- Born
- Died
- Birth nameH. Richard Hornberger
- Received a partial scholarship to prep school, graduating from the prestigious Peddie School in Hightstown, New Jersey (class of 1941).
Was not all that interested in selling the M*A*S*H rights to make the movie or the TV series, but a fellow Peddie School alumnus (movie producer Howard W. Koch, class of 1933, and Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award winner at the 1990 Oscars), gave him some encouragement to do so.- IMDb Mini Biography By: film83
- SpousePriscilla Storer(? - November 4, 1997) (his death)
- Thoracic surgeon at Mid-Maine Medical Center, Waterville, Maine, USA until his retirement in 1988.
- The book M*A*S*H was rejected by thirteen different publishers before being accepted by William Morrow & Company, Inc.
- "Richard Hooker" was the joint pseudonym of H. Richard Hornberger and journalist W.C. Heinz. They coauthored the novel "MASH".
- U.S. Army physician who recounted his experiences during the Korean War in his 1968 novel "M*A*S*H", and two sequels.
- I thought the movie was great but the television thing isn't my kind of humor. It's someone else's idea of what medical humor is supposed to be. - Boston Globe, 10 April 1977
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