Wayne Rogers
Born	April 7, 1933 (1933-04-07) (age 74) Birmingham, Alabama
Spouse(s)	Amy Hirsh, 1988 - present

Wayne M. Rogers (born April 7, 1933, Birmingham, Alabama) 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. He succeeded Elliott Gould, who had played the character in the movie, and was succeeded later by Pernell Roberts on the M*A*S*H spin-off Trapper John, M.D.. If you hold the copyright to an image (e. ... April 7 is the 97th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (98th in leap years). ... Year 1933 (MCMXXXIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Nickname: Location in Jefferson County in the state of Alabama Coordinates: , Country State County Jefferson, Shelby Government  - Mayor Bernard Kincaid (D) Area  - City  151. ... April 7 is the 97th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (98th in leap years). ... Year 1933 (MCMXXXIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Nickname: Location in Jefferson County in the state of Alabama Coordinates: , Country State County Jefferson, Shelby Government  - Mayor Bernard Kincaid (D) Area  - City  151. ... “Moving picture” redirects here. ... For other uses, see Actor (disambiguation). ... Elliott Gould as Trapper (right) in the film Trapper John Francis Xavier McIntyre, is a character in Richard Hookers M*A*S*H novels, as well as a film and the two TV series (M*A*S*H and Trapper John, M.D.) that followed them. ... Motto: (Out Of Many, One) (traditional) In God We Trust (1956 to date) Anthem: The Star-Spangled Banner Capital Washington D.C. Largest city New York City None at federal level (English de facto) Government Federal constitutional republic  - President George Walker Bush (R)  - Vice President Dick Cheney (R) Independence from... M*A*S*H is an American television series developed by Larry Gelbart, inspired by the 1968 novel M*A*S*H: A Novel About Three Army Doctors by Richard Hooker (penname for H. Richard Hornberger) and its sequels, but primarily by the 1970 film MASH, and influenced by the... Elliott Gould (born Elliott Goldstein on August 29, 1938) is an Academy Award-nominated American actor. ... Pernell Roberts (born 18 May 1928 in Waycross, Georgia, USA) is an American actor. ... A spin-off (or spinoff) is a new organization or entity formed by a split from a larger one such as a new company formed from a university research group. ... The cast of Trapper John MD Trapper John, M.D. was a spinoff of the film MASH, and ran on CBS from September 23, 1979 to September 4, 1986. ...

Rogers is a graduate of The Webb School in Bell Buckle, Tennessee. He also graduated from Princeton University with a history degree in 1954, where he was a member of the Princeton Triangle Club, and served in the U.S. Navy before becoming an actor. He has been married twice; first from 1960 to 1979 (fathering two children), then to Amy Hirsh, from 1988 to the present. The Webb School is a coeducational boarding and day school for grades 6-12 located in Bell Buckle, Tenn. ... Bell Buckle is a town in Bedford County, Tennessee, United States. ... Princeton University is a private coeducational research university located in Princeton, New Jersey. ... The Princeton Triangle Club is a drama society at Princeton University, more than a century old. ... USN redirects here. ...

Prior to the role of 'Trapper John', Rogers appeared on television in The F.B.I., Gunsmoke, and Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C., and had a small role in the 1967 movie Cool Hand Luke. He had also been a co-star in the western series Stagecoach West in 1961. Later he appeared as a Federal agent in the 1975 television movie Attack on Terror: The FBI vs. the Ku Klux Klan, and as civil rights attorney Morris Dees in 1996's Ghosts of Mississippi. He also starred in the short-lived but critically lauded 1976 series City of Angels and the 1979-1982 series House Calls with Lynn Redgrave, and guest-starred five times on Murder, She Wrote. He has served as an executive producer and producer in both television and film, a screenwriter, and a director. In addition, he has achieved some recognition as an amateur investor, appearing frequently on Fox News Channel business shows. He also starred in "Race Against The Harvest". The F.B.I. was a television series broadcast on ABC in the late 1960s and early 1970s. ... The cast of radios Gunsmoke: Howard McNear (Doc), William Conrad (Matt), Georgia Ellis (Kitty) and Parley Baer (Chester) Gunsmoke is an American radio and television Western drama series created by director Norman MacDonnell and writer John Meston. ... Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C. is an American situation comedy that originally aired on CBS from September 25, 1964 to May 2, 1969. ... Cool Hand Luke is a 1967 American film starring Paul Newman and directed by Stuart Rosenberg. ... Stagecoach West is an operating division of the Stagecoach Group. ... “Telefilm” redirects here. ... Civil rights or positive rights are those legal rights retained by citizens and protected by the government. ... Morris Seligman Dees, Jr. ... Ghosts of Mississippi is a 1996 drama film directed by Rob Reiner and starring Alec Baldwin, Whoopi Goldberg and James Woods. ... City of Angels was a 1976 television series created by Stephen J. Cannell and produced by Roy Huggins. ... Gretchen Massey during the season 3 premiere of House Calls. ... Lynn Rachel Redgrave OBE (born 8 March 1943 in London) is an English actress born into the famous acting Redgrave family. ... Jessica in the episode The Cemetery Vote Murder, She Wrote is a popular, long-running television mystery series starring Angela Lansbury as mystery writer and amateur detective Jessica Fletcher. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... A film producer creates the conditions for making movies. ... Screenwriters, scenarists or script writers, are authors who write the screenplays from which movies and television programs are made. ... A television director is usually responsible for directing the actors and other taped aspects of a television production. ... “Fox News” redirects here. ...

In August 2006, Rogers was elected to the Board of Directors of Vishay Intertechnology, Inc., a Fortune 1000 manufacturer of semiconductors and electronic components.

M*A*S*H

When Rogers was first approached for M*A*S*H, he was expected to audition as Hawkeye Pierce. However, he found the character to be too cynical and asked to instead test as 'Trapper John', whose outlook was brighter. Rogers was initially told that Trapper and Hawkeye would have equal importance as characters, almost to the point of being interchangeable. This changed after Alan Alda, whose career and résumé already outshone that of Rogers, was cast as Hawkeye, and proved more popular with the viewing audience. Rogers did enjoy working with Alda and the cast as a whole (fondly remembering in an interview how he and Alda would drive out to the set together and discuss their dreams as they went along), but eventually chafed at the fact the writers were devoting the show's best moments (both humorous and dramatic) to Alda. The earliest sign of change was when the writers took the liberty of making Hawkeye a thoracic surgeon in the episode "Dear Dad" December 17, 1972, even though Trapper was the unit's only thoracic surgeon in both the movie and novel. Rogers felt the writers had stripped Trapper of his credentials. Alan Alda (b. ... In medicine, the field of (cardio)thoracic surgery is involved in the surgical treatment of diseases affecting the heart (cardiovascular disease) and lungs (lung disease). ... December 17 is the 351st day of the year (352nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1972 (MCMLXXII) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...

After three seasons, Rogers grew weary of Trapper being treated as more of a sidekick than an equal, and decided to leave the show (as had McLean Stevenson, who had played Colonel Blake). He also disliked the "morals clause" in his contract, which stated he could be suspended or fired if he did anything the producers found objectionable, and refused to accept it unless they signed a similar clause for him. When Rogers left M*A*S*H he was sued for breach of contract. The case was later dismissed, however, when it was revealed that he had never even signed the contract in the first place due to the clause issue. For the record, his final words as Trapper were "Radar, put a mask on". McLean Stevenson (November 14, 1927 – February 15, 1996) (full name Edgar McLean Stevenson, Jr. ...

Rogers admitted later he regretted leaving M*A*S*H in light of how long it stayed in production: "If I had known it would run that long [eleven seasons], I probably would have kept my mouth shut and stayed put." (Former cast member McLean Stevenson later echoed Rogers' statements as well). Despite his acrimonious departure, Rogers has participated in retrospectives of the show, including Memories of M*A*S*H in 1992 and the M*A*S*H 30th Anniversary Reunion. McLean Stevenson (November 14, 1927 – February 15, 1996) (full name Edgar McLean Stevenson, Jr. ...

External links

• Wayne Rogers at the Internet Movie Database
• Wayne Rogers at the Internet Broadway Database