Minnesota born Mike Farrell moved with his family to Hollywood at the age of two. His father's work as a studio carpenter provided Mike's first glimpse of the world behind the studio walls and began a fascination with "the movies" that he has never fully lost. After discharge from the Marines, he pursued an acting career. Moving up through the ranks, he did bit parts in television and features, noteworthy in his mind being The Graduate, where he had the eminently crucial line, "How are you, Mr. Gladstone?” Mike's first real break was a two-year stint on Days of Our Lives, followed by a year on The Interns with Broderick Crawford and then a year with Anthony Quinn in ABC’s The Man and The City. He was subsequently under contract to Universal Studios for four years. Next came the incomparable experience of eight years with the cast and crew of M*A*S*H, where besides acting he had the opportunity to write and direct. Sex and The Single Parent with Susan St. James and Prime Suspect with Teri Garr are two of a number of television movies he did during those M*A*S*H years. Since that time, other MOW's have been Memorial Day (which he co-produced), Choices Of The Heart about the murders of the four American churchwomen in El Salvador, and Private Sessions with Maureen Stapleton and Kelly McGillis. An ambition was realized with JFK-A One Man Show for David Susskind and PBS. Though known for selectivity, he disputes the idea that he has no interest in pure entertainment. Vanishing Act, with Margot Kidder and Elliott Gould, was a “who-done-it" that's simply fun. On the documentary front, among many others, Mike co-hosted the show Saving The Wildlife for PBS, hosted The Best of the National Geographic Specials, and had a great adventure scuba diving among hundreds of sharks in French Polynesia for The World of Audubon. Behind the camera, 1987 was a year in which Mike both produced and directed. Dominick and Eugene, a Farrell/Minoff Production starring Tom Hulce, Ray Liotta and Jamie Lee Curtis, was released by Orion Pictures in early ‘88. As director, Mike completed Run Till You Fall for CBS. 1988’s A Deadly Silence, an ABC Movie of the Week, was followed by The Price of the Bride, a European/American co-production. In l989 he produced and starred in Incident at Dark River for TNT and followed that in l990 with The Whereabouts of Jenny for ABC. In 1991 he produced and starred in Silent Motive, with Edward Asner and Patricia Wettig, for Lifetime, spent the next year developing two major motion pictures, and in 1993 was back “on the boards” in a National Tour of the one-man show Clarence Darrow, by David Rintels. In ‘94 he starred in Hart Attack, a stupid MOW for NBC. In ‘95, besides developing a motion picture for television, he starred in The Enemy Inside, a feature for Paul Leder, and squeezed in a recurring cameo in the ABC series The Monroes with William DeVane and Susan Sullivan. 1996 saw the development of two features, a starring role opposite Cheryl Ladd in CBS’s Vows of Seduction, and producing Sins of the Mind for the USA Network in which he starred opposite Jill Clayburgh. Patch Adams, a feature he and his partner produced, starred Robin Williams and was Universal’s Christmas ‘98 hit. 1999 brought him back to television in NBC’s series, Providence, where he stayed, happily, for 5 seasons. In 2002, he produced and hosted the M*A*S*H 30th Anniversary Reunion for Fox. In 2003 he played Kenneth Lay in the Enron story, The Crooked E, for CBS. On the personal front, Mike is very happily married to actress Shelley Fabares, has two grown children (Mike and Erin) and is constantly in a whirlwind of activity, but that's another story. Mike Farrell is represented by Paradigm Talent and Literary Agency.