'M.A.S.H.' Star Wayne Rogers Dead at 82

He played Trapper John for the first three seasons.

Wayne Rogers, who starred as Captain "Trapper" John McIntyre for the first three seasons on the sitcom M.A.S.H. has died at 82 years old. According to Variety, the veteran actor passed away Thursday in Los Angeles from complications of pneumonia.

He is best known as the army surgeon who often bantered with Hawkeye Pierce, played by Alan Alda. Rogers left the show at the end of the third season after becoming frustrated when the focus went to Alda’s character. He was replaced by Mike Farrell, who stepped in as B.J. Hunnicut.

Rogers’ other television credits include Gunsmoke, City of Angels and Murder, She Wrote. He also starred in the civil rights film drama Ghosts of Mississippi and the TV movie I Dream of Jeannie...Fifteen Years Later as Tony Nelson. His last film credit was 2003’s Nobody Knows Anything!—a comedy about Hollywood.

He is survived by his wife, two children and four grandchildren. 

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