Most Recent Role: Adam on A Grandpa For Christmas
Gender: Male
Birthplace: Toledo, Ohio USA
Birthday: 7-1-1934
Birth Name: Jameel Joseph Farah
Gender: Male
Birthplace: Toledo, Ohio USA
Birthday: 7-1-1934
Birth Name: Jameel Joseph Farah
Jamie grew up in the town of Toledo, Ohio. His parents, Samuel and Jamelia Farah, had little, with Samuel working as a grocer and Jamelia being a seamstress. After performing in a local acting contest, he decided to persue an acting career. While attending Woodward High School, Farr starred in several school productions. After high school, instead of going to college, he joined the military....
Most Recent Appearance
A Grandpa for Christmas
Saturday 24 November 2007 on Hallmark Channel
Ernest Borgnine stars in this heartwarming Hallmark Channel holiday movie. After a car accident leaves her mother in the hospital, Rebecca is forced to go stay with her grandfather whom she has never met. They go on to form a bond and make wonderful holiday memories.
On July 5, 1998, a park where Jamie used to hang out at when he was younger was renamed the Jamie Farr Park in his honor.
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On M*A*S*H, Farr's character, Corporal Klinger, had the same hometown as him, which is Toledo.
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Jamie Farr still works on the Owens Corning LPGA Classic, as well as does commercials and promotions for the Toledo Mudhens and the Toledo Zoo.
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Farr was proclaimed a NYAACF (New York Arab-American Comedy Festival) Achievement Honoree in 2005.
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Jamie Farr recieved his Doctor of Performing Arts Degree in 1983 at the University of Toledo.
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Jamie Farr: Even in the days when they did Othello, you didn't necessarily have to be black to play Othello. You wore the makeup.
(edit) Jamie Farr: Children and even adults, when they like certain athletes, they can tell you about their batting average, about where they came from. (edit) Jamie Farr: Canadians send us great hockey players. You also send us wonderful performers, from the beginning, with Mary Pickford.
(edit) Jamie Farr: Canada has given us John Candy and Martin Short and Bill Shatner and Lord knows how many other wonderful performers.
(edit) Jamie Farr: As I've often said, listen, I'm still here. They've driven a stake through my heart, shot me with a silver bullet, and I'm still around. (edit)
(edit) Jamie Farr: Children and even adults, when they like certain athletes, they can tell you about their batting average, about where they came from. (edit) Jamie Farr: Canadians send us great hockey players. You also send us wonderful performers, from the beginning, with Mary Pickford.
(edit) Jamie Farr: Canada has given us John Candy and Martin Short and Bill Shatner and Lord knows how many other wonderful performers.
(edit) Jamie Farr: As I've often said, listen, I'm still here. They've driven a stake through my heart, shot me with a silver bullet, and I'm still around. (edit)
Other Appearances
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AfterMASH
Maxwell Q. Klinger |
A Grandpa For Christmas
Adam |
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Chicago Teddy Bears
Lefty |
M*A*S*H
Corporal/Sergeant Maxwell Q. Klinger |
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Wordplay
Sub-Host |
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Circus of the Stars
Performer |
Dinah
Himself |
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M*A*S*H
Corporal/Sergeant Maxwell Q. Klinger |
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American Bandstand
The Staple Singers / C.W. McCall / Jamie Farr Himself |
Amos Burke: Secret Agent
A Very Important Russian Is Missing Zava |
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Amos Burke: Secret Agent
Operation Long Shadow Clinic Informant (unbilled) |
Amy Prentiss
Profile in Evil Schwartz |
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Barnaby Jones
Doomed Alibi Marty Paris |
Barnaby Jones
Woman in the Shadows man at scrap yard |
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M*A*S*H
Friends and Enemies |
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M*A*S*H
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Ernest Borgnine stars in this heartwarming Hallmark Channel holiday movie. After a car accident leaves her mother in the hospital, Rebecca is forced to go stay with her grandfather whom she has... more Chicago Teddy Bears
A short-lived sitcom a mobster who wants to take over his cousin's business in 1920s Chicago. more
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