Brian Burns
Brian Burns is an American film and television screenwriter, producer and director.
Early life
Burns was born and raised in Long Island, New York. He was raised in the Gibson area of Valley Stream, New York. He attended Chaminade High School and graduated from Hewlett High School. He graduated from the University of Maryland where he majored in Film. He is the son of Edward J. Burns, New York City Police Sergeant and former Spokesman for the NYPD. He is also the brother of American filmmaker Edward Burns.
Career
After graduating, Burns moved to Washington DC to pursue a career in political journalism. He served as a copy writer and Segment Producer while covering Capitol Hill and the Clinton White House for the The Fox Morning News at Washington D.C.'s affiliate WTTG. Burns then wrote and produced the popular political roundtable discussion, Off the Record which aired as part of The Fox Morning News.
Burns then returned to New York City where he made the transition from political journalism to Hollywood screenwriter when, along with his brother, he created That's Life and The Fighting Fitzgeralds, which starred Brian Dennehy and Connie Britton.
Brian Burns (disambiguation)
Brian Burns is American film producer,
Brian Burns may refer to:
See also
'Brian Burns' is featured as a movie character in the following productions:
A Shot at Glory (2000)
Actors: Didier Agathe (actor), Paul Agnew (actor), Tom Aitken (actor), Graeme Alison (actor), Scott G. Anderson (actor), Craig Brittain (actor), John Carey (actor), Jamie Cockburn (actor), Ian Constable (actor), Robert Cosgrove (actor), Brian Cox (actor), Owen Coyle (actor), Graham Crammond (actor), Christopher Cummings (actor), Jamie Adair (actor),
Plot: Gordon McLeod is the manager of a second tier Scottish football team. Faced with pressure from his American owner, he is forced to bring on a marquee player to improve the fortunes of the team and prevents its being moved from the fiercely loyal town it's been for a century. Along the way, McLeod must battle his own demons, including long-standing tiffs with both his daughter and a former colleague who betrayed him.
Keywords: businessman, father-daughter-relationship, fishing, glasgow-scotland, goalkeeper, jaguar-car, punch, scotland, soccer, soccer-movieGenres: Drama, Sport,
Taglines: Sometimes in life you only have one chance to win. A small town. A small team. A big dream.
Quotes:
Gordon McCloud: You give me the heart, I'll give you the lungs, and together we'll work on the head.Brian Burns: [who has just let the ball go through his legs for a goal] Boss, I'm sorry. I should have shut my f-f-f-fucking legs.::Gordon McCloud: No, son, no. Your mother should have shut hers.
Martin Smith: I've been reading a lot of David and Goliath stories in the paper this week. If I were a reporter it'd be my angle too. It has a nice ring about it - except the ring of truth. In that match-up one side had a sword, the other a stone. In this version we both use the same weapon. This [holds up a football] is what we play with, lads. And whoever wants it the more will win.
Kate McQuillan: Jackie didn't get into a fight last night because he was drunk, or arrogant, or just being Jackie. He got into a fight because he was defending me, and you, and anyone else who loves this game, and believes that it should heal rifts, not cement them.
Burns, Brian Filmography
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2011, role: actor , character name: Raider
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2011, role: actor , character name: Survivor
Burns, Brian Filmography
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2002, role: director
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2002, role: producer
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2002, role: writer
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2002, role: actor , character name: Cousin Mike Moran
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2001, role: writer
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2001, role: producer
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1998, role: writer
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1998, role: producer
Brian Burns
ALBUMS
- Heavy Weather released: 2004
- Angels & Outlaws released: 1999
Heavy Weather
Released 2004- Heavy Weather
- The Rain Before a Hurricane
- Hurricane Casey
- Fisherman's Blues
- Indianola
- The Train Wreck at Kiowa Creek
- Nothin' to Say (Austin vs Nashville)
- Madison
- Broke Down in Tulsa
- Storm on the Ring of Kerry (instrumental)
- Frink the Drivin' Rain
- Thunderstorms & Tyler Roses
- Scream
- Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald
- The Mistress of Storms
- Urban Legends (Hidden Track)
Angels & Outlaws
Released 1999- Welcome to Texas
- Angels & Outlaws
- Temper, Temper
- Fast Trains to Texas
- I Couldn't Lay This Guitar Down
- Don't Tell Mama
- Send Me a Hondy-Tonk Angel
- Gimme a Ride to Heaven
- East India Company (We Be Sailin')
- Borders to Cross, Bridgest to Burn
- Good Night Angelina
- Painted by Memory
- Picasso's Last Words (Drink to Me)
- Angels & Outlaws (reprise)
- Welcome to Texas (Front Porch version)
Walker Behind The Wheel
It was the middle of Montana on a cold winter night
When our van pulled up outside the door.
We'd been on the road for three months, four-hundred miles that day;
We were tired, but we loaded our stuff out onto the floor.
There was Mad Jack on the fiddle and old Bill on the bass,
Tom played the lonesome steel,
I played the guitar around the place,
And it was Walker behind the wheel.
Well, the crowd was with us that night right up till closin',
And we played like we hadn't played in awhile.
When we were through even the management was pleased,
So we all hit the bar with a smile,
When this old man full of whiskey comes over to me
And says with a look in his eye,
"I can tell by your songs you're from Texas, boys,
Brother, well so am I... tell me..."
CHORUS:
"Do the bluebonnets carpet the fields in the spring?
Does the Brazos still run to the sea?
Does the sun still shine down on those Texas girls?
Once one gave her love to me."
He said, "you see, son, there was a time when my song was just as sweet as
Yours,
And I traveled and I worked with the best.
But day after day got to be year after year,
And the road gives you no time to rest.
The runaway dreams put a rope to my soul,
The nights took my company,
The whiskey got the lyrics to most of my songs,
And the age took my memory... tell me..."
REPEAT CHORUS
"So you see, I see a lot of myself in you and your friends here,
I see the poet, the clown, and sometimes the king.
So just you take care of yourself and try not to end up like me,
With a bunch of broken dreams and no song left to sing.
Aw, I didn't mean to go preachin' at ya, let me buy you a beer,
I guess I spend to much time talkin' alone.
But you write pretty good songs from what I can hear,
And you paint me a picture of home... tell me..."
REPEAT CHORUS
There was Mad Jack on the fiddle and old Bill on the bass,
Tom played the lonesome steel,
I played the guitar around the place,
And it was Walker behind the wheel.
