Loretta Swit and Larry Linville of MASH

[@tomsampson8084]

Larry probably had the most difficult character to play. He did it to perfection.

[@aj2isotadxing]

I agree 100%.

[@benvad9010]

Larry was an incredible actor, a very clever man who studied aeronautical engineering at the University of Colorado at Boulder before applying for a scholarship to the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts (RADA) in London. Stage work: More Stately Mansions Playbill - Nov 1967 MORE STATELY MANSIONS OPENED OCTOBER 31, 1967 AS JOEL HARFORD (ORIGINAL) AS SIMON HARFORD (UNDERSTUDY - ORIGINAL) RUMORS OPENED NOVEMBER 17, 1988 AS GLENN COOPER (REPLACEMENT)

[@BladeObssession]

They're all good though. Ya gotta love em

[@mackermaldrill2656]

He was priceless as ferret face.

[@marko7843]

I really hoped he wouldn't get typecast, because he did a Rockford Files during the run of MASH that showed he could play a totally opposite, cold, intellectual character...

[@donmcallister3745]

Frank Burns: “ It’s nice to be nice to the nice “ 😆😛😆 🌜🌞🌛

[@bobma6342]

Margaret: "It’s nice to be nice to the nice?" Frank: "Just making conversation, Margaret." Margaret: "Try doing it with your mouth closed."

[@bradwallace6222]

Larry Linville, LEDGEND. Thank you Mr Linville. Rest in peace Sir.

[@terminat1]

Legend.

[@hawlikd]

Got to love Larry's 1970's leisure suit and long side burns eh!

[@11C1P]

Did you not notice how everyone else was dressed? Not to mention the afro.

[@Kaharris.96]

Never have so many suffered so much so that so few could be so happy. F. Burns.

[@CaesarDarias]

The character of Frank Burns was the funniest part of MASH. It wasn’t the same after Larry Linville departed.

[@Rufat_Turabov]

Absolutely right. My favourite actors in MASH are Larry Linville and M. Stevenson ( colonel Blake)

[@dscott351]

But he was right to leave. there was nowhere to go with the character. Impossible to turn Frank Burns into a sweetheart of a guy.

[@amiblueful]

I just found out recently that the reason Larry left was because the show was taking a more serious turn and he didn't think the character of Frank fit in any longer.

[@RosieGaelic]

He should have won an EMMY!

[@jesper856]

I couldnt agree more. Larry Linville was great as Frank Burns.

[@johnurban7333]

It’s sweet how much she likes Larry. Two very nice people.

[@Rick62153]

Hot Lips: “Isn’t that Frank’s bag?”. Trapper: ”I thought you were Frank’s bag”.

[@chriscosby2459]

Frank Burns and Colonel Flagg were my favorite characters on MASH.

[@ronaldshank7589]

Ah, yes. Colonel "I'll do anything to serve my Country, even if I've gotta break an arm or a leg to do it" Flagg! This guy definitely had a lot more than one or two screws loose, that's for sure!

[@caveman4598]

Colonial Flagg probably ordered his own chopper to crash with him in it

[@chriscosby2459]

@@caveman4598 Colonel Flagg was a great American.

[@dee_dee_place]

My favorite was Sidney Freedman. I loved Allan Arbus. It's sad to realize how many people associated with MASH are no longer with us.

[@ronnie7075]

Larry must be the most underrated actor ever. He played a difficult role brilliantly, and we all took him for granted. I loved all those characters on that show, and the writing was excellent. I think it is sad he didn't go on to bigger and better Movie parts.

[@jesper856]

I agree every word

[@KeithJackson-ux7eh]

Agreed. I grew up hating the guy. And now can appreciate the talent it took to do that 🫡👏👏👏

[@bufnyfan1]

Interestingly Larry Linville was beloved by the MASH cast and crew but played a detestable character. Yet Gary Berghoff wasn't liked very much off camera but played a beloved character

[@richmotroni]

Because he had the most difficult and challenging character to play, Larry Linvile was the best actor in the show.

[@1223steffen]

Linville was great

[@jesper856]

Larry and Loretta had great chemistry on the show. You can tell they got along well

[@cd3694]

She also had great chemistry with Wayne Rodgers, Trapper John

[@kgarrett1404]

I could listen to these two great characters talking for hours! I wish they had left the cameras rolling after the interview had ended.

[@mondobondo49]

Switt keeps answering for Linville just like on the show.

[@ronaldshank7589]

I noticed that. How, and why, did Mr. Linville put up with that?!?

[@dee_dee_place]

IKR. It is very annoying. I do have to say that Loretta Switt is a great actress though. I saw her in a one-woman play, "Shirley Valentine" & she was wonderful.

[@USArmyKorea]

Major Frank Burns is right up there with Ralph Kramden, Barney Fife, Archibald Bunker, and Cosmo Kramer; one of the great characters. Linville was perfection.

[@jimcoleman598]

Totally agree with those listed, and I would add Louie DePalma from Taxi.

[@rsjmd]

excellent comparisons as to type of characters, including Louis DePalma

[@patrickschabel3955]

Well said about Larry Linville😊

[@jollyjohnthepirate3168]

Linville was really a aeronautical engineer by training. His character was limited and couldn't change.

[@victoriamedley1351]

I always felt that no one else could play the part of Frank Burns better than Larry Linville, I loved his character ❤❤😂

[@blockmasterscott]

What’s amazing is that Larry was a kind and intelligent man. From what I read, all the cast loved Larry.

[@bxpress6507]

"Air raid! Air raid!"😂😂

[@ronaldshank7589]

He runs outside, goes to turn a corner, trips over the sandbags, and SPLASH!!!!! Well...at least Dr. Sidney Friedman and Capt. B. J. Hunnicut got a great laugh out of it!!!

[@TS-1267]

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[@TS-1267]

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[@blockmasterscott]

You tell’em Ferret Face! Frank Burns eats worms!

[@dontwanttojoingoogle1799]

I've heard that Larry Linville was a super nice guy IRL. He must have been one helluva actor, because he did Frank to perfection.

[@paulsmodels]

Larry had the hardest part on that show, and then came David to take his place, and he was was insanely great.

[@ronaldshank7589]

Larry Linville's character, Major Frank Burns, could be a real hard-head, most of the time. However, there were a few attempts, where he tried to "Fit in". Major Charles Emerson Winchester was a snobby, rich, well-to-do Major, that detested the very SIGHT of the people of the 4077th M*A*S*H...at least at first. Gradually, though, he settled into their routines, and learned to "Grin and bear it". He could be surprisingly human, and even somewhat humorous at times, but mainly, he stuck to being somewhat of a "Stuffed Shirt". That was ok, though. In his own way, he fit right in. Also:He had Major Frank "Ferret-face" Burns beat all to pieces, when it came to his surgical skills. In my opinion, he could run CIRCLES around Major Frank Burns, any time he wanted to!

[@bruce8808]

Frank calls Hawkeye a Twerp. Hawkeye turns to signal a group of Koreans to say in unison "YOU TELL EM FERRET FACE".

[@user-zd9yn5mz1f]

This was an early one. Never saw it before. Fun watching Linville slip in and out of character.

[@jasonbaber1526]

Best actor of the bunch was Larry Linville. Had to play the most difficult part

[@HeRacesTheSun]

"Air Raid !! ... Air Raid !!

[@rossapolis]

This is from 1973/74.

[@philiphughes3967]

Agreed about LL. He was absolutely brilliant in that series.

[@justenseifer9346]

The Blake seasons were the best!!!!😂😂

[@seymourscagnetti1413]

The scene where Radar walks into the O.R. and announces: "Lieutenant Colonel Henry Blake's plane was shot down over the Sea of Japan, it spun in, and there were no survivors", was one of the most dramatic scenes in television history. Just another example of the brilliant writing. F.y.i. that episode is titled: "Abyssinia, Henry". R.I.P. - Edgar McLean Stevenson Jr. (November 14, 1927 - February 15, 1996)

[@teecee1567]

Larry was the complete antithesis of Frank Burns. Universally loved by all the cast and crew.

[@jackb348]

Pioneer Aviation! Pioneer Aviation!

[@KeithJackson-ux7eh]

Shhhhhhhhh. You want everyone to know??😜😜

[@ronaldshank7589]

Major Burns, to Major Houlihan:"Gold, Margaret, Gold"!!! Turns out that Hawkeye and Trapper had acquired some gold paint, and painted a bunch of small rocks, and then they placed 'em by the River Bed, in order to fool Frank. It worked!

[@bruce8808]

Major Frank (there goes my transfer) Burns.

[@jond1965]

Original cast made the show. And these 2 were a big part of that.

[@grahamwride1240]

Both wildly talented ... Linville is the best!

[@r.s.204]

It's so weird seeing him look so 70s here

[@charlesbaldo]

I saw him on Howard Stern, they asked him the motivation for Frank Burns, he said, I thought of every idiot in my life that I could

[@MiltonMetzArchive]

That explains so much!

[@HappyBanjo-oc3pc]

I’ve been watching M*A*S*H sine I was about twelve years old and I think Larry Linville was better at playing his character than anyone else played their character. Larry Linville was a master at making you hate Frank Burns.

[@KeithJackson-ux7eh]

Grew up hating the guy and can now appreciate the extreme talent it took to do that. Everyone always says he was the opposite of his character

[@carolynm8421]

I'm sure he got a few people walking up to him treating him like he WAS Frank Burns which, of course, he was not and, indeed, I recall seeing him on other shows before Mash. They really loved each other as friends which is nice to know. Mash was such a gift to us all.

[@84sp84]

I’ve always felt bad for Larry, in playing Frank Burns so well, he ended up hopelessly typecast. Generally the rest of his career was spent with Frank type characters. It was obvious he was immensely talented, but rarely got to fully display the range I’m certain he could’ve shown.

[@brianarbenz1329]

He left M*A*S*H because they would not expand and develop the Frank Burns character in the way he wanted them to. It was probably too many years into the character's run to make Frank more fully human, and it was also too late for Larry's career options, as he had been type cast.

[@Victor-cr5rr]

I always felt bad for his character the other actors got to grow there characters like hot Lipps but frank burns stayed the same

[@marko7843]

I think Berghoff had it even worse. As the show wore on they infantilized him. In season 1 he's drinking Henry's brandy and smoking his cigars, and getting some of the good jokes. He ends up with a teddy bear and always seeming to be a setup for others' jokes... and he was hysterical out of character on Match Game!

[@paulnkiki68]

Larry Linville would of been a great acting teacher. I have seen him in pre-MASH roles on series like Mission: Impossible and Adam-12 and he showed great range.

[@sandybiltz2476]

I love watching this just for sake Loretta Switt had a true friendship with Larry Linville. Good to know. Plus seeing Linville out of character, brilliant actor! Switt ,brilliant as well! Love M*A*S*H*!!!!❤

[@gregoryyoung7551]

Behind the scenes, the cast loved Larry and respected him. It was Radar that was the problem.

[@ronaldshank7589]

Why "Radar" stayed as long as he did, is beyond me. If he hated the show that badly, then why did he stick around for so long?

[@mycitywasgone4216]

@@ronaldshank7589 MONEY 💰

[@terminat1]

Gary Burghoff. Radar is a fictional character.

[@simfaithguitar1]

@@ronaldshank7589$$$$

[@trv411]

I've seen a Mike Farrell interview where he says, "We were sad to see Radar leave, but we weren't sad to see Gary leave."

[@JL-is9rg]

Frank: Sir, I think the Chinese have captured Maj. Houlihan. Col. Potter: I see. So naturally, you shot Capt. Hunnicut.🤣 🤣 Harry Morgan was a gem. I don't think he got enough credit for his role and in particular for how he delivered some of these one liners. I loved him.

[@MiltonMetzArchive]

Harry was a veteran of many sitcoms and brought his usual dry wit and unmistakable voice to make Col. Potter a great part

[@GothGuy885]

off subject, but I went to HS with Harry Morgan's Grandson .

[@henrysalami7593]

Thank you for loading. Growing up it was hard to separate actor from character .. now just love the actors .. especially Larry linville such wonderful slapstick and role playing.

[@chrismaggio7879]

Despite all the stars and characters, I have to say that I remember a majority of all the turmoil revolved around Frank and his actions and responses to others. Brilliant!

[@speakeasy19]

Larry’s speaking voice reminds me of Johnny Carson.

[@johncopeland3826]

Man ,those actors on the MASH set must have bounded out of bed in the morning to get to their work ! A true labor of love ! To be on that set each day must have been the funniest working experience possible...a true riot of the happiest kind . There must have been multiple takes for scenes constantly interrupted by outpouring of laughter ? Oh to have been a fly on the wall there ?

[@justenseifer9346]

"Oh knock it off you foul balls"!!!!😂😂😂😂...

[@brianarbenz1329]

I miss Milton and Faith, the best duo on local TV talk shows. Both were savvy and brilliant, and easy to watch and enjoy.

[@markforster6457]

This is the only time I saw them. IMHO: They had no sense of timing and they had no filter. Their questions were poorly thought out and poorly worded and this affected Loretta and Larry, and not in a good way.

[@bluebluesky3170]

I think what threw them of was Loretta going too far, and interrupting everyone. The male interviewer didn't even attempt to hide his disdain. I love Loretta but she does tend to speak over people in interviews.

[@sergioleone3583]

@@markforster6457 Never seen them before either, but this milton guy seems to be full of himself, to say the very least.

[@paulkitt-er9dr]

Great interview. Larry seems so different from Frank Burns it is a great tribute to him as an actor that he helped create one of TV's finest characters.

[@uhf001]

"M*A*S*H" is the star"...don't tell Alan Alda

[@davidderitis9068]

Such a candid interview from the early days of MASH. I really appreciate them and the show a lot better after seeing this: the Korean war has been called "the forgotten war" for many reasons, and I really believe that M*A*S*H helped in a big way to remove that stigma and bring the horrors of the war, well all war, to a lot of us, while adding "a spoonful of sugar" to it in the form of the zany comedy that came with every episode. Many thanks to ALL of our veterans and the sacrifice you gave for us!

[@MiltonMetzArchive]

You make a good point. While the show was a dramedy, it also educated people about the realities of war in general and the Korean conflict in particular

[@colefd]

Those two were perfect!

[@wendyfrench7503]

I loved all of them.

[@anorthosite]

Wounded Exchange w/ N Korea; Ultra-tense scene; Frank grabs for "gun"; Turns out, it's a teeny Derringer; Mako/NK Major Lin Tann (laughing): "whuh - WHUT da HELL is DATT ?!?" My favorite (funny) moment in the series ("and if you don't like it: I've got Others").

[@KeithJackson-ux7eh]

My fav was frank saying colonial I think the Chinese have kidnapped major hoolihan!!!! Right so naturally you shot captain hunnicut 😂😂

[@ADAMSIXTIES]

Hints to when this was filmed: McLean Stevenson left in 1975. 3:55 "Moved to a new time slot" which was Saturday at 8:30 beginning Season 2 Sept. 15th, 1973. . 6:00 She's talking about Freebie and the Bean which ended filming June 1973. Based on this I'd say this was filmed summer '73. By the way I met the real Hotlips: Sally Kellerman

[@kevinfitzmaurice4072]

Filmed by WHAS-TV, then the CBS affiliate in Louisville.

[@MarvelousLXVII]

Wow when I first looked at this I thought Larry was Buzz Aldrin--they really favored each other.

[@dannyboy8336]

FARRIT FACE!!!🤣

[@DoctorShocktor]

Pay heed people: It’s amazing that Larry and Loretta here profess that “MASH” is the star, not any of the individual actors”, when that is specifically why Wayne Rogers, McLean Stevenson, and probably Larry Linville left the show! Alan Alda became the star by far, and all of those actors wanted to either reboot or expand their careers. This also happens in life, co-workers, friends, relatives, will readily speak BS right to your face, or take advantage of you while stating that they are looking out for you. The universe owes you nothing, remember that and always look out for yourself.

[@drewlovelyhell4892]

Wonderful to see such affection between Swit and Linville. From all accounts, he was extremely intelligent, and somewhat frustrated with his dim-witted character.

[@marisalombardi385]

Great show! Great cast! ❤Alan Alda❤

[@TheGeorgiaMediaGroup]

Frank was a wonderful human

[@magneto7930]

You have to be a brilliant actor to play the part of Frank Burns. For me, he was the best part of the show!

[@thejoyofthemusicinmylife7897]

What a contrast of Frank Burnes to seeing Larry Linville out of his character and just being himself.

[@ericscottstevens]

Almost like Frank got divorced and he Margaret got married after the Korean war to became actors. They still were in their character inside a modern hotel in the 1970s.

[@MiltonMetzArchive]

Funny

[@bcbock]

“Hot Lips” would have scolded the interviewers that her name is MAJOR Margaret Houlihan.

[@Robert08010]

Its odd to me that they would mention Will Gear and not mention The Waltons, another CBS show that started the same year. They acted like they didn't want to talk about him.

[@gaylemalone5897]

Will Gear! Another great actor that he is related to

[@raymondwilson293]

Larry was the best part of the show ❤️🙏

[@Rufat_Turabov]

Even here he is playing 😊

[@PeterDavid7KQ201]

Larry sounds a bit like Kelsey Grammer.

[@PrinzMidas]

You can get Linville out of Burns, but apparently you can't get Burns out of Linville.

[@mcbean1234]

Those reporters are actin like a couple of Nosey Nate’s!

[@scottmcneely1927]

That building looks like something out of Clockwork Orange.

[@MiltonMetzArchive]

Actually the Hyatt Regency in Atlanta

[@hawlikd]

MAJ Frank Burns was one of favorite characters on Mash. Once he left the show, it was not as good.

[@robertellis4938]

After Henry and Trapper left, it was not as good.

[@baldrick6071]

Love how they switch in and out of character here.

[@catherineerwin8269]

It’s nice to be nice to the nice… Frank Burns

[@jehobden]

I wonder if anyone has a copy of Larry's script. He's not credited with writing any episodes, but maybe it was close to being filmed. McLean Stevenson received partial credit for "The Army-Navy Game" and full credit for "The Trial of Henry Blake".

[@KeithJackson-ux7eh]

I grew up passionately hating Larry linville. And now I can appreciate the amazing talent of a nice guy being such a good actor he made you hate him 🫡

[@JimBoIndy]

Is Larry sitting next to an ashtray? ... Lol... Great job producing this scene 😅

[@rogerwilliams3747]

“Ohhhhh. You guys!”

[@camw9133]

Larry was the best actor on the show, the complete opposite irl from his character and ppl irl actually booed him because he played his role so well

[@johnperrigo6474]

Great to hear these two, but what a strange place to conduct an interview.

[@MiltonMetzArchive]

It was part of a junket, in which CBS brought a number of stars to a hotel for interviews by several TV stations. Space was at a premium

[@chrisst8922]

Wow, they're so close aren't they.

[@Joe26003]

People complain about this actor left or that actor left and the character that replaced the one that left wasn't as good or dynamic as the first character. What I discovered after serving in the Navy, MASH was true to the military when it comes to personnel. When one person transfers and someone is ordered in to replace them, they are never the same person they replaced. In the military, you are not staying in one place for ever. You transfer to a new station or get out of the military. The dynamic of a command is never the same every day. There is always something.

[@mackermaldrill2656]

Larry should had just milked it until the end. He was the foil and the series changed, in my opinion not for the better, after he left. I preferred the character of Frank Burns to Charles Emerson Winchester.

[@markcornish2519]

I say amen to that sentiment

[@jimd2463]

Frank / Larry was the BEST

[@hayleyscocoabear100]

I was sad to see Larry go.Radar was the next one,I hated to see leave.They all brought something to the how,I think.Interesting mix of characters and there was some really funny scenes and some more dramatic scenes that were very good.The death of Henry was very dramatic.Radar delivering the news,and at first,I did not want to give the new people a chance,but,I learned to love their characters.Even Charles delivered some funny an dramatic scenes.The one about the stuttering soldier and then finding out his sister stuttered.The final episode,where the Musican gets killed,and Charles had a hard time with that.The one where he thought he was married,was funny and the episode where he donated expesive chocolate to the orphans,at Christmas,and the guy running the place sold it on the black market,to buy rice and cabbage to feed them,for a month.

[@jaywilson4520]

This is great to see. I wonder where this interview took place.

[@MiltonMetzArchive]

In Atlanta, at the Hyatt during a round robin of stars from CBS shows

[@jaywilson4520]

@@MiltonMetzArchive Ah, thanks for sharing that.

[@davemacpherson4752]

Larry Linville was 1 of 3 or 4 Actors to play a Police Contact to Private Investigator Mannix on Mannix. 1) Joseph Campanella. 2) Larry Linville. 3) Robert Reed ( Doing double duty on the Brady Bunch and Mannix, which I think is why he was absent from two or three Episodes. ) I think there may have been a 4th Actor to play the Police Contact on Mannix, before Joseph Campanella………. I’m always surprised that Larry never got another Police Role after M.A.S.H. ……maybe typecast…….. Then you have Bad Guy Role Actors like William Smith, Robert Davi, Leslie Neilson, Benicio Deltorro, etc. who later got Good Guy Roles, Comedy Roles…….

[@caveman4598]

Colonial Flagg ordered his chopper pilot to crash with him in it to get admitted to mash to spy on them in one scene classic extremely popular here in Australia I love every minute of mash all the cast extremely funny

[@rosskstar]

Larry makes an astute point at the end, it's like the corn kernel of a great idea, delivered by a Mud Monkey, mmk

[@carcar78]

Milton Metz, who was one of the finest interviewers on TV and radio, still seemed “gun shy” in this segment after the previous year’s debacle with more of the cast of M*A*S*H* who ganged up on him during their promo video seen on Omelet. Wow that was long ago!

[@MiltonMetzArchive]

Metz thought the previous interview with the MASH cast so funny that he often used the tape during speeches he gave

[@hawlikd]

It would be hard to play a character who everybody hates!

[@bobdakers3794]

These two out of character are fun!

[@bruce8808]

I think Trapper was the one who told Colonel Flagg "I wouldn't eat the Bacon if I were you, you'll spend a week in the Latrine." Flagg: "What about the Sausage?" Trapper: " 2 weeks". LOL. Flagg always thought he could outsmart Hawkeye and Trapper/ B.J. later on. Colonel Flagg had so many recurring guest appearances on M*A*S*H throughout the seasons its too bad he couldn't have his spinoff series later on back in stateside alongside with the other short series After Mash where he could be stateside and it could've been called Colonel Flagg and his Bumbling Troops, another similar parody of Hogans Heroes with the oblivious Colonel Klink.

[@birsay123]

Judging by Larry’s lapels I would say ‘75.

[@peterjames174]

frank was the best part of mash, Charles was a pain in the butt,

[@TheSaturnV]

Linville kind of reminding me of Bryan Cranston here.

[@MiltonMetzArchive]

I never thought of that but now I can see it

[@11C1P]

I've always heard really nice guys play creeps & jerks the best. Larry Linville must have been one of the nicest guys ever, cause Frank Burns was one of the creepiest jerks in TV history.

[@Filip80008]

What year is this???