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| | Frank Burns - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | In the movie, Burns was portrayed by Robert Duvall, and in the series he was portrayed by Larry Linville. |
 | | The character of Frank Burns was said to be diametrically opposite of Larry Linville in real life, who was generally a friendly, courteous, well-read man. (Reportedly, Linville could also be high-strung, and this trait played into his TV character.) He based his portrayal of Major Burns on "every idiot I've ever known". |
 | | Linville, who once commented that there was actually a very dark aura hovering over Frank, believing that Frank was not all that stable yet he was still operating on patients, felt that the character of Frank Burns had gone as far as it possibly could, with the way the series had developed. |
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