McLean Stevenson
Biography
McLean Stevenson began in show business at age 31. During the 1960s, he worked in night clubs and comedy cabarets, did summer stock theater and some television before moving to Hollywood, where he worked as a comedy writer for Tom Smothers. He eventually began acting in sketches. Mr. Stevenson is best known as the fumbling commanding officer, Lt. Colonel Henry Blake, on the CBS television series, M*A*S*H (1972). Over a period of thirty years, he also appeared on a number of television series and was a regular guest star on Johnny Carson's The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1962) and the game show, The Hollywood Squares (1965).
Filmography
M*A*S*H: 30th Anniversary Reunion
2002
as Archive footage
Memories of M*A*S*H
1991
as Self / Henry Blake
Class Cruise
1989
as Miles Gimrich
Davy Crockett
1986
as Andrew Jackson
The Cat from Outer Space
1978
as Link
Win, Place or Steal
1975
as Mr. Hammond
Shirts/Skins
1973
as Dr. Benny Summers
The Christian Licorice Store
1971
as Smallwood
Mr. and Mrs. Bo Jo Jones
1971
as Minister