WAYNE ROGERS

1 Jan

(7 April 1933 - 31 December 2015)

US actor who took up drama while in the Navy, first appearing off-Broadway and in regional theatre. Eventually a daytime TV soap and bit parts in films got him noticed and he wrote and appeared in a sci-fi spoof, The Astro-Zombies (1968). When M*A*S*H came along on TV in 1972 he was cast as Trapper John and his fame was sealed for evermore. After that he appeared in more TV movies and mini-series and some unremarkable films and the likes of House Calls, Once Upon a Murder and Murder, She Wrote, which never repeated Rogers’s success as Trapper John. He made his last film in 2003 – Nobody Knows Anything, a ‘comedy’ about Hollywood, which he also produced.

MICHAEL DARVELL

Michael Darvell

Michael Darvell trained as a librarian at Watford and in Surrey before joining Ealing Libraries where he became Music Librarian for the borough. He edited Masthead, the magazine of the University of North London School of Librarianship, The Surrealist, the staff magazine of Surrey County Library, and contributed to the Assistant Librarian and London Librarian professional journals. A freelance film reviewer since 1970, he has written for Film, Films Illustrated, Film Review, Movie Maker and Radio Times, as well as editing Montage, the London film societies magazine, for ten years. A change of career saw him joining What’s On in London as Features Editor and he eventually stepped into the shoes of the late F. Maurice Speed (founding father of Film Review annual) as the magazine’s Editor. From 2007 to 2015, he was co-editor of the Film Review annual with Mansel Stimpson. As well as writing about films, Michael has reviewed theatre for The Stage newspaper, and has written about music theatre and cabaret for the Classical Source and Musical Theatre Review websites. He is also a former restaurant critic for the ViewLondon website. Michael has been a member of the London Film Critics’ Circle since 2005.

WAYNE ROGERS

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