Gary Burghoff

Gary Rich Burghoff is an American actor, known for playing Charlie Brown in the 1967 OffBroadway musical Youre a Good Man, Charlie Brown, and the character Corporal Walter Eugene Radar OReilly in the film MASH, as well as the TV series.

Burghoff was born in Bristol, Connecticut. He studied tap dance and became a drummer, despite having a congenital deformity of three fingers on his left hand. He gained early experience acting with the Belfry Players of Williams Bay, Wisconsin. In 1967 he originated the role of Charlie Brown in the original OffBroadway production of Youre a Good Man, Charlie Brown. He was the drummer for a band called the Relatives in 1968. Actress Lynda Carter was the bands singer. The group opened at the Sahara Hotel and Casino lounge in Las Vegas, Nevada, and played there for three months. He and Carter remained friends, and she helped cast him in an episode of her later hit series The New Adventures of Wonder Woman, in the 1978 episode The Man Who Wouldnt Tell.

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