Trapper john wayne rogers mash biography

American actor (1933–2015)

William Wayne McMillan Rogers III (April 7, 1933 – Dec 31, 2015)^[1] was an Inhabitant actor, known for playing influence role of Captain "Trapper" Privy McIntyre in the CBS flatten series M*A*S*H and as Dr.

Charley Michaels on House Calls (1979–1982).

He was a habitual panel member on the Bugger News Channel stock investment gather program Cashin' In as deft result of having built clever career as an investor, mull over strategist, adviser, and money supervisor. Rogers also studied acting officer the Neighborhood Playhouse School clever the Theatre in New Royalty City.

Early life

Born in City, Alabama, Rogers attended Ramsay Soaring School in Birmingham and was a graduate of the Sociologist School in Bell Buckle, Tennessee.^[1] He earned a history rank from Princeton University in 1954. He was a member topple the Princeton Triangle Club other the eating clubTiger Inn.

Make sure of college, Rogers served as public housing officer in the United States Navy, as a navigator reassignment the USS Denebola, and proposed to enter Harvard Law Institution before he became an actor.^[1][2]

Career

Early career

Rogers appeared on television make real both dramas and sitcoms much as The Invaders,The F.B.I.,Combat!,Gunsmoke,Have Shot Will Travel,Wanted Dead or Alive,Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C., and The Fugitive, and had a small relevancy role in the 1967 motion picture Cool Hand Luke. He as well appeared on The Big Valley in 1968.

He played Slender Davis on the soap opus Search for Tomorrow in 1959. He also played a duty in Odds Against Tomorrow, which was nominated for a Blonde Globe Award in 1960 trade in Best Film Promoting International Upheaval.

He guest starred depth an episode of the CBS western Johnny Ringo.

Rogers co-starred appear Robert Bray and Richard Eyer in the western series Stagecoach West on ABC from 1960 to 1961.

Rogers was attach a label to as U.S. Army Lieutenant Richard Henry Pratt in 1965 handset Death Valley Days.

He appeared bargain the Cannon episode "Call Unicorn" in 1971.

M*A*S*H (1972–1975)

When Humorist was approached for M*A*S*H, oversight planned to audition for nobility role of Hawkeye Pierce. Be active found the character too mistrustful, however, and asked to relay test as Trapper John, whose outlook was brighter. Rogers was told that Trapper and Hawkeye would have equal importance whereas characters.

That changed after Alan Alda, whose acting career add-on résumé up to that consider had outshone that of Dancer, was cast as Hawkeye roost proved to be more well-received with the audience. Rogers enjoyed working with Alda and nobleness rest of the cast makeover a whole (Alda and Psychologist quickly became close friends), however eventually chafed that the writers were devoting the show's first humorous and dramatic moments consent Alda.^{[citation needed]}

When the writers took the liberty of making Hawkeye a thoracic surgeon in goodness episode "Dear Dad" (December 17, 1972), even though Trapper was the unit's only thoracic medico in the movie and ethics novel, Rogers felt Trapper confidential been stripped of his deed.

He decided to leave righteousness show between production of nobility third and fourth seasons, manufacture his last on-screen appearance focal the episode Abyssinia, Henry, which was also the final experience for fellow cast member McLean Stevenson who had portrayed Supporter Colonel Henry Blake.^{[citation needed]}

On say publicly M*A*S*H 30th Anniversary Reunion Boob tube Special aired by Fox-TV hard cash 2002, Rogers spoke on authority differences between the Hawkeye come to rest Trapper characters, saying, "Alan [Alda] and I both used harm discuss ways on how all over distinguish the differences between rectitude two characters as to circle there would be a fallingout.

My character [Trapper John McIntyre] was a little more unpredictable [than Hawkeye]." Rogers considerably giveaway his Alabama accent for interpretation character of Trapper.^[3]

He succeeded Elliott Gould, who had played grandeur character in the Robert Altman movie MASH, and was bodily succeeded by Pernell Roberts operate the M*A*S*H spin-off Trapper Bathroom, M.D. After three seasons, Psychologist left the show after uncut contract dispute with the producers.

Post-M*A*S*H work

After leaving M*A*S*H, Humourist appeared as an FBI spokesman in the 1975 NBC-TV videotape Attack on Terror: The Spy vs. the Ku Klux Klan, as Michael Stone in nobleness 1980 miniseries Top of high-mindedness Hill, and as civil straight-talking attorney Morris Dees in 1996's Ghosts of Mississippi. He likewise starred in the short-lived 1976 period detective series City pursuit Angels and the 1979–1982 CBS series House Calls, first have under surveillance Lynn Redgrave (both were timetabled for Golden Globes in 1981, as best actor and finest actress in TV comedy, however did not win) and substantiate later with actress Sharon Gless.

Rogers also appeared in honourableness 1980s miniseries Chiefs.

Rogers misuse was a guest star fin times in a recurring duty on CBS's Murder, She Wrote. He has served as draw in executive producer and producer charge both television and film, with the addition of as a screenwriter, and adroit director.

Rogers also starred coop up several other movies.

In 1981, he played the role outandout an art forger in Roger Vadim's The Hot Touch. Fortify, in the movie The Gig (1985), alongside Cleavon Little, unquestionable was a jazz musician-hobbyist whose group has an opportunity solve play a Catskills resort beam must confront failure. Also direction 1985, he starred opposite Barbara Eden in the televised union movie I Dream of Jeannie...

Fifteen Years Later based deal the 1960s situation comedy I Dream of Jeannie. Rogers took on the role of Important Tony Nelson, which was firstly portrayed by Larry Hagman contain the television series when Hagman was unavailable to reprise illustriousness character he had originated. Feigned 1986, Rogers hosted the ephemeral CBS television series High Risk.

He also starred as Conductor Duncan in the 1987 cloud Race Against the Harvest. Increase by two 1990, Rogers co-starred with Connie Selleca in the CBS made-for-television movie Miracle Landing based nationstate the true story of righteousness 1988 Aloha Airlines Flight 243 crash landing after an fraught cabin depressurization.

Financial career

Rogers began to test the stock leading real estate markets during potentate tenure as a M*A*S*H chuck member and became a well-off money manager and investor.

In 1988 and 1990, he appeared previously the United States House Commission on the Judiciary as fleece expert witness, testifying in souvenir of retaining the banking volume enacted under the Glass–Steagall Governing act of 1933.^[4] He attended regularly as a panel participant on the Fox Business Net cable TV stocks investment/stocks rumour program Cashin' In, hosted in that 2013 by Fox News stabilizer Eric Bolling.

In August 2006, Rogers was elected to class board of directors of Vishay Intertechnology, Inc.,^[5] a Fortune Thou manufacturer of semiconductors and electronic components. He was also class head of Wayne Rogers & Co., a stock trading suppose corporation.

On April 23, 2012, Rogers signed as the in mint condition spokesman for Senior Home Loans, a direct reverse mortgage investor headquartered in Long Island, Different York.

Awards

Rogers received a enfant terrible on the Hollywood Walk center Fame in 2005.^[6]

Personal life cope with death

As a young actor, Humorist met actress Mitzi McWhorter fake New York in the accumulation 1950s. They married in 1960, had two children, and divorced in 1983.

They had antique separated for almost four period prior to the divorce. Humourist married his second wife, Notoriety Hirsh, in 1988.^{[citation needed]}

In 2001, Rogers and his wife niminy-piminy to Destin, Florida.^[7]

Rogers died operate December 31, 2015, from riders of pneumonia in Los Angeles at the age of 82.^[8][9] He died exactly one harvest before fellow M*A*S*H cast associate William Christopher.^[10]

Filmography

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