Tony Burton
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Anthony Mabron "Tony" Burton (March 23, 1937 – February 25, 2016) was an American actor, boxer, and footballer.
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Early life
Burton was born in Flint, Michigan. Loretta was his younger sister. He was a graduate of Flint Northern High School and a two-time all-state football champion. He played halfback at Northern University. He scored 13 touchdowns and led his team in scoring in 1954. Many of his scoring runs were over 50 yards or more. That year, he gained 820 yards rushing, and one of his runs was for 95 yards. He was one of the first teams of the All City and All Valley squads that year as a halfback. He was also named as an All State honorable mention. He was the team's co-captain and Most Valuable Player. Burton led his team in yards gained and receiving yards. He gained 213 total yards in one game against Grand Rapids Catholic. Burton, a teenager at Northern, was also the best baseball pitcher, pitching the team to the city championship championships.
Personal life
Burton lived in California for 30 years. He attended Immanuel Baptist Church in Highland, California. From 1980 to his death, he was married to Aurelain (Rae). Both of the family's sons died of heart disease at the age of 43 on May 8, 2014. Juanita and Christal had two daughters, Juanita and Christal.
Burton was a natural chess player. Stanley Kubrick was defeated by him on the set of The Shining, in which Burton portrayed Larry Durkin, the garage owner. Burton recalled his first day on the set when speaking with Kubrick biographer Vincent LoBrutto:
Burton was inducted into the Greater Flint Afro-American Hall of Fame in 1993.
Burton had been hospitalized for the last year of his illness, according to his sister. He died at the age of 78 from pneumonia problems at a hospital in Menifee, California, on February 25, 2016.
Career
Burton's boxing career included the Flint Golden Gloves light heavyweight championship in 1955 and 1957. Burton won the State Golden Gloves Light Heavyweight Championship in 1957 and lost in the Chicago Tournament of Champions semi-finals. He fought as a professional boxer in 1958 and 1959. During that time he was knocked out by knockout artist, Lamar Clark, who holds the record for most consecutive knockouts at 44.
After his brief professional boxing career, Burton served more than three years in a Chino, Calif., prison for robbery. The acting exercises he performed as part of a therapy program helped steer him into an acting career after his release. NEA's Frank Sanello in March 1988:
More specifically, one of the skills acquired at Chino landed Burton his wife, Rae, whom he met on a TV repair house call. Moreover, a workshop in the prison, that used psychodrama as a form of therapy, pointed Burton towards his acting career, when an emotional breakthrough achieved by one of his partners in an acting exercise dramatically demonstrated theater's potential power.
After prison, Burton started getting work with small theater companies in and around Los Angeles, garnering favorable notices early on.
A life member of the Actors Studio, Burton numbers among his many credits a co-starring role in Frank's Place and parts in films, such as Stir Crazy and The Toy. He also appeared as Wells, one of the prisoners trapped in the besieged police station in John Carpenter's 1976 Howard Hawks-inspired action film, Assault on Precinct 13. He later starred in the Rocky films as a trainer to Apollo Creed (Carl Weathers) and Rocky Balboa (Sylvester Stallone). He appeared in an episode of Gibbsville in 1976. Burton also appeared in The Shining, House Party 2, and Hook. He had guest appearances in Kojak, The Rockford Files, CHiPs, Twin Peaks, and The A-Team. Burton also guest starred as Conrad King Baylor on In the Heat of the Night in the episode "King's Ransom", which aired in January 1990.