George Wood (December 31, 1919 – July 24, 2000) was an American film and television actor, usually billed as G. Wood.Wood was born in Forrest City, Arkansas. He was one of four actors to appear in both the 1970 film M*A*S*H and the television series M*A*S*H (the other three were Timothy Brown, Corey Fischer and Gary Burghoff.) In both the film and the television series, Wood played General Hammond. The character was dropped after the show's first season. He also played the psychiatrist in the film Harold and Maude, directed by Hal Ashby, and starring Bud Cort, who was also in the movie version of M*A*S*H.Wood died of congestive heart failure in Macon, Georgia.
He is mentioned a couple of times in the biography of actor Louis Edmonds, "Big Lou," by Craig Hamrick. Woods attended Carnegie Tech with Louis, and worked with him several times on stage after they both moved to New York City in the 1940s.
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Besides being one of four people (himself, Timothy Brown, Gary Burghoff and Corey Fischer) to be in the original movie of M*A*S*H and the series, he was also in Brewster McCloud (1970) and Harold and Maude (1971) with Bud Cort, who played Pvt. Lorenzo Boone in M*A*S*H (movie).
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Along with Gary Burghoff, Timothy Brown, and Corey Fischer, he is one of only four actors to appear in both the original film (MASH (1970)) and the subsequent TV series("M*A*S*H" (1972)), and with Gary Burghoff, the only one of two who reprised their movie character in the TV series.