Mike Farrell

Mike Farrell is an American actor, producer and activist, best known for playing Captain B.J. Hunnicutt on the television series M*A*S*H, a role he took in 1975 when Wayne Rogers left the show and kept for the remaining eight years of its run. Born in 1939 in South St. Paul, Minnesota, and raised in Hollywood, where his father worked as a carpenter on film sets, he served in the United States Marine Corps before becoming an actor. His early career was made up of television guest roles, a part in the soap opera Days of Our Lives and the series The Interns. During M*A*S*H he wrote five episodes and directed four. In 1985 he formed the production company Farrell/Minoff Productions with Marvin Minoff, which made television films and produced Patch Adams. He later starred in the NBC series Providence. Outside entertainment he has served as president of Death Penalty Focus and as a vice president of the Screen Actors Guild.