Michael Burns is a former child actor who went on to a distinguished career as a historian, writer, and college professor. He is now retired and raising thoroughbred horses in Kentucky. He was familiar to television audiences of the early 1960s as the teenage character, "Barnaby West", on the popular Wagon Train (1957) series. After other TV and ...
November 29, 1952, Garden City, New York, United States
Place Of Birth
Mineola, Long Island, New York, USA
Profession
Actor
Education
University of California, Los Angeles, Yale University
Spouse
Elizabeth Topham Kennan
Parents
Frank Burns
Star Sign
Capricorn
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Fact
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Retired from teaching at Mount Holyoke College in 2002. He now resides in Kentucky with his wife, former Mount Holyoke president Elizabeth Topham Kennan, raising thoroughbred horses. [2004]
Retired in 2002 from his faculty position at Mount Holyoke College, completing a 22-year career there. He and his wife moved to Kentucky and restored a historic horse farm in Kentucky and is now on the National Register of Historic Places.
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He has abandoned acting to become a college professor. According to the dust jacket of his book "Dreyfus", he "teaches Modern European History at Mount Holyoke College in Massachusetts. He holds degrees from the University of California and Yale University."
Actor
Title
Year
Status
Character
Worlds Beyond
1986
TV Series
William Purvis
Police Woman
1977
TV Series
Powers
The Tony Randall Show
1977
TV Series
Michael
The Bionic Woman
1977
TV Series
Carl Franklin
The Magnificent Magical Magnet of Santa Mesa
1977
TV Movie
Freddie Griffith
Most Wanted
1976
TV Series
Bobby Boone
The Streets of San Francisco
1973-1976
TV Series
Barry Jensen / Ron Harris / Oren 'O.P.' Prentiss
Petrocelli
1974
TV Series
Billy Fletcher
The Manhunter
1974
TV Series
Bobby Lee Dickerson
Young Love
1974
TV Movie
Peter
Barnaby Jones
1974
TV Series
Brian Elder
Love, American Style
1972-1973
TV Series
Randy Hollingshead (segment "Love and the Unwedding") / Carol (segment "Love and the Perfect Set-Up") / Wilbur (segment "Love and the Mail Room") / ...
Santee
1973
Jody
Brock's Last Case
1973
TV Movie
Stretch Willis
Mod Squad
1973
TV Series
Rick Landis
Thumb Tripping
1972
Gary
Insight
1967-1972
TV Series
Pete / Douglas Hendricks / Mitch / ...
Sarge
1972
TV Series
Michael Grear
Gidget Gets Married
1972
TV Movie
Jeff Stevens
Medical Center
1969-1971
TV Series
Carl Harris / Greg Sorenson
Hawaii Five-O
1971
TV Series
Bill
The Partridge Family
1971
TV Series
Paul Bruner
The Doris Day Show
1971
TV Series
Peter
The Virginian
1966-1971
TV Series
Will Benson / Toby Hamilton / Seth aka Scott / ...