Jamie Farr
Jamie Farr
Jamie Farr is an American television, film, and theatre actor. He is of Lebanese descent. He is known for playing a cross-dressing Corporalfrom Toledo, Ohio, bucking for a Section 8 discharge, in the role of Maxwell Q. Klinger in the CBS television sitcom M*A*S*H...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionTV Actor
Date of Birth1 July 1934
CityToledo, OH
CountryUnited States of America
temperature terrible terrible-things
One of the terrible things about doing movies is that the writers never consider the temperature outside.
names people goes-on
It makes you famous, you get money from it, you go on and do the best you can, but it really is dreadful that people don't know your name.
phones broadway tvs
The phone rings and there's another Broadway show or another TV series or a movie. That's the gamble you take.
summer winter ice
Usually you'd do the summer scenes in the winter. So you're out there with a T-shirt and hope nobody sees your air that you're breathing out. We put ice cubes in our mouth to stop that from happening.
summer silly winter
There were some times when we did the winter scenes in the summer, and I had to wear that silly fur coat. Oh, my Lord! I was perspiring!
makeup play black
Even in the days when they did Othello, you didn't necessarily have to be black to play Othello. You wore the makeup.
years comedy sketch-comedy
I did sketch comedy for years. Ive always enjoyed it.
reading tired substance
I got tired of reading that everybody was either coming out of the closet or they were abused or had some kind of substance problem.
games done gongs
I helped set The Gong Show. I've done so many game shows. I've helped create game shows.
children athlete average
Children and even adults, when they like certain athletes, they can tell you about their batting average, about where they came from.
character play ensemble
If you get a show named after you, and then play another character, that's fine. But if you do a show that's an ensemble show like MASH, then you're in trouble.
eight trying together
If you do eight shows a week it's just too difficult to try to put everything that you can together.
book people pittsburgh
I've been out on the book tour going through Pittsburgh, St Louis and Cleveland, Dayton and Orlando, Raleigh-Durham. I sign many books for people.
broadway roles senses
I'd like to create a role on Broadway. That would really heighten my senses.