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Allan Arbus, who played M*A*S*H psychiatrist Sidney Freedman, dead at 95
‘I used to sit and talk with him between scenes,’ Alda says of fellow actor
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Actor Allan Arbus, pictured in 2009 with co-star Loretta Swit, has died at the age of 95 in Los Angeles. He is best known for his character Maj. Sidney Freedman in the TV series MASH. He had formerly been married to photographer Diane Arbus.
Allan Arbus, the actor best known as the irascible psychiatrist Sidney Freedman on the 1970s series M*A*S*H, has died at his Los Angeles home at the age of 95.
His daughter, photographer Amy Arbus, confirmed the news Tuesday to The New York Times.
A native of New York, Allan Arbus was a television regular during the 1970s and ’80s, appearing in such shows as Matlock, Taxi, Law and Order, and Starsky & Hutch. More recently, he had featured on the HBO series Curb Your Enthusiasm, making his last appearance as Uncle Nathan in a 2000 episode.
His film credits include Damien: Omen II, Crossroads, Gangster Wars and Coffy.
But it was as Maj. Freedman, the liberal psychiatrist who was quick with a quip on a show that bristled with zippy one-liners, that Arbus really made his name.
Alan Alda, who played Hawkeye in M*A*S*H, recalled in an interview with the Archive of American Television that Arbus was thoroughly persuasive as a therapist.
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