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Edward Burns
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Director, Producer, Screenwriter, Executive Producer, Actor
Born:
January 29, 1968
Biography:One of a number of American independent filmmakers launched to prominence in the '90s by virtue of their success at the Sundance Film Festival, writer/director "Edward Burns" was born in Woodside, Queens, in 1968 and raised on Long Island. After attending Oneonta College and S.U.N.Y.-Albany, he transferred to Hunter College in New York City to study motion pictures; there he helmed a number of short films, including the 15-minute Hey, Sco! Upon graduating, Burns began working at a local news outlet and made Brandy, a 45-minute effort screened as a work in progress at the 1992 Independent Feature Film Market.

During the spring of 1993, while working as a production assistant for the television newsmagazine Entertainment Tonight, Burns began conceiving "The Brothers McMullen", a comedy focusing on the romantic troubles facing three Irish-Catholic siblings. Shot primarily in his parents' Long Island... Full Biography

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Edward Burns and Heather Graham attend the Screen Actors Guild Awards in Los Angeles on March 7,...
Katherine Heigl, center left, Edward Burns and Malin Akerman in "27 Dresses" (20th Century Fox)
Catherine McCormack and Edward Burns in "A Sound of Thunder"
Ben Kingsley and Edward Burns in "A Sound of Thunder"
Edward Burns in "A Sound of Thunder"
Catherine McCormack and Edward Burns in "A Sound of Thunder"
Edward Burns in "A Sound of Thunder"
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