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Major Frank Burns

Hawkeye
M*A*S*H character
Alan Alda Hawkeye MASH.JPG
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
Wayne Rogers Trapper John MASH 1972.JPG
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
Duke Forrest
First appearance MASH: A Novel About Three Army Doctors
Last appearance Film
Portrayed by Film: Tom Skerritt
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Nickname(s) Duke
Gender Male
Title Captain
Hometown Forrest City, Georgia (fictional)
B. J. Hunnicutt
M*A*S*H character
Mike Farrell MASH 1975.JPG
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
McLean Stevenson Henry Blake MASH 1972.JPG
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
Harry Morgan 1975.jpg
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 Major Frank Burns MASH 1972.JPG
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
Loretta Swit MASH 1972.JPG
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
David Ogden Stiers Gary Burghoff MASH 1977.jpg
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
Gary Burghoff Radar MASH 1974.JPG
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 author Richard Hooker's MASH: A Novel About Three Army Doctors, 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." His birth name is taken from a member of Hooker's own family named Franklin Pierce.


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