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New York Times
25-04-2025
- Entertainment
- New York Times
Patrick Adiarte, Actor Seen in Musicals and on ‘M*A*S*H,' Dies at 82
Patrick Adiarte, who was imprisoned as a baby in the Philippines during World War II and then found a new life in the United States as an actor and dancer on Broadway, in Hollywood and on television, died on April 10 in Los Angeles. He was 82. The cause of death, in a hospital, was complications of pneumonia, said Stephanie Hogan, his niece. Mr. Adiarte had a varied career, in which he played many characters, of various ethnicities, before he was cast in the first season of 'M*A*S*H' as Ho-Jon, the Korean helper of the wisecracking doctors Hawkeye Pierce (Alan Alda) and Trapper John (Wayne Rogers). As a child, Patrick portrayed one of the children of the king of Siam (now Thailand), who are tutored by a widowed schoolmistress in the original 1951 Broadway production of the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical 'The King and I.' As a teenager, he played an assimilated Chinese American character in another of their shows, 'Flower Drum Song' (1958). He also appeared in the movie versions of both shows, in 1956 and 1961. In the 1960s and early '70s, he was seen on several TV series. On 'Bonanza,' he played a Native American named Swift Eagle; on 'Ironside,' he was a Samoan boxer; on 'CBS Playhouse,' he was a Viet Cong guerrilla. He played a Hawaiian tour guide in two episodes of 'The Brady Bunch,' filmed in Hawaii. In 'High Time,' a 1960 film directed by Blake Edwards, he played an Indian exchange student who rooms with Bing Crosby, whose character returns to college in his 50s. Mr. Adiarte also appeared frequently as a dancer on the musical variety show 'Hullabaloo' from 1965 to 1966. He told The Associated Press in 1965 that the most difficult dances for him to learn were the Watusi and the swim. 'Sometimes it takes me as long as four or five weeks to pick up something that is really simple for the untrained,' he said. He also had a brief career as a singer. He recorded a single, 'Five Different Girls,' in 1966, and sang it on the show. One newspaper headline called him the 'Hullabalooest Hullabalooer.' In 1972, Mr. Adiarte appeared as the orphaned Ho-Jon on 'M*A*S*H,' first in the pilot and then in six more episodes. Ho-Jon figured prominently in the pilot, in which Hawkeye and Trapper raise money to send him to medical school in the United States. In another episode, Ho-Jon confesses to stealing valuables to sell so that he can bribe border guards to let him bring the rest of his family out of North Korea. After the 11th episode, the character was gone, without explanation. 'Ho-Jon is one of those characters that 'M*A*S*H' fans remember quite fondly,' Ryan Patrick, one of the hosts of the podcast 'M*A*S*H Matters,' said in an email. 'Many 'M*A*S*H' fans simply assume that Ho-Jon traveled to the States to live with Hawkeye's father while going to medical school.' After 'M*A*S*H,' Mr. Adiarte's career focus changed. He worked as a choreographer of several productions of a musical revue, 'Starting Here, Starting Now,' and as a dance teacher at Santa Monica College from 1985 to 1997. Patrick Napoleon Adiarte was born on Aug. 2, 1942, in Manila. His mother, Purita (Rodriguez) Adiarte, was an actress and dancer, and his father, Isidro Adiarte, was a captain attached to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. In February 1945, Patrick, his mother and his sister, Irene, were imprisoned on the island of Cebu. When Allied forces fought to reoccupy the island, the Japanese set fire to the prison compound and threw grenades that caused severe burns to Irene and lesser wounds to Patrick as the family tried to escape, according to a report by a U.S. congressional committee. In March, his father was captured and put to death. Patrick, his mother and his sister immigrated to the United States in 1946 and settled in New York City, where Irene underwent surgery on her face. The family was at risk of being deported for overstaying their allotted time as visitors. But in 1956, the U.S. Senate passed a bill, written by John F. Kennedy, Democrat of Massachusetts, that granted citizenship to them and others. Meanwhile, Patrick, who was given dancing lessons by his mother, joined the cast of 'The King and I' on Broadway as a replacement in 1951, earning $85 a week as one of the children of King Mongkut, a role made famous by Yul Brynner. Patrick played the crown prince when the show went on tour, and in the film. 'I sort of grew up from one of the little princes to the role of crown price,' Mr. Adiarte told The Associated Press. 'It took about four years.' In the film version of 'Flower Drum Song,' he wore a baseball uniform and sang and danced to the song 'The Other Generation' with two other young actors. During the Broadway run of the musical, Mr. Adiarte promoted it by performing a tap dance with its director, Gene Kelly, on 'Omnibus,' a cultural TV series on NBC, in late 1958. 'Patrick is a mighty fine dancer,' Mr. Kelly said before he and Mr. Adiarte demonstrated old and modern styles of tap. 'If there's going to be another Fred Astaire, I think it might as well, might well be Pat.' In addition to Ms. Hogan, Mr. Adiarte is survived by his companion, Shirley Kong, and a nephew, Mike DeVito. His marriage to Loni Ackerman, a singer and actress, ended in divorce.
The Independent
18-04-2025
- Entertainment
- The Independent
Patrick Adiarte death: M*A*S*H actor dies, aged 82
Patrick Adiarte, the actor best known for his role as Ho-Jon in the pilot season of M*A*S*H, has died, aged 82. The actor starred as an orphaned houseboy in the much-loved 1970s comedy from 1972 to 1973. He later went on to appear in The Brady Bunch, Bonanza, Hawaii Five-O and Kojak. Adiarte's niece, Stephanie Hogan, confirmed that the star had died of pneumonia at a Los Angeles hospital, per the Hollywood Reporter. Before his on-screen career, Adiarte starred in musicals and was in the original Broadway production of Flower Drum Song in 1958. While promoting the show on the TV programme Omnibus, the production's director, Gene Kelly, dubbed the star the next Fred Astaire due to his dancing talent. 'Patrick is a mighty fine dancer,' he said after they had performed together on the show. 'If there's gonna be another Fred Astaire, I think it might well be Pat,' he added. The star went on to appear in the film adaptations of The King and I (1956) and Flower Drum Song (1961). He also featured in Blake Edwards' musical High Time (1960) and the war comedy John Goldfarb, Please Come Home! (1965). Adiarte was born in Manila in 1943, lost his father during World War II and was interned with his mother, Purita, and sister, Irene, in the later part of the conflict. In 1946, a year after the war ended, Adiarte arrived at Ellis Island in New York. Just five years later, both he and his mother landed dancing roles in the Broadway production of The King and I. The performer went on to study at the Professional Children's School in New York, alongside stars including Liza Minnelli. In 1956 – the same year he starred as the crown prince in the film version of The King and I alongside Yul Brynner and Deborah Kerr – Adiarte obtained US citizenship with help from John F Kennedy. Adiarte was married to the singer and actress Loni Ackerman from 1975 until they divorced in 1992. His sister, Irene, died in 2016. He is survived by his niece, Stephanie, and his nephew, Michael. Fans were quick to share tributes to Adiarte on X/Twitter: 'Patrick Adiarte's entrance in The King and I is one of the greatest 30 seconds in film. RIP to the boy who would be king,' one person wrote. Meanwhile, another fan added: 'An amazing dancer.'
Yahoo
18-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Patrick Adiarte, Actor in ‘The King and I,' ‘Flower Drum Song' and ‘M*A*S*H,' Dies at 82
Patrick Adiarte, the Philippines-born dancer and actor who appeared in The King and I and Flower Drum Song on Broadway and the big screen and had a recurring role on M*A*S*H, has died. He was 82. Adiarte died Tuesday in a Los Angeles-area hospital of pneumonia, his niece, Stephanie Hogan, told The Hollywood Reporter. More from The Hollywood Reporter Wink Martindale, Prolific Game Show Host, Dies at 91 Jeffrey Runnings, Founder, Bassist and Vocalist of For Against, Dies at 61 Andrea Nevins, Oscar-Nominated Documentarian, Dies at 63 When The Brady Bunch went to Honolulu for a family vacation in a three-part episode that kicked off the fourth season of the ABC series in 1972, Adiarte played a construction gofer who gives the kids a tour before they meet with all kinds of chaos after Bobby (Mike Lookinland) discovers a small tiki idol that could be cursed. Adiarte also was a popular dancer on the 1965-66 NBC musical variety series Hullabaloo, where he began a short-lived singing career with the pop tune 'Five Different Girls.' In 1952, Adiarte joined the Broadway cast of Rodgers & Hammerstein's fabled The King and I, starring Yul Brynner and Gertrude Lawrence, as one of the royal children, then toured with the production across America. When the musical was adapted by 20th Century Fox in 1956, he graduated to the role of Prince Chulalongkorn, the son of Rita Moreno's Tuptim. Brynner starred in the film as well, and Adiarte would consider him a surrogate father. For Flower Drum Song, also from Rodgers & Hammerstein and directed by Gene Kelly, Adiarte was cast in 1958 as the wise-cracking, Americanized second son Wang San, and he sang 'You Be the Rock, I'll Be the Roll' with Pat Suzuki as the nightclub performer Linda Low. He then returned for the 1961 Universal film that starred Nancy Kwan and James Shigeta. M*A*S*H fans know Adiarte as Ho-Jon, the orphaned Korean houseboy who assisted Hawkeye Pierce (Alan Alda) and Trapper John McIntyre (Wayne Rogers) on seven episodes of the first season (1972-73) of the CBS series. His character presumably leaves to attend medical school in the States. Patrick Robert Adiarte was born in Manila on Aug. 2, 1942. He, his sister, Irene, and their mother, Purita, were imprisoned by the Japanese on the island of Cebu in February 1945 during World War II. Irene, then 5, and Patrick, then 2, were burned when the Japanese lobbed grenades at them when the family tried to escape. A month later, their father, working as a captain for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, was killed. In June 1946, the family came to New York through Ellis Island so that Irene could have what would be the first of several surgeries to remove the extensive scars on her face caused by the grenade fire. While the Adiartes faced threats of deportation, Patrick (and his mom, as a dancer) would wind up in The King and I. (With the help of Massachusetts Sen. John F. Kennedy, Congress finally granted the three American citizenship In February 1956.) After his stage work in The King and I, Patrick studied at the Professional Children's School, where his classmates included Liza Minnelli and Marvin Hamlisch. While promoting Flower Drum Song in 1958 with an appearance on the NBC variety show Omnibus, he and Kelly demonstrated how tap dancing had evolved over the years, with Kelly proclaiming, 'If there's gonna be another Fred Astaire, I think it might as well be Pat.' Kelly also helped him get a job dancing on Italian television for about a year. Adiarte played the college student T.J. Padmanagham in the Blake Edwards-directed back-to-school comedy High Time (1960), starring Bing Crosby, Fabian and Tuesday Weld, then was another prince in a 1961 ABC adaptation of The Enchanted Nutcracker, starring Robert Goulet and Carol Lawrence. Later, he would show up in the Shirley MacLaine-starring John Goldfarb, Please Come Home! (1965) — he portrayed a Middle Eastern Prince and son of Peter Ustinov's character — and on episodes of It Takes a Thief, Ironside, Bonanza, Hawaii Five-O and Kojak. More recently, he taught dance, including at Santa Monica College. Adiarte was married to singer-actress Loni Ackerman from 1975 until their 1992 divorce. His sister died in 2016. In addition to his niece, survivors include his nephew, Michael. Best of The Hollywood Reporter "A Nutless Monkey Could Do Your Job": From Abusive to Angst-Ridden, 16 Memorable Studio Exec Portrayals in Film and TV The 10 Best Baseball Movies of All Time, Ranked 20 Times the Oscars Got It Wrong
Yahoo
18-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Loretta Swit Mourns the Death of 'M*A*S*H' Co-Star
Patrick Adiarte, an actor of stage and screen who had a recurring role on M*A*S*H, died of pneumonia at the age of 82 on Tuesday (April 15) in a Los Angeles hospital, his niece Stephanie Hogan told The Hollywood Reporter on Thursday (April 17). Adiarte appeared in both the Broadway and film adaptation of Rodgers & Hammerstein's The King and I; he played a member of the royal children's chorus on Broadway and then portrayed Prince Chulalongkorn in the 1956 film, performing opposite Yul Brynner in both productions. Likewise, Adiarte also appeared in both the stage Broadway production and film adaptation of Flower Drum Song. But TV fans would best know him as Ho-Jon, an orphaned Korean boy from the first season of M*A*S*H. Adiarte's character assisted Hawkeye Pierce (Alan Alda) and Trapper John McIntyre (Wayne Rogers). After learning of the news, M*A*S*H star Loretta Swit, who played Major Margaret "Hot Lips" Houlihan for the entirety of the series, took to Instagram to mourn the loss of her co-star. "RIP Patrick Adiarrte," wrote Swit on an Instagram story, along with a broken-heart emoji and the hashtags #mashfamily #mashfamforever and #globalmashfamily. On the post Swit linked to, M*A*S*H fans were quick to post their memories and prayers for his family. "Wow. He was just a kid in the show. 81. Sometimes I forget how old this show is. May he rest well," wrote one fan. "Forever young in our mind's eye. No one is 81 every time you tune in. You see Hawkeye laugh, Margaret smile, Radar look perplexed and Ho-jan need to talk to the guys. Forever young. Forever in our hearts," wrote another fan. A third fan added, "It's too bad we never got to see a follow up episode," possibly referencing the fact that the character of Ho-Jon left the Korean War base camp to attend medical school in the United States and it may have been nice to see what became of the character. Adiarte also played a key role in the three-part Brady Bunch arc where the family went to Hawaii in 1972. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Adiarte was married from 1975 to 1992 but never had children; he is survived by several nieces and nephews.
Forbes
18-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Forbes
Patrick Adiarte Dies: ‘The Brady Bunch,' ‘M*A*S*H' And ‘The King And I' Actor Was 82
LOS ANGELES - SEPTEMBER 29: Patrick Adiarte as David in THE BRADY BUNCH episode, "Pass The Tabu." ... More Original air date September 29, 1972. Image is a screen grab. (Photo by CBS via Getty Images) Patrick Adiarte, the Philippines-born dancer and actor who is remembered for his early recurring role as cabin boy Ho-Jon on M*A*S*H and his guest appearance on The Brady Bunch, died on April 15 of complications from pneumonia. He was 82. Born August 2, 1943 in Manila, Patrick Adiarte overcame early adversity after his sister and their mother were imprisoned by the Japanese on the island of Cebu in February 1945 during World War II. One month later, their father, who was working as a captain for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, was killed. After emigrating to the United States, Adiarte eventually appeared on stage as Prince Chulalongkorn in the Rodgers & Hammerstein musical The King And I, Wang San in the stage and film version of musical Flower Drum Song, and college student T.J. Padmanagham in the Blake Edwards comedy High Time. He was also one of the regular dancers on the television series Hullabaloo, which aired in the 1965 to 1966 TV season. And, in 1961, Adiarte portrayed the Prince in a TV version of The Enchanted Nutcracker with Robert Goulet and Carol Lawrence. NEW YORK - MARCH 1965: The Hullabaloo dancers perform on the NBC TV music show 'Hullabaloo' in ... More March 1965 in New York City, New York. (Photo by Hullabaloo Archive/Michael) His other guest roles on television included episodes of dramas It Takes a Thief, Ironside, Bonanza, and Kojak. But it was M*A*S*H, which Adiarte exited after the second season to attend college, and the one episode of The Brady Bunch as David, who served as a tour guide to the Bradys in Honolulu when the clan had a series of bad luck, that he was instantly recognized for. LOS ANGELES - APRIL 13: Wayne Rogers as Captain John McIntyre, Alan Alda as Captain Benjamin ... More Franklin Pierce and Patrick Adiarte as Ho-Jon in the pilot episode of M*A*S*H (MASH). Image dated April 13, 1972. (Photo by CBS via Getty Images) UNITED STATES - OCTOBER 20: THE BRADY BUNCH - "Hawaii" 9/22/72 Mike Lookinland, Patrick Adiarte, ... More Christopher Knight (Photo by ABC Photo Archives/Disney General Entertainment Content via Getty Images) Adiarte also had a brief singing career with the single "Five Different Girls"," among other tracks, in 1965. After retiring from screen work following his episode on Kojak in 1974, Adiarte worked as a dance instructor. Adiarte was married to actress Loni Ackerman from 1975 to 1992. He is survived by his niece and his nephew.
