# And of course, 100 MASH characters **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 24, 2006, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-of-course-100-mash-characters/349720 "2006-03-24T15:05:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2006, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-of-course-100-mash-characters/349720/41 "2006-03-24T21:18:15Z")
Inga (Mariette Hartley) ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2006, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-of-course-100-mash-characters/349720/42 "2006-03-24T21:22:14Z")
Soon Li Klinger ---
**Author:** ![want2know](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/50afbb/32.png) [@want2know](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/want2know)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2006, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-of-course-100-mash-characters/349720/43 "2006-03-24T21:26:38Z")
Edwina “Nurse Eddie” Ferguson (Arlene Golonka) Captain Casey (the fake doctor) Lt. Nugent (the nurse Radar fell for, played by Peggy Lee Brennan, who I went to college with.) Just wanted to get that in. Carry on. 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2006, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-of-course-100-mash-characters/349720/44 "2006-03-24T21:31:18Z")
Aggie O’Shea, the reporter ---
**Author:** ![Airman\_Doors\_USAF](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e36b37/32.png) [@Airman\_Doors\_USAF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Airman_Doors_USAF)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2006, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-of-course-100-mash-characters/349720/45 "2006-03-24T21:31:21Z")
Duke Forrest “Painless” Woldowski ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2006, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-of-course-100-mash-characters/349720/46 "2006-03-24T21:32:28Z")
> [@Airman Doors](#): > > Duke Forrest > “Painless” Woldowski I don’t think they were on the TV show - or are we including the movie? ---
**Author:** ![JonScribe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/3be4f8/32.png) [@JonScribe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JonScribe)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2006, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-of-course-100-mash-characters/349720/47 "2006-03-24T21:37:14Z")
Charlie Lee (Jack Soo) the black marketeer. (Hawkeye and Trapper trade Henry’s newly arrived antique oak desk to Charlie in exchange for medical supplies. Classic final scene of desk flying away by helicopter.) ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2006, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-of-course-100-mash-characters/349720/48 "2006-03-24T21:38:03Z")
There was that guy who, in several episodes, played the guitar. I don’t know if he was ever mentioned. It seems to me that he only ever appeared in episodes directed by Hy Averback. ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2006, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-of-course-100-mash-characters/349720/49 "2006-03-24T21:39:17Z")
> [@adam yax](#): > > There was that guy who, in several episodes, played the guitar. I don’t know if he was ever mentioned. It seems to me that he only ever appeared in episodes directed by Hy Averback. [up](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=7228830&postcount=9) ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2006, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-of-course-100-mash-characters/349720/50 "2006-03-24T21:41:19Z")
> [@adam yax](#): > > There was that guy who, in several episodes, played the guitar. I don’t know if he was ever mentioned. Cpl. Spaulding, played by Loudon Wainwright III? ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2006, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-of-course-100-mash-characters/349720/51 "2006-03-24T21:51:17Z")
> [@Lute Skywatcher](#): > > Cpl. Spaulding, played by Loudon Wainwright III? I never knew he had a name. I was often inebriated whilst watching MASH in college, were I first made the Averback/guitar playing guy connection. ---
**Author:** ![Ellen\_Cherry](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellen_cherry/32/3600_2.png) [@Ellen\_Cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellen_Cherry)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2006, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-of-course-100-mash-characters/349720/52 "2006-03-24T22:00:07Z")
Nurse Kelly. ---
**Author:** ![Don\_Draper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b2d939/32.png) [@Don\_Draper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_Draper)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2006, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-of-course-100-mash-characters/349720/53 "2006-03-24T22:09:01Z")
Did anyone yet mention Rosie, proprietess of the just off-base saloon? ---
**Author:** ![Airman\_Doors\_USAF](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e36b37/32.png) [@Airman\_Doors\_USAF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Airman_Doors_USAF)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2006, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-of-course-100-mash-characters/349720/54 "2006-03-24T22:14:22Z")
> [@anyrose](#): > > I don’t think they were on the TV show - or are we including the movie? The thread title only referred to MASH characters, so I am taking them at their word. Other people have as well. “Spearchucker” Jones was only in the movie. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2006, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-of-course-100-mash-characters/349720/55 "2006-03-24T22:18:44Z")
> [@Airman Doors](#): > > The thread title only referred to MASH characters, so I am taking them at their word. Other people have as well. “Spearchucker” Jones was only in the movie. He was in the first season of the series, until the producers discovered that there were no black surgeons in the Korean War. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2006, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-of-course-100-mash-characters/349720/56 "2006-03-24T22:20:09Z")
> [@adam yax](#): > > I never knew he had a name. I was often inebriated whilst watching MASH in college, were I first made the Averback/guitar playing guy connection. There was another guitar player, a dentist IIRC. He might have been in only one episode. ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2006, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-of-course-100-mash-characters/349720/57 "2006-03-24T22:27:58Z")
the orphans - i think they colletively count as one character ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2006, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-of-course-100-mash-characters/349720/58 "2006-03-24T22:38:22Z")
Recap: Spearchucker Jones Colonel Flagg Dr Sidney Friedman Benjamin Franklin “Hawkeye” Pierce (Corporal)Sargeant Maxwell Q. Klinger Corporal Lance Spaulding (played by Loudon Wainwright III) Lt Col Donald Penobscot Margaret “Hot Lips” (O’)Houlihan (she was more Irish in the movie) Colonel Sherman Tecumseh Potter Corporal Walter “Radar” O’Reilly Captain Jonathan R. Tuttle Maj. Charles Emerson Winchester III Nurse Kelley Five O’Clock Charlie Lt Col Henry Blake B.J. “Beej” Hunnicut Seargent Elmo Zale The helicopter pilot with diabetes Fr. Francis Xavier Mulcahy Double Dear John John from Reno, AKA Cowboy Ho-Jon Major Frank Burns Rosie General Douglas MacArthur (tho not a speaking role) General Steele “Hey, hey, Uncle Bud, gonna beat my feet in the Mississippi mud!” Sparky, friend of company clerks everywhere Lieutenant General Robert “Iorn Guts” Kelly Pvt. La Roche Trapper John McIntyre Marine Sgt. Marty “The Trenton Tornado” Urbancik Lt Dish Wendell Peterson Inga Soon Li Klinger Edwina “Nurse Eddie” Ferguson Captain Casey (the fake doctor) Lt. Nugent Aggie O’Shea, the reporter Duke Forrest “Painless” Woldowski Charlie Lee the orphans - colletively, they count as one character that’s only 42, people. We can do better than that! ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2006, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-of-course-100-mash-characters/349720/59 "2006-03-24T22:41:12Z")
correcting typos: Seargent Elmo Zale is Seargent \*\*Zelmo \*\* Zale Lieutenant General Robert “\*\*Iron \*\* Guts” Kelly (the perils of cut and paste) 😃 adding Donna, aka Mrs Chuck Winchester ---
**Author:** ![Agent\_Foxtrot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9fc29f/32.png) [@Agent\_Foxtrot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Agent_Foxtrot)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2006, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-of-course-100-mash-characters/349720/60 "2006-03-24T22:44:07Z")
What? No mention of CAPT B.J. Hunnicutt? Adam [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-of-course-100-mash-characters/349720.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-of-course-100-mash-characters/349720.md?page=4)