Mike Farrell Net Worth

Mike Farrell's Quotes

• I think alternative sentencing, if I understand your use of the term, is a good idea for some offenders, who can then continue to be useful members of society at the same time as they are having their activities restricted by law, but is not appropriate for those who have demonstrated, for example, a propensity for violence against others.
• (On joining the cast of M*A*S*H (1972)): "I began to sweat at the [thought] that if this show fails in the fourth season, I'm going to wear it around my neck for the rest of my life: the guy who sank M*A*S*H (1972).
• (On the final episode of M*A*S*H (1972)): It was one of the hardest things I've ever done as an actor, because there were times when it wasn't appropriate to be crying.
• I was a bouncer in a bar. That was a terrible, terrible, terrible job. And I used to be a private investigator. I'd have to find people that didn't want to be found. I was shot at, and chased with knives. Most of the cases were really sad more then anything else.
• (Who presided over the largest C.I.A. station in the world, which was Honduras): I mean it's just a pathetic thing. I laugh about it now, but Honduras was the base for the Contras against Nicaragua. Honduras was also the repository of a great number of refugees from the horror in Guatemala and the terrible brutality in El Salvador. We were there trying to deal with the needs of the people who were refugees and who were being treated abominably by their own governments and by the United States if every way they could be. I remember coming back from Honduras and talking to the Assistant Secretary of State for Latin American Affairs. I told him about the brutality that was being visited on these people.

Interesting Facts about Mike Farrell

1. He has two children by screenwriter Judy Farrell - Michael Farrell, a martial arts teacher, and Erin Farrell, who works in the Los Angeles office of Jesse Jackson.
2. Works with Greenpeace.
3. Named Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
4. Attended West Hollywood Grammar School with Natalie Wood and Ricky Nelson. Graduated from Hollywood High School.
5. Served in the U. S. Marines
6. Spokesperson for CONCERN/America; co-chair of Human Rights Watch in California; board president of Death Penalty Focus; member of the California State Commission on Judicial Performance
7. Elected first Vice-President of the Screen Actor's Guild in 2002 and served for three years.
8. Presides over Family Motion Pictures, an organisation which strives to promote films suitable for family viewing.
9. Provided voice of Jonathan Kent on the animated Superman (1996) series with real life wife Shelley Fabares providing the voice of Martha Kent.
10. While he was a cast member on M*A*S*H (1972) as Captain BJ Hunnicut, his first wife, Judy Farrell, also appeared on M*A*S*H (1972) playing various nurse characters.
11. It was Alan Alda's idea for him to grow a mustache in the seventh season, which he kept for the rest of the show's run.
12. Tried to talk Gary Burghoff out of leaving M*A*S*H (1972), citing the lackluster careers of McLean Stevenson and Larry Linville after their departures, but to no avail.
13. Appeared in a 1970's television commercial for Schmidt's Big Mouth Beer.
14. Best remembered by the public for his role as "Captain B.J. Hunnicut" on the television series M*A*S*H (1972).
15. Formed his production company, "Farrell-Minoff Productions", in 1985, with Marvin Minoff.
16. His acting mentors were the late Harry Morgan, William Broderick and Anthony Quinn.
17. Starred in a pilot with Jane Wyman that didn't sell.
18. Best friend of Alan Alda.
19. Was close to Harry Morgan.
20. Is an animal rights activist.