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Burke Byrnes | |
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| Born | December 9, 1937 Oceanside, New York, U.S. |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Years active | 1960–1994 |
Burke Byrnes (born December 9, 1937) is an American former actor, best known as the voice for Daddy Topps in The Land Before Time . [1] He appeared in more than seventy films from 1960 to 1994.
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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| 1972 | Gidget Gets Married | Phillips | |
| The New Centurions | Jack | ||
| 1973 | Scorpio | Morrison | |
| 1974 | The Terminal Man | Benson's Guard #2 | |
| 1976 | Bound for Glory | Mr. Graham - Conducting Cocoanut Grove Auditions | |
| 1977 | Fun with Dick and Jane | Roger | |
| 1978 | A Different Story | Richard II | |
| 1979 | Prophecy | Travis Nelson | |
| The Onion Field | CHP Officer Odom | ||
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| Meteor | Coast Guard Officer | ||
| 1982 | Airplane II: The Sequel | Businessman #3 | |
| 1983 | Private School | Mr. Ramsay | |
| 1985 | The Falcon and the Snowman | U.S. Customs Official | |
| 1986 | Legal Eagles | Second Cop | |
| Witchboard | Lt. Dewhurst | ||
| 1988 | The Land Before Time | Daddy Topps (Cera's Father) | Voice |
| 1990 | The Last of the Finest | Commander Orsni | |
| Catchfire | Fed #1 | ||
| Air America | Recruiter | ||
| Taking Care of Business | Prison Guard #1 | ||
| After Dark, My Sweet | Cop | ||
| 1991 | Child's Play 3 | Sgt. Clark | |
| Curly Sue | Dr. Maxwell | ||
| 1993 | Robot Wars | Technician | |
| 1994 | Moment of Truth: Cradle of Conspiracy | Det. Otis | TV movie |
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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| 1975 | Hustling | Bus Driver | TV movie |
| 1977 | The Trial of Lee Harvey Oswald | TV movie | |
| The Night They Took Miss Beautiful | Barney Jessup | TV movie | |
| 1984 | The A-Team | Federal Marshal | 1 episode |
| 1984–1985 | Dallas | Pete Adams | 9 episodes |
| 1985 | Love on the Run | Melvin Small | TV movie |
| 1986 | Capitol | Dr. Franklin | 1 episode |
| 1987 | Highway To Heaven | Malcolm Sheesley | 1 episode |
Talking Heads were an American new wave band formed in 1975 in New York City. The band was composed of David Byrne, Chris Frantz (drums), Tina Weymouth (bass) and Jerry Harrison. Described as "one of the most critically acclaimed bands of the '80s," Talking Heads helped to pioneer new wave music by combining elements of punk, art rock, funk, and world music with an anxious yet clean-cut image.
Jane Margaret Byrne was an American politician who served as the 50th mayor of Chicago from April 16, 1979, until April 29, 1983. Prior to her tenure as mayor, Byrne served as Chicago's commissioner of consumer sales from 1969 until 1977, the only female in the mayoral cabinet.
David Byrne is a Scottish-American singer, songwriter, musician, record producer, actor, writer, music theorist, visual artist, and filmmaker. He was a founding member, principal songwriter, lead singer, and guitarist of the American new wave band Talking Heads.
James "Deaf" Burke was an English bare-knuckle boxer active from 1828 to 1843. He primarily competed in Southern England, though he also toured the United States from 1836 to 1838, fighting both exhibition matches and prizefights.
The Phoenix Park Murders were the fatal stabbings of Lord Frederick Cavendish and Thomas Henry Burke in Phoenix Park, Dublin, Ireland, on 6 May 1882. Cavendish was the newly appointed Chief Secretary for Ireland and Burke was the Permanent Under-Secretary, the most senior Irish civil servant. The assassination was carried out by members of a republican organisation known as the Irish National Invincibles, a more radical breakaway from the Irish Republican Brotherhood.
Gabriel James Byrne is an Irish actor. He has received a Golden Globe Award as well as nominations for a Grammy Award, two Primetime Emmy Awards and two Tony Awards. Byrne was awarded the Irish Film and Television Academy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2018 and was listed at number 17 on The Irish Times list of Ireland's greatest film actors in 2020. The Guardian named him one of the best actors never to have received an Academy Award nomination.
Mary Rose Byrne is an Australian actress. She made her screen debut in the film Dallas Doll (1994), and continued to act in Australian film and television throughout the 1990s. She obtained her first leading film role in The Goddess of 1967 (2000), which brought her the Volpi Cup for Best Actress, and made the transition to American cinema with a small role in Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones (2002), followed by bigger parts in Hollywood productions of Troy (2004), 28 Weeks Later (2007) and Knowing (2009).
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Edward Michael Burke is an American politician found guilty of racketeering, bribery, and extortion who served as the alderman of Chicago's 14th ward from 1969 to 2023. A member of the Democratic Party, he was first elected to the Chicago City Council in 1969, and represented part of the city's Southwest Side. Chair of Council's Committee on Finance, Burke had been called Chicago's "most powerful alderman" by the Chicago Sun-Times. Burke was named one of the "100 Most Powerful Chicagoans" by Chicago Magazine, describing him as "[o]ne of the last of the old-school Chicago Machine pols."
Simon Byrne, nicknamed "The Emerald Gem", was an Irish bare-knuckle prize fighter. The heavyweight boxing champion of Ireland, he was drawn to England by the larger sums of prize money on offer and his hopes of becoming the heavyweight champion there as well. He became one of only six fighters ever to have been involved in fatal fights as both survivor and deceased since records began in 1741.
Alexandra Byrne is an English costume designer. Much of her career has focused on creating costumes for period dramas. These films include Persuasion (1995), Hamlet (1996), Elizabeth (1998), Finding Neverland (2004), The Phantom of the Opera (2004), Elizabeth: The Golden Age (2007), Mary Queen of Scots (2018), The Aeronauts (2019), and Emma. (2020). She has been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Costume Design six times, winning once for Elizabeth: The Golden Age.
Events from the year 1829 in Ireland.
Thomas Byrne is an Irish Fianna Fáil politician and solicitor who has served as a Minister of State since July 2020. He has served as a Teachta Dála (TD) for Meath East from 2007 to 2011, and subsequently since 2016, during which period he held the position of Dáil Éireann opposition front bench spokesperson for Education and Skills. From 2011 to 2016, he was a senator on the Cultural and Educational Panel, and was Seanad Éireann opposition front bench spokesperson for both Public Expenditure and Reform and Health, respectively.
Events from the year 1342 in Ireland.
1833 in sports describes the year's events in world sport.
The 1979 Chicago mayoral election was first the primary on February 27, 1979, which was followed by the general on April 3, 1979. The election saw the election of Chicago, Illinois' first female mayor, and the first female mayor of any major American city, Jane M. Byrne. Byrne defeated Republican Wallace Johnson by a landslide 66 percent margin of victory, winning more than 82 percent of the vote. Byrne's 82% of the vote is the most any candidate has received in a Chicago mayoral election.
Frank Byrne (1848–1894) was an instigator of the Irish National Invincibles, the radical offshoot of the Irish Republican Brotherhood. He was implicated, if not as the organiser, then at least as the spirit behind the assassinations of Lord Frederick Cavendish and Under Secretary Thomas Henry Burke in the Phoenix Park murders of 6 May 1882. He was one of only two who managed to flee Ireland to escape prosecution for the crime. His escape was the source of much legal wrangling in Ireland, France, and the United States.
Strike is a British crime drama television programme based on the book series Cormoran Strike by J. K. Rowling under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith. The programme was first broadcast on BBC One on 27 August 2017, after receiving an advance premiere at the British Film Institute on 10 August 2017.
Locker Sixty-Nine is a 1962 British film directed by Norman Harrison and starring Eddie Byrne and Paul Daneman. It was written by Richard Harris based on a story by Edgar Wallace. It was an episode of the Edgar Wallace Mysteries series.
In the 1980 Cook County State's Attorney election, incumbent second-term state's attorney Bernard Carey, a Republican, was unseated by Democrat Richard M. Daley.
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