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Warren Burton

Actor
Died October 2, 2017 (72 years)
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Warren Burton (October 23, 1944 – October 2, 2017) was an American actor. During the late 1970s and throughout the 1990s, he was seen on several daytime soap operas usually in villainous roles.

Burton was born and raised in Chicago, Illinois and attended Roosevelt High School and the Art Institute of Chicago. He began his acting career in Chicago theatre before moving to New York to pursue a career there. He appeared in a number of Broadway and Off-Broadway theatre productions such as Gypsy and Hair.

He played the role of Eddie Dorrance #3 on All My Children from 1978 to 1979 and won a Daytime Emmy for Outstanding Supporting Actor at the 1980 awards broadcast. Other daytime roles included Jason Dunlap on Another World (1980-82); Warren Andrews on Guiding Light (1983-87); Phillip Hamilton on Santa Barbara (1988-89) and Dr. Hepler on The Bold And the Beautiful (1995). He appeared in the made-for-TV movie The Girl Most Likely to... in 1973. Burton portrayed Confederate general Henry Heth in the 1993 film Gettysburg.

Since the late 1990s, Burton was a voice actor for numerous video games, including the Jak and Daxter series, Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time, Psychonauts, Battlezone II: Combat Commander, and Nox, among several others.
Movies & Shows on Plex
  • Freddy's Nightmares
  • Knots Landing
  • Bodies, Rest & Motion
  • Strategic Command
  • Bloodfist VIII: Trained to Kill
Known For
  • Tome of the Unknown
  • Humanoids from the Deep
  • Bloodfist VIII: Trained to Kill
  • Jokes My Folks Never Told Me
  • Valley of the Dolls

Filmography

2014
Review (TV Series) · as King Of The Orgy
2013
Tome of the Unknown · as Narrator
2011
Green Lantern · as First Guardian
2002
Monk (TV Series) · as Roger
1997
Zorro (1997) (TV Series) · as Cast
1997
1996
1996
Humanoids from the Deep · as Major Knapp
1996
E! True Hollywood Story (TV Series) · as Narrator
1994
Valley of the Dolls (TV Series) · as Mitch Henry
1993
Gettysburg · as Maj. Gen. Henry Heth
1993
Danger Theatre (TV Series) · as Oscar De La Gavant (segment "phantom Of Fashion")
1993
Bodies, Rest & Motion · as Radio Preacher
1992
Poison Ivy · as Max
1989
Tales from the Crypt (TV Series) · as Roland
1988
Freddy's Nightmares (TV Series) · as Dennis
1987
1987
The Bold and the Beautiful (TV Series) · as Dr. Roy Herbert
1986
Designing Women (TV Series)
1984
Santa Barbara (TV Series) · as Phillip Hamilton
1979
Knots Landing (TV Series) · as Dr. Glenning
1979
The Facts of Life (TV Series)
1978
Rabbit Test · as First Secret Service Man
1978
1977
The World's Greatest Lover · as Greta Ga-Ga
1977
Chatterbox! · as Tv Reporter
1976
Baby Blue Marine · as Second Serviceman
1973
1970
All My Children (TV Series) · as Eddie Dorrance
1964
Another World (TV Series)
1952
Guiding Light (TV Series) · as Warren Andrews

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