Alda said of Pierce, "Some people think he was very liberal. He served briefly in World War II in 1950 he was drafted into the US Army Medical Corps and sent to serve at the 4077th Mobile Army Surgical Hospital (MASH) during the Korean War. After completing his medical residency (possibly in Chicago he has a familiarity with the city that implies extended time spent there, e.g., "Adam's Ribs") he had a common law marriage with a nurse but left her after a year. In the book and the film, Hawkeye had played football in college in the series, he is non-athletic. He attended the fictional Androscoggin College. Among those from the Medical School is listed one Benjamin Franklin Peirce. Īlternatively, in the lobby of Memorial Hall at Harvard University, the names of Harvard men who died in the Civil War are inscribed. His birth name is taken from a member of Hooker's own family named Franklin Pierce.
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He was given the nickname "Hawkeye" by his father, Benjy (Sr.), in the novel and in the series from the character in the novel The Last of the Mohicans, "the only book my old man ever read".
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In the novel and film, Hawkeye is married with children, but in the TV series, he is a bachelor and something of a ladies' man. His mother is deceased and he has a sister (although, like Vermont, they are mentioned in some early episodes), and he is close to his father, who-as mentioned in the later episodes-is also a doctor. Pierce was born and raised in New England, most often mentioning Crabapple Cove, Maine, with a few references (primarily in the early seasons) to Vermont. In the television series, he becomes the Chief Surgeon of the unit early in the first season. Although just one of an ensemble of characters in author Richard Hooker's MASH: A Novel About Three Army Doctors, in the television series Hawkeye became the center of the MASH unit's medical activity.
In the novel, he serves as a moral center and author's alter ego, chiding Trapper John for calling Major Houlihan "Hot Lips," which he never does himself. Between long sessions of treating wounded patients, he is found making wisecracks, drinking heavily, carousing, womanizing, and pulling pranks on the people around him, especially Frank Burns and "Hot Lips" Houlihan. in the novel) was played by Donald Sutherland in the film and by Alan Alda on television. Hawkeyeīenjy Pierce (father-novel) Daniel Pierce (father-TV) unnamed wife and children (novel)Ĭaptain Benjamin Franklin " Hawkeye" Pierce (Jr. For the episode, see Hawkeye (M*A*S*H episode).