David Burns
Birthday: Born in 1901-06-22 in New York City, New York, USA
Deathday: 1971-03-12
TV Credits
The Merv Griffin Show
Character: Self
The Merv Griffin Show is an American television talk show, starring Merv Griffin. The series ran from October 1, 1962 to March 29, 1963 on NBC, September 20, 1965 to August 15, 1969 in first-run syndication, from August 18, 1969 to February 11, 1972 at 11:30 PM ET weeknights on CBS and again in first-run syndication from February 14, 1972 to September 5, 1986....
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Character: Gregory Solomon
Hallmark Hall of Fame is an anthology program on American television, sponsored by Hallmark Cards, a Kansas City based greeting card company. The longest-running primetime series in the history of television, it has a historically long run, beginning during 1951 and continuing into 2013. From 1954 onward, all of its productions have been shown in color, although color television video productions were extremely rare in 1954. Many television movies have been shown on the program since its debut, ...
Then Came Bronson
Character:
Then Came Bronson is an American adventure/drama television series starring Michael Parks that aired on NBC from 1969 to 1970, and was produced by MGM Television. The series, created by Denne Bart Petitclerc, began with a movie pilot on Monday, March 24, 1969. The series was approved for one year and began its first run on September 17, 1969. The pilot was also released in Europe as a feature film....
The Trials of O'Brien
Character: The Great McGonigle
The Trials of O'Brien is a 1965 television series starring Peter Falk as a sordid Shakespeare-quoting lawyer and featuring Elaine Stritch as his secretary and Joanna Barnes as his ex-wife. The series ran for only 22 episodes. Among its guest stars: Milton Berle, Robert Blake, David Carradine, Faye Dunaway, Britt Ekland, Tammy Grimes, Buddy Hackett, Gene Hackman, Frank Langella, Angela Lansbury, Cloris Leachman, Roger Moore, Rita Moreno, Estelle Parsons, Joanna Pettet, Brock Peters, Tony Robert...
The Ed Sullivan Show
Character: Self
The Ed Sullivan Show is an American TV variety show that originally ran on CBS from Sunday June 20, 1948 to Sunday June 6, 1971, and was hosted by New York entertainment columnist Ed Sullivan. It was replaced in September 1971 by the CBS Sunday Night Movie, which ran only one season and was eventually replaced by other shows. In 2002, The Ed Sullivan Show was ranked #15 on TV Guide's 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time....
Movie Credits
Let's Make Love
Character: Oliver Burton
When billionaire Jean-Marc Clement learns that he is to be satirized in an off-Broadway revue, he passes himself off as an actor playing him in order to get closer to the beautiful star of the show, Amanda Dell....
The Queen's Affair
Character: Manager
'Ruritania. Incognito president falls in love with incognito queen he deposed.' (British Film Catalogue)...
That Goes Double
Character: Manny Stein
Complications ensue when a singer discovers he has a double in this musical short film....
The Gang's All Here
Character: Beretti
John Forrest is anticipating a quiet retirement spent penning detective fiction when he learns that a priceless collection of jewels belonging to a foreign potentate, Prince Homouska, has just vanished from the safekeeping of the Stamford Assurance Company. Aided by his butler, his Cockney assistant and his (initially) unwilling wife, Forrest sets out on the trail of the thieves....
The Saint in London
Character: Dugan
Suave soldier of fortune Simon Templer gets mixed up with a gang of counterfeiters who've murdered and robbed an European count of 1,000,000 pounds. He is aided reluctantly by Scotland Yard inspector Teal, who's convinced that Templar himself pulled off the heist, and less reluctantly by light-fingered Dugan and dizzy socialite Penny Parker....
Who Is Harry Kellerman and Why Is He Saying Those Terrible Things About Me?
Character: Leon Soloway
A hit pop songwriter, who cannot love himself or others, spends his days with various women flying his plane, and dropping in to the world around him....
Knock on Wood
Character: Marty Brown
Ventriloquist Jerry Morgan has failed with another love affair. The reason: when the relationship reaches the point when it is time to discuss marriage, his two dolls become mean and jealous. Morgan's dollmaker Papinek is a member of a spy ring who has stolen the secret plans for the top-secret Lafayette airplane. Since Morgan is leaving for Zurich the same night, he decides to hide the secret plan in the heads of the dolls....
Eggs
Character: (voice)
The spirits of life and death go for a drive in this darkly humorous fantasia featuring an original score by Quincy Jones....
Rendezvous
Character: German-Speaking Bellhop (uncredited)
A decoding expert tangles with enemy spies....
St. Martin's Lane
Character: Hackett
On the sidewalks of the London theater district the buskers (street performers) earn enough coins for a cheap room. Charles, who recites dramatic monologues, sees that a young pickpocket, Libby, also has a talent for dancing and adds her to his act. Harley, the theater patron who never knew Libby took his gold cigarette case, is impressed by Libby's dancing and invites her to bring Charles and the other buskers in his group to an after-the-play party. Libby comes alone. A theatrical career is la...
Hey! Hey! USA
Character: Tony Ricardo
While working as a porter Benjamin Twists mistakenly ends up on a cruise ship heading for the USA. Upon landing on the American coast Twist takes up work as a professor....
The Price
Character: Gregory Solomon
After the Great Depression, Victor Franz gave up going to college to support his father. After 30 years, Victor returns to sell his parents’ estate. His wife, Esther, his brother, Walter, and a canny furniture dealer have their own agendas. Victor must finally deal with his sacrifice....
All American Drawback
Character: Game Announcer
The Dean and Board of Flunk Well College are arguing with its football coach, Bergen, about the team's star player, Charlie McCarthy, who is the only reason the team is a winning one, but who isn't doing well academically and could be pulled from the team if his grades and behavior don't improve. In other words, Charlie is a dummy in more ways than one. Beyond other problems Coach Bergen has with Charlie concerning the coach's girlfriend Joan, Coach Bergen has to get Charlie prepared to pass an ...
A Girl Must Live
Character: Joe Gold
A run-away school-girl falls among chorus girls planning to marry into the nobility....
A Gentleman's Gentleman
Character: Alfred
A valet thinks his master is a murder, and tries a little blackmail....
It's Always Fair Weather
Character: Tim
Three World War II buddies promise to meet at a specified place and time 10 years after the war. They keep their word only to discover how far apart they've grown. But the reunion sparks memories of youthful dreams that haven't been fulfilled -- and slowly, the three men reevaluate their lives and try to find a way to renew their friendship....
Deep in My Heart
Character: Lazar Berrison, Sr.
Biographic movie about the American composer Sigmund Romberg....
De Luxe Annie
Character: Joe - Grocery Clerk
A 1918 film directed by Roland West....
Once Upon a Horse...
Character: Bruno de Gruen
Two zany cowboys steal a herd of cattle only to discover it costs more to feed them than they are worth....
Crime Over London
Character: Sniffy
With the police on their tail, a gang of New York criminals decided to relocate to London where they plan a major robbery on a department store....
The Tiger Makes Out
Character: Mr. Ratner
During a typically disaster-filled day, Ben Harris, an angry and frustrated bachelor mailman living in a cluttered Greenwich Village basement, learns he has been paying rent to a woman who hasn't owned his building in 6 years. No longer able to endure the injustices of society, he decides to activate the ferocious tiger within himself by abducting a helpless female and dragging her back to his lair....
Move
Character: Doorman
A young playwright who writes porno novels to overcome a writer's block, lives the fantasies of one of his books, while trying to move with his wife from one apartment into a larger one....
Four Boys and a Gun
Character: Television man
The moving story of four young men struggling against overwhelming odds to remain honest. When their crooked employer shorts their earnings; they turn to crime, their first theft ending in tragedy....
Mirror, Mirror Off the Wall
Character: Linkoff
A down-on-his-luck writer publishes a best-selling, but lurid novel under a pseudonym and discovers that his fictional personae has suddenly appeared and taken on a life of his own....
Spring Handicap
Character: Amos
A wife tries to prevent her husband, a miner, from gambling away the money he receives as an inheritance....