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TIM Mb Journal. Onmmod. SC Sun. Fab. 19, 19M TV lndn-7 Ackroyd is the latest 'AfterMASH' addition fJt ADJUSTABLE GLASS SHELVES By RICHARD KING HOLLYWOOD David Ackroyd has joined the cast of "AfterMASH," the CBS series which may or may not be catching on following in the giant footsteps of its predecessor, "MASH.f He is playing Dr.

Peter Boyer, a surgeon who has some emotional problems to match his surgical skills. Ackroyd is careful to say he has signed nothing that promises him permanent employment on the Monday night series. He was originally signed to do just two episodes, then he was brought back for two more. The indications are that Boyer will become part of the hospital's permanent cadre. At first, Ackroyd says, his character was very bitter, cynical and hard to deal with.

But the production staff has told him that they intend to soften Boyer's personality. "I hope they don't soften him too Ackroyd says, "because it's fun to play a bitter and cynical person." In recent years, Ackroyd has been doing a lot of TV movies as well as some state work. It has kept him eating, but he welcomes the chance at regular work. "Just being pragmatic about it," he says, "if you have a steady job on a series, you are more likely to asked to play bigger and better parts in features and TV films." Ackroyd had gone back to New York, to step in when John Rubinstein left the play, "Children of a Lesser God." He played the teacher of the deaf girl around whom the play centers. For that part, he had to learn how to "sign" talk in sign language.

It's one of many things he has had to learn, over the years, for the parts he has been asked to play. On a soap opera, he once played a paraplegic, so he learned about David Ackroyd what it's like to be totally paralyzed. For "AfterMASH," he is playing a man who lost a leg during the Korean War, so he is learning to walk like an amputee. He says the hardest part of learning about sign language was not making the signs, which he mastered quickly, iut now to read the signs others made to him. He says he was just getting the hang of it when he left the show to come back to Los Angeles.

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