He sadly died in 2016 at age 84 after an 18-month battle with lung cancer He married a woman named Barbara (seen in 1985) in 1957, and together, the pair adopted two sons, named John and Ned, who appeared in an episode of M*A*S*H. He now spends his days hosting a daily radio show called Travelin' Farr, and living a quiet life with his wife, Joy Ann Richards, and two kids, Jonas Yvonne. He also became a judge on the NBC talent series The Gong Show, hosted the $250,000 Game Show Spectacular, starred in the Broadway revival of Guys and Dolls in the 1990s, helped create the three-act play Flamingo Court in 2008, and released an autobiography, called Just Farr Fun. He appeared in all three Cannonball Run movies, Combat Academy (alongside George Clooney), ABC's Kolchak: The Night Stalker, the Hallmark movie A Grandpa for Christmas, and the Fox series The Cool Kids. Klinger in the series M*A*S*H for all 11 seasons, followed by two seasons of its spinoff, AfterMASH.Īfter that, he continued his successful career. He then acted in Andy Griffith's comedy No Time for Sergeants, the 1965 flick The Greatest Story Ever Told, and The Dick Van Dyke Show. He served for two years, before he returned home and continued his pursuit of being a star. He started acting when he was only 11, after winning a local acting contest.įollowing high school, he landed his breakthrough role in the movie Blackboard Jungle, before he was drafted into the US Army. Jamie Farr, now 88, hails from Toledo Ohio. He also became a judge on the NBC talent series The Gong Show, hosted the $250,000 Game Show Spectacular, starred in the Broadway revival of Guys and Dolls in the 1990s, and released an autobiography, called Just Farr Fun. She stopped acting in the early 2000s and stays mostly out of the spotlight now. She was married to actor Dennis Holahan from 1983 to 1995. She also hosted a documentary about the war in South Korea, called Korean War-The Untold Story, and Discovery Channel's Those Incredible Animals. Her other acting credits include The Best Christmas Pageant Ever, the TV movie The Last Day, Mannix, and Hawaii Five-O. After that came to an end, she landed a slew of guest roles in shows like Bonanza, The Love Boat, Win, Lose, or Draw, Password, Gunsmoke, Match Game, Pyramid, The Muppet Show, and Hollywood Sqaures. Her first big role was Margaret 'Hot Lips' Houlihan in the show M*A*S*H, which she starred in for all 11 seasons. Loretta Swit, now 85, who is originally from Passaic, New Jersey, started starring in off-Broadway plays soon after she finished high school.Īfter spending years flourishing as a stage actress, she moved to Hollywood in 1969 to try to become an on-screen star. She was married to actor Dennis Holahan from 1983 to 1995. She stopped acting in the early 2000s and stays mostly out of the spotlight now. He's also accomplished a lot outside of the world of acting - he became a visiting professor at Stony Brook University in 2010, and founded the university's Center for Communicating Science.Īlan married his college sweetheart, Arlene Weiss, in 1957, and together, they welcomed three daughters, named Eve, Elizabeth, and Beatrice. He has released three memoirs, and acted in 13 Broadway plays. He is also a successful screenwriter and director - he contributed to some episodes of M*A*S*H - and over the course of his decades-long career, he has now won a whopping six Emmy Awards, six Golden Globes, and three Tony Awards for his work. That was just the beginning for Alan, and he went on to star in Woody Allen's Crimes and Misdemeanors and Manhattan Murder Mystery, Michael Moore's comedy film Canadian Bacon, Flirting With Disaster (alongside Ben Stiller and Patricia Arquette), NBC's The West Wing (which earned him one of his Emmys), the Academy Award-winning flick The Aviator (opposite Leonardo DiCaprio), 2000 rom-com What Women Want, Steven Spielberg's Bridge of Spies, Everyone Says I love You, ER, The Blacklist, the web series Horace and Pete (which was created by Louis C.K.), and 2019 drama Marriage Story. Alan married his college sweetheart, Arlene Weiss (seen together in 2020), in 1957, and together, they welcomed three daughters, named Eve, Elizabeth, and Beatrice
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