Gary Burghoff

. Jeff Chandler is honored with a star in the Hollywood Walk of Fame. In addition to acting, Burghoff also works as a professional jazz drummer and a wildlife painter. He was interred in the Hillside Memorial Park Cemetery in Culver City, California. 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. Shortly after completing his role in Merrill's Marauders (1962), Chandler died in Los Angeles, California at age of 42, from blood poisoning following disc herniation surgery. 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. His leading ladies would include June Allyson, Joan Crawford, Rhonda Fleming, Susan Hayward, Maureen O'Hara, Jane Russell and Esther Williams.

Some of his pictures in this period include Away All Boats, Toy Tiger, Drango, The Tattered Dress, Man in the Shadow, Foxfire, A Stranger in My Arms, and Thunder in the Sun. His sex appeal, curiously heightened by his prematurely gray hair and tanned features, would put him into drama and costume movies. The rest of the decade, Chandler turned in a top leading man. He would be nominated for an Academy Award for his role as Cochise in Broken Arrow (1950), the first of three screen appearances as the legendary Apache chief, followed by The Battle of Apache Pass (1952) and Taza, Son of Cochise (1954).

His first important role was in Sword in the Desert (1948), as an Israeli freedom fighter. In the 1950s, Chandler became a star in western and action movies. His first film appearance was in Johnny O'Clock (1947). After discharged, he was a busy radio actor both in drama and comedy.

Later, he took a drama course and spent two years in stock companies before serving in World War II. Born Ira Grossel in Brooklyn, New York Chandler attended Erasmus Hall High School, the nucleus of many stage and film personalities. Jeff Chandler (December 15, 1918 - June 17, 1961) was a popular American film actor in the 1950s.