Hawkeye in MASH is one of the best-loved TV comedy characters but one man who never became a fan was the real doctor he was based on.
Millions of viewers around the world were won over by the wise-cracking army surgeon in the series. And Alan Alda’s portrayal of Captain Benjamin Franklin “Hawkeye” Pierce saw him become the anti-war poster boy of the 1970s.
But that was the last thing Hawkeye’s creator wanted. H. Richard Hornberger, who published under the name Richard Hooker, said: “I intended no messages in the book.
I am a conservative Republican. I don’t hold with this anti-war nonsense.” His novel MASH was a hit that, before its TV version, was made into a film starring Donald Sutherland.
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