Full Name | Larry Linville |
Net Worth | $800,000 |
Date Of Birth | September 29, 1939 |
Died | April 10, 2000, New York City, New York, United States |
Place Of Birth | Ojai, California, USA |
Height | 1.85 m |
Occupation | Actor |
Profession | Actor |
Education | Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, University of Colorado Boulder |
Nationality | American |
Spouse | Deborah Guydon, Susan Hagan, Melissa Gallant, Vana Tribbey, Kate Geer |
Children | Kelly Linville |
Parents | Fay Pauline Kennedy, Harry Lavon Linville |
Nicknames | Larry Linville, Linville, Larry |
IMDB | http://imdb.com/name/nm0513271 |
Movies | Earth Girls Are Easy, The Night Stalker, Rock 'n' Roll High School Forever, C.H.U.D. II: Bud the C.H.U.D., School Spirit, Blue Movies, Body Waves, The Stepmother, Kotch, No Dessert, Dad, till You Mow the Lawn, The Misery Brothers, Night Partners, Pressure Point |
TV Shows | Paper Dolls, M*A*S*H, Herbie, the Love Bug, Checking In, Grandpa Goes to Washington, Mannix |
Star Sign | Libra |
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1 | Attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art from 1959 - 1961. His fellow classmates included future actors Ian McShane, David Warner, and John Hurt. |
2 | Admitted in a TV Guide interview in the 1970s that he was a lifelong insomniac, sleeping only a few hours every several days. |
3 | Spent eight years in repertory with the Association of Producing Artists in New York, the Barter Theater in Virginia and the San Diego Shakespeare Festival. |
4 | His lifelong hobby was designing and flying gliders. |
5 | Ex-brother-in-law of Ellen Geer, Thad Geer and Ed Flanders. |
6 | Ex-uncle-in-law of Ian Geer Flanders. |
7 | Frequently played stuffed-shirt characters; an interesting exception was when he appeared as a wise, all-powerful genie on Fantasy Island (1977). |
8 | The nickname "ferret face", that was used to describe his "Frank Burns" M*A*S*H (1972) character, was coined up by his own brother. |
9 | 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. Even stopped attending dailies, because Linville was tired of seeing his character as the butt of so many jokes. |
10 | 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. |
11 | Contrary to his much-maligned character Frank Burns, Linville was actually well-liked by his M*A*S*H (1972) cast-mates. He and Gary Burghoff 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. |
12 | Linville and actor David Ogden Stiers, 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. |
13 | Selected to appear opposite Ingrid Bergman on Broadway because, he said, he was one of the few actors tall enough to play opposite her. |
14 | After college, he applied for a scholarship to the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts in London, England; he was one of three Americans out of 300 applicants to win. |
15 | His ex-wife, Kate Geer, was the daughter of Will Geer and Herta Ware. |
16 | Underwent surgery to remove part of his lung after doctors found a malignant tumor under his sternum. [February 1998] |
17 | Los Angeles Times 4/11/00 reports Linville, who died at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center is survived by his wife, Deborah Linville. |
18 | His only child, Kelly Linville (born 1970), is a photo technician in L.A. |
19 | Studied at London's Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts |
20 | Studied aeronautical engineering at the University of Colorado |
21 | Was raised in Sacramento, California |
Title | Year | Status | Character |
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Night Court | 1991 | TV Series | Dr. Nagelson |
C.H.U.D. II: Bud the Chud | 1989 | | Dr. Jewell |
Blue Movies | 1988 | | Dr. Gladding |
Starting from Scratch | 1988 | TV Series | Brandon Shepherd |
Earth Girls Are Easy | 1988 | | Dr. Bob |
The Law and Harry McGraw | 1987 | TV Series | Andrew Paxton |
School Spirit | 1985 | | President Grimshaw |
Riptide | 1985 | TV Series | Edgar Harrison |
Airwolf | 1985 | TV Series | Clinton Maxwell |
Misfits of Science | 1985 | TV Series | Gen. Theil |
Paper Dolls | 1984 | TV Series | Grayson Carr |
Night Partners | 1983 | TV Movie | Chief John Wilson |
Herbie, the Love Bug | 1982 | TV Series | Randy Bigelow |
Fantasy Island | 1980-1982 | TV Series | 'Joe' Jonofoceles Armeniums Aristofeles / Jerome Pepper / Fred Webster |
The Girl, the Gold Watch & Dynamite | 1981 | TV Movie | Wesley Reins |
Checking In | 1981 | TV Series | Lyle Block |
The Jeffersons | 1981 | TV Series | Lyle Block |
Aloha Paradise | 1981 | TV Series | |
The Love Boat | 1979-1981 | TV Series | Ty Younger Lou Hayman |
Lou Grant | 1980 | TV Series | Thatcher |
A Christmas for Boomer | 1979 | TV Movie | Jack |
CHiPs | 1979 | TV Series | Carlin |
Supertrain | 1979 | TV Series | Jack Nordoff |
Grandpa Goes to Washington | 1978-1979 | TV Series | Maj. Gen. Kevin Kelley |
Barnaby Jones | 1978 | TV Series | Tom Watkins |
The Rockford Files | 1977 | TV Series | Dr. Eric Albach |
Calling Doctor Storm, M. D. | 1977 | TV Movie | Dr. Jim Storm |
M*A*S*H | 1972-1977 | TV Series | Maj. Frank Burns |
Rickles | 1975 | TV Movie | Maj. Frank Burns |
Kolchak: The Night Stalker | 1975 | TV Series | Captain Jonas |
The Stepmother | 1972 | | Dick Hill |
Search | 1972 | TV Series | Hugh Emery |
Cannon | 1972 | TV Series | Ed Barrows |
The Sixth Sense | 1972 | TV Series | Roger Carver |
O'Hara, U.S. Treasury | 1972 | TV Series | Det. Ed Pierce |
Adam-12 | 1972 | TV Series | Sgt. Hugh Brasher |
The Night Stalker | 1972 | TV Movie | Makurji |
Bunny O'Hare | 1971 | | Max (Collector #1) |
Night Gallery | 1971 | TV Series | Sloane (segment "The Academy") |
Kotch | 1971 | | Peter Stiel |
Men at Law | 1971 | TV Series | |
Vanished | 1971 | TV Movie | Walters (as Lawrence Linville) |
The F.B.I. | 1969-1970 | TV Series | George Franciscus / George Tremont |
The Young Lawyers | 1970 | TV Series | Bud Morton |
Mannix | 1968-1970 | TV Series | Lieutenant George Kramer Detective Sergeant George Kramer |
Mission: Impossible | 1969-1970 | TV Series | Colonel Leo Orlov / Alexi Silensky / Capt. Gulka |
The Young Rebels | 1970 | TV Series | Reverend Wells |
Here Come the Brides | 1970 | TV Series | Harry Miles |
Room 222 | 1969 | TV Series | Counselor |
Marcus Welby, M.D. | 1969 | TV Series | Dr. Beck / Doctor |
Bonanza | 1969 | TV Series | Lieutenant Will Tyler |
The Outsider | 1969 | TV Series | Floyd Hendricks |
Judd for the Defense | 1968 | TV Series | Martin Lederer |
The Doctors | 1968 | TV Series | Paul |
West from North Goes South | 2004 | | Rev. Lowell |
Great Performances | 1999 | TV Series | Everett Baker |
Pressure Point | 1997 | | Neil Kennedy |
Fast Track | 1997 | TV Series | |
Fatal Pursuit | 1995 | | Shelby |
Murder, She Wrote | 1985-1995 | TV Series | Paige Corbin / Lt. Steven Ames / Prof. Kent Radford |
Angel's Tide | 1995 | | |
No Dessert, Dad, Till You Mow the Lawn | 1994 | | J.J. |
A Million to Juan | 1994 | | Richard Dickerson |
Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman | 1993 | TV Series | Grover Cleveland |
Body Waves | 1992 | | Himmel |
A Different World | 1992 | TV Series | Sen. Hutchinson |
Nurses | 1992 | TV Series | Mr. Garrett |
Dream On | 1991 | TV Series | Uncle Danny |
Rock 'n' Roll High School Forever | 1991 | | Principal McGree |
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