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George Burns
Age: 100 (passed away Mar. 9th, 1996)
Height: 5' 7"
Birth Place: New York City, New York, USA
Born: Dec. 31st, 1969
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George Burns' Main TV Roles
NOTE: Complete List of Works can be found at
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BIOGRAPHY: [no bio found]
TRIVIA:
- Was a regular on the "Dean Martin Celebrity Roasts." He was even a guest of honor in 1978.
- The whales in _Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986)_ (qv) were named George and Gracie after Burns and his wife, 'Gracie Allen' (qv).
- Uncle of Lou Weiss, chairman emeritus of William Morris Agency, who got his mail-room start in agency business with help of 'Uncle Nate'.
- Actually wore a hairpiece for most of his performing career; appears briefly without it in _The Sunshine Boys (1975)_ (qv).
- Biography in: "Who's Who in Comedy" by Ronald L. Smith. Pg. 78-80. New York: Facts on File, 1992. ISBN 0816023387
- His first marriage was in name only. In the early 1920s he was doing a ballroom dancing act with Hannah Siegal, and they were offered a 36-week contract to go out on the road. When her dad objected to her traveling with a young man outside the bonds of matrimony, George and Hannah got married so as not to turn down the offer. When they returned from their three-month engagement, they divorced.
- Daughter Sandra adopted 1934, son 'Ronnie Burns (I)' (qv) adopted 1935.
- Interviewed around the time of the death of wife 'Gracie Allen' (qv) in the summer of 1964, he described her as being his "next breath".
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