Edward Winter

Edward Winter was an American actor who started out with the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in Ashland, Oregon, where he played Claudius in Hamlet in 1961. Broadway followed, and he was twice nominated for Tony Awards for featured musical performances, as Ernst Ludwig in Cabaret in 1967 and as J.D. Sheldrake in Promises, Promises in 1969. Television audiences knew him best as Colonel Samuel Flagg, the intelligence agent he played in seven episodes of MASH between 1973 and 1979 and later revisited on the spinoff AfterMASH. He also had recurring parts on Project U.F.O., Hollywood Beat, 9 to 5 and Herman's Head. His films included The Parallax View (1974), The Disappearance of Flight 412 (1974), A Change of Seasons (1980), Porky's II: The Next Day (1983) and From the Hip (1987). He also voiced roles in animated shows and the film Adventures in Odyssey: Shadow of a Doubt.