McLean Stevenson
Acting • Born 1927-11-14 – Died 1996-02-15
Biography
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).
Filmography
34 credits
Davy Crockett
Movie • 1986
Andrew Jackson
Win, Place or Steal
Movie • 1975
Mr. Hammond
Shirts/Skins
Movie • 1973
Dr. Benny Summers
The Cat from Outer Space
Movie • 1978
Link
M*A*S*H: 30th Anniversary Reunion
Movie • 2002
Archive footage
Mr. and Mrs. Bo Jo Jones
Movie • 1971
Minister
Class Cruise
Movie • 1989
Miles Gimrich
Memories of M*A*S*H
Movie • 1991
Self / Henry Blake
The Christian Licorice Store
Movie • 1971
Smallwood
The Sonny and Cher Show
TV • 1976
The Golden Girls
TV • 1985
Ted
That Girl
TV • 1966
Diff'rent Strokes
TV • 1978
Hotel
TV • 1982
Donny & Marie
TV • 1976
Self
Hello, Larry
TV • 1979
Larry Adler
The Doris Day Show
TV • 1968
Michael Nicholson
Dirty Dancing
TV • 1988
Mathnet
TV • 1987
Mike Pliers
Condo
TV • 1983
James Kirkridge
The McLean Stevenson Show
TV • 1976
Cher
TV • 1975
Self
In the Beginning
TV • 1978
Father Cleary
Dinah!
TV • 1974
Self
M*A*S*H
TV • 1972
Henry Blake
Tall Tales & Legends
TV • 1985
Andrew Jackson
The Bold Ones: The New Doctors
TV • 1969
George Caldwell
The Love Boat
TV • 1977
Bob Crawford
Tales of the City
TV • 1993
Booter Manigault
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
TV • 1962
Self
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
TV • 1962
Self - Guest Host
The Love Boat
TV • 1977
Captain Donahue
Love, American Style
TV • 1969
Lt. Miller
The Love Boat
TV • 1977
Michael Borden