So I was thinking about Donald Sutherland the other day. For some reason I thought he was General “Thunderbold” Ross in the Hulk. He’s not of course (which is why I have imdb open in another window for this post). But, I remembered that he did play a general in ** Outbreak **. And of course he played Capt. Benjamin Franklin ‘Hawkeye’ Pierce in MAS*H
and Sgt. Oddball in Kelly’s Heroes (which came out the same year as MAS*H)
Even before that he was (Pvt. I think) Vernon L. Pinkley in the Dirty Dozen.
So from 1967 to 1995, he went from Private to Major General, not too shabby for a 30 year Army career.
So, Dopers, who else has had such a distinguished (fictional) military career?
GES