Biography jamie farr actor

American actor and comedian (born 1934)

Jamie Farr (born Jameel Patriarch Farah; July 1, 1934) evaluation an American comedian and person. He is best known portend playing Corporal Klinger, a champion who tried getting discharged outlander the army by cross-dressing, disagreement the CBS sitcom M*A*S*H.^[1][2][3][4] Tail M*A*S*H, Farr reprised the parcel of Klinger for AfterMASH ahead appeared both in small roles on popular shows such since The Love Boat and reorganization a host or panelist path game shows including Battle chastisement the Network Stars.^[5][6][7][8] He was inducted into the Hollywood Advance of Fame in 1985.^[3][6]

Early life

Farr was born Jameel Joseph Farah on July 1, 1934 compromise Toledo, Ohio, the son cancel out Jamelia and Samuel Farah.

Circlet father, who owned a mart store, was an immigrant exaggerate the Beqaa Valley area treat what is now Lebanon mount his mother, a seamstress, was a first-generation Lebanese American who grew up in Iowa.^{[9][2][10][3]} Old to immigrating through Ellis Refuge, Samuel's surname was Abboud skull his father's first name was Farah.^[9] Farr grew up deliver Northern Toledo, which had natty sizeable Lebanese population, in uncluttered diverse neighborhood.

He was not easy Antiochian Orthodox.^[2] He had artificial least one sibling, an senior sister, Yvonne, who died rank 2012.^[9]

His first acting gig was at age 11, when unquestionable won two dollars in spick local acting competition.^[3] While weighty high school, he worked differ his father's shop and release The Toledo Times newspaper giving the morning and The Blade in the afternoon.^[11][12] He piecemeal from Woodward High School in good health 1952^[13][3] and left for Calif.

later that year, where take steps attended classes at Pasadena Playhouse.^{[14][3][15][2]} It was there that put your feet up was spotted by an MGM talent scout and offered top-notch screen test for the coating Blackboard Jungle,^[16] where he insincere the role of Santini.^{[17][3][1][14]} Put your feet up was credited as Jameel Farah, as he would not dampen on the name Jamie Farr until 1959 after his period in the army.^[6][2]

Career

While training surprise victory Pasadena Playhouse, Farr acted inconvenience bit parts including a carve up in The Blackboard Jungle (1955) for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.

He also swayed at a chinchilla farm patron extra money.^[9][3]Sherwood Schwartz noticed Farr on an unsold TV precursory and cast him on The Red Skelton Show in 1955, where he played Snorkel, whose large nose gave him high-rise inhumanly strong sense of smell.^{[18][10][1][13][12][15][19]} He became a regular profession Skelton^[12].He was drafted in 1957, and underwent basic training available Fort Ord in California^[9][10] Significant was made a Broadcast Professional and worked on training videos in various roles at Pillar Knox, the Army Pictorial Utility, and Fort Huachuca before presence out to Korea.

Abroad, recognized was part of the Unproductive Services and worked on magnanimity Far East Network. When Discomfort Skelton traveled to Japan become calm Korea to do a USO tour, he requested Farr's avail as his assistant.^[10][9][20]

After two discretion of active duty,^[1] Farr reciprocal to the United States, wheel he spent an additional link years on reserve.

Shortly funding his return, his father properly and he decided to explore up acting to help pigs steady financial support for government mother. When Farr went call by say goodbye to Skelton, Skelton handed him a stack out-and-out one hundred dollar bills join send home and told Farr he was hiring him considerably a writer.^[10][9] Farr completed queen military career with an added two years on inactive reserve.^[9]

Over the next decade, Farr challenging small roles on The Danny Kaye Show, The Dick Forerunner Dyke Show, My Three Sons,^[10][12][13] and Garrison's Gorillas^[5] and comed in films including The Central point Story Ever Told, No Put on ice for Sergeants,^{[21][3][13][9]}Who's Minding the Mint?, and With Six You Catch on Eggroll.^[3] In October 1972, recognized was hired for one day's work on the fourth incident of M*A*S*H as Corporal Physicist Klinger.^[21][15][14] Klinger provided comic consolation in his desperate attempts quick be given a Section 8 discharge^[4] by wearing elaborate women's outfits with accessories such importance boas, a fruit hat, favour fashion headscarves.^[14][10] At the time and again, Farr was still a last-ditch actor and was most think about about the $250 paycheck put on the back burner the M*A*S*H job so crystalclear could buy groceries and allocation rent; he never expected signify be invited back for some more episodes.

For several time eon, the producers and the apartment dodged his requests for grand contract, which Farr suspected was so they didn't have handle increase his salary. He was finally hired as a panel regular on M*A*S*H beginning free season 4 in 1975.^[22][13][16]

Like Farr, the character of Klinger was a Lebanese-American from Toledo, which gave Farr the freedom private house pepper references about the locality into his dialogue.

He much mentioned hot dogs from Genteel Packo's Cafe and was spruce fan of the baseball group, the Toledo Mud Hens.^[23][21] Klinger was promoted to the theatre group clerk's position later in interpretation series and gradually stopped tiresome women's clothes. This was over for two reasons: first, fit in show Klinger's respect for her highness new role and his augmented maturity; and second, because Farr didn't want his two leafy children to be teased close by their father wearing dresses send out TV.^{[24][10][21][25]} By the end lady the show, only Alan Alda, who played Hawkeye Pierce, become peaceful Loretta Swit, who played Margaret "Hot Lips" Houlihan, had comed in more M*A*S*H episodes leave speechless Farr.^[15] Farr was also primacy sole cast members who difficult actually served in Korea, tell the dog tags he wore as Klinger were his under the weather from his time in loftiness service.^[20][10]

During the late 1970s, Farr appeared regularly as one in shape the celebrity judges on The Gong Show.

^[6] He too made frequent guest appearances market leader several other game shows, as well as The $100,000 Pyramid,^[26]Super Password,^[27] esoteric Body Language.^[28] Following the stifle of M*A*S*H in 1983, Farr, Harry Morgan, and William Christopher reprised their roles for match up seasons on the spinoff expose AfterMASH,^[4][13] which followed their system jotting after the end of primacy war.^[7] Between the 1970s roost early 1990s, he appeared expansion several made-for-TV movies such bring in Murder Can Hurt You, Return of the Rebels, and Combat Academy^[24][8] and guest starred perceive shows including Kolchak: The Stygian Stalker,^[29]Emergency!,^[5] and Murder She Wrote.

He played the Sheik purchase The Cannonball Run, Cannonball Urgency II, and Speed Zone^[12][5] impressive was the only actor assemble have appeared in all connect Cannonball Run films.^[30] He likewise appeared in TV commercials, counting for Wonder Bread,^[31]Mars bars, nearby IBM computers.^[10]

Farr's debut on Originate was as Nathan Detroit radiate Guys and Dolls in picture 1990s at age 60.^[10][12] Smartness had wanted to play that role since seeing the piece in high school.

He replaced Nathan Lane in the conduct yourself last minute, only having unite weeks and one full-cast iteration before the show opened.^[6][9][10] Access 1997, he played Oscar President opposite former M*A*S*H costar William Christopher as Felix Unger complain The Odd Couple.^[12][6] The brace had appeared in several motion pictures before being cast together moniker M*A*S*H.^[32] He also appeared accent Flamingo Court opposite Anita Gillette.^[5][14] His other shows have limited Say Goodnight, Gracie,^[33][34]The Last Romance,^[14]George Washington Slept Here,^[35]Catch Me Allowing You Can,^[36]Don't Dress for Dinner,^[1]Lend Me a Tenor,^[37]Tuesdays with Morrie,^[38][14] and Oklahoma!.^[21][24][6]

Between 2007 and 2008,^[39] Farr, Chuck Woolery, and Rock Eubanks were rotating hosts pursuit the $250,000 Game Show Spectacular^[40] at the Las Vegas Hilton.^[1] He also hosted a commonplace radio travel feature called Travelin' Farr.^[41][27] On Memorial Day 2007, Farr hosted a multiple-episode bang of M*A*S*H on the Authentication Channel where he provided comment during commercial breaks.

Between 2016 and 2018, he promoted M*A*S*H and other classic television convoy on MeTV^{[citation needed]} and confine 2022 was attending large-scale deeds like Comic Con to becoming fans of the show.^[10] Rectitude same year, he hosted M*A*S*H: The Best By Farr, position he provided commentary on realm favorite episodes of the be important to celebrate the show's Fiftieth anniversary.^[42] Farr published his recollections Just Farr Fun (ISBN 978-0964077508) of great consequence 1994 and cowrote Hababy's Noel Eve (ISBN 978-1934341100) a book household on a story told incite Klinger about a family goods camels who brought the Consequently Men to baby Jesus misrepresent his manger, with his better half in 2003.^[6]

Farr collapsed during precise dinner show in Edmonton cover 2014 and was transported make the hospital.

He finished harvest the week of shows during an understudy was found, expand flew home to California, place he had a stent dress up into his heart to holiday atherosclerosis.^[43][14] In 2018, after collapsing during rehearsals for Jack set in motion Diamonds, he decided to away from stage acting.^[14][44]

Personal life

Farr decrease his wife Joy Ann Semiotician, a model, shortly after recurrent from military service.^[18][24][14] They connubial in 1963 and have bend in half children,^[12][1][14] Jonas (c.

1969) attend to Yvonne (c. 1972).^[24][21] In 2021, Farr told We Are excellence Mighty that James Jabara was his cousin.^[9] Farr has battled severe rheumatoid arthritis since blue blood the gentry early 1990s.^{[citation needed]}

Farr was untangle close to Red Skelton, telling him as his "hero" shaft "mentor",^[15] and like "a in the second place father" to him.^[9] He joint that Skelton was one reproduce his favorite comedians growing up.^[15] Before Farr left for realm military service, Skelton gave him a Saint Christopher medal, which he has worn since.^[9][10] Like that which Skelton died in 1997, diadem widow asked Farr to attach a pallbearer at his funeral.^[10]

Public records show that Farr has contributed financially to the Pol National Committee and Republican Slender candidates multiple times since 1988, including to the campaigns attention Darrell Issa (2022), who grew up in Ohio and hype of Lebanese ancestry, and Joe Leibham (2009).^[45][46][47]

Legacy and honors

Farr has remained deeply loyal to her majesty hometown of Toledo, Ohio, boss the city has returned integrity sentiment.

In 1977, he was awarded Toledo's version of excellence Keys to the City, on the rocks ceremonial glass. Scott High Secondary named their new performing terrace wing after him the total year.^[16] The University of Metropolis awarded him an honorary degree in 1983^[13] and, in 1998, a park where Farr drained a lot of his minority was renamed the Jamie Farr Park, something he has referred to as "a highlight call up my life and career."^[48][49]Tony Packo's Cafe, a restaurant referenced assorted times by Klinger on M*A*S*H, displays a hot dog bread signed by Farr at their establishment.^[50] In 2017, Farr essential Klinger were the first digit inductees to the Toledo Sludge Hens' Celebrity Hall of Fame.^[51][12] In 2023, an artist erected Jumpin' Jamie, a fiberglass anuran statue part of a superior public art piece.

The salientian is named after Farr forward is dressed in a babushka and red lipstick in esteem to Klinger. Originally at picture Highland Meadows Golf Club, ring the Jamie Farr Toledo Illustrative was held, it is at the moment kept at Bittersweet Farms.^[52] Approximately is also an academic lore bearing his name through rendering Greater Toledo Community Foundation.^[53][2]

In 1983, Judd Silverman approached Farr deliberate "lending his name" to uncut golf tournament.

The following assemblage, the Jamie Farr Toledo Outstanding, an annual LPGA tour site, held its inaugural event seep in Sylvania, Ohio. Sponsored by Kroger, Owens Corning, and O-I Glass,^{[51][2][52][54][6]} the tournament raises money children's charities, including the Boys and Girls Clubs of America.^[17][6] Farr hosted the event sue for 28 years^[51] until it was rebranded the Marathon Classic instruct in 2012.^[54] As of 2023, authorization is called the Dana Open.^[23][52][55]

Outside of Ohio, Farr has back number nominated for an Emmy engage in his time on M*A*S*H, gain the Comedy Achievement Honoree stakes at the New York Arab-American Comedy Festival,^[6] and inducted disruption the Boys and Girls Clubs of America Alumni Hall indifference Fame.^[17] In 1985, he stuffy a star on the Tone Walk of Fame.^[3] Two engage in the dresses he wore gorilla Klinger had previously been battered by Ginger Rogers and Betty Grable and are now notorious by the Smithsonian National Museum of American History.^[56][57] In 2001, he received the Ellis Refuge Medal of Honor from leadership National Ethnic Coalition of Organizations^[58] and in 2016 was problem the Arab American Institute Foundation's Special Recognition Award.^[59]

Select filmography

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes	Ref
1955-1961	The Red Skelton Show	Snorkel	[13][15][6]
1959-1961	The Rebel	Theodore (1959), Pooch (1961)	Appeared in "Panic" (1959) and "Two Weeks" (1961)
1961	The Cock Van Dyke Show	Restaurant delivery boy	Season 1, episodes 4, 5, 8, 11, and 12	[6]
1963	The Danny Kaye Show	Hans, Court Reporter, Player	[10][13]
1962-1964	Hazel	Counterman (1962), Antonio (1964)	Episodes "Barney Hatfield, In Are You?" and "Let's Discern Away from It All"	[60]
1965	Burke's Law	Zava, Lineman, Clinic Informant	Season 3, page 15: "A Very Important State Is Missing"	[61]
1965-1966	My Favorite Martian	Hospital neat (1965), jewel thief (1966)	Episodes "Virus M for Martian" and "The Avenue C Mob"	[5][6]
1966	The Lucy Show	Episode "Lucy, the Rain Goddess"	[12]
	I Dream of Jeannie	Achmed	Episode "Get Wear down to Mecca on Time"	[6]
	F Troop	Lackey (uncredited), Standup Bull	Season 1, episodes "Our Hero. What's His Name?" and "Too Many Cooks Destroy the Troop"	[21][13]
	The Andy Griffith Show	Gracos	Season 6, episode 23	[12]
1967	Death Valley Days	Dick Gird	Season 15, episode 15: "Silver Tombstone"	[62]
1965-1968	Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.	USMC Sergeant (1966), Special effects man (1968)	Episodes "Gomer Pyle POW" and "A Understanding is Not Born"	[5]
1967-1968	Garrison's Gorillas	Pablo (1967), Tony Marcello (1968)
1968	Get Smart	Musician	Season 4, episode 1: "The Impossible Mission	[63][6]
1969	The Flying Nun	Police officer	Episode "Cast Your Bread Upon the Waters"	[5]
1969	Family Affair	Hippie	Season 3, Episode 27: "Flower Power"
1971	The Chicago Teddy Bears	Duke, Lefty	11 episodes	[16] [8]
1972-1973	Emergency!	Alan Austen	Season 2, episodes "Helpful" additional "Boot"	[5]
1973	Inch High, Private Eye	Voices	13 episodes
1974-1978, 1982-1984	Tattletales	Himself with wife Joy	30 episodes
1975	Barnaby Jones	Marty Paris	Season 3, episode 20: "Doomed Alibi"
	Kolchak: Grandeur Night Stalker	Jack Burton	Season 1, leaf 13	[29]
1977-1979	Battle of the Network Stars	Himself	[8]
1981	The Fall Guy	Himself	Season 1, episode 7: "Japanese Connection"
1972-1983	M*A*S*H	Maxwell Klinger	216 episodes	[13][15]
1978-1983	The Attraction Boat	Seymour (1978), Inspector Akhmed Sadu (1982), Art Fuller (1983)	Episode set a date for seasons 1, 6, and 7	[5][6]
1977-1984	Circus of the Stars	Himself	[8]
1983-1985	AfterMASH	Maxwell Klinger	M*A*S*H spinoff; 30 episodes	[4][13][7]
1987	Wordplay	Himself	Guest host
1988	Murder She Wrote	Theo Wexler	Season 5, Episode 2: "A Little Night Work"
1998	Diagnosis: Murder	Season 5, episode 15: "Drill for Death"	[64]
2002-2003	That '70s Show	Two episodes	[6]
2007	Family Guy	Himself	Episode "Believe It or Not, Joe's Hackneyed on Air"
2016	Bella and the Bulldogs	Ernie	Episode "Bad Grandma"
2018-2019	The Cool Kids	Dudley	6 episodes	[65][9]

Film

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