Frank Gorshin Gorshin portrayed comedian George Burns on Broadway in the one-man show "Say Goodnight, Gracie" (2002), which was nominated for a 2003 Tony Award for best play and was reunited with several of his "Batman" colleagues in the television movie "", in which he appeared as himself. Gorshin died on the day of the telefilm's DVD release. He played the strict legendary Harvard Law School Professor, John H. Keynes, in the Korean drama "Love Story in Harvard" (2004), and voiced villain Hugo Strange in three 2005 episodes of "The Batman" animated series. He also voiced the characters Marius and Lysander in
The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show a wisecrack: "The boy was produced by Burns and Allen." Starting in the fall of 1955, Burns and Allen often reappeared after the end of the episode, before a curtain decorated with the names and locations of the various theaters where they headlined in their vaudeville days. They would perform one of their signature "double routines", often discussing one of Gracie's fictional relatives (including "Death Valley Allen" the prospector, "Florence Allen" the nurse, "Casey Allen" the railroad man). Burns always ended the show with, "Say goodnight, Gracie", to which Allen simply replied, "Goodnight." She never said, "Goodnight, Gracie", as legend