Staff Sergeant Gorman was a character who appeared in the 1970 Oscar-winning, Robert Altman directed film MASH. The part of SSGT Gorman was played in the film by actor/composer/director/musician Bobby Troup.
About Gorman[]
Near the end of the MASH film When Trapper and Hawkeye are leaving the 4077th, it is SSGT Gorman, who shows his disgust with Army protocol, and any other thing for that matter, who has to drive them from camp; they manage to swipe a jeep without asking Henry's permission in the process:
Scene quote
- SSGT. Gorman: Goddamn Army.
- SSGT. Gorman: Goddamn army.
[Hawkeye and Trapper begin speaking in mock Japanese] [Tries to start his Jeep] Goddamn army jeep.
- P.A. Announcer:
[clears his throat] Attention. Tonight's movie has been "M*A*S*H." Follow the zany antics of our combat surgeons as they cut and stitch their way along the front lines, operating as bombs - [chuckles] operating as bombs and bullets burst around them; snatching laughs and love between amputaions and penicillin.
- Col. Blake: [Watches as a jeep rolls away] Did Hawkeye steal that jeep?
- Radar: No, sir. That's the one he came in.
- Col. Blake: Oh, very good. Come along, my dear. [He and Lt. Leslie leave]
- P.A. Announcer:
Follow Hawkeye, Trapper, Duke, Dago Red, Painless, Radar, Hot Lips, Dish and Staff Seargeant Vollmer as they put our boys back together again. [a montage of cast members starts] Starring Donald Sutherland, Elliott Gould, Tom Skerritt, Sally Kellerman, Robert Duvall, Jo Ann Pflug, Rene Auberjonois, Roger Bowen, Gary Burghoff, David Arkin, John Schuck, Fred Williamson, Indus Arthur, Tim Brown, Corey Fischer, Bud Cort, Carl Gottlieb, Dawne Damon, Tamara Horrocks, Ken Prymus, Danny Goldman, Kim Atwood, Michael Murphy, G. Wood, Rick Teal and Bobby Troup.
- SSGT. Gorman: Goddamn army.
- P.A. Announcer: That is all. [a gong sounds and the screen suddenly goes black. End of movie]