Actor

Brendan Burns

Producer/Screenwriter/Actor has worked extensively in film, television and the theater, opposite such luminaries as Robert DeNiro, Tommy Lee Jones, Marisa Tomei, Kathleen Quinlan and Stephen Hopkins to name a few.

Paramount Pictures optioned Burns original screenplay, "VTV" with William Sackheim producing and Burns receiving the rewriting assignment. Burns developed "The Atomic Veteran", a MOW based on the original play for Jaffe/Braunstein Films. Mr. Burns' original screenplay, "Devil Jocks" was optioned by James Keach and Emerald Eyes Productions with Burns executive producing. His story and treatment "Hidden Valor" - "Women of the SOE", was first optioned by the producing team of Sanford/Pillsbury.

Notable work

6.2
Blown Away (1994)
as Kevin
5.3
Monkeybone (2001)
as Detective #1

Often works with

Bonnie Bartlett
2 titles together
The Last Tycoon, A Long Way Home
William Smith
2 titles together
Hawaii Five-O, Code Red
Rosanna Arquette
2 titles together
A Long Way Home, The Ordeal of Patty Hearst
Redmond Gleeson
2 titles together
St. Helens, The Ordeal of Patty Hearst

Full filmography · 14

Monkeybone
as Detective #1
20015.3
Blown Away
as Kevin
19946.2
Fear
as Merle Johnson
1988
Uncommon Valor
as Grant
1983
St. Helens
as David Crockett
1982
A Long Way Home
as Driver
1981
Maeve
as Soldier
1981
The Ordeal of Patty Hearst
as Cujo
1979
The Last Tycoon
as Assistant Editor
19766.3
Angels Hard as They Come
as Tim
1971