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McLean Stevenson on his characters post-M*A*S*H: ''After Henry Blake, they were all caricatures.''
"I have no regrets about any of the things I've done," said the actor.
Plenty of actors enjoy a series of successes, but for many, one character stands above all the rest. For McLean Stevenson, Henry Blake was the shining star on the mantle of his filmography.
Stevenson was with M*A*S*H from the very beginning. However, the actor left the series in 1975. Years later, Stevenson was brutally honest about the characters he played post-M*A*S*H.
"After Henry Blake, they were all caricatures," said Stevenson during an interview with The Tampa Tribune. "My problems [since leaving M*A*S*H] were in accepting jobs and hoping the producers knew what they were doing."
McLean didn't necessarily live with any remorse in leaving M*A*S*H when he did. "When I left the show, the mistake was not in leaving," Stevenson said, according to an article with the Los Angeles Times. "The mistake was that I thought everybody in America loved McLean Stevenson. That was not the case. Everybody loved Henry Blake. So if you go and do The McLean Stevenson Show, nobody cares about McLean Stevenson."
Even so, Stevenson was proud of the work he did on the series with the limited time he had.
"I have no regrets about any of the things I've done," said Stevenson during his interview with The Tampa Tribune. "And when I look back at the reruns of M*A*S*H, I'm amazed at how good that show was."
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