Physician, comedian, social activist, clown, author
Spouses
Linda Edquist
(m. 1975; div. 1998)
Susan Parenti
(m. 2010)
Children
2
Hunter Doherty "Patch" Adams (born May 28, 1945) is an American physician, comedian, social activist, clown, and author. He founded the Gesundheit! Institute as a not-for-profit in 1989. Each year he also organizes volunteers from around the world to travel to various countries where they dress as clowns to bring humor to orphans, patients, and other people.[1]
Adams is currently based in Urbana, Illinois. In collaboration with the institute, he promotes an alternative health care model not funded by insurance policies.[1]
^ ab"Doctor in a Clown Suit Battles Ills of His Profession". New York Times. December 15, 1998.
Hunter Doherty "Patch" Adams (born May 28, 1945) is an American physician, comedian, social activist, clown, and author. He founded the Gesundheit! Institute...
TV series PatchAdams (Hunter Adams, born 1945), American physician and clown Alexander Patch (1889–1945), WWII U.S. Army general Harry Patch (1898–2009)...
movie the band is referring to is PatchAdams. The duo, consisting of Rafaele "Crash" Massarelli and Vince "Adams" Sasso, began making music together...
actress. She is known for her starring roles in the films Con Air (1997), PatchAdams (1998), and Along Came a Spider (2001). She also appeared in the horror...
London (born 1973) is an American actor, best known for his roles in PatchAdams, Rent, and Old Joy. Born and raised in Mt. Lebanon, Pennsylvania, London...
A year later, he had a minor role in the biographical comedy-drama PatchAdams with Robin Williams where he played patient Everton. Tudyk said of the...
television series M*A*S*H (1975–83). In addition, Farrell was a producer of PatchAdams (1998) starring Robin Williams, and he starred in the television series...
comedy films Ace Ventura: Pet Detective, The Nutty Professor, Liar Liar, PatchAdams, and Bruce Almighty. In 2010, Shadyac retired from the comedy genre and...
Warren and performed by Rod Stewart, for the soundtrack to the 1998 film, PatchAdams. Stewart's version charted at number 3 on the US Adult Contemporary chart...
in the television show Nash Bridges and the films Gattaca (1997) and PatchAdams (1998). In 1999, Sestero was cast as the lead in the horror movie Retro...
Harrison Ford (where he played a dirty cop), Target (1985), Malice (1993), PatchAdams (1998), and X-Men: The Last Stand (2006). He appeared as President Gerald...
Man, Dr. Walcott, the domineering dean of Virginia Medical School in PatchAdams, and Secretary of State Cyrus Vance in Argo. He also played Leland Owlsley...
Year Title Role Notes 1997 The Postman Eddie March 1998 PatchAdams Neil Saving Private Ryan Paratrooper Michaelson 2000 Rules of Engagement Captain Hustings...
patients. PatchAdams, considered the first hospital clown, started being a hospital clown in the 1970s. He was portrayed in the 1998 film PatchAdams by Robin...
Cross Creek (1983), Jagged Edge (1985), Bitter Moon (1992), Kika (1993), PatchAdams (1998), Erin Brockovich (2000), A Walk to Remember (2002) and Femme Fatale...
Act 2: Back in the Habit (1993), Air Bud (1997), Mouse Hunt (1997), PatchAdams (1998), Jurassic Park III (2001), Open Range (2003), and The Polar Express...
the rest of the 1990s, but continued to write screenplays, including PatchAdams (1998), Nutty Professor II: The Klumps (2000), Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius...
along with his business partner Mike Farrell and others, the 1998 film PatchAdams, starring Robin Williams. Minoff, the son of theatrical haberdasher Harry...
as the mother of Rose McGowan and David Arquette's characters, and PatchAdams (1998). She earned a master's degree in psychology from the California...
Julian Po (1997), Saving Private Ryan (1998, as General George Marshall), PatchAdams (1998), Walking Across Egypt (1999), The Legend of Bagger Vance (2000)...
Retrieved October 2, 2018. Weiskind, Ron (December 25, 1998). "Movie Review: PatchAdams". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Archived from the original on January 18,...
film roles in the 1990s and 2000s include appearances in Stuart Little, PatchAdams, The Master of Disguise, the 2003 remake of Freaky Friday, Nobody's Perfect...
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