Gary Burghoff Net Worth

Gary Burghoff's Quotes

• I was just a kid, but I was a rotten kid.
• My son gave me the permission to accept my success.
• I don't vote for the guy I trust. I vote for the guy who trusts me the most.

Interesting Facts about Gary Burghoff

1. Was a drummer who headed a jazz trio, The We Three, and was an award-winning songwriter. Studied acting with James Tuttle and musical comedy with Charles Nelson Reilly.
2. Has a deformed left hand that he took great pains to hide during the run of M*A*S*H (1972), often by hiding it behind his clipboard.
3. His character "Radar" on M*A*S*H (1972), who showed a fondness for the care of animals, was actually inspired by Gary's true love for wildlife. He once worked for the Animal Rehabilitation Clinic in Southern California, where he nurtured and cared for many species of birds such as the brown pelican, and many other animals including opossums, gray squirrels, raccoons and abandoned creatures needing special attention.
4. Was licensed by the State of California to care for wounded animals.
5. Is a renowned painter of Wildlife Art.
6. Starting in 1997, Gary had to refuse a lot of his fan-mail due to his address being published on the internet, as he would state in a stamped message on fan's return envelopes.
7. Launched a chain of ice cream/frozen yogurt stores in Hawaii in the late 1970s, which had limited success.
8. He attended the "Hollywood Collectors & Celebrities Show", at Beverly Garland's Holiday Inn, in North Hollywood, California.
9. Originated the role of Charlie Brown in the off-Broadway musical "You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown".
10. Holds several patents on fishing lures.
11. Was the first M.A.S.H. (1970) actor to be cast for the TV series (M*A*S*H (1972)).
12. Has one daughter: Gena Gale Burghoff and two sons: Miles and Jordan.
13. Along with G. Wood, Timothy Brown and Corey Fischer, he is one of only four actors to appear in both the original film (M.A.S.H. (1970)) and the subsequent TV series (M*A*S*H (1972)).
14. Sesame Street (1969)'s Big Bird has a teddy bear, "Radar", which was named after Gary's M*A*S*H (1972) character. Gary gave it to Big Bird as a gift after visiting the "Sesame Street" set in the 1970s.
15. Played Walter "Radar" O'Reilly in four different "MASH" productions: the feature movie M.A.S.H. (1970), the television series M*A*S*H (1972), guest-star appearance on After MASH (1983), and the television pilot W*A*L*T*E*R (1984).
16. The teddy bear that Burghoff carried as Radar O'Reilly in M*A*S*H (1972) is now at the Smithsonian Institution. However, when the entire set, along with props, was displayed in the Smithsonian immediately after the final episode was aired, there was a note added to the case displaying many props that they had been unable to locate the bear.
17. Gary's favorite sports are baseball and fishing. He has visited and fished in every state except Alaska, where he plans to visit one day. He is also an inventor and holds several patents for fishing tackle, including Chum Magic, a floating device that can be filled with chum to attract fish. Gary says it helps increase catches by about 300 percent.
18. Besides recording a jazz album in the early 1980s, he wrote more than 100 songs and won the ASCAP Award for Excellence three times.
19. He wrote an introduction for Two-Character Plays for Student Actors, a collection of plays by Robert Mauro.
20. Burghoff attended the memorial service for McLean Stevenson when the actor passed away in 1996.