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Frank was the best character on that show.
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Exactly... Larry Linville (aka Frank Burns) was a real, honest, classically trained Shakespearean actor, who decided to get involved with Sitcoms/Comedy TV shows.
Read a bunch of those M*A*S*H websites about the characters, who they were (on scene) and who were really were (in real life).
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Frank Burns/Larry Linville -- was actually greatly admired and appreciated on set. Well liked, and everyone respected his talent. He just had to portray a complete A-hole of a character for comedy effect. But it soon got to be too much, and he bailed out.
Radar O'Reilly/Gary Burghoff -- was the complete opposite of Frank Burns character and/or real life persona. The cast were trained to actually love Radar, but in real life, off the set, off camera, nobody got along with Gary Burghoff, as he was a short 5' something dickhead. Gary Burghoff owned a large piece of land or sprawling farmland or whatever in Connecticut, but yet M*A*S*H was filmed in California. SO he would have to fly back and forth and back and forth... and back and forth.... and it got to be too much, and he took it out on the cast and crew.