M*A*S*H character
Wayne Rogers as Trapper John McIntyre
Trapper John McIntyre
Rank	Captain
Gender	Male
Hair color	Black (in the film)/Reddish-Blond (in the television series)
Eye color	Brown
Home city	Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Film portrayer	Elliott Gould
Television portrayer	Wayne Rogers (for M*A*S*H) Pernell Roberts (for Trapper John, M.D.)
First appearance	M*A*S*H: A Novel About Three Army Doctors

Trapper John McIntyre, also known as John Francis Xavier McIntyre, is a character in Richard Hooker's M*A*S*H novels. Captain is both a nautical term and a military rank. ... Male symbol Male is the sex of an organism, or a part of an organism, which produces sperm. ... Boston is a town and small port c. ... Official language(s) English Capital Boston Largest city Boston Area  - Total  - Width  - Length  - % water  - Latitude  - Longitude Ranked 44th 27,360 km² 305 km 80 km 25. ... MASH is a 1970 satirical American dark comedy film directed by Robert Altman, based extremely loosely on the novel written by Richard Hooker. ... Elliott Gould Elliott Gould (born Elliott Goldstein on August 29, 1938, in Brooklyn, New York), a graduate of the Professional Childrens School, was one of the most prominent American film actors in the early 1970s, best known for playing Trapper John in Robert Altmans satirical 1970 film MASH... Wayne Rogers (born in Birmingham, Alabama on 7 April 1933) is an American film and television actor, best known for playing the role of Trapper John McIntyre in the long-running U.S. television series, M*A*S*H. The show started in 1972 and he left it in 1975... Inspired by the 1970 20th Century-Fox film of the same name, M*A*S*H (Mobile Army Surgical Hospital) was an American television series about a team of medical professionals and support staff stationed at the 4077th MASH in Korea during the Korean War. ... Pernell Roberts Pernell Roberts (born 18 May 1928 in Waycross, Georgia, USA) is an American actor. ... Trapper John, M.D. was a television series spinoff of the film M*A*S*H that ran on CBS from September 23, 1979 to September 4, 1986. ... M*A*S*H: A Novel About Three Army Doctors, the original novel that inspired the M*A*S*H movie and TV series, was written by Richard Hooker, himself a former military surgeon, and was about a U.S. mobile army surgical hospital in Korea during the Korean War. ... H. Richard Hornberger (February 1, 1924 – November 4, 1997) was an American writer and surgeon, born in Trenton, New Jersey, who wrote under the pseudonym Richard Hooker. ... M*A*S*H: A Novel About Three Army Doctors, the original novel that inspired the M*A*S*H movie and TV series, was written by Richard Hooker, himself a former military surgeon, and was about a U.S. mobile army surgical hospital in Korea during the Korean War. ...

"The only man who ever took a piece in the ladies' can of a Boston & Maine train", McIntyre was depicted by

• Elliott Gould in the film M*A*S*H,
• Wayne Rogers in the television series M*A*S*H, and
• Pernell Roberts in the television series Trapper John, M.D.

In the book and the film, Trapper John is a thoracic surgeon and the 4077th's Chief Surgeon. In the film, he had a very dry, sardonic dead pan sense of humor, while in the M*A*S*H TV series he was something of a class clown. Trapper spent much of his time on the series playing Ethel to Hawkeye Pierce's Lucy, partaking in playing practical jokes on the two majors, Frank Burns and Hot Lips Houlihan, and fraternizing with the nurses, even though Trapper apparently did love his wife and two daughters. In one episode, Trapper is attacked by home sickness and a longing to see his family and, after getting drunk, he packs up his duffle bag and tries to go AWOL, even knocking Hawkeye, who apparently is much weaker than Trapper physically, to the ground with his duffle bag, but Frank shows up and the slightly drunk Trapper gets caught up in lampooning him. At one point Trapper tried to adopt a Korean orphan, and was slightly crushed when he found out that the boy's mother was still alive. On two separate occasions when Hot Lips was drunk she came on to Trapper, drunkenly professing how appealing his sturdy frame and crooked smile are to her. After the first incident, he teased her at breakfast by telling her that "last night" (when he and Hawkeye were sobering her up in the shower) meant a lot to him and he wanted to know she wasn't "playing games". Elliott Gould Elliott Gould (born Elliott Goldstein on August 29, 1938, in Brooklyn, New York), a graduate of the Professional Childrens School, was one of the most prominent American film actors in the early 1970s, best known for playing Trapper John in Robert Altmans satirical 1970 film MASH... M*A*S*H is a 1970 satirical American dark comedy film directed by Robert Altman, based extremely loosely on the novel written by Richard Hooker. ... Wayne Rogers (born in Birmingham, Alabama on 7 April 1933) is an American film and television actor, best known for playing the role of Trapper John McIntyre in the long-running U.S. television series, M*A*S*H. The show started in 1972 and he left it in 1975... Inspired by the 1970 20th Century-Fox film of the same name, M*A*S*H (Mobile Army Surgical Hospital) was an American television series about a team of medical professionals and support staff stationed at the 4077th MASH in Korea during the Korean War. ... Pernell Roberts Pernell Roberts (born 18 May 1928 in Waycross, Georgia, USA) is an American actor. ... Trapper John, M.D. was a television series spinoff of the film M*A*S*H that ran on CBS from September 23, 1979 to September 4, 1986. ...

Wayne Rogers was told when he accepted the role of Trapper for the TV series that Trapper and Hawkeye would be equally important, almost interchangeable, but that changed radically when Alan Alda was cast as Hawkeye. By the end of the third season Rogers was fed up with the fact that Trapper was being treated as a sidekick instead of an equal, though the latter half of the third season started to flesh him out a bit, and he left the series.

In the period between the two television series, the character matured considerably, becoming a more sedate part of the medical establishment. Much of the story line of Trapper John M.D. revolves around the relationship between the Korean War veteran Trapper John and Dr. George "Gonzo" Gates, who had served in a MASH unit in Vietnam and exhibited some of the personality traits Trapper John had had when he was younger. The Korean War, from June 25, 1950 to cease-fire on July 27, 1953 (technically speaking, the war has not yet ended), was a conflict between North Korea and South Korea. ... A Mobile Army Surgical Hospital (MASH) is a self-contained Working Army Unit military unit established to perform Major surgery and provide post-operative care immediately behind the front lines. ...

External links

• Finest-Kind.net - M*A*S*H website with character profile
• Best Care Anywhere - M*A*S*H website with character profile