McLean Stevenson
- Acting
- November 14, 1927 · Normal, Illinois, USA
- February 15, 1996
Biography
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).
Known for
Filmography
- M*A*S*H: 30th Anniversary Reunion · Archive footage
- Tales of the City · Booter Manigault
- Memories of M*A*S*H · Self / Henry Blake
- Class Cruise · Miles Gimrich
- Dirty Dancing
- Mathnet · Mike Pliers
- Davy Crockett · Andrew Jackson
- Tall Tales & Legends · Andrew Jackson
- The Golden Girls · Ted
- Condo · James Kirkridge
- Hotel · Harry Gilford
- American Playhouse · Booter Manigault
- Hello, Larry · Larry Adler
- Diff'rent Strokes
- In the Beginning · Father Cleary
- The Cat from Outer Space · Link
- The Love Boat · Bob Crawford, Captain Donahue
- The McLean Stevenson Show
- The Sonny and Cher Show
- Donny & Marie · Self
- Cher · Self
- Win, Place or Steal · Mr. Hammond
- Dinah! · Self
- Shirts/Skins · Dr. Benny Summers
- M*A*S*H · Henry Blake, Writer
- The Christian Licorice Store · Smallwood
- Mr. and Mrs. Bo Jo Jones · Minister
- Love, American Style · Lt. Miller
- The Bold Ones: The New Doctors · George Caldwell
- The Doris Day Show · Michael Nicholson
- That Girl
- The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson · Self
- The Merv Griffin Show · Self