Michael Thornton Burns (born December 30, 1947) is a professor of American history at Mount Holyoke College, as well as a published author and former child and television actor.
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Michael Thornton Burns was born in Mineola, New York on Long Island, a suburb of New York to the director and producer Frank Xavier Burns (best known for the early television series Martin Soe Private Eye and Mary Lou DeWeese. She has an older sister, Pamela.
In 1949, the family moved to Yonkers, New York. In 1956, the family moved to Beverly Hills, California, where she attended Beverly Hills High School. He studied for a year at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia before he moved to UCLA, whom he attended mostly after work hours while still working as an actor for a few days and living in Redondo Beach.
He graduated Phi Beta Kappa summa cum laude in 1976 with a Bachelor of Arts in history. He later obtained a Master of Arts degree in European history at the same institution. In 1977, he entered Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, from where he received his Ph.D. in modern European history.
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Careers
Actor
Burns was invented by Lee Wallace, head of the cast for 20th Century Fox, who set up Burns's debut in the 1960 episode, "A Taste of Lobster" from
Burns appear with James Stewart Sir. Hobbs Carrying Vacation , a 1962 movie. In 1966, he joined Audie Murphy in the western movie, 40 Guns to Apache Pass . He appeared as a guest star in over thirty-five series during the 1960s and 1970s, mostly Westerners, 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), Cold Day in the Park (1969), Thumb Tripping (1972) and Santee (1973 ). She appeared as "Blue Boy" in "The LSD Story", the pilot episode of the re-launched Jack Webb series Dragnet 1967 .
Historian
In 1980, Burns became professor of history at Mount Holyoke. In 1991, he wrote, Dreyfus A Family Affair, 1789-1945 , a study of Dreyfus affairs in France during the 1890s. A reviewer of Burns's book writing in The New York Times called the work "a solid book written about the man and his family, a book that emphasizes the elemental human drama of the captain's story." After retiring in 2002, Burns was honored by Mount Holyoke with professor emeritus designation.
Next life
While at the faculty at Mount Holyoke College, Burns married former university president, Elizabeth Topham Kennan in June 1986. He has a son, Frank Alexander Kennan, from a previous marriage. Since 2002, the couple lived in Danville, Boyle County, Kentucky, where they have restored Cambus-Kenneth Estate, a ranch, cattle and horse race listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
He is a member of the Thoroughbred Club of America, owner and breeders, and the Kentucky Breeders Association.
A Democrat, Burns is a donor to then US Senator John Kerry in the 2004 presidential election and Daniel Mongiardo, a party candidate for the US Senate from Kentucky that same year. Kerry and Mongiardo lost to Republican George W. Bush and Jim Bunning, respectively.
Scholarships
Books
- French and Dreyfus Affair: A Documentary History (1998)
- Dreyfus: A family affair, 1789-1945 (1991)
- French rural and political society: Boulangism and Dreyfus affairs, 1886-1900 (1984)
Reviews
- Michael Burns, "Local Hero: How provincial workers became reformers in 19th-century France", The New York Times , October 8, 2000.
Select filmography
- Police Woman - Power (1977)
- Bionic Women - Carl Franklin (1977)
- The Streets of San Francisco (1973-1976)
- Love, American Style (1972-1973)
- Santee - Jody (1973) With Glenn Ford
- Thumb Tripping - Gary (1972)
- Partridge's Family - Paul (1971) "The Undergraduate"
- Hawaii Five-O - William T. Shem, Jr. (Episode 78, 1971)
- Then_Came_Bronson Billy Mulavey (Episode 16, 1970)
- The Virginian (6 episodes 1966-1971)
- Gunsmoke - Arlie Joe (1968-1970)
- Cold Day in the Park - Boy (1969)
- Dragnet 1969 - Joy Riders as Harold Rustin (1969)
- Crazy Space - George Hardy (1969)
- Private Navy Sgt. O'Farrell - Private Johnny Bannon (1968)
- Journey to Shiloh - as Eubie Bell (1968)
- The Great Valley - Danny Wiggins (1968)
- Daniel Boone - Cal Trevor in the episode "The Spanish Horse" (1967)
- Dragnet 1967 - Benjie "Blueboy" Engraver in "The LSD Story" with Robert Knapp (1967)
- Dundee and the Culhane - Nugget Hughes in "The 1000 Feet Deep Brief" (1967)
- Bonanza - Donny Benson in the episode "Children of Napoleon" (1967)
- Insights - six episodes from 1967 to 1972, last as Douglas Hendricks in '"Nobody Likes Rich Uncle"
- The Great Valley - Lon Morton (1966)
- Bonanza - Jamie in the episode "The Trouble with Jamie" (1966)
- Wagon Train - Barnaby West (28 episodes (1960-1965)
- Kraft Mystery Theater - Little Bob Longstreet in the episode of â € Å"Shadow of a Manâ € (1963)
- This Human World - Howie Macauley (1962-1963)
- "Mr. Hobbs Carries the Holiday" - Danny Hobbs (1962)
- The Twilight Zone - Paul Stockton on "The Shelter" (1961)
- The Tall Man - Danny in "Ransom of a Town" (1961)
- Wagon Train - Homer Banning in "The Odyssey of Flint McCullough" (02/15/1961)
- Wells Fargo Stories - Billy Matson in "Frightened Witness" (1960)
- Shotgun Slade - in "The Missing Dog" (1960)
- Wrangler - Clary Browning in the episode "The Affair with Browning's Woman" (1960)
- Many People Love Dobie Gillis - Chrissie Tyler in the episode "A Taste For Lobster" (1960)
Note
External links
- Various biographies
- Michael Burns on Wagon Train
- Fans with photos
- Michael Burns on IMDb
- Michael Burns at Allmovie
Source of the article : Wikipedia
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