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 MASH 1972 Over a period of thirty years he also appeared on a number of television series and was a regular guest star on Johnny Carsons The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson 1962 and the game show The Hollywood Squares 1965