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Barbara Stanwyck, Michael Burns, and Colleen Dewhurst in The Big Valley episode "A Day of Terror" (1966). Michael Thornton Burns (born December 30, 1947) is an American professor emeritus of history at Mount Holyoke College, [2] and a published author and former television and film teen actor, most known for the television series Wagon Train.
Burns was born in Woodside, Queens, New York, the son of Edward J. Burns, a police officer and public relations spokesman, and Molly (née McKenna), a federal agency manager. [1] He was raised a Roman Catholic. [2] [3] Burns is the second of three children (with siblings Mary and Brian) and is of Irish, and one-quarter Swedish descent. [4]
Paul E. Burns (January 26, 1881 – May 17, 1967) [1] was an American actor, who had a very lengthy career on film and television, although mostly in bit parts. He played Ebenezer Hawkins in Son of Paleface (1952), Latitude Bucket in The Royal Mounted Rides Again (1945), and Jim the Caretaker in The Mummy's Tomb (1942).
William DeWolf Hopper Jr., was born January 26, 1915, in New York City. [2] He was the only child of actor, singer, comedian, and theatrical producer DeWolf Hopper and his fifth wife, actress Hedda Hopper (born Elda Furry). He had a half-brother, John A. Hopper, from his father's second marriage in the 1880s. [3]
George Burns (born Nathan Birnbaum; January 20, 1896 – March 9, 1996) was an American comedian, actor, writer, and singer, and one of the few entertainers whose career successfully spanned vaudeville, radio, film, and television. His arched eyebrow and cigar-smoke punctuation became familiar trademarks for over three-quarters of a century.
In other cases the surname Burns originated as a nickname meaning "burn house". [2] In other cases, the surname Burns is an Anglicised form of the Irish Ó Broin, [1] which means "descendant of Bran". [3] In some cases the surname Burns is an Americanized form of the Jewish surname Bernstein, [1] which is derived from the German bernstein ...
Burns was born Stephan William Burns on November 14, 1954, in Elkins Park, Pennsylvania, and grew up in the small town of Chews Landing, New Jersey. As soon as he graduated high school, Burns moved to New York City to study theater. He worked odd jobs during the day to pay for his rent and the acting classes he attended at night.
Larry Linville (left) with the cast of M*A*S*H (1974). When the television series M*A*S*H was picked up for production in early 1972, Linville signed a five-year contract for the role of Major Frank Burns, an ill-tempered, inept surgeon who embraced military discipline with a cartoonish overzealousness.