Edward Winter

Edward Dean Winter was an American actor, perhaps most well known for his role as military intelligence officer Colonel Flagg on the television series M*A*S*H. Winter was born in Ventura, California, and began his career on Broadway. Winter was twice nominated for Tony Awards as Best Supporting or Featured Actor . The first was in 1967, as Herr Ludwig in Cabaret, then in 1969, as J.D. Sheldrake in Promises, Promises. He moved on to television, appearing on the daytime serials The Secret Storm and Somerset. He also starred in the NBC primetime drama Project UFO and was featured in the film A... Change of Seasons. He appeared as the corrupt county commissioner Bob Gebhardt in the 1983 movie Porky's II: The Next Day and in From the Hip, also directed by Porky's director Bob Clark. He was cast on M*A*S*H as Lt. Col. Flagg, becoming one of the program's more memorable and popular recurring characters; he appeared in seven episodes as Flagg during the show's 11-year run. Before his introduction as Flagg, Winter had also appeared on the series as Captain Halloran.
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