Michael Burns

TV Actor

Michael Burns was born in Long Island, New York, United States on December 30th, 1947 and is the TV Actor. At the age of 76, Michael Burns biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, TV shows, and networth are available.

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Date of Birth
December 30, 1947
Nationality
United States
Place of Birth
Long Island, New York, United States
Age
76 years old
Zodiac Sign
Capricorn
Profession
Actor, Historian, Television Actor
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College of William and Mary, University of California, Los Angeles, Yale University
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Spouse(s)
Elizabeth Topham Kennan (m. 1986)
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1
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Michael Burns Career

Burns was discovered by Lee Wallace, the head of casting for 20th Century Fox, who arranged Burns' debut on the 1960 episode, "A Taste of Lobster" of The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis; Burns played a shrewd 13-year-old businessman, Chrissie Tyler, who owned a babysitting agency. He also guest starred that first year (1960) in Wagon Train as the son of title character Leslie Nielsen in the episode “The Jeremy Dow Story” (S4E14).

He co-starred in a 19-episode NBC comedy/drama It's a Man's World (1962–63 season) as 14-year-old Howie Macauley. Beginning in the fall of 1960 Burns would make five guest appearances on Wagon Train during its third and fourth seasons. His sixth guest appearance on the final sixth season episode in 1963 would introduce his character, Barnaby West, a regular until the series' end in 1965.

Burns appeared with James Stewart in Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation, a 1962 film. In 1965, Burns auditioned for The Monkees and was one of the 14 finalists who completed screen tests. In 1966, he joined Audie Murphy in the western film, 40 Guns to Apache Pass. He appeared as a guest star in over thirty-five series during the 1960s and 1970s, mostly Westerns, including Gunsmoke, The Virginian, The Road West, The Legend of Jesse James and The Big Valley. In his twenties, he appeared in several films, including Journey to Shiloh (1968), The Private Navy of Sgt. O'Farrell (1968), That Cold Day in the Park (1969), Thumb Tripping (1972) and Santee (1973). He appeared as "Blue Boy" in "The LSD Story", the pilot episode of the relaunched Jack Webb police series Dragnet 1967.

In 1980, Burns became a professor of history at Mount Holyoke. In 1991 he authored, Dreyfus A Family Affair, 1789–1945, a study of the Dreyfus affair in France during the 1890s. A reviewer of Burns' book writing in The New York Times called the work "a solidly written book about the man and his family, a book that emphasises the elemental human drama of the captain's story." Upon his retirement in 2002, Burns was honoured by Mount Holyoke with the designation professor emeritus.

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