Only actor from Altman's fabulous movie to play his role on the TV show. The movie had an amazing cast--Donald Sutherland as Hawkeye, Elliot Gould as Trapper John, Tom Skerritt as a surgeon whose role didn't make it to the TV show and who was Hot Lips' (and Sally Kellerman was all that) love interest after Robert Duvall's Frank Burns lost his marbles, John Shuck as the dentist Painless and Joanne Pflug as the nurse who saved Painless from his suicide attempt by curing his E.D. after a memorable homage to the Last Supper