Major Franklin Delano Marion "Frank" Burns is a fictional character in the M*A*S*H M*A*S*H was a media franchise active, in various forms, from 1968 to 1986. Owned in its film and television incarnations by 20th Century Fox, the series concerns a group of fictional characters who served at the fictional 4077th Mobile Army Surgical Hospital during the Korean War, loosely based on M*A*S*H 8055th. The original incarnations of the film and television series M*A*S*H is an American television series developed by Larry Gelbart, adapted from the 1970 feature film MASH . The series is a medical drama/black comedy that was produced in association with 20th Century Fox Television for CBS. It follows a team of doctors and support staff stationed at the 4077th Mobile Army Surgical Hospital in Uijeongbu, South. Burns first appeared in the original M*A*S*H novel by Richard Hooker H. Richard Hornberger was an American writer and surgeon, born in Trenton, New Jersey, who wrote under the pseudonym Richard Hooker. His most famous work was MASH (1968), written in collaboration with W.C. Heinz, and which became the basis for a successful movie and television series, where he had the rank of captain. The character was then portrayed in the film by Robert Duvall Robert Selden Duvall is an American actor and director. He has won an Academy Award, two Emmy Awards, and four Golden Globe Awards. He began his career appearing in theatre during the late 1950s, moving into small to supporting television and film roles during the early 1960s in such works as To Kill a Mockingbird (1962) and Captain Newman, M.D. (1, and in the television series by Larry Linville.
The character is only slightly different in all versions; the original Burns was a borderline incompetent and egotistical doctor who blamed others for his own shortcomings (a trait also shared by both his film and television portrayals). In the film he is also a brooding religious fanatic, and on television he was an officious, frenetic, pompous twit obsessed with military order.
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