Pull Down Your Pants and Slide on the Ice

Allan Arbus, best known as the 4077’s most frequent visitor, has died of congestive heart failure at the age of 95. As Sidney Friedman, Arbus was a semi-regular guest star on MASH, playing poker, treating shell-shocked troops, and, in the series finale, helping Hawkeye tell the difference between chickens and babies. He even got his own edition of the series’ famous letter-writing episodes with Dear Sigmund. A successful fashion photographer with his wife Diane, Arbus didn’t begin acting until he was in his 40s. Gigs in cult classics like Robert Downey Sr’s Putney Swope and Greaser's Palace (as a zoot-suited Jesus), made him a clear choice to play a military psychiatrist. Other gigs included getting killed in The Omen II and a bunch of TV gigs, most recently as Larry’s Uncle Nathan on Curb Your Enthusiasm.