hawkeye" by his father, from the character in the novel The Last of the Mohicans, "the only book my old man ever read."