Capt. Augustus Bedford "Duke" Forrest is a fictional character from the MASH novels and film. In the film, he is played by Tom Skerritt as a Southern gentleman type character. When he says he likes blonde women, Hawkeye (Donald Sutherland) immediately teases him by saying that he must have a crush on Hot Lips Houlihan (Sally Kellerman), which Duke immediately denies and insists that he can't stand Hot Lips and believes that she is most likely not a natural blonde. To prove if she is or isn't, the doctors wait till Hot Lips goes to shower and they pull the tent up on her as she is washing herself, thoroughly humiliating her. Later though, after Hawkeye and Trapper (Elliott Gould) leave for an operation in Tokyo, Duke and Hot Lips apparently hook up. When Trapper and Hawkeye return, the door to The Swamp is locked and Duke refuses to let them in. Hawkeye and Trapper then go around and observe Duke leading Hot Lips out from behind the tent, and they start laughing at her as she hurries away. Captain is both a nautical term and a rank in various uniformed organizations. ... The shield and spear of the Roman God Mars are often used to represent the male sex In heterogamous species, male is the sex of an organism, or of a part of an organism, which typically produces smaller, mobile gametes (spermatozoa) that are able to fertilise female gametes (ova). ... M*A*S*H is a 1970 satirical American dark comedy film directed by Robert Altman, based on the novel written by Richard Hooker. ... Thomas Alderton Skerritt (born August 25, 1933) is an American actor, born in Detroit, Michigan. ... 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. ... 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. ... Thomas Alderton Skerritt (born August 25, 1933) is an American actor, born in Detroit, Michigan. ... Donald McNicol Sutherland, OC (born July 17, 1935) is a prolific Canadian actor with a film career spanning over 40 years. ... 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... 1. ...

When Hawkeye and Trapper conspire to get former pro-footballer Spearchucker Jones transferred to the 4077th so that he can help the unit's football team, Duke expresses hesitation to sharing quarters with a black man, but Trapper and Hawkeye laugh him down. Captain Oliver Harmon Spearchucker Jones was a surgeon in the movie and television series M*A*S*H. He was portrayed by Fred Williamson in the movie and by Timothy Brown (who had played the corpsman CPL Judson in the film) in the television series. ...

Duke was left out of the TV series that followed the film so that the show would not be overcrowded. In the episode Life With Father a Korean woman looking for a specific person to help her, although her heavy accent slurs the name of the person she is asking for. Hawkeye (now portrayed by Alan Alda) and Trapper (this time,Wayne Rogers), ask each other about Forrest, Trapper remembers and refers to him as "That brain surgeon who fell down a lot!" Hawkeye responds by telling him he went back to America, over two years ago and now owned a toy store. Alan Alda as Benjamin Franklin Hawkeye Pierce Alan Alda (born January 28, 1936 as Alphonso Joseph DAbruzzo) is an American actor, writer, director and sometimes political activist. ... 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... Old German engraving depicting a trepanation, an ancient and still performed neurosurgical procedure Neurosurgery is the surgical discipline focused on treating those central and peripheral nervous system diseases amenable to mechanical intervention. ... A toy store, or toy shop, is a retail outlet that sells toys. ...

Trivial note

• This Southern character's name resembles Nathan Bedford Forrest, a Confederate war hero and later, one of the founders and an early leader of the Ku Klux Klan (and also coincidentally the inspiration for another Southern-born fictional military hero, Forrest Gump).
• There is a woodland area in North Carolina called Duke Forest, so named because it is part of the campus of Duke University.