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Mike Burns (born 1973) is an American film director, GRAMMY nominated songwriter, and music executive . He was a member of EDM production duo "Interstate".
Mike Burns is a versatile creative who has worked on over 40 films and TV shows as a director, producer, music supervisor, and composer. He has collaborated with stars like Bruce Willis, Nicholas Cage, and Keanu Reeves, and has been nominated for a Grammy for his music production.
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Mike Burns (born 4 May 1952) is an English actor best known for his role as Colin Weatherby in the BBC leisure centre sitcom The Brittas Empire. His stage name was Michael Burns, from his first on-screen credit in 1977 until mid-1993, including in the first three series of The Brittas Empire, and Mike Burns from mid-1993 onward.
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Michael Thornton Burns was born in Mineola, New York, on Long Island, a village in Nassau County to director and producer Frank Xavier Burns (best known for the early television series, Martin Kane, Private Eye) and Mary Lou DeWeese. He has an older sister, Pamela.[citation needed] In 1949, the family moved to Yonkers. In 1956, the family relocated...
Actor
Burns was discovered by Lee Wallace, the head of casting for 20th Century Fox,[citation needed] who arranged Burns's appearance 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. His first credited appearance occurred on Alfred Hitchcock Presents in the 1959 episode "Special Delivery" (Season 5 Episode 10) as Joe. He also guest-starred that first year (1960) in Wagon Traina...
Historian
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's book writing in The New York Times called the work "a solidly written book about the man and his family, a book that emphasizes 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.
While on the faculty at Mount Holyoke College, Burns wed the college's then-president, Elizabeth Topham Kennan in June 1986. She has a son, Frank Alexander Kennan, from her previous marriage. Since 2002, the couple have resided in Danville, Boyle County, Kentucky, where they have restored the Cambus-Kenneth Estate, a crop, cattle, and thoroughbred ...
Books
1. France and the Dreyfus Affair: A Documentary History(1998) 2. Dreyfus: A Family Affair, 1789–1945(1991) 3. Rural Society and French Politics: Boulangism and the Dreyfus Affair, 1886–1900(1984)
Reviews
1. Michael Burns, "Local Hero: How a provincial laborer became a reformer in 19th-century France", The New York Times, October 8, 2000.
Michael Burns at IMDbMichael Burns at AllmovieAs sporting director, Burns will report to Vermes. Burns spent the final two seasons of an eight-year MLS career in Kansas City. Three years after the midfielder’s last season, Burns joined New ...
Mike Burns is a film director, music supervisor, and Grammy nominated music Producer. He has worked on several films, TV shows, and commercials, and launched his own production company in 2018.
17 hours ago · KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) — Sporting Kansas City hired longtime New England Revolution general manager Mike Burns as its sporting director Friday as the MLS club tries to turn around a freefall that has left it near the bottom of the Western Conference.
