Alan Fudge

Fudge was born in Wichita, Kansas. He moved to Tucson, Arizona, at the age of five.^[1] He acted with Mary MacMurtrie's Children's Theater in Tucson and with the Tucson Little Theater.^[2] He graduated from the University of Arizona with a major in theater.^[1] He received the university's Best Actor Award in two seasons worked with the Globe Theater in San Diego during one summer.^[3]

On television, Fudge portrayed Lou Dalton in the drama 7th Heaven,^[4]: 950 C. W. Crawford in the adventure series Man from Atlantis,^{[4]: 649–650} and Jim Kimbrough in the crime drama Eischied.^[4]

Fudge appeared in many television movies based on popular series, such as Columbo: Columbo Goes to the Guillotine, Columbo: Columbo Goes to College, Matlock: The Witness Killings, and Murder, She Wrote: A Story to Die For.^[5]

Along with Mike Farrell and James Cromwell, Fudge was one of the finalists in 1975 for the regular role of B. J. Hunnicutt in the television comedy series M*A*S*H. Farrell won the part, and Fudge made a memorable guest appearance in the fourth season episode "Quo Vadis, Captain Chandler?", playing a wounded soldier who believes he is Jesus Christ. The episode was nominated for a Humanitas Prize.

Films in which Fudge appeared include Airport 1975 (1974), Bug (1975), Capricorn One (1978), Chapter Two (1979), The Border (1982), Brainstorm (1983), The Natural (1984), My Demon Lover (1987) and Edward Scissorhands (1990).^[6]

Fudge's work on stage included performing at the Charles Playhouse in Boston.^[7] For three years, he acted with the APA-Phoenix Theatre.^[8] He appeared on Broadway, including being part of the original cast of War and Peace at the Lyceum Theatre in 1967. His other credits on Broadway included Hamlet (1969), The Show Off (1968), Pantagleize (1968), The Cherry Orchard (1968), You Can't Take It With You (1967), The Wild Duck (1967), We, Comrades Three (1966), and The School for Scandal (1966).^[9]

Fudge died in Los Angeles at the age of 67, as a result of lung and liver cancer, on October 10, 2011.^[1]