{"id":2974,"date":"2025-06-24T09:46:06","date_gmt":"2025-06-24T08:46:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/time.amazingstory.blog\/?p=2974"},"modified":"2025-06-24T09:46:08","modified_gmt":"2025-06-24T08:46:08","slug":"beloved-mash-actor-passes-away-at-82-following-illness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/time.amazingstory.blog\/?p=2974","title":{"rendered":"Beloved M*A*S*H Actor Passes Away At 82 Following Illness"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/time.amazingstory.blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/image-131.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2975\" srcset=\"https:\/\/time.amazingstory.blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/image-131.png 768w, https:\/\/time.amazingstory.blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/image-131-300x225.png 300w, https:\/\/time.amazingstory.blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/image-131-678x509.png 678w, https:\/\/time.amazingstory.blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/image-131-326x245.png 326w, https:\/\/time.amazingstory.blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/image-131-80x60.png 80w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Actor Patrick Adiarte Passes Away at 82<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Patrick Adiarte, known for his role as Ho-Jon on season one of&nbsp;<em>M<\/em>A<em>S<\/em>H*, has died at age 82 from pneumonia, confirmed by his niece to&nbsp;<em>The Hollywood Reporter<\/em>. Born in Manila in 1943, Adiarte survived World War II before moving to the U.S., where he built a career as an actor and dancer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He appeared in classic film musicals&nbsp;<em>The King and I<\/em>&nbsp;(1956) and&nbsp;<em>Flower Drum Song<\/em>&nbsp;(1961), both by Rodgers and Hammerstein. On TV, he had roles in&nbsp;<em>Hawaii Five-O<\/em>,&nbsp;<em>Bonanza<\/em>,&nbsp;<em>Kojak<\/em>, and more. Gene Kelly once praised him as a potential \u201cnext Fred Astaire.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-embed-handler wp-block-embed-embed-handler\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/youtube.com\/watch?v=PS9M4yfA980%3Ffeature%3Doembed\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Adiarte\u2019s most memorable TV role was Ho-Jon on&nbsp;<em>M<\/em>A<em>S<\/em>H*, where he played an orphaned houseboy trying to study in the U.S. After season one, the character was written out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In his later years, Adiarte focused on teaching dance, including at Santa Monica College.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Actor Patrick Adiarte Passes Away at 82 Patrick Adiarte, known for his role as Ho-Jon on season one of&nbsp;MASH*, has died at age 82 from <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/time.amazingstory.blog\/?p=2974\" title=\"Beloved M*A*S*H Actor Passes Away At 82 Following Illness\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2975,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/time.amazingstory.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/time.amazingstory.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/time.amazingstory.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/time.amazingstory.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/time.amazingstory.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2974"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/time.amazingstory.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2974\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2977,"href":"https:\/\/time.amazingstory.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2974\/revisions\/2977"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/time.amazingstory.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/time.amazingstory.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/time.amazingstory.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/time.amazingstory.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}