M*A*S*H – What Even Die Hard Fans Don’t Know!

Guest Stars

While M*A*S*H helped jump start the career of many of its series regulars, a few guest stars also gained notoriety. Before hitting it big, Three’s Company star John Ritter was on M*A*S*H, as well as film star Laurence Fishburne and Dirty Dancing’s Patrick Swayze. Ritter starred as a recovering soldier who snaps during his treatment, even taking a hostage.

Fishburne was a part of a controversial episode where a racist commander is exposed for intentionally sending African American soldiers into hazardous battle. Swayze, who starred as a terminally ill patient, ironically passed away in 2009 of a terminal illness, pancreatic cancer.