Jamie Farr

Oh, you know, huge.

Uh, and especially because of the, the mentions on it by, by our, our favorite son, Jamie Farr.

Yeah.

Um, to the point where we so many times had a heads-up here in Toledo to make sure that we were in front of the TV, as if we were gonna miss M*A*S*H, of course, you know.

I'd love to go to a Mud Hens game, go to the stadium.

There you go.

Jamie Farr has a park there.

You know-

Yeah.

Well, Jamie Farr, who eventually went on to be Klinger on MASH, was the snappy delivery guy, right? Jamie, I think, was in three episodes and then was replaced he thinks because [laughs] one of Carl Reiner's friends needed a job and he could be replaced as the delivery guy.

So Herbie Fey actually took over the, the role, but Jamie did have three appearances and, and they're notable ones.

Alan Melvin, who went on to later years in many shows, Gomer Pyle, The Brady Bunch, probably as Sam the butcher.

Michael was probably most known because he made an appearance on Star Trek that he's still recognized for all these, these years later.

Part of what's fun in my book if, if folks grab a copy is the fact that I had the wherewithal to ensure that I recorded all of the interviews that I did with these folks through the years.

In the digital book I'll talk a little bit about Jamie Farr and how many times he was on the show, but then you click on a link in the book and you hear Jamie Farr talking about it, because I've taken the interviews that I've culled through all those years and shrunk them down to the two and a half minute or three-minute thing.

But you get to hear what it was like for Jamie to work with Dick Van Dyke, and what it was like to be on the set with Mary Tyler Moore, et cetera.

Amazing character

Then there's the orderly, Maxwell Klinger, played by Jamie Farr, whose entire existence is a scheme to get a psychiatric discharge

Right, the dresses

Exactly.

It was fun to do the show, and people we have on this podcast have fond memories of doing it.

But if you got a cruise the way you did, and who was on that cruise? Jamie Farr, Mike Connors, Polly Bergen.

Well, we

also, Fred, we had people that would come on the show thinking they were going to go on a cruise.

Yes, Loretta Swit played the iconic role of Major Margaret Hot Lips Houlihan on MASH.

My favorite was Clinger, Jamie Farr.

Oh, Jamie Farr.

Whatever happened to Jamie Farr?

Jamie Farr is currently enjoying retirement in California with his wife.

After MASH, he made numerous guest appearances and has been involved in various charitable efforts.

Well, Jamie Farr was dressing up like a woman so he was hoping to get discharged from the war.

That was the

Oh, yeah.

Because Lori says, "Oh, Dad, look at this," and Jamie Farr, the actor from MASH who played Corporal Klinger, "Oh, oh, oh, oh," appears on the screen and starts talking to Dad.

And they figured out they served in Japan, not together, but at the same time, right? Am I getting this right?

Yeah.

They did that a couple of times.

They did it with Jamie Farr.

Wow, wow.

Not Jamie, Jamie Foxx.

We have an archival commentary on here.

Two of the actors who were in the film, one of whom happily is still with us, Jamie Farr from MASH, Yeah, he had a small part in the film.

I think he had a contract at MGM because he was in other MGM films in small parts at that time.

And then the famous film director, Paul Mazursky, the late Paul Mazursky, he and Jamie Farr participated in this commentary along with Glenn Ford's son, Peter.

who wrote a very great biography about his father.

His mother happened to be Eleanor Powell, just for people who don't know.