Larry Linville Biography

Fast Facts

• Attended the University of Colorado, where he majored in Engineering
• Studied acting at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts in London on a scholarship
• Performed with a local theater group while in college, where he starred in "The Glass Menagerie․"
• Quote: "(On the doctors and the hospital that inspired "M*A*S*H"): "We were like a plastic representation of real people․""
• After attending drama school, he returned to California and spent eight years in repertory theater
• Best known for his role as Major Franklin Marion Burns in "M*A*S*H․"
• Starred opposite Ingrid Bergman in the play "More Stately Mansions" on Broadway and in Los Angeles
• His childhood hobby was designing and flying gliders