'M*A*S*H': Where Are They Now?

Jamie Farr (Corporal Maxwell Q. Klinger)

Corporal Klinger wasn't introduced to the "M*A*S*H" audience until six episodes into the first season, but he immediately became a fan favorite. Jamie Farr played the cross-dressing, bow-legged soldier trying desperately to get discharged from the Army. Ironically, when it came time for the series finale, Klinger had fallen in love and decided to stay in Korea.

That was not the last of Klinger for TV ... more 

Jamie Farr (Corporal Maxwell Q. Klinger)

Corporal Klinger wasn't introduced to the "M*A*S*H" audience until six episodes into the first season, but he immediately became a fan favorite. Jamie Farr played the cross-dressing, bow-legged soldier trying desperately to get discharged from the Army. Ironically, when it came time for the series finale, Klinger had fallen in love and decided to stay in Korea.

That was not the last of Klinger for TV fans. In the short-lived 1983 series "After MASH," he and his family moved back to the States and met up with Colonel Potter and Father Mulcahy. The show didn't have the same spark as its predecessor and lasted only halfway into its second season.

After this disappointment, Farr had some luck on the big screen with "Cannonball Run II" (the follow-up to the popular 1981 film), "Scrooged" (in which he played Jacob Marley to Bill Murray's Ebenezer-like character), and "A Month of Sundays."

Farr took hold of the game show circuit in the '80s, appearing on "The Gong Show," "Match Game," "Hollywood Squares," and "$100,000 Pyramid." He also did numerous guest spots on TV series. More recently, he starred in the 2007 TV movie "A Grandpa for Christmas" with Ernest Borgnine and Katherine Helmond.

Farr returned to his theatrical roots, making his Broadway debut in 1994 as Nathan Detroit in "Guys & Dolls." He joined "M*A*S*H's" William Christopher in a version of "The Odd Couple" and performed in the touring companies of "The Will Rogers less