McLean Stevenson
McLean Stevenson began in show business at age 31. During the 1960s, he worked in night clubs and comedy cabarets, did summer stock theater and some television before moving to Hollywood, where he worked as a comedy writer for Tom Smothers. He eventually began acting in sketches. Mr. Stevenson is best known as the fumbling commanding officer, Lt. Colonel Henry Blake, on the CBS television series, M*A*S*H (1972). Over a period of thirty years, he also appeared on a number of television series and was a regular guest star on Johnny Carson's The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1962) and the game show, The Hollywood Squares (1965).
Acted in
M*A*S*H: 30th Anniversary Reunion
2002
as Archive footage
Tales of the City
1993
as Booter Manigault
Memories of M*A*S*H
1991
as Self / Henry Blake
Class Cruise
1989
as Miles Gimrich
Dirty Dancing
1988
Mathnet
1987
as Mike Pliers
Davy Crockett
1986
as Andrew Jackson
Tall Tales & Legends
1985
as Andrew Jackson
The Golden Girls
1985
as Ted
Condo
1983
as James Kirkridge
Hotel
1982
Hello, Larry
1979
as Larry Adler
Diff'rent Strokes
1978
In the Beginning
1978
as Father Cleary
The Cat from Outer Space
1978
as Link
The Love Boat
1977
as Bob Crawford
The Love Boat
1977
as Captain Donahue
The Love Boat
1977
as Michael Borden
The McLean Stevenson Show
1976
The Sonny and Cher Show
1976
Cher
1975
as Self
Win, Place or Steal
1975
as Mr. Hammond
Dinah!
1974
as Self
Shirts/Skins
1973
as Dr. Benny Summers
M*A*S*H
1972
as Henry Blake
Mr. and Mrs. Bo Jo Jones
1971
as Minister
The Christian Licorice Store
1971
as Smallwood
Love, American Style
1969
as Lt. Miller
The Bold Ones: The New Doctors
1969
as George Caldwell
The Doris Day Show
1968
as Michael Nicholson
That Girl
1966