The Hollywood Issue
Spring 2009

 

Screen Mapping
Selected Fictional Graduates of Harvard Medical School
composite of fictional graduates of Harvard Medical School

In Movies

Ben Campbell,* 21 (2008)
Colleen Cooper, Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman: The Heart Within (2001)
Edward Cullen,† Twilight (2008)
Fu Manchu, The Mask of Fu Manchu (1932)
Ted Grey, Pathology (2008)
Jed Hill, Malice (1993)
Ray Howard, Ways of the Flesh (2006)
Kate and Sam, Laurel Canyon (2002)
Damien Karras, The Exorcist (1973)
Wilbur Larch, The Cider House Rules (1999)


On Television

Eleanor Abernathy (Crazy Cat Lady), The Simpsons (1998 to present)
Abbey Bartlet, The West Wing (1999–2006)
Peter Balcovske,† Deirdre Bennett, Abe Butterfield, Grant Linowitz,
    and Mike Stratford, Doctor, Doctor (1989–1991)
John Becker, Becker (1998–2004)
Jane Conway, The Madness of Jane (2008) (pilot only)
Frasier Crane, Frasier (1993–2004)
Stephen Franklin, Babylon 5 (1993–1998)
Paris Gellar,* The Gilmore Girls (2000–2007)
Lexie Grey, Grey’s Anatomy (2007 to present)
Adam Mayfair, Desperate Housewives (2007)
Charles Emerson Winchester III, M*A*S*H (1977–1983)

*admitted
attended but did not graduate

Photo caption: Fictional graduates of Harvard Medical School on television, from left: Frasier Crane from Frasier, Lexie Grey from Grey’s Anatomy, Abbey Bartlet from The West Wing, and Stephen Franklin from Babylon 5.

Photo: composite image includes NBC/Photofest (Frasier and Bartlet); ABC/Photofest (Grey); TNT/Photofest (Franklin)


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