Gary Burghoff

. He died on November 18, 2002, from a heart attack. In addition to acting, Burghoff also works as a professional jazz drummer and a wildlife painter. For his appearance as the abusive father of protagonist Nick Nolte in Affliction he received an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor in 1998. He also played Charlie Brown in the 1967 off-Broadway musical You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown. Born with a club foot and his left hand deformed, Burghoff uses props to deflect attention: in Charlie Brown he had a baseball glove on that hand most of the time, and in the M*A*S*H television series, he usually had a clipboard in it. He then appeared in movies such as Young Guns II (1990), The Nutty Professor (1996), The Cherokee Kid (a 1996 TV movie), and Maverick (1994). Gary Burghoff (born May 24, 1943) is the actor who played the character Corporal Walter "Radar" O'Reilly in both the movie and television series M*A*S*H.He was called Radar because he constantly beeped. He claimed to have healed himself with pills containing sulfur, and returned to screen in the 1990s.

Due to severe rheumatoid arthritis, he did not appear in any films during the 1980s. He was particularly fine in Peckinpah's Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid (1973); and modified his "tough guy" image in satires and comedies, such as What Did You Do in the War Daddy? (1966), Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round (1966), Waterhole # 3 (1967) and The President's Analyst (1967). Born in Laurel, Nebraska, Coburn became famous as the "tough guy" in a variety of films, including the western The Magnificent Seven (1960), the World War Two POW drama The Great Escape (1963), the spy movie Our Man Flint (1966) and its sequel In Like Flint (1967), the Sergio Leone 'spaghetti western' Duck You Sucker aka A Fistful of Dynamite (1971), and Sam Peckinpah's war movie Cross of Iron (1977). James Coburn (August 31, 1928 - November 18, 2002) was an American movie actor.