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BURTON, Warren 1944

PERSONAL

Born October 23, 1944, in Chicago, IL.

Addresses: Agent Barry L. Freed, Barry Freed Company, 468 North Camden Ave., Suite 201, Beverly Hills, CA 90210.

Career: Actor and voice performer.

Awards, Honors: Daytime Emmy Award, outstanding performance by an actor in a supporting role in a daytime drama series, 1980, for All My Children; Soap Opera Digest Award nomination, outstanding actor in a supporting role on a daytime serial, 1986, for Guiding Light.

CREDITS

Television Appearances; Series:

Eddie Dorrance, All My Children, ABC, 19781979.

Jason Dunlap, Another World, NBC, 19801982.

Warren Andrews, Guiding Light, CBS, 19831987.

Major Phillip Hamilton, Santa Barbara, NBC, 19881989.

Mitch Henry, Valley of the Dolls, syndicated, beginning 1994.

Television Appearances; Movies:

Actor, The Girl Most Likely to, ABC, 1973.

Major Knapp, Humanoids from the Deep (also known as Roger Corman Presents "Humanoids from the Deep "), Showtime, 1996.

Television Appearances; Specials:

Ty, Lily for President?, CBS, 1982.

Television Appearances; Episodic:

3 Girls 3, NBC, 1977.

Sergio Pavan, "Let's Face the Music," The Facts of Life, NBC, 1988.

Dennis, "Photo Finish," Freddy's Nightmares, syndicated, 1989.

Roland Workshafter, "Television Terror," Tales from the Crypt (also known as HBO's Tales from the Crypt ), HBO, 1990.

"Nevertheless," Jake and the Fatman, CBS, 1991.

Dr. Glenning, "The Torrents of Winter," Knots Landing, CBS, 1992.

Mr. Reynolds, "The Lying Game," Designing Women, CBS, 1993.

Oscar De La Gavant, "Phantom of Fashion," Danger Theatre, Fox, 1993.

Narrator, The KennedysPower, Seduction, and Hollywood: The E! True Hollywood Story, E! Entertainment Television, 1998.

Narrator, Chris Jones: The E! True Hollywood Story, E! Entertainment Television, 1999.

Narrator, Redd Foxx: The E! True Hollywood Story, E! Entertainment Television, 1999.

Narrator, Rocked to Death: Michael Hutchence: The E! True Hollywood Story, E! Entertainment Television, 1999.

Narrator, Rock Hudson: The E! True Hollywood Story, E! Entertainment Television, 1999.

Contributed a voice to Zorro (animated; also known as The New Adventures of Zorro ), syndicated.

Television Appearances; Pilots:

Phil Crawford, Wilder and Wilder, CBS, 1978.

Painter, The First Gentleman, CBS, 1994.

Television Appearances; Other:

Mine Valley narrator, Tales of a Fly on the Wall, 2004.

Film Appearances:

Second serviceman, Baby Blue Marine, Columbia, 1976.

Greta Ga Ga, The World's Greatest Lover, Twentieth CenturyFox, 1977.

Max, Poison Ivy, New Line Cinema, 1992.

Major general Henry Heth, Gettysburg, New Line Cinema, 1993.

Voice of radio preacher, Bodies, Rest & Motion, Fine Line, 1993.

Michael Powell, Bloodfist VIII: Trained to Kill (also known as Hard Way Out ), Concorde Pictures, 1996.

Wilson, 2090 (also known as 2090: Bad Blood ), Bianco Scott Productions, 1996.

Colpart, Strategic Command, Command Productions, 1997.

Stage Appearances:

Officer, Hofburg guest, young man in cafe, lady of fashion, and understudy, A Patriot for Me, Imperial Theatre, New York City, 1969.

RECORDINGS

Video Games:

Voice of Paul Warner, Phantasmagoria 2: A Puzzle of Flesh, Sierra OnLine, 1996.

Voice of Bacatta, Lands of Lore: Guardians of Destiny (also known as Lands of Lore 2 ), Virgin Interactive Entertainment, 1997.

Voice of Runciter, Blade Runner, Virgin Interactive Entertainment, 1997.

Voice, Betrayal in Antara, Sierra Entertainment, 1997.

Voice, Lands of Lore III, Electronic Arts, 1999.

Voices of Aldwyn, Morgan, and second mine worker, Nox, Westwood Studios, 2000.

Voice of Samos Hagai the Green Sage, Jak and Daxter: The Precursor Legacy, Sony Computer Entertainment America, 2001.

Voice, Age of Mythology, Microsoft, 2002.

Voice of King Shahraman, Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time, Ubi Soft Entertainment, 2003.

Voice of Samos the Sage, Jak II: Renegade, Sony Pictures Entertainment/Sony Computer Entertainment America, 2003.

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