Biografie

30. Dezember 1947 · Mineola, Long Island, New York, USA

Michael Thornton Burns

Retired in 2002 from his faculty position at Mount Holyoke College, completing a 22-year teaching career. He and his wife moved to Kentucky and restored a historic horse farm that is now on the National Register of Historic Places.

Son of NBC pioneer turned director Frank Burns.

Retired from teaching at Mount Holyoke College in 2002. He now resides in Kentucky with his wife, former Mount Holyoke president Elizabeth Topham Kennan, raising thoroughbred horses.

He has abandoned acting to become a college professor. According to the dust jacket of his book "Dreyfus", he "teaches Modern European History at Mount Holyoke College in Massachusetts. He holds degrees from the University of California and Yale University."

Considered for the television series, Die Monkees (1965) as one of the band members. He can be seen in improvisational screen tests with Micky Dolenz.