M*A*S*H Actors Status (re-termed from "Necrology")

The Main Cast of M*A*S*H

Appearing in all 251 episodes:
Alan Alda as Captain Benjamin Franklin “Hawkeye” Pierce
b. January 28, 1936.
Still living at age 89 as of mid-September 2025.

Appearing in 239 episodes:
Loretta Swit as Major Margaret “Hot Lips” Houlihan
b. November 4, 1937
d. May 30, 2025 at age 87 of natural causes.

Appearing in 216 episodes:
Jamie Farr as Corporal (and later Sergeant) Maxwell Q. Klinger
July 1, 1934.
Still living at age 91 as of mid-September 2025.

Appearing in 213 episodes:
William Christopher* as Father Francis John Patrick Mulcahy
b. October 20, 1932
d. December 31, 2016 at age 84 of lung cancer.
* in the pilot, Father Mulcahy was played by George Morgan for just that episode.
He passed away exactly one year after his “M*A*S*H” co-star, Wayne Rogers.

Appearing in 181 episodes:
Gary Burghoff as Corporal Walter “Radar” O'Reilly
b. May 24, 1943
Still living at age 82 as of mid-September 2025.

Appearing in 180 episodes:
Harry Morgan as Lt. Colonel Sherman T. Potter
b. April 10, 1915
d. December 7, 2011 at age 96 from pneumonia.

Appearing in 179 episodes:
Mike Farrell as Captain B.J. Hunnicutt
b. February 6, 1939
Still living at age 86 as of mid-September 2025.

Appearing in 131 episodes:
David Ogden Stiers as Major Charles Emerson Winchester III
b. October 31, 1942
d. March 3, 2018 at age 75 from bladder cancer.

Appearing in 121 episodes:
Larry Linville as Major Frank “Ferret Face” Marion Burns
b. September 29, 1939
d. April 10, 2000* at age 60 of pneumonia as a complication of lung cancer.
*April 10, 2000 was his co-star Harry Morgan's 85th birthday.

Appearing in 72 episodes:
Wayne Rogers as Captain "Trapper John” McIntyre
b. April 7, 1933
d. December 31, 2015 at age 82 from pneumonia

Appearing in 70 episodes:
McLean Stevenson as Lt. Colonel Henry Blake
b. November 14, 1927
d. February 15, 1996 at age 68 bladder cancer / heart attack.
 

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