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Ed Burns is a producer, screenwriter, and novelist. He has worked closely with writing partner David Simon. They have collaborated on The Corner and The Wire (HBO). Burns is a former Baltimore police detective for the Homicide and Narcotics divisions, and a public school teacher. He often draws upon these experiences for his writing.
Burns served in the infantry during the Vietnam War. He then served in the Baltimore Police Department for twenty years. Following his retirement from the police force he became a teacher in the Baltimore public school system. Burns has said that he stumbled into teaching with little preparation because of the intense demand for teachers in inner-city schools. Burns taught seventh grade. Psychologically, he compared the experience of teaching to the Vietnam War. He found the experience profoundly challenging because of the emotional damage that the vast majority of his students had already experienced before reaching the classroom. He saw his primary role as instilling caring behavior in his pupils. He felt his major impact was in giving the children an example of an "adult who's consistent, who's always there, who always comes through with what he said, then that's a new world for them." Ed Burns will be participating in the Vimeo Festival+Awards 2012 as a speaker.
Actors: Angie Dickinson (actress), Harry Alan Towers (producer), Stan Cole (editor), Michael Hogan (actor), Lorne Greene (actor), Jack London (writer), Karl Lewis Miller (miscellaneous crew), Barry Morse (actor), Gordon Pinsent (actor), Robin Gammell (actor), Rod Steiger (actor), Charles E. Israel (writer), Chris Rudolph (miscellaneous crew), Deborah Wakeham (actress), Alvin Mears (miscellaneous crew),
Genres: Adventure,Actors: Silver Tip Baker (actor), Barney Beasley (actor), Hank Bell (actor), Rex Bell (actor), Matthew Betz (actor), Al Bridge (actor), Bob Burns (actor), Fred Burns (actor), Roy D'Arcy (actor), Rube Dalroy (actor), Gordon De Main (actor), Dick Dickinson (actor), Earl Dwire (actor), John Elliott (actor), Ernie Adams (actor),
Plot: When Owens' gang shoots it out in a New York nightclub, detective Breezy Kildare is wounded. After he recovers he takes a vacation at his father's ranch in Wyoming. Here he meets Owens again and finds him running a protection racket. When Breezy tries to stop him, Owens makes plans to eliminate Breezy.
Keywords: actor-shares-first-name-with-character, bar-shootout, beer, bootlegger, car-crash, cattle, extortion, father-son-relationship, henchman, machine-gunActors: Frederick Bain (editor), Lane Chandler (actor), Harry S. Webb (producer), Carl Krusada (writer), Alan James (director), Yakima Canutt (actor), Alfred Hewston (actor), Sheldon Lewis (actor), Thomas G. Lingham (actor), Tom London (actor), Cliff Lyons (actor), Lew Meehan (actor), Frank Yaconelli (actor), F.E. Douglas (producer), Aline Goodwin (actress),
Plot: 'Firebrand' Jordan is a ranger sent into the high Sierras to assist the local Sheriff Ed Burns in capturing a mysterious band of counterfeiters. His coming is made known to the gang leader, who sends three of his henchmen to get the ranger and gets three empty horses back. Meanwhile, back at the ranch, Judd Howe has disappeared, leaving his two daughters, Joan and Peggy, worried and in financial distress. The big-moneyed man of the district, David Hampton, lying that their father owes him money, attempts to make Joan accede to his less-than-honorable wishes.Jordan discovers that Hampton is really the gang leader he is hunting, succeeds in capturing the outlaws in an old mine, frees Howe who was being held prisoner, and wins the hand of Joan.
Keywords: 1930s, b-movie, b-western, chinese, cook, counterfeiter, counterfeiting-operation, debt, deception, duplicity