CAST

Jamie Farr

Turning one day's bit part into an 11-year career is how Jamie Farr was drafted into M*A*S*H. Originally planned as a one-episode character, his crossing dressing Corporal Klinger proved so popular with audiences that he eventually became a regular on the hit television series.

Jamie is a Lebanese-American from Toledo, OH; a background that remained in tact for his character "Klinger." Discovered at Pasadena Playhouse by an MGM talent agent, he was cast as mentally retarded student Santini in Blackboard Jungle. Initially roles were few and far between. In the 1950s he began to get more work in television, becoming a regular on The Red Skelton Show and The Danny Kaye Show. Prior to winning his role on M*A*S*H he appeared on the Dick Van Dyke Show and was a regular on The Chicago Teddy Bears.

He continued to act in film and TV during his stint on M*A*S*H appearing in Cannonball Run and Cannonball Run II with Burt Reynolds and made for TV movies such as Murder Can Hurt You, Return of the Rebels and For Love or Money. Farr reprised his role of Klinger in the series After M*A*S*H. He received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1985.