Larry Linville

Age: 60 (passed away Apr. 10th, 2000)
Height: 6' 1"

Birth Place: Ojai, California, USA
Born: Sep. 29th, 1939

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Larry Linville's Main TV Roles

Show	Character(s)
MAS*H	Maj. Frank &hellip
The Match Game/Hollywood Squares Hour	Larry Linvi&hellip
Checking In	Lyle Block

NOTE: Complete List of Works can be found at IMDB

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TRIVIA:

Studied aeronautical engineering at the University of Colorado
Stated in a 1990s People magazine "Where are they now?" feature about TV doctors that he had no regrets about leaving '"M*A*S*H" (1972)' six years before it ended.
Selected to appear opposite 'Ingrid Bergman (I)' (qv) on Broadway because, he said, he was one of the few actors tall enough to play opposite her.
Contrary to his much-maligned character Frank Burns, Linville was actually well-liked by his "M*A*S*H" cast-mates. He and 'Gary Burghoff' (qv) were close friends off the show; Burghoff described Linville as a "renaissance man" who knew about the intricacies of the Egyptian pyramids and who once even built and flew his own airplane. Alan Alda also remembered Linville fondly, after his death.
Was raised in Sacramento, California
Linville and actor 'David Ogden Stiers' (qv), who'd played Major Winchester, were both VIP guests at the ceremonial closing of the last active M*A*S*H unit in Korea, in the 1990s. Ironically, Stiers had replaced Linville on the show, and neither they nor their characters had ever met - but Winchester's last comment in the last regular episode had been about Major Burns.
The nickname "ferret face" that was used to describe his Frank Burns character M*A*S*H was coined up by his own brother.
Chose not to renew his _"M*A*S*H" (1972)_ (qv) contract because "I felt I had done everything possible with the character" of Frank Burns. Said later that the fifth season (his last) had been hardest for him, since Frank no longer had 'Loretta Swit' (qv)'s character Hot Lips on his side, leaving him to bear the brunt of the insults alone. Even stopped attending dailies, because Linville was tired of seeing his character as the butt of so many jokes.

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