Fred Burns


Actor

About

Birth Place
Fort Keogh, Montana, USA
Born
April 24, 1878
Died
July 18, 1955

Biography

Fred Burns was an actor who had a successful Hollywood career. Burns started his acting career landing roles in such films as "The Martyrs of the Alamo" (1915) with Sam De Grasse, "The Good Bad Man" (1916) and "Ruth of the Rockies" (1920). He also appeared in "The Outlaw Express" (1926), "Wild to Go" (1926) and "The Overland Stage" (1927). He continued to act in productions like th...

Biography

Fred Burns was an actor who had a successful Hollywood career. Burns started his acting career landing roles in such films as "The Martyrs of the Alamo" (1915) with Sam De Grasse, "The Good Bad Man" (1916) and "Ruth of the Rockies" (1920). He also appeared in "The Outlaw Express" (1926), "Wild to Go" (1926) and "The Overland Stage" (1927). He continued to act in productions like the western "Men Without Law" (1930) with Buck Jones, the western "Near the Trail's End" (1931) with Bob Steele and "The Sunrise Trail" (1931). He also appeared in the Tom Mix western "Flaming Guns" (1932). Film continued to be his passion as he played roles in the Roy Rogers western "Southward, Ho!" (1939), "The Arizona Kid" (1939) with Roy Rogers and the Roy Rogers western "Days of Jesse James" (1939). He also appeared in "Colorado" (1940) and "Sunset on the Desert" (1942) with Roy Rogers. Burns was most recently credited in the comedy "Stuck on You" (2003) with Matt Damon. Burns passed away in July 1955 at the age of 77.

Filmography

 

Cast (Feature Film)

Stuck on You (2003)
Fred (1988)
Himself
In Old Sacramento (1946)
Miner
Mojave Firebrand (1944)
Idaho (1943)
Supervisor
Raiders of Sunset Pass (1943)
Ranch hand
Song of Texas (1943)
Field judge
The Man from Music Mountain (1943)
Prescott
A Lady Takes a Chance (1943)
Team driver
Silver Spurs (1943)
Driver
The Lone Prairie (1942)
Stage driver
Sunset on the Desert (1942)
Jim Prentiss
Shadows on the Sage (1942)
Sheriff
Heart of the Golden West (1942)
Clem Buffington
Man from Cheyenne (1942)
Harry
Sons of the Pioneers (1942)
Rancher
Sunset Serenade (1942)
Langdon
Affairs of Jimmy Valentine (1942)
Westerner
Stardust on the Sage (1942)
Rancher
Sheriff of Tombstone (1941)
Mine owner
Jesse James at Bay (1941)
Seth
Bad Man of Deadwood (1941)
Colorado Jack Breen
Nevada City (1941)
Railroad worker
Sunset in Wyoming (1941)
Rancher
In Old Cheyenne (1941)
Settler
Ridin' the Cherokee Trail (1941)
Wyatt
Roaring Frontiers (1941)
Stage driver
Red River Valley (1941)
Rancher
Colorado (1940)
Sheriff Harkins
Thundering Frontier (1940)
Hank Loomis
The Arizona Kid (1939)
Melton
The Thundering West (1939)
Coach driver
Days of Jesse James (1939)
Sheriff
Call of the Rockies (1938)
Murdock
Rio Grande (1938)
Jackson
Trailin' Trouble (1937)
Sheriff [Jake Jones]
Springtime in the Rockies (1937)
Harris
Outlaws of the Prairie (1937)
Hank
Two Fisted Sheriff (1937)
Stagecoach guard
Too Much Beef (1936)
Judge
Oh, Susanna! (1936)
California Mail (1936)
Ferguson
The Trail of the Lonesome Pine (1936)
The Tolliver clan
The Law of 45's (1935)
Sheriff
Border Vengeance (1935)
Sheriff
Texas Tornado (1934)
Sheriff
War of the Range (1933)
The Dude Bandit (1933)
Sheriff
Trailing North (1933)
Jim Powers
War on the Range (1933)
Law and Lawless (1932)
Blane
Partners (1932)
Sheriff
The Saddle Buster (1932)
Dan Hurn
Flaming Guns (1932)
Sheriff
Arizona Terror (1931)
Sheriff
Freighters of Destiny (1931)
Sheriff
Branded (1931)
Second sheriff
Sunrise Trail (1931)
Sheriff
Mountain Justice (1930)
Sandy McTavish
Parade of the West (1930)
Copeland
Fighting Thru; or California in 1878 (1930)
Sheriff
Headin' North (1930)
U. S. marshal
The Mounted Stranger (1930)
Steve Gary
Men Without Law (1930)
Sheriff Jim
Breed of the West (1930)
Townsman
Rio Rita (1929)
Wilkins
The California Mail (1929)
John Harrison
The Overland Stage (1927)
Butterfield
The Galloping Gobs (1927)
The sheriff
The Outlaw Express (1926)
"Borax" Jones
The Unknown Cavalier (1926)
Sheriff
The Haunted Range (1926)
Charlie Titus
Without Orders (1926)
Uncle "Jody" Miller
Wild To Go (1926)
Simon Purdy
Triple Action (1925)
Chief of rangers
O. U. West (1925)
Jazebel Crawley
Speed Wild (1925)
Red Dugan
The Demon Rider (1925)
Jim Lane
The Breed of the Border (1924)
Deputy Leverie
The Western Wallop (1924)
Marshall Malloy
Cyclone Jones (1923)
Jack Thompson
Shadows of Conscience (1921)
Sheriff Bowers
Ruth of the Rockies (1920)
Bound in Morocco (1918)
Chief of the bandits
Vengeance and the Woman (1918)
The Eyes of the World (1917)
Brian Oakley
The Hero of the Hour (1917)
Foreman
Sunlight's Last Raid (1917)
Bill Warned
The Fighting Trail (1917)
The Good Bad Man (1916)
Sheriff
Sold for Marriage (1916)
A policeman
Jordan Is a Hard Road (1915)
The Martyrs of the Alamo (1915)
Captain Dickinson
The Birth of a Nation (1915)

Animation (Feature Film)

The Cosmic Eye (1985)
Animator

Cast (Short)

The Sunday Round-Up (1937)

Life Events

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