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Robert John Burke
Birthday: January 17, 1955

Birth Place: Montréal, Québec, Canada
Height: 0' 0"

Below is a complete filmography (list of movies he's appeared in) for Robert John Burke. If you have any corrections or additions, please email us at corrections@actorsofhollywood.com. We'd also be interested in any trivia or other information you have.

 

Biography

Tall, chiseled-face character actor Robert John Burke has been acting since the 1970s, but he is best known to art house audiences as a regular member of New York-based director Hal Hartley's stock company of decidedly non-Hollywood actors. Born on Long Island, Burke studied acting at S.U.N.Y. Purchase in the early '70s. After he graduated from college, Burke began acting in TV, appearing on such shows as As the World Turns and Happy Days. Though he made his feature film debut in The Chosen (1981), Burke devoted his energies in the early '80s to an experimental teaching program designed to involve students directly in the arts. Burke returned to movies and TV in the latter half of the 1980s with roles in actioner Wanted Dead or Alive (1986), TV movie comedy Pass the Ammo (1989), and late-'80s dance trend vehicle Lambada (1989). Burke's fortunes began to change when he was cast in the lead role of an enigmatic ex-con who returns to his Long Island hometown in the then-unknown Hartley's first feature, The Unbelievable Truth (1990). Shot on a shoestring budget in 11 days, The Unbelievable Truth garnered positive notice for Hartley's distinctly offbeat, dark comic sensibility and his stars' deadpan, wry performances. Burke followed The Unbelievable Truth with a supporting part in the Oscar-nominated 1930s coming of age film Rambling Rose (1991) and a high-profile starring role replacing Peter Weller as the imposing eponymous cyborg law enforcer in Robocop 3 (1992). Burke stayed busy from then on, alternating between independent movies and Hollywood projects. Working with Hartley again, Burke starred as one of a pair of brothers searching for their ballplayer-turned-anarchist father in the quirky yet appealing Simple Men (1992); he played a smaller role in Hartley's troubled romance triad Flirt (1995). Burke also acted more than once with the far less celebrated independent filmmaker Eric Schaeffer, appearing in Schaeffer's industry insider comedy My Life's in Turnaround (1993) and self-indulgent romantic comedy If Lucy Fell (1996). Outside of the New York independent scene, Burke played Reese Witherspoon's African gamekeeper father in the children's adventure A Far Off Place (1993), joined the distinguished cast populating Tombstone (1993) (the Kurt Russell version of the Wyatt Earp Western legend), appeared in Oliver Stone's third Vietnam movie, Heaven and Earth (1993), and starred as the cursed obese lawyer in Stephen King's horror yarn Thinner (1996). Continuing to show his versatility in both comedy and drama, Burke joined the supporting cast of the light-hearted buddy chase movie Fled (1996) and starred as Natasha Gregson Wagner's father in the bayou love story First Love, Last Rites (1997). Burke returned to TV in the late '90s in two acclaimed HBO productions, the ambitious miniseries From the Earth to the Moon (1998) and the wrenching Vietnam War docudrama A Bright Shining Lie (1998). At the start of the 2000s, Burke reunited with Hal Hartley for the Cannes Film Festival entry No Such Thing (2001). Drawing upon his varied experience, not to mention his formidable mien, Burke played the mammal/lizard Beast to Sarah Polley's Beauty in Hartley's singular reworking of the fairy tale romance.

Movie Credits
Jack's Law (2006)
[ Jason Mewes ][ Danny Trejo ][ Brian Wimmer ]
The OH in Ohio (2006)
[ Danny DeVito ][ Paul Rudd ][ Tim Russ ]
Justice (2005)
[ Charles Durning ][ Dean Winters ][ Lenny Clarke ]
Brains (2005)
[ Dean Winters ]
Rebirth (2005)
[ Charles Durning ][ Kaj-Erik Eriksen ][ Lenny Clarke ]
Believe (2005)
[ Dean Winters ][ Larry Bagby ]
Munich (2005)
[ Steven Spielberg ][ Eric Bana ][ Geoffrey Rush ][ Daniel Craig ][ John Williams ]
Happy (2005)
[ Charles Durning ][ Dean Winters ][ Lenny Clarke ]
Good Night, and Good Luck. (2005)
[ George Clooney ][ Robert Downey Jr. ][ Steven Soderbergh ][ Jeff Daniels ][ Frank Langella ]
Hide and Seek (2005)
[ Robert De Niro ][ Dylan Baker ][ Brendan Sexton III ]
Connie and Carla (2004)
[ David Duchovny ][ Dash Mihok ][ Greg Grunberg ]
Speak (2004)
[ Steve Zahn ][ Michael Angarano ][ D.B. Sweeney ][ Eric Lively ]
Piggie (2003)
[ John C. Reilly ]
Tea Time with Roy & Sylvia (2003)
4giveness (2003)
[ Christopher Meloni ][ Evan Seinfeld ]
Perfect (2003)
Fallacy (2003)
[ Michael Lerner ][ Daniel Sunjata ]
Risk (2003)
Counterfeit (2002)
Dream a Little Dream of Me (2002)
[ Harold Perrineau ][ J.K. Simmons ][ B.D. Wong ][ Ernie Hudson ][ Dean Winters ]
Laws of Gravity (2002)
[ Luke Perry ]
Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (2002)
[ Brad Pitt ][ Matt Damon ][ George Clooney ][ Sam Rockwell ][ Rutger Hauer ]
The Good Fight (2002)
[ John Corbett ][ Kyle MacLachlan ][ Alan Dale ]
State Property (2002)
[ Jay-Z ]
For Earth Below (2002)
Revenge Is Sweet (2001)
[ Austin Pendleton ]
Brother's Keeper (2001)
[ Joel Bissonnette ]
No Such Thing (2001)
[ Francis Ford Coppola ][ Ingvar Eggert Sigurðsson ]
A Bright Shining Lie (1998)
[ Bill Paxton ][ Kurtwood Smith ][ Eric Bogosian ]
Triples (1998)
Somewhere in the City (1998)
[ Peter Stormare ]
Alptraum im Airport (1998)
[ Giovanni Ribisi ]
First Love, Last Rites (1997)
[ Giovanni Ribisi ][ Eli Marienthal ]
Cop Land (1997)
[ Robert De Niro ][ Sylvester Stallone ][ Harvey Keitel ][ Ray Liotta ][ Robert Patrick ]
Mayday - Flug in den Tod (1997)
[ Heinz Hoenig ]
Thinner (1996)
[ Josh Lucas ][ Stephen King ][ Joe Mantegna ]
Killer: A Journal of Murder (1996)
[ James Woods ][ Oliver Stone ][ Robert Sean Leonard ][ Richard Riehle ][ Harold Gould ]
Fled (1996)
[ Laurence Fishburne ][ Stephen Baldwin ][ Will Patton ][ Bill Bellamy ][ Ken Jenkins ]
If Lucy Fell (1996)
[ Ben Stiller ][ Dominic Chianese ][ Eric Schaeffer ]
Flirt (1995)
[ Harold Perrineau ][ Michael Imperioli ][ Martin Donovan ]
Crazy for a Kiss (1995)
[ Bud Cort ]
Act of God (1995)
RoboCop vs. the Terminator (1994)
[ Frank Miller ]
Tombstone (1993)
[ Val Kilmer ][ Kurt Russell ][ Billy Bob Thornton ][ Bill Paxton ][ Billy Zane ]
RoboCop 3 (1993)
[ Stephen Root ][ Rip Torn ][ Bradley Whitford ][ Mako ][ Frank Miller ]
A Far Off Place (1993)
[ Ethan Embry ][ Maximilian Schell ]
Heaven & Earth (1993)
[ Tommy Lee Jones ][ Tommy Lee ][ Oliver Stone ][ Dale Dye ][ Ken Kirzinger ]
Simple Men (1992)
[ Martin Donovan ]
Dust Devil (1992)
Rambling Rose (1991)
[ Robert Duvall ][ Lukas Haas ][ John Heard ][ Martha Coolidge ]
The Unbelievable Truth (1989)
Nightmare Weekend (1986)
[ Dale Midkiff ]
The Chosen (1981)
[ Rod Steiger ][ Robby Benson ][ Maximilian Schell ][ Ron Rifkin ][ Evan Handler ]
Gangster Wars (1981)
[ Vincent Schiavelli ][ Richard S. Castellano ][ Joe Penny ][ Brian Benben ][ Michael Nouri ]
The Bastard (1978)
[ William Shatner ][ William Daniels ][ Philip Baker Hall ][ Donald Pleasence ][ Harry Morgan ]
Looking for Mr. Goodbar (1977)
[ Richard Gere ][ Tom Berenger ][ LeVar Burton ][ William Atherton ]

Trivia

  • Attended the acting conservatory of the State University of New York at Purchase (SUNY Purchase).

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