Larry Linville

"We were all fond of Larry, but when we moved onto the set, no one was fond of Frank Burns. He was nothing like Larry in the flesh. He was brilliant in that part." -- Quote from Harry Morgan (Colonel Potter) on Larry Linville. ________________________ Frank was an almost impossible character to play and Larry did it brilliantly. His tight-assed, purse-lipped authoritatian personality was so obnoxious that he was the man you loved to hate. I think the danger with the Frank character, and that probably caused Larry to eventually leave, was the fact that his behavior kept getting closer to paranoia and thus harder for us to play against. It's not funny to make fun of a crazy person. Larry Linville was another classically trained actor who took a one-dimensional part and turned it into solid gold. -- mikefarrel.org