Gary Burghoff
Birthday: 1943-05-24 Place of Birth:
Synopsis
Gary Richard Burghoff (born May 24, 1943) is an American actor, known for playing the character Corporal Walter Eugene "Radar" O'Reilly in the MAS*H series and Charlie Brown in the 1967 Off-Broadway musical You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown. Description above from the Wikipedia article Gary Burghoff, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Acting
The Real M*A*S*H
The Real MASH traces the original stories and people that inspired the fictional feature film and TV series about Mobile Army Surgical Hospitals in the Korean War. Both pushed buttons on cultural and social frontiers but real life MASH units were actually more like renegade units onto themselves and early indicators of the social turmoil and tensions that were to unfold later in the USA. Interviews with MASH actors, including Jamie Farr, Loretta Swit and Gary Burghoff, co-creator Gene Reynolds, surgeons, doctors, nurses, pilots and enlisted men who served in the war blend with dramatic recreations, archival film and rare photographs to tell the true stories behind the MASH entertainment franchise.
W*A*L*T*E*R
W*A*L*T*E*R is a pilot for a spin-off of M*A*S*H made in 1984 that was never picked up. It starred Gary Burghoff, who reprised his M*A*S*H character.
The show relates the adventures of Corporal Walter O'Reilly after he returns home from the Korean War. He is no longer calling himself "Radar" and has moved away from Iowa after he sent his mother to live with his aunt. Settling in St. Louis, Missouri, by the beginning of the series he has become a police officer, though his character is still as in the original series.
