David Burns (actor)
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David Burns (June 22, 1902 – March 12, 1971) American Broadway theater and motion picture actor and singer.
Born on Mott Street in the Manhattan Chinatown of New York City. He made his Broadway debut in Face the Music in 1932, Cole Porter's Nymph Errant (1936) was his London debut, and he appeared in many comedies and musicals over an almost 50 year career. He won two Tony Awards for Best Featured Actor in a Musical, for his performances as "Mayor Shinn" in The Music Man and as "Senex" in A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum. Burns introduced the hit song "It Takes a Woman" from Hello, Dolly as the original "Horace Vandergelder".
He died on stage, of a heart attack, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania during the out-of-town tryout of Kander and Ebb's 70, Girls, 70.
[edit] Work
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[edit] Awards
Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Musical
- 1959 Meredith Willson's The Music Man
- 1963 A Funny Thing Happened On the Way To the Forum
[edit] External links
- David Burns at the Internet Broadway Database
- David Burns at the Internet Movie Database
- Who's Who in Musicals
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