McLean Stevenson began in show business at age 31. During the 1960s, he worked in night clubs and comedy cabarets, did summer stock theater and some television before moving to Hollywood, where he worked as a comedy writer for Tom Smothers. He eventually began acting in sketches. Mr. Stevenson is best known as the fumbling commanding officer, Lt. Colonel Henry Blake, on the CBS television series, M*A*S*H (1972). Over a period of thirty years, he also appeared on a number of television series and was a regular guest star on Johnny Carson's The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1962) and the game show, The Hollywood Squares (1965).
Davy Crockett
(Andrew Jackson)
Win, Place or Steal
(Mr. Hammond)
Shirts/Skins
(Dr. Benny Summers)
The Cat from Outer Space
(Link)
M*A*S*H: 30th Anniversary Reunion
(Archive footage)
Class Cruise
(Miles Gimrich)
Mr. and Mrs. Bo Jo Jones
(Minister)
Memories of M*A*S*H
(Self / Henry Blake)
The Christian Licorice Store
(Smallwood)
The Sonny & Cher Show
The Golden Girls
(Ted)
That Girl
Diff'rent Strokes
Hotel
Donny & Marie
(Self)
Hello, Larry
(Larry Adler)
The Doris Day Show
(Michael Nicholson)
Dirty Dancing
Mathnet
(Mike Pliers)
Condo
(James Kirkridge)
The McLean Stevenson Show
Cher
(Self)
In the Beginning
(Father Cleary)
Dinah!
(Self)
M*A*S*H
(Henry Blake)
Tall Tales & Legends
(Andrew Jackson)
The Bold Ones: The New Doctors
(George Caldwell)
The Love Boat
(Bob Crawford)
Tales of the City
(Booter Manigault)
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
(Self)
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
(Self - Guest Host)
The Love Boat
(Captain Donahue)
Love, American Style
(Lt. Miller)
The Love Boat
(Michael Borden)