Cast & creator
McLean Stevenson
Best known for The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, The Merv Griffin Show
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).
Also known as: Эдгар Маклин Стивенсон, Маклин Стивенсон
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film credits
29
television credits
36
1962–2002 · acting roles
6.9
average across scored titles
Signature credits
Known for
Across film & television
Filmography (38)
Showing 38 of 38 credits
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Self
1962The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Self - Guest Host
1962
The Merv Griffin Show
Self
1962
The Love Boat
Bob Crawford
1977The Love Boat
Captain Donahue
1977The Love Boat
Michael Borden
1977The Love Boat
Story
1977
M*A*S*H
Henry Blake
1972M*A*S*H
Writer
1972
American Playhouse
Booter Manigault
1982
Love, American Style
Lt. Miller
1969
The Golden Girls
Ted
1985
Hotel
Harry Gilford
1982
Dinah!
Self
1974
The Doris Day Show
Michael Nicholson
1968
That Girl
1966
Donny & Marie
Self
1976
The Bold Ones: The New Doctors
George Caldwell
1969
Hello, Larry
Larry Adler
1979
Tales of the City
Booter Manigault
1993
The Sonny and Cher Show
1976
Tall Tales & Legends
Andrew Jackson
1985
Cher
Self
1975
Mathnet
Mike Pliers
1987
Dirty Dancing
1988The McLean Stevenson Show
1976
Diff'rent Strokes
1978
The Cat from Outer Space
Link
1978
In the Beginning
Father Cleary
1978Condo
James Kirkridge
1983
Memories of M*A*S*H
Self / Henry Blake
1991
Mr. and Mrs. Bo Jo Jones
Minister
1971
M*A*S*H: 30th Anniversary Reunion
Archive footage
2002
The Christian Licorice Store
Smallwood
1971
Win, Place or Steal
Mr. Hammond
1975
Class Cruise
Miles Gimrich
1989
Shirts/Skins
Dr. Benny Summers
1973
Davy Crockett
Andrew Jackson
1986