Michael Joseph Farrell Jr. (born February 6, 1939) is an American actor, best known for his role as Captain B.J. Hunnicutt on the television series M*A*S*H (1975â83). Farrell was a producer of Patch Adams (1998) starring Robin Williams, and starred in the television series Providence (1999â2002). He is also an activist and public speaker for various political causes.
Prior to getting involved in the acting industry, Mike Farrell was passionate about a different industry. That would be the military â more specifically, the Marines. Farrell has said that he became a Marine for two reasons. He was âsmittenâ with the Marines ever since he was a little boy. Farrell even remembers being alive as a boy at the end of World War II. âI was alive during World War II, but it was a distant reality for me,â he recalled. âI remember coming home, getting out of my dadâs car in 1945 when we heard on the radio the war was over.â
Farrell still has high praise of his service. âMy proudest achievement of my time in the Corps was graduating as the Honor Man of my platoon. I still have the Dress Blues hanging in my closet.
He was stationed on Okinawa where he was sent to typing school by the Corps to become the company clerk for an Ontos Battalion at Camp Hansen, then a tent camp.
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