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vibingwhilewriting · 1 year

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M*A*S*H Walter Radar O’Reilly x Reader Coffee Shop AU

Hello, everyone! For this valentines, I will be attempting to write something. How is this going to work out for me when I have no rizz? I don't know. Enjoy the ficlet, belated birthday present and valentines gift @multifandomlover01!!!

I never watched m*a*s*h so forgive me for grasping for straws.

“Welcome to the Coffee Corner!”

The greeting resounded through the shop just as the bell hanging from the door did. I adjusted my satchel as I stepped into the cozy coffee house. Smiling, I walked toward the counter, admiring the decor. The infectious atmosphere was entrancing. “Good morning! Can I get a-”

“Raspberry hot chocolate?”

“Ye-yeah, how did you know?”

“Just intuition.”

“Yeah, I would like a Raspberry hot chocolate,” I said with an awkward smile. I looked at his name tag. Radar it says and I look back at his face again.

“That’ll be $7.35.”

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It was always corners and libraries that gave the most comfort. If it was learned comfort from being in them or just a psychological, you don’t know, but it didn’t bother you. You were glad that there was a quiet gem of a coffee shop that had an attached library.

Pulling the satchel off your shoulders, you collapse onto the surprisingly comfortable wooden chair and prepare for your latest study session. Taking off your beanie and scarf, you start pulling out the materials needed to take notes and succeed in the first aid examination.

“Ma’am, your drink is ready.”

You flinch in surprise and look up. “Oh, thank you!”

“You’re welcome.”

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As you return to the shop for more drinks and study sessions, you gradually get to know Radar and his coworkers better. Laughter fills the shop as relentless teases are thrown and all awkwardness and stiffness went away. Small talk and banter between you and Radar became more common. Comfortable silence Radar, tangents and Radar’s coworkers teasing his little quirks is a slice of life that you didn’t expect to receive when you entered university, but you wouldn’t have it any other way.

You don’t know if it was his naivete, his warm personality, how cute he is or a mixture of those that did you in, but you just knew.

“Hey, Radar?”

“Yeah?”

“Would ya go on a date with me?”

“...”

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“Hey, Radar! You’re usually 15 minutes early! Did something happen,” Hawkeye called out as Radar walked behind the tills to the changing rooms.

“Hold up Hawkeye. Radar, your skin is clearing up!”

“You’re right, Trapper! You’ve been getting into more self-care lately?”

Both Trapper and Hawkeye followed Radar to the back, “Well, I got this friend.”

“Well, who is she?”

“Look, he’s blushing!”

“I am not! My cheeks are just red!”

“Aw, Radar, come on! You can tell Uncle Trapper.”

“And Aunt Hawkeye.”

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Hope that you enjoyed it! Sorry that there's little to no plot here. I wish I could given you more for Valentine's day but school has been bitch slapping me lately

#walter radar o’reilly x reader #valentines special #mash x reader #m*a*s*h x reader

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number1iowan · 1 year

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Miss Piggy, the classic diva of the Muppets, hails from Keystone, Iowa, where she depended on beauty contest winnings to stay afloat after the death of her father. Miss Piggy is an actress, an author, a feminist icon, a fashion maven, and so much more.

Corporal Walter Eugene "Radar" O’Reilly was a stand out character on the TV show M*A*S*H, which was famous for running much longer than the war it was supposed to be about. Radar's nickname came from his ability to apparently sense when he was needed by a superior officer, as well as his extra sensitive hearing, which allowed him to note that helicopters were coming long before anyone else noticed. He strikes me as being very much like Soundwave, to be honest.

#iowa #miss piggy #muppets #the muppets #radar oreilly #radar o'reilly #mash #m*a*s*h #mashblr

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Mike Farrell Reflects on Captain B.J. Hunnicutt’s Ahead of ‘M*A*S*H’ TV Special

Scott Fishman, TV Insider Dec 21, 2023 Updated Dec 22, 2023 0

Mike Farrell knew he had a lot to live up to when he joined the 4077th Medical Corps and cast of M*A*S*H as Captain B.J. Hunnicutt. The well-versed actor already had an impressive career including a stint on Days of Our Lives. However, this was a completely different kind of pressure coming into season 4 of a highly successful series after the exit of Wayne Rogers, who played Captain “Trapper” John McIntyre.

He was up to the challenge with viewers connecting with the devoted family man and what would be a long-time bond with Alan Alda’s Captain Benjamin Franklin “Hawkeye” Pierce. Viewers will ever forget the shot during the historic series finale where B.J. yells out that he left a note for Hawkeye. As he flies away in the helicopter, he soon notices that his good friend spelled out the word “Goodbye” with rocks on the ground.

It’s these types of iconic moments and characters that are celebrated during FOX’s upcoming M*A*S*H: The Comedy That Changed Television. Executive-produced by John Scheinfeld and Andy Kaplan, this two-special delves into the Emmy-winning run over 11 seasons through the perspective of the cast and visionaries behind the scenes.

Joining Farrell and Alda on the doc is Gary Burghoff (Cpl. Walter “Radar” O’Reilly), and Loretta Swit (Maj. Margaret “Hot Lips” Houlihan) to name a few, as well as series executive producers Gene Reynolds and Burt Metcalfe. Those who have since passed, including show creator Larry Gelbart, Rogers, Larry Linville (Maj. Frank Burns), Harry Morgan (Col. Sherman T. Potter), and McLean Stevenson (Lt. Col. Henry Blake) are spotlighted through archival photos and footage.

Here Farrell opens up about his emotional reaction to the special. The 84-year-old also describes what it’s like to see the beloved sitcom still resonate more than 40 years after it ended.

Michael Farrell

How often do you go back and watch the episodes back?

Mike Farrell: The popularity of the show continues to astonish me and thrill me, frankly. I get constant emails, and mail, calls to keep it fresh in my mind, and its extraordinary impact. I don’t make a point of looking for it on television, but sometimes it’s there. And when it’s there, I can’t stop looking at it and watching those people I love so much and care about. To see and remember who they were and what we did together. It’s something that will stay with me for the rest of my life. I’m so thrilled to be a part of it that it’s hard to put into words.

I remember seeing Alan Alda share a photo of you two toasting to the 50th anniversary of the show’s premiere. How is it for you to still have these close connections after all these years?

For us, it’s a family situation. We enjoyed working together and having this kind of bond that continues to this day. We talk about how much we love each other and stay in touch regularly. It has been something that brings an ongoing extraordinary rush of gratitude and appreciation for all of us here…Then you see David Ogden Stiers, Harry Morgan, Larry Linville, and others on the special. There is that sense of longing for somebody who you knew, loved, and enjoyed working with. It’s piercing at the heart when you see that sometimes. For me, I’m overwhelmed with the warmth that comes back from seeing Harry, remembering the relationship we had not only during the show but afterward. Watching Alan and his incredible wit and hijinks. Some of those things stay with me today. When I tell stories, I can’t help but get misty about those memories. It’s an everlasting love affair for me.

It’s fun to think about what would have happened if social media had been around during M*A*S*H’s original run. For example, B.J.’s mustache would be a hot topic of conversation.

People often ask me, “What do you think of the mustache?” I will say my mother hated the mustache. The mustache was a fun thing. Alan called me at the beginning of one season and said, “They think we are too much alike. What do you think about growing a mustache?” I thought it was a great idea. We made a lot out of it, which was fun to do. I wore what started as a red long shirt. Through many washes, it came out pink. I thought it was hilarious to be wearing a pink shirt in the middle of all that. I get many comments from people in the gay community who tell me they loved my pink shirt and ask if that was a signal. I tell them no, but that I’m glad they noticed it.

One of the topics that gets tackled in the special is B.J.’s character and moment of infidelity with a nurse divorcee. After all this time, I even saw a Reddit thread asking if B.J. cheated on his wife Peg.

I remember when I first met with the guys and they were talking about the possibility of Wayne leaving. I told them the one thing I didn’t want to do as an actor was come in and step in the boots of “Trapper.” They understood. They had in mind a fellow who was married, not a womanizer like “Hawkeye” or “Trapper,” who had a child at home. And he is going to be true to his wife and family. You’re talking about modeling fidelity on television, I didn’t mind that at all. We laughed. It stayed that way. One year we did a show where Blythe Danner played the guest star. She and “Hawkeye had been having a love affair in medical school, and she was temporarily assigned to our station. She was married, but the affair popped up again.

There is a scene where “Hawkeye” asks B.J. if he has ever been unfaithful. I said never. He said, “You ever tempted?” I said, “Tempted is a different question.” He said, “So, you have been tempted?” I said, “No, it was a different question.” It was a good gag. Larry Gelbart, who wrote the scene was ont eh stage when we finished that shot. I said, “Larry, that was wonderful, but let me suggest the idea. The fact B.J. is a faithful husband is great by me, but to suggest a man was not tempted goes too far. I don’t think we need to paint in that pristine manner.” He said that was a good thought. A year later Gene remembers that conversation with Larry. He asked, “What do you feel about B.J. falling off the fidelity wagon?” I said, “It depends on how you resolve it.”

How do you feel it came out?

I loved the whole process that they cared enough to hear me out, and decided it was worth dealing with that question. I thought they resolved it in a classy way. B.J. was upset about what he had done. It was brief and a misstep. He was miserable about it. “Hawkeye” gave him hell because he was going to write home and tell Peg. He said, “Don’t do that to her. If you must confess for whatever the transgression, wait until you get home where you can be with her and talk to her. I thought it was great that they were willing to explore the kind of experience people are put through in these circumstances.

It was almost like it didn’t matter how far they went, but didn’t matter. He would feel the same way.

Exactly. But the idea of them spending the night together in a bed, under those circumstances, and didn’t go far sounds a little stretch to me.

When was the moment you felt how big a show M*A*S*H was?

I was in Southeast Asia during one of our breaks. After my second or third year there on the show when I went around, I was astonished at the no matter what part of the world, the show meant something to the.m. This one man said, “Your show constantly underscores for me the meaning of peace and the need for peace in this world.” I came back to set and Alan and I were sitting together during the first day of the season back. I said, “Are you hearing what I’m hearing out there?” He said, “Yeah, we need to be aware of the way the show is affecting people.

We decided on a regular meeting as a cast and talked through the issues of the day. Alan and I both made it a point that this show is having an impact that is beyond just being a popular television show. We need to be seriously committed to making sure we do the best work we can do. Everyone got it and agreed and rededicated ourselves to commit to doing meaningful work because of the audience’s respect and appreciation for the show.

What are your overall thoughts on the FOX special while screening it?

I watched it with tears streaming down my face while laughter burst from my mouth. It was an extraordinary tribute. Not only to the show and people involved but the people involved behind the scenes. I’m glad they included the clip of Gene, Larry, and in particular Burt Metcalfe, the casting genius who brought many of the characters to the show; me included. He was a powerful force in maintaining the integrity of the show. It was deeply touching and I think the audience will love it. It shows the significance and the work of the characters and the way the show was built and what it became. I was thrilled when I saw it.

How do you think the show would do in today’s TV landscape?

I think it would remain a touchstone for people I can’t tell you how many veterans have contacted me. Even children of veterans. They would say. “My dad would never talk about his experience in the war until he saw your show. Then he would say, ‘That’s the way it was.”…That it has stayed relevant and meaningful to people for generations speaks volumes about the show.

M*A*S*H: The Comedy That Changed Television premiere, January 1, 8/7c, FOX

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girlballs · 1 year

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boys go to jupiter to get more stupiter

girls go to iowa to meet walter “radar” o’reilly

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majorbaby · 11 months

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Sorry if someone sent this in already, but Trapper goes to Illinois?

sorry i didn't see this come in last night!

i really need to finish this one because i like the concept. it's trapper visiting lorraine blake in bloomington when he gets home, after he's visited by radar who tells him he should go. rated G, excerpt under the cut

Trapper has to rub his eyes when he answers the door of his Boston brownstone one foggy morning, to find the 4077th’s company clerk on his doorstep.

“Hello, sir.”

Trapper looks at him blankly. “You’re a long way from Iowa. S’pose the least I can do is invite you in.”

Radar seems unaffected by this lukewarm greeting, he shuffles past Trapper before he’s even had a chance to clear the doorway.

His wife’s voice echoes through the house, “Who is it, dear?”

Trapper and Radar look at each other. They’d never quite been friends, but at the same time ‘colleague’ didn’t seem right either.

“War buddy of mine.” Trapper says, and Radar seems pleased at that description because he breaks out in a grin.

“Oliver?! You should’ve told me he was coming by!” Louise rushes into the hallway. Trapper catches how Radar’s eyes still widen and how his skin still reddens at the sight of a pretty lady. Trapper feels smug, Louise isn’t a model but she takes care of herself and even in the dim light of the hallway, her eyes sparkle.

“Oh,” she says, her large grin shrinking into a sweeter smile that’s more appropriate for a stranger. “Sorry. You’re not Oliver.”

“No I’m not, ma’am,” Radar stands up straight, “But if it’s Oliver Jones you mean, well, I knew him.”

“This is Radar,” Trapper says.

“Oh–”

“Um, Walter O’Reilly, ma’am. You can call me Walter.”

Louise sets them up in the living room. She lays out an impressive spread of sandwiches and juice. But before she makes herself scarce, she hands her husband a beer from over his shoulder, giving him a knowing look. “I’ll be in the kitchen if you need anything.”

Radar’s been surveying the family photos on the fireplace as Louise laid out the refreshments, but he’s drawn to the food.

Jeez, Trapper thinks as he watches Radar load up a plate.

“Do you have any pets?” Radar asks, looking like a chipmunk with food stuffed into both cheeks.

Trapper again looks at him blankly. “My girls are after me for a dog.”

“Dogs are good.”

What is happening? Trapper thinks as he watches Radar, Radar from the 4077th, eating sandwiches made by his wife, and grapes Trapper had picked up at the grocery store, here in his home, one year after he’d left Korea.

“So,” says Trapper, “To what do I owe the pleasure?”

“What?”

“... any particular reason for your visit? Beyond taking in the sights of Boston.”

#radar canonically mentions visiting a cousin in boston so this could be canon compliant #wip stuff #ask game #thank you!

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everyonesonthespectrum · 2 years

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Today’s Autistic character of the day is:

Walter “Radar” O’Reilly from M*A*S*H

Requested by @ravenpuff-charlie

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M*A*S*H - Viewguide, S8

Are you interested in the long-running anti-war situation tragicomedy M*A*S*H (1972-1983), but there are simply so many asterisks and so many episodes?

Well I can’t help you with the asterisks, but nor can I help myself: I started watching all 11 seasons of M*A*S*H, and bringing back for you my viewing selections, chosen for The Qualities.

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Season 8: Klinger stops wearing dresses and it immediately sets this whole edifice on the fucking wobble.

Maybe this season more than any set I’ve put together yet I’m aware could give an entirely different impression if I’d picked even just a couple different episodes than I did. As is, I made my selections by asking the following questions: Is it good? Is it interesting? And, Does it make me want to slap it up on the x-ray illuminator, point at it, and yell, “What!!?” If you (an episode) reach two of these criteria, you’re in!

Enjoy this more petite but dare I say piquant collection:

M*A*S*H - Season 8 Recommended sequence

8x04-05 ‘Goodbye To Radar, Parts 1 & 2’ - Although they, curiously, did not, we gotta start here. M*A*S*H has finally figured out how to do a farewell episode for a departing cast member, and it’s for my ridiculous sincere little buddy Radar. 💔 Ohh man, if you wanna talk end of an era!! Gary Burghoff as Corporal O’Reilly has been with this show from when it was a Robert Altman movie, almost just fucking molecularly, he IS M*A*S*H, and it’s only through a neat bit of acting Gary pulls that I was able to find a little bit of peace with it: here at long last, Radar O’Reilly finally feels like he’s grown up. It’s time for him to leave home. But I’m gonna miss him!!

8x06 ‘Period of Adjustment’ - Incredibly, we had this chat, and then the very next episode I watch is this one. LOL. This episode looked me straight in the eye and said “‘I could fix him’ well I could make him worse <3,” and then left my ass in pieces. Just, come here, be here with me. Pull up a patch of floor. We’ve got this one on the light box.

8x09 ‘Mr. and Mrs. Who’ - And now for something completely different: something so familiar. Remember years ago when like half of M*A*S*H episodes were about goofy half-forgotten drunken escapades on R&R interwoven with a sticky little medical problem the doctors are trying to solve under adverse conditions? For one night only, we’re bringing that back! Get your tix.

8x11 ‘Life Time’ - Honk honk! EXPERIMENTATION STATION. Alan Alda co-writes a 25 minute real-time surgical episode with their medical consultant, actual doctor Walter Dishell, M.D. When that little ticking clock face chyron got tossed up in the corner, oh girlie, absolutely. Also notable for BJ fully transporting back to his first season thoughtful sad sweetie register (??) (!), and, since it’s not otherwise a cold episode, Alda coming up with a localized reason for at least him personally to still get to pretend to be cold.

8x15 ‘Yessir, That’s Our Baby’ - A baby is left at the MASH, and every man in camp is immediately like, (tenderly) I AM MOM. Unmissable. Unbelievable. I am torn between laughing, cooing, and the I GUESS!!! guy.

8x23 ‘War Co-Respondent’ - After his very rewarding directorial debut last season, Mike Farrell returns to the chair with a script of his own this time, and it’s a jewel! Witty and referential, from Cole Porter lyrics to how in Charles’s first season his and BJ’s great war was Massachusetts vs. California. And that’s not all Farrell hearkens to in M*A*S*H past: Hawkeye as an incorrigible yet endearing flirt (it’s the shamelessness), and how whenever BJ has struck a Romantic figure, capital R, it’s always been so rooted in his quietness. Mike...!

8x22 ‘Dreams’ - Everyone’s SO COLD and been working for two sleepless days straight, and as it finally eases just enough for them to start covering for each other’s naps, said naps are all strange nightmares about war surgery. That’s right, it’s Alda again (could you tell by the overcoats? and TRAUMA?) and god, he really effectively renders the way dreams can seem kind of banal and then just bend at the wrong angles. Of course my favorite of the season, and your unusual, haunting finale.

Season 1 • Season 2 • Season 3 • Season 4 • Season 5 • Season 6 • Season 7 • Season 8 • To be continued

#M*A*S*H hours

#M*A*S*H #M*A*S*H hours #viewguides #Tarra watches

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F**ked Up Fingers of the Famous

An accident with an axe, a childhood prank gone haywire, cantaloupe-carving carelessness: whatever the reason, many people make their mark in life without a finger or two. Here are some folks who’ve managed to get ahead with missing or damaged digits.

GARY BURGHOFF won an Emmy as Corporal Walter “Radar” O’Reilly on the wartime sitcom M*A*S*H, despite having three deformed fingers on his left hand. During filming Burghoff’s hand was usually “missing in action,” carefully hidden under clipboards, behind radio sets or in his pocket.

JERRY GARCIA had half of his right middle finger lopped off when he was four — a wood-chopping axe did the job — but he became a scintillating guitarist anyway. Garcia led the long-running rock band The Grateful Dead until his death in 1995, and his soaring guitar solos were part of the Dead’s legendary live shows. Garcia also had a respectable solo career, dabbling in bluegrass and folk music.

Actress DARYL HANNAH starred in Splash and Blade Runner while missing part of her left index finger. In a 2001 story in The Sunday Times of South Africa, Hannah explained: “I got my finger stuck in the pulley of a well at my grandmother’s house when I was three.” Good luck spotting the missing digit onscreen: it’s almost always hidden behind gloves, coats, guns, etc.

Political fixer and Chicago mayor RAHM EMANUEL lost half of his right middle finger to a roast beef slicer. Time magazine picks up the story: “As a teenager, he severed his right middle finger slicing meat at Arby’s and went swimming in Lake Michigan before getting stitches. After the wound became severly infected, Emanuel had the top of his finger amputated and spent six weeks recovering.”

DONALD K. “DEKE” SLAYTON was selected in 1959 to be one of the original seven astronauts in the U. S. “space race” with the Soviet Union. Slayton was a pilot in World War II and a test pilot and instructor during the 1950s. The astronauts were selected after a rigorous screening process and had to be in excellent health. Deke passed despite a missing left ring finger (the only finger deemed not necessary for a right-handed pilot). Slayton lost the finger to a horse-drawn hay mower when he was a young boy in Wisconsin. Although a heart murmur kept him out of the first manned spaceflights, Slayton finally made it to the launch pad in 1975. He spent 217 hours and 28 minutes in space for the Apollo-Soyuz mission.

BORIS YELTSIN was a minor Communist Party official until he put himself in the right place just as the Soviet Union collapsed. As a boy his timing wasn’t so good: he blew off two fingers while playing with a grenade snitched from an Army depot. It didn’t keep him from juggling foreign and domestic policy from 1989-99 at a critical junction in Russian history.

Actor CHRISTIAN BALE is known for his onscreen intensity in such films as American Psycho, The Machinist, The Fighter and Newsies. And as of early 2009, he’s also known as “the guy with the mangled left index finger.” Bale confirmed in the spring of 2009 that he had been in a dirt-biking accident, and was quoted as saying he’d hurt his finger — “chopped it off at the end.” It’s unclear just how much of the end got chopped off. Reports said simply that he would be scarred for life, and that he didn’t feel the actual chop-off so much as notice how bloody his hand was. Bale was quoted as saying, “It looks horrible. Everyone else almost faints looking at it.”

The first European musician to stongly influence American jazz, guitarist DJANGO REINHARDT began his career in Belgium and France in the 1920s. In 1928 he was caught in a caravan fire that left his left hand partially paralyzed. Reinhardt developed a new playing technique to overcome the problem and by the end of World War II he was an international superstar.

One might almost think an altered hand is the key to guitar greatness: Black Sabbath’s TONY IOMMI joins Garcia and Reinhardt in the elite club of guitarists with finger problems. Before he was a heavy metal superstar, Iommi lost chunks of two fingers on his right hand in an industrial accident. He fashioned prosthetic tips and went on to be one of the most celebrated rock guitarists of the 1970s.

DR. ALEX COMFORT‘s book The Joy of Sex came out in 1972, in time to capitalize on the apparent need of many Americans to hear from an expert that fornication was fun. Comfort managed his intricate researches despite having lost four fingers on his left hand while fooling with explosives as a kid. No matter: The Joy of Sex remains one of the all-time best selling books on sex.

Japan’s ISOROKU YAMAMOTO masterminded the infamous 1941 sneak attack on Pearl Harbor. As a young sailor, he found himself fighting in the 1905 Battle of Tsushima, the naval brouhaha that helped decide the outcome of the Russo-Japanese War. The battle marked Yamamoto for life when an explosion destroyed two fingers on his left hand.

Silent film comedian BUSTER KEATON made ’em laugh without a chunk of his right hand. Keaton caught the hand in a clothes wringer at age two, losing the first joint of his index finger in the process. It didn’t keep him from earning the nickname “The Great Stone Face” as he starred in classic comedies like Sherlock Jr. (1924) and The General (1926).

Keaton’s fellow silent comedian HAROLD LLOYD received greater damage in 1919 when a supposedly-fake prop bomb went off in his hand, blowing off his right thumb and forefinger. Lloyd’s condition was kept secret from the public, and he was fitted with prosthetic digits which he used in the rest of his films. The phony fingers didn’t keep him from doing his own stunts — including dangling from the face of a clock 12 stories up in a famous scene from the 1923 movie Safety Last.

MORDECAI BROWN helped pitch the Chicago Cubs to four baseball championships in the early 1900s, all while throwing with a maimed hand. According to his estate’s official Web site, “At the age of 7, Brown was playing on his uncle’s farm and got his right hand caught in a corn shredder. His index finger was amputated above the second knuckle, and his thumb and pinkie were both impaired permanently. While chasing a hog a few weeks later, he fell and broke the third and fourth fingers on the same hand, both of which healed unnaturally.” Making lemonade out of anatomical lemons, Brown learned that the stub allowed him to hurl a very sharp curveball. Armed with this advantage, “Three Finger” Brown won 239 major league games

Speaking of the Wild West: Actor LEE VAN CLEEF faced off against Clint Eastwood in two famous “spaghetti westerns”:For a Few Dollars More (1965) and The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (1966). The latter film ends with a gunfight, in which Van Cleef is clearly seen to be missing the last joint of the middle finger on his right hand. The Internet Movie Database and various other online sources claim that Van Cleef lost the finger while building a playhouse for his daughter.

CLAUS VON STAUFFENBERG was an officer in the army of the Third Reich when his car hit a mine in North Africa in 1943. The explosion cost him his right hand, plus the ring and pinky fingers of his left. Despite injuries that would daunt most people, von Stauffenberg returned to active service. But he grew increasingly dismayed by the Nazi leadership and in 1944 he joined a military plot to kill Adolf Hitler. At the climax of the plot, the three-fingered von Stauffenberg planted a briefcase bomb during a staff meeting with Hitler in July of 1944. The bomb exploded as planned, but by a quirk of positioning Hitler was shielded by the heavy oak conference table. Von Stauffenberg escaped the blast — also as planned — but a the coup that was supposed to follow never materialized. Hitler survived, and that same evening von Stauffenberg was captured in Berlin and executed by a Nazi firing squad.The story was made into a 2008 movie, Valkyrie, with Tom Cruise as Claus von Stauffenberg.

According to his 1996 autobiography Beam Me Up, Scotty, JAMES DOOHAN landed with Royal Canadian Army troops on the D-Day invasion of France and lost the middle finger of his right hand to German fire. The injury didn’t keep him from landing the role of spaceship engineer Montgomery “Scotty” Scott on the 1960s TV series Star Trek. Avid Trekkies will note that ‘stunt double’ hands were used whenever Doohan operated the ship’s transporter.

Television star and producer DANNY THOMAS was missing the tip of his index finger. He used a prosthetic device to disguise the disfigurement, and was often seen holding a cigar as a prop. Thomas apparently lost the finger in a gun accident.

Most American television viewers know that MATTHEW PERRY played Chandler Bing on the hit series Friends (1994-2004). Loyal viewers are able to tell which season is which by Perry’s weight fluctuations. And truly dedicated fans have noticed that Perry is missing the tip of his right middle finger. According to many sources, he lost the fingertip as a young boy, when it got caught in a closing door.

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