McLean Stevenson(1927-1996)
- Actor
- Writer
- Soundtrack
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 (Daytime) (1965).
