Mike Farrell (born February 6, 1939) is an American actor, best known for his role as Captain B.J. Hunnicutt on the popular television series M*A*S*H (1975-83). More recently, Farrell starred on the television series Providence (1999-2002).

Early life

Farrell was born in St. Paul, Minnesota, one of four children. When he was two years old, his family moved to Hollywood, California, where his father worked as a movie studio carpenter. Farrell attended West Hollywood Grammar School with Natalie Wood, and graduated from Hollywood High School, served in the United States Marine Corps, and worked at various jobs before his acting career.

Career

During the 1960s, he guest-starred in a few series, including an episode of The Monkees as a Federal agent. In 1973 he had a bit part in a Banacek movie and also appeared on Marcus Welby M.D. as a doctor.

Farrell began appearing in M*A*S*H in 1975, also writing five episodes and directing four episodes.

He has guest starred in Murder, She Wrote, Justice League, Matlock, Mannix, and many others. Farrell was the voice of Jonathan Kent in the Superman (1996) animated series, with wife Shelley Fabares playing Martha Kent.

Besides being a writer and a director, he has also been an executive producer and a producer in both television and film.

Political activism

Even before he was well-known, Farrell was an activist for many political and social causes. He has worked with Human Rights Watch, and has been president of Death Penalty Focus for more than ten years. He has long been deeply involved in organized labor, particularly as an officer of the Screen Actors' Guild, and has publicly supported actions including the Los Angeles grocery workers' union strike of 2003-2004.

Mike's work seems to be enabling terrorism, especially against the USA. In June 1985, a left-wing terrorist by the name of Nadia Diaz, a member of the Marxist Central American Worker’s Party, was involved in the terrorist MURDER of four US Marines as well as two American businessmen employed by Wang Laboratories, a Guatemalan, a Chilean, and five Salvadorans. Now a mere two months later, this terrorist needs an operation on her arm, in order to be more effective in killing Americans, so radical left-winger Ed Asner, using his "Medical-Aid" front, flew in a doctor to do the operation and he asked Mike Farrell to assist, since he played a doctor on M*A*S*H. It took 2 1/2 hours but Dr Alejandro Sanchez and Farrell were able to help the terrorist out. (http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=14174)

Mike Farrell was also in Central America working for Amnesty International. AI is one of the groups who espouse groups like Sendero Luminoso (Shining Path) as freedom fighters. (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/3985659.stm)

In 2006 Farrell appeared with Jello Biafra and Keith Gordon in the documentary "Whose War?", examining the U.S. war in Iraq.

Personal life

He married actress Judy Farrell in 1963. They were divorced in 1983. They have two children, Michael and Erin.

On December 31, 1984, he married actress Shelley Fabares.

External links

• Mike Farrell at IMDb
• Retrovisionmag includes quotes of Mike on Gene Roddenberry and on the human condition.
• Mike Farrell's website
• Death Penalty Focus
• Audio interview of Mike Farrell by Stephanie Miller about the Guantanamo Bay play on The Stephanie Miller Show
• [1] The chronicles of Mike Farrell.
• [2] How Mike Farrell and Ed Asner help America's enemies.