Actor
McLean Stevenson
November 14, 1927 · Normal, Illinois, USA
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).
Notable work
Often works with
Harry Morgan
3 titles together
M*A*S*H, The Cat from Outer Space, M*A*S*H: 30th Anniversary Reunion
Wayne Rogers
3 titles together
M*A*S*H, The Sonny and Cher Show, M*A*S*H: 30th Anniversary Reunion
Allan Arbus
3 titles together
M*A*S*H, The Christian Licorice Store, M*A*S*H: 30th Anniversary Reunion
Bernie Kopell
3 titles together
The Love Boat, That Girl, The Doris Day Show
Alan Alda
2 titles together
M*A*S*H, M*A*S*H: 30th Anniversary Reunion
Loretta Swit
2 titles together
M*A*S*H, M*A*S*H: 30th Anniversary Reunion
Full filmography · 26
Tales of the City
as Booter Manigault
19937.7
Dirty Dancing
cast
1988
Mathnet
as Mike Pliers
1987
Tall Tales & Legends
as Andrew Jackson
1985
The Golden Girls
as Ted
19857.6
Hotel
as Harry Gilford
19826.8
American Playhouse
as Booter Manigault
1982
Hello, Larry
as Larry Adler
1979
Diff'rent Strokes
cast
19787.1
In the Beginning
as Father Cleary
1978
The Love Boat
as Bob Crawford and as Captain Donahue and as Michael Borden
19776.3The McLean Stevenson Show
cast
1976