TheIntruder
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Speaking of Frank, I couldn't stand him when I watched M*A*S*H for the first time. But watching him in reruns, I found myself respecting the actor tremendously. It takes a lot of talent to play the role of the bad guy/butt of every joke.
How true this is I don't know, but it is in Larry Linville's IMDB profile:
Chose not to renew his M*A*S*H (1972) 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's character Hot Lips on his side, leaving him to bear the brunt of the insults alone. He even stopped attending dailies, because he was tired of seeing his character as the butt of so many jokes.
Same.
I was tore up whenCol. Blake's plane got shot down...
McLean Stevenson had other reasons for leaving, and the producers made sure it would be final. 🙂

but I can’t unsee Dan Levy as David Rose, but as Nicki in this lol.



