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Before
& After MMC
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TELEVISION
APPEARANCES:
64 guest appearances including:
HOMICIDE:
Life on the Streets: Episode
- "Identity Crisis"
THE ROY ROGERS SHOW
CHICAGO HOPE 20th Century
Fox
THE RUGGLES (recurring)
L.A. HEAT
MURDER,SHE WROTE Universal
THE COLGATE COMEDY HOUR (10)
LOIS AND CLARK (2 episodes)
Warner TV
EQUAL JUSTICE Orion
FATHER
KNOWS BEST
THE NEW GIDGET Columbia
SAVED BY THE BELL NBC
THE
RANGE RIDER
FALCON CREST (recurring role)
LORIMAR
THE BEVERLY HILLBILLIES
and
starring as Mouseketeer Lonnie in
THE MICKEY MOUSE CLUB Disney
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In
full makeup as WC Fields for the Television Academy Hall of Fame tribute to Red
Skelton.
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FILM APPEARANCES:
25
features including
POLICE ACADEMY VII: Mission to Moscow
MR.SATURDAY NIGHT
HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN
HOOK
LIONHEART (Van Damme)
THE HOSPITAL
NEWSIES
SWEET CHARITY
THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH (Oscar, Best Picture)
LIVE A LITTLE, LOVE A LITTLE
(Presley)
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49 Equity Plays and Musicals, including
THE GRAPES OF WRATH
Ford's Theatre,
DC
MACK & MABEL
Majestic, Broadway
THE HUMAN
COMEDY
Wayside Theatre,
VA
TAMARA
il Vittoriale, LA
42ND STREET
Shubert, L.A.
THE SUNSHINE BOYS LORT
DEATH OF A SALESMAN
Olney Theatre, MD
THE LION IN WINTER
Stock
NO, NO, NANETTE
LORT
BROADWAY
Off-Broadway
GEORGE M
National/Vegas
BOYS FROM SYRACUSE
Goodman Theatre
HAMLET
LORT
THE ZOO STORY LORT
OTHELLO
URTA
COCO
Stock
SUGAR
Stock
TWELFTH NIGHT
LORT
WEST SIDE STORY
Stock
ROAR OF THE GREASEPAINT LORT RADIO:
DR.
PAUL (child lead, Chris Martin - 98 shows)
STARS
OVER HOLLYWOOD - "Xmas Carol"
CHEF
BOY-AR-DEE (spokesboy, 2 years) etcetera VOICE
OVERS /
INDUSTRIALS / COMMERCIALS:
Coke,
General Mills, Pepsi, McDonalds, Home Savings of America, Carls, Jr., McDonald's,
etcetera
VOICE OF THE
SMITHSONIAN NATIONAL AIR AND SPACE MUSEUM, Washington, D.C. |
1968, hippie, heavy shot.
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DIRECTING:
THEATRE: 8 plays, 3 musicals;
Resident Director, Liberty Bell Playhouse
(L.A.); Originator, One Act Program,
Actors Alley (L.A.).
RADIO: 2 one hour Dramas,
2 half hour Comedies.
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CHOREOGRAPHY:
Specializing in tap, jazz and
staging for singers and actors
Lonnie has worked with such
dance greats as Bob Fosse, Twyla Tharp, Vincent Paterson, Gower Champion, Kenny Ortega, Joe Layton, Tommy Tune, Dee Dee
Wood
and Larry Fuller and more.
My street sleaze shot. |
EDUCATOR:
At various times taught Intermediate and Advanced Tap and Jazz dance; Acting all
media; Directing, Writing at UCLA, Montgomery College, MD and
the Debbie Reynolds School of Dance and other venues.
EDUCATION:
Bachelor
of Arts, Master of Arts in Theatre, UCLA at 20. Many units to Doctor of
Philosophy in English Literature - unfinished on realizing I could not teach the
same subjects over and over and over. More graduate work in Philosophy (non-degree
oriented) in my mid-30s. WRITING CREDITS:
Author of books, plays, poetry, short
stories, musical theatre book and lyrics, various newspaper and magazine articles,
my own column "On the Wry Side", film and theatre criticism, as well
as radio, television, film scripts and comedy material in any format.
BOOKS:
CONFESSIONS OF AN ACCIDENTAL MOUSEKETEER
(2009 - 2010)
TWO FOR THE SHOW: GREAT 20th CENTURY COMEDY TEAMS hardcover & paperback
OCCAM'S RAZOR (Play)
Manhattan Theatre Club, NYC
OVER THE HILL (Play)
MET Theatre, L.A.
ICONS ARE NOT IN VOGUE (Play)
UCLA
EXEUNT ALL (Play)
Fountain Theatre, L.A.
CHILDREN ARE STRANGERS (Play)
Theatre Theatre, L.A.
FANTASIES (book and lyrics)
Musical Theatre - Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, L.A.
FAME - first run syndication
Television - "A Short Story"
SPIDER'S PREY
Film
MOUSEKETEERS' REUNION
NBC Variety Special Television
DISNEYLAND MOUSEKETEER SHOWS Live
Variety - Disneyland (1980-1985) E-ZINE actorconnection.com
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in the following newspapers:
THE LOS ANGELES TIMES
THE LAS VEGAS SUN
THE VILLAGE VOICE
WASHINGTON TIMES
SACRAMENTO BEE
SANTA BARBARA NEWS-PRESS
L.A. HERALD EXAMINER
CINCINNATI ENQUIRER
NEW YORK TIMES SYNDICATE
L.A. WEEKLY (Magazine) Drama
Critic
ENTERTAINMENT MONTHLY (Magazine)
Film
and Theatre Critic
FOOTLIGHTS (Magazine)
Arts Editor, Drama Critic
BIG VALLEY (Magazine)
Contributing Arts Editor
QUIDDITY (NYC , Poetry Quarterly)
Editor |
The guy you don't want your sister
-- or anyone else -- to meet.
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You
talkin' to me?
***********
This
is an offer you should not refuse!
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Articles published in the following magazines:
AMERICAN FILM
LOS ANGELES MAGAZINE
(various)
AMTRAK EXPRESS
LOS ANGELES REVIEW
SCRIPTWRITER
IN THE KNOW
MOVIEGOER
PAPER CINEMA
VALLEY MAGAZINE( various)
OUI Magazine
STORYBOARD
DRAMATICS
(two)
DISNEY CHANNEL MAGAZINE
FILM NOTES (AUSTRALIA)
MOVING UP
ANTIQUES & COLLECTIBLES
KENTUCKY LIFE
ARKANSAS TIMES
LOUISVILLE
TODAY
RADIO:
23
SCRIPTS Staff
writer for: "Heartbeat
Theatre "(500 station syndicate)
2 SCRIPTS American
Radio Theatre (224 station syndicate) The
above scripts and recordings of the shows now form The Lonnie Burr Collection at
Thousand Oaks, CA Library, which has one of the nation's most significant
collections of radio shows and scripts. |
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