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Personal Info

Birth date

1932-10-20 (92 Years)

Day of death

2016-12-31

Gender

Male

Known for

Acting

Place of birth

Evanston, Illinois, USA

Also known as

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William Christopher

Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

William Christopher (October 20, 1932 – December 31, 2016) was an American actor and comedian, best known for playing Private Lester Hummel on Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C. from 1965 to 1968 and Father Mulcahy on the television series M*A*S*H from 1972 to 1983 and its spinoff After MASH from 1983 to 1985.

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Filmography

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The Andy Griffith Show

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Overview:

The Andy Griffith Show is an American sitcom first televised on CBS between October 3, 1960 and April 1, 1968. Andy Griffith portrays the widowed sheriff of the fictional small community of Mayberry, North Carolina. His life is complicated by an inept, but well-meaning deputy, Barney Fife, a spinster aunt and housekeeper, Aunt Bee, and a precocious young son, Opie. Local ne'er-do-wells, bumbling pals, and temperamental girlfriends further complicate his life. Andy Griffith stated in a Today Show interview, with respect to the time period of the show: "Well, though we never said it, and though it was shot in the '60s, it had a feeling of the '30s. It was when we were doing it, of a time gone by." The series never placed lower than seventh in the Nielsen ratings and ended its final season at number one. It has been ranked by TV Guide as the 9th-best show in American television history. Though neither Griffith nor the show won awards during its eight-season run, series co-stars Knotts and Bavier accumulated a combined total of six Emmy Awards. The show, a semi-spin-off from an episode of The Danny Thomas Show titled "Danny Meets Andy Griffith", spawned its own spin-off series, Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C., a sequel series, Mayberry R.F.D., and a reunion telemovie, Return to Mayberry. The show's enduring popularity has generated a good deal of show-related merchandise. Reruns currently air on TV Land, and the complete series is available on DVD. All eight seasons are also now available by streaming video services such as Netflix.
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AfterMASH

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Overview:

AfterMASH is an American situation comedy that aired on CBS from September 26, 1983, to December 11, 1984. A spin-off of the series M*A*S*H, the show takes place immediately following the end of the Korean War and chronicles the adventures of three characters from the original series: Colonel Potter, Klinger and Father Mulcahy. M*A*S*H supporting cast-member Kellye Nakahara joined them, albeit off-camera, as the voice of the hospital's public address system. Rosalind Chao rounded out the starring cast as Soon-Lee Klinger, a Korean refugee whom Klinger met, fell in love with and married in the M*A*S*H series finale "Goodbye, Farewell and Amen." AfterMASH premiered in the fall of 1983 in the same Monday night 9:00 P.M. EST. time slot as its predecessor M*A*S*H. It finished 10th out of all network shows for the 1983-1984 season according to Nielsen Media Research television ratings. For its second season CBS moved the show to Tuesday nights at 8:00 EST., opposite NBC's top ten hit The A-Team, and launched a marketing campaign featuring illustrations by Sanford Kossin of Max Klinger in a nurse's uniform, shaving off Mr. T's signature mohawk, theorizing that AfterMASH would take a large portion of The A-Team's audience. The theory, however, was proven wrong. In fact, the exact opposite occurred, as AfterMASH's ratings plummeted to near the bottom of the television rankings and the show was canceled nine episodes into its second season, while The A-Team continued until 1987, with 97 episodes.

Acting

2024M*A*S*H: The Comedy That Changed Television as Self

2002M*A*S*H: 30th Anniversary Reunion as Himself

1997Team Knight Rider (1 Episode) as Professor Roykirk

1994Heaven Sent as Priest

1993Diagnosis: Murder (1 Episode) as Art Amador / Martin Beckman

1993Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman (1 Episode) as Unknown

1992Mad About You (1 Episode) as Chaplain Olson

1991Memories of M*A*S*H as Self / Father Mulcahy

1991The New WKRP in Cincinnati (1 Episode) as Unknown

1989Snoops (1 Episode) as Harvey Allen

1987The Little Troll Prince as Unknown

1984Murder, She Wrote (1 Episode) as Burton Hollis

1983AfterMASH (31 Episodes) as Father Mulcahy

1980For the Love of It as Barton

1977The Love Boat (1, 1, 1 Episode) as Carl Mitchell, Elliot Weatherly, Hal Wiliston

1975Hearts of the West as Bank Teller

1974Dinah! (1 Episode) as Self

1974Good Times (1 Episode) as The Doctor

1972M*A*S*H (218 Episodes) as Father Mulcahy

1971Nichols (4 Episodes) as Niles

1971Columbo (1 Episode) as Male Scientist

1971Alias Smith and Jones (1 Episode) as Unknown

1968With Six You Get Eggroll as Zip (Cloud)

1968The Shakiest Gun in the West as Hotel Manager (uncredited)

1968The Private Navy of Sgt. O'Farrell as Pvt. Jake Schultz

1967The Perils of Pauline as Doctor

1966The Fortune Cookie as Interne (as Bill Christopher)

1966That Girl (2 Episodes) as Unknown

1965Hogan's Heroes (1, 1, 1, 1 Episode) as Lieutenant Donner, German Private, Foster, Thomas

1964Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C. (3, 5, 1, 1 Episode) as Unknown, Lester Hummel, Lester Hummel (uncredited), Pvt. Lester Hummel

1963The Patty Duke Show (1 Episode) as Unknown

1961The Mike Douglas Show (2 Episodes) as Self

1960The Andy Griffith Show (1, 1 Episode) as Mr. Heathcote, Dr. Thomas Peterson