Benjamin Franklin Hawkeye Pierce: The Lead Character in MASH

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WEB Captain Benjamin Franklin Hawkeye Pierce is the lead character in the MASH novels, film, and television series. Although just one of an ensemble of characters in author Richard Hooker's MASH: A Novel About Three Army Doctors, in the television series, with Alan Alda, Mike Farrell, Harry Morgan, Loretta Swit, Hawkeye Pierce goes solo and has an accident with a Jeep.

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MASH is a 1970 feature film adaptation of the original novel. The film was directed by Robert Altman and starred Donald Sutherland as Hawkeye.