An actor who shot to fame on one of the most beloved sitcoms of the 1970s was spotted in a cap that read Make America Normal Again.
He played a surgeon on his star-making TV show, and then in real life got finagled into helping with an actual operation on a guerrilla fighter in El Salvador.
The 86-year-old is a longtime activist for various political causes, throwing his support particularly strenuously behind the abolition of the death penalty.
Over the years he has been a vociferous critic of US President Donald Trump, going so far as to cut an ad pushing for Republicans in the Electoral College to vote against him in defiance of the results in their states in the 2016 election.
Now he has surfaced in a cheeky hat poking fun at the president's Make America Great Again slogan, against the backdrop of an increasingly tense political climate.
The 86-year-old actor, who recently made his return to TV after seven years, was glimpsed with a medical patch just below his right ear.
Can you guess who he is?
An actor who shot to fame on one of the most beloved sitcoms of the 1970s was spotted in a cap that read Make America Normal Again
Now he has surfaced in a cheeky hat poking fun at the president's Make America Great Again slogan, against the backdrop of an increasingly tense political climate
He is none other than Mike Farrell, beloved to fans of classic television as Captain BJ Hunnicutt on MAS*H from 1975 to 1983.
Farrell surfaced this week in a blue and white Make America Normal Again hat that complemented his navy shirt and acid-wash jeans.
He accessorized with a wallet chain strung from his black leather belt, which matched the comfortable-looking sneakers he wore for his latest outing.
Born in Minnesota but raised in Hollywood, Farrell went to school with Natalie Wood and served in the Marine Corps in the late 1950s before entering showbiz.
During the 1960s and 1970s, he had a regular role on Days of Our Lives and guested on such hit programs of the era as I Dream of Jeannie, The Six Million Dollar Man, Bonanza and Marcus Welby, M.D.
However his ship truly came in when he was hired in 1975 to play military surgeon BJ Hunnicutt on MAS*H, replacing the character Trapper played by Wayne Rogers.
Rogers left the series after becoming exasperated that Trapper had been relegated to a position as second fiddle to Alan Alda's Hawkeye.
Led by Alda, the show revolved around the lives of military medical staff during the Korean War, and its finale - featuring Farrell - is still the highest-rated episode of a television series ever to be broadcast.
The 86-year-old actor, who recently made his return to TV after seven years, was glimpsed with a medical patch just below his right ear.
He played a surgeon on his star-making TV show, and then in real life got finagled into helping with an actual operation on a guerrilla fighter in El Salvador.
Over the years he has been a vociferous critic of US President Donald Trump, going so far as to cut an ad pushing for Republicans in the Electoral College to vote against him in 2016.
Farrell surfaced this week in a blue and white Make America Normal Again hat that complemented his navy shirt and acid-wash jeans.
In 1983, two years after MAS*H ended, Farrell found himself getting rooked into assisting with a real surgery in El Salvador during the country's brutal civil war.
The patient was Nidia Diaz, a guerilla army commander who was wounded in battle and taken prisoner while fighting against the U.S.-backed Salvadoran government.
Farrell was part of an Amnesty International mission to El Salvador, where American human rights activists began pushing for Diaz to be permitted to have surgery upon discovering her injuries had cost her the use of her right hand.
A foreign surgeon called Alejandro Sanchez was brought in to operate and Farrell was supposed to be on hand strictly in an observer capacity.
However local surgical aides declined to participate in the operation, which according to Farrell was regarded as 'too much of a hot potato' because of who Diaz was.
As a result, Sanchez asked Farrell for help and the TV surgeon had to try his hand at operating in reality, an experience of which he later said: 'I know this is going to look like a stunt, but that's too bad. It isn't,' via the Los Angeles Times.
Farrell recalled that Sanchez 'said: "When I say cut, I want you to cut. When I say retract, you retract. You know how to do that?" He gave me a book on tendon surgery in the car on the way over.'
In spite of a power outage in the middle of the operation - bizarrely echoing one of Farrell's scenes in MAS*H - the surgery turned out to be a success.
Born in Minnesota but raised in Hollywood, Farrell went to school with Natalie Wood and served in the Marine Corps in the late 1950s before entering showbiz.
In 1983, two years after MAS*H ended, Farrell found himself getting rooked into assisting with a real surgery in El Salvador during the country's brutal civil war.
Farrell has been a committed political activist down the year, campaigning against capital punishment as the president of the nonprofit Death Penalty Focus, as well as appearing in an ad campaign for PETA and supporting various other causes.
His showbiz career since has included a starring role on another medical series,Providence, which ran from 1999 to 2002.
Farrell guested on series including Murder, She Wrote and Desperate Housewives, and was a producer on the 1998 Robin Williams dramedy Patch Adams.
After a nine-year hiatus from TV, he returned to the small screen last week with a guest appearance on the Ryan Murphy procedural 9-1-1.
Farrell played an old man man who acquires a long distance girlfriend and wants to meet her at the airport, only for his son to get in the way, fearing that his father is going senile and being exploited by someone under a false identity.
After the son seizes his car keys, the Farrell character takes matters into his own hands and rides a lawnmower to the airport in order to pick up his paramour.