Michael Burns

Michael Burns was born on Dec 30, 1947 in USA. Michael Burns's big-screen debut came with Wrangler - Season 1 directed by David Lowell Rich in 1960, strarring Clary Browning. Michael Burns is known for The Andersonville Trial directed by George C. Scott, Cameron Mitchell stars as General Wallace and William Shatner as Col. Chipman. The upcoming new tvshow Michael Burns plays is The Tony Randall Show - Season 2 which will be released on Sep 23, 1976.

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 La grande caravane (1957) series. After other TV and film credits in his late teens and early 20s, Burns left acting to pursue his interest in history, graduating from the University of California. He earned a Ph. D. from Yale University in 1977 and wrote an acclaimed history book, "Dreyfus", about the Dreyfus Affair. Between 1980-2002, Burns was a professor of history at Mount Holyoke College in Massachusetts.