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David Burns Born June 22, 1902
New York City, New York, U.S.Died March 12, 1971 (aged 68)
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.Occupation Actor Years active 1918-1971 David Burns (June 22, 1902 – March 12, 1971) was an American Broadway theatre and motion picture actor and singer.
Burns was born on Mott Street in the Manhattan Chinatown of New York City. He made his Broadway debut in Face the Music in 1932, Cole Porter's Nymph Errant (1936) was his London debut, and he appeared in many comedies and musicals over an almost 50 year career. He won two Tony Awards for Best Featured Actor in a Musical, for his performances as "Mayor Shinn" in The Music Man and as "Senex" in A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum. Burns introduced the hit song "It Takes a Woman" from Hello, Dolly as the original "Horace Vandergelder".
David also won an Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor – Drama Series for his role of Mr Solomon in the 1971 TV episode (Hallmark Hall of Fame) "The Price".
He died on stage, of a heart attack, in Philadelphia during the out-of-town tryout of Kander and Ebb's musical 70, Girls, 70.
Contents
Work
- Stage
- The Man Who Came to Dinner (1939–1941)
- Pal Joey (1940–1941)
- Oklahoma! (1943)
- Billion Dollar Baby (1945)
- Cole Porter's Out of This World (1950)
- Alive and Kicking (1950)
- Two's Company (1952)
- A Hole in the Head (1957)
- The Music Man (1959)
- Do Re Mi (1960–1962)
- A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (1963)
- Hello, Dolly! (1964)
- Make Mine Manhattan
- The Price (1968–1969)
- Art Buchwald's Sheep On The Runway (1970)
- Lovely Ladies, Kind Gentlemen as "Colonel Purdy" (1970–1971)
- Films
- The Path of Glory (1934)
- Crime Over London (1936)
- Sidewalks of London (1938)
- The Return of Carol Deane (1938)
- Hey! Hey! USA! (1938)
- I Killed the Count (1939)
- She Couldn't Say No (1939)
- The Gang's All Here (1939)
- Deep in My Heart (1954)
- It's Always Fair Weather (1955)
- Let's Make Love (1960)
- The Tiger Makes Out (1967)
- Who Is Harry Kellerman (1971)
- Television
- The Imogene Coca Show (1955)
Awards
- Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Musical
- 1959 Meredith Willson's The Music Man
- 1963 A Funny Thing Happened On the Way To the Forum
Further reading
- Oderman, Stuart, Talking to the Piano Player 2. BearManor Media, 2009. ISBN 1-59393-320-7.
- Grabman, Sandra, Spotlights & Shadows: The Albert Salmi Story. BearManor Media, 2004. ISBN 1-59393-001-1.
External links
- David Burns at the Internet Broadway Database
- David Burns at the Internet Movie Database
- Who's Who in Musicals
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor – Drama Series (1959–1975) Dennis Weaver (1959) · Roddy McDowall (1961) · Albert Paulsen (1964) · James Daly (1966) · Eli Wallach (1967) · Milburn Stone (1968) · James Brolin (1970) · David Burns (1971) · Jack Warden (1972) · Scott Jacoby (1973) · Michael Moriarty (1974) · Will Geer (1975)
Complete List · (1959–1975) · (1976–2000) · (2001–2025) Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Musical (1947–1975) David Wayne (1947) · Myron McCormick (1950) · Russell Nype (1951) · Yul Brynner (1952) · Hiram Sherman (1953) · Harry Belafonte (1954) · Cyril Ritchard (1955) · Russ Brown (1956) · Sydney Chaplin (1957) · David Burns (1958) · Russell Nype (1959) · Tom Bosley (1960) · Dick Van Dyke (1961) · Charles Nelson Reilly (1962) · David Burns (1963) · Jack Cassidy (1964) · Victor Spinetti (1965) · Frankie Michaels (1966) · Joel Grey (1967) · Hiram Sherman (1968) · Ron Holgate (1969) · René Auberjonois (1970) · Keene Curtis (1971) · Larry Blyden (1972) · George S. Irving (1973) · Tommy Tune (1974) · Ted Ross (1975)
Complete list · (1947–1975) · (1976–2000) · (2001–2025) Categories:- 1902 births
- 1971 deaths
- American actors
- American stage actors
- Deaths from myocardial infarction
- Deaths onstage
- Emmy Award winners
- People from Chinatown, Manhattan
- Tony Award winners
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