Wayne Rogers

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William Wayne McMillan Rogers III (April 7, 1933-December 31, 2015), an American actor best known for his role as Captain "Trapper" John McIntyre in the CBS television series M*A*S*H, was a regular panel member on Fox News Channel's Money Management television show Cashin' In as a result of his work as an investment strategist, analyst, and fund manager.

Rogers has also studied acting at The Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre in New York City.

Early life

Rogers, a native of Birmingham, Alabama, attended Ramsay High School and was a graduate of Bell Buckle, Tennessee. He graduated from Princeton University with a history degree in 1954 and was active in the Princeton Triangle Club and Tiger Inn. Rogers spent time as an officer in the United States Navy as a navigator on the USS Denebola, and he had intended to enroll Harvard Law School before becoming an actor.

Personal life and death

Rogers first appeared as a young actor in New York in the late 1950s. Mitzi McWhorter was an actress. They married in 1960, had two children, and divorced in 1983. They had been separated for almost four years before separating, according to the divorce. In 1988, Rogers married Amy Hirsh, his second wife.

Rogers' home in Destin, Florida, was built in 2001.

Rogers died of pneumonia complications in Los Angeles, California, at the age of 82. He died exactly one year before fellow M*A*S*H cast member William Christopher.

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Career

Rogers appeared on television in both dramas and sitcoms such as The Invaders, The F.B.I., Combat!, Have Gun Will Travel, Wanted Dead or Alive, Gomer Pyle, Washington, C., and The Fugitive, as well as a small supporting role in the 1967 film Cool Hand Luke. In 1968, he appeared on The Big Valley for the second time.

In 1959, Slim Davis appeared on the soap opera Search for Tomorrow. Rogers appeared in Odds Against Tomorrow, which was also nominated for a Golden Globe Award in 1960 as Best Film Promoting International Understanding. On an episode of the CBS western Johnny Ringo, he appeared.

Rogers appeared in the western series Stagecoach West on ABC from 1960 to 1961, with Robert Bray and Richard Eyer.

In 1965, Rogers was cast as US Army Lieutenant Richard Henry Pratt in Death Valley Days.

When Rogers was called to audition for M*A*S*H, he wanted to appear in the role of Hawkeye Pierce. He found the script too cynical, but then asked to do a screen test as Trapper John, whose outlook was brighter. Rogers was told that Trapper and Hawkeye would be equally important as characters. This changed after Alan Alda, who's acting career and résumé up to that point, was cast as Hawkeye and was much more popular with the audience. Rogers enjoyed working with Alda and the remainder of the cast as a whole, but Alda and Rogers became close friends, but Alda chafed that the writers were devoting the show's best comedic and dramatic moments to Alda.

Even though Trapper was the unit's only thoracic surgeon in the film and the novel, Rogers felt Trapper had been stripped of his credibility when the writers made Hawkeye a thoracic surgeon in the episode "Dear Dad" (December 17, 1972).

Rogers spoke about the differences between the Hawkeye and Trapper characters on Fox-TV in 2002, saying, "Alan [Alda] and I both used to decide when they'd be able to tell the gaps between the two characters as to where there would be a difference." Rogers notably toned down his Alabama accent for Trapper's character.

Elliott Gould, who had appeared in Robert Altman's MASH film MASH, died, and Pernell Roberts replaced him on the M*A*S*H spin-off Trapper John, M.D. Rogers left the show after three seasons due to a labour rift with the producers.

Rogers made his debut as an FBI agent in the 1975 television film Attack on Terror: The FBI vs. Ku Klux Klan, as Michael Stone in the 1980 miniseries Top of the Hill, and as civil rights advocate Morris Dees in 1996's Ghosts of Mississippi. He appeared in the short-lived 1976 CBS series City of Angels and the 1979–1982 CBS series House Calls, first with Lynn Redgrave (who was nominated for Golden Globes in 1981, as best actor and best actor in television comedy, but did not win) and then later with actress Sharon Gless (coincidentally, one of the House Calls co-stars was Roger Bowen who appeared in the MASH film "original Colonel Henry Blake). Rogers appeared in the 1980s miniseries Chiefs.

She Wrote, Rogers appeared on CBS's Murder as a regular character. He has worked as an executive producer and producer in television and film, as a screenwriter, and a director.

Rogers has appeared in several other films as well. In Roger Vadim's The Hot Touch, an art forger, he appeared in 1981. Then appeared in the film The Gig (1985), as a jazz musician-hobbyist whose group has a chance to play in a Catskills resort and must accept failure. He appeared alongside Barbara Eden in the televised reunion film I Dream of Jeannie, as well as the 1960s situation comedy I Dream of Jeannie. Rogers played Major Tony Nelson, the role originally played by Larry Hagman in the television series, but Hagman was unable to reprise the role he had created. Rogers hosted the short-lived CBS television series High Risk in 1986. Walter Duncan appeared in the 1987 film Race Against the Harvest. Rogers co-starred with Connie Selleca in the CBS made-for-television film "Miracle Landing" based on the 1988 Aloha Airlines Flight 243 crash landing after an explosive cabin depressurization.

During his tenure as a M*A*S*H cast member, Rogers began to test the stock and real estate markets and became a profitable money manager and investor. He testified before the United States House Judiciary Committee on the Judiciary in 1988 and 1990, advocating for keeping the banking laws unchanged under the 1933 Glass-Steagall Legislation Act. He appeared on the Fox Business Network cable television stocks investment/stocks news show Cashin' In, hosted by Fox News anchor Eric Bolling since 2013. Rogers was elected to the board of directors of Vishay Intertechnology, Inc., a Fortune 1000 manufacturer of semiconductors and electronic components, in August 2006. He was also the founder of Wayne Rogers & Co., a stock brokerage brokerage firm.

Rogers spokesman for Senior Home Loans, a direct reverse mortgage lender headquartered in Long Island, New York, on April 23, 2012.

In 2005, Rogers was admitted to the Hollywood Walk of Fame as a celebrity.

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