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Michael Burns is a former child actor who went on to a distinguished career as a historian, writer, and college professor. He is now retired and raising thoroughbred horses in Kentucky. He was familiar to television audiences of the early 1960s as the teenage character, "Barnaby West", on the popular Wagon Train series... See full bio »

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1977 Police Woman (TV series)
Powers
Ambition (1977) … Powers
 
1977 The Tony Randall Show (TV series)
Michael
Franklin vs. the Generation Gap (1977) … Michael
Civil Disobedience (1977) … Michael
 
1977 The Bionic Woman (TV series)
Carl Franklin
Fembots in Las Vegas: Part 2 (1977) … Carl Franklin
Fembots in Las Vegas (1977) … Carl Franklin
 
1977 The Magnificent Magical Magnet of Santa Mesa (TV movie)
Freddie Griffith
 
1976 Most Wanted (TV series)
Bobby Boone
The Corrupter (1976) … Bobby Boone
 
1973-1976 The Streets of San Francisco (TV series)
Barry Jensen / Oren 'O.P.' Prentiss / Ron Harris
Judgment Day (1976) … Barry Jensen
I Ain't Marchin' Anymore (1974) … Ron Harris
Act of Duty (1973) … Oren 'O.P.' Prentiss
 
1974 Petrocelli (TV series)
Billy Fletcher
The Double Negative (1974) … Billy Fletcher
 
1974 The Manhunter (TV series)
Bobby Lee Dickerson
The Baby-Faced Killers (1974) … Bobby Lee Dickerson
 
1974 Young Love (TV movie)
Peter
 
1974 Barnaby Jones (TV series)
Brian Elder
Programmed for Killing (1974) … Brian Elder
 
1972-1973 Love, American Style (TV series)
(segment "Love and the Scroungers") / (segment "Love and the Unwedding") / Carol (segment "Love and the Perfect Set-Up") / …
Love and the Plane Truth/Love and the Scroungers/Love and the Small Wedding (1972) … (segment "Love and the Scroungers")
 
1973 Santee
Jody
 
1973 Brock's Last Case (TV movie)
Stretch Willis
 
1973 Mod Squad (TV series)
Rick Landis
Put Out the Welcome Mat for Death (1973) … Rick Landis
 
1972 Thumb Tripping
Gary
 
1967-1972 Insight (TV series)
Pete / Danny / Douglas Hendricks / …
Nobody Loves a Rich Uncle (1972) … Douglas Hendricks
The Party (1971) … Mitch
A Man Called Don (1971) … Pete
Exit (1970) … Pete
 
1972 Sarge (TV series)
Michael Grear
Napoleon Never Wanted to Be a Cop (1972) … Michael Grear
 
1969-1971 Medical Center (TV series)
Carl Harris / Greg Sorenson
Circle of Power (1971) … Carl Harris
Jeopardy (1969) … Greg Sorenson
 
1971 Hawaii Five-O (TV series)
Bill
 
1971 The Partridge Family (TV series)
Paul
The Undergraduate (1971) … Paul
 
1971 The Doris Day Show (TV series)
Peter
Young Love (1971) … Peter
 
1966-1971 The Virginian (TV series)
Bobby Crayton / Jim Boyer Jr. / Noah MacIntosh / …
Tate, Ramrod (1971) … Will Benson
The Bugler (1969) … Toby Hamilton
Seth (1968) … Seth aka Scott
The Long Way Home (1966) … Jim Boyer Jr.
The Challenge (1966) … Bobby Crayton
 
1966-1971 The F.B.I. (TV series)
Harley Earle Garrett / Holt Campbell / Jacob MacDonald / …
Downfall (1971) … Mike Keller/Holt Campbell
Scapegoat (1969) … Harley Earle Garrett
The Forests of the Night (1966) … Jacob MacDonald
 
1970 The Andersonville Trial (TV movie)
James Davidson
 
1968-1970 Gunsmoke (TV series)
Arlie Joe / Dale Stonecipher / Eric Tabray
The Thieves (1970) … Eric Tabray
The Hide Cutters (1968) … Arlie Joe
Nowhere to Run (1968) … Dale Stonecipher
 
1970 Marcus Welby, M.D. (TV series)
Dinty Gallagher
Nobody Wants a Fat Jockey (1970) … Dinty Gallagher
 
1970 Then Came Bronson (TV series)
Billy Mulavey
 
1969 That Cold Day in the Park
The Boy
 
1969 The Mad Room
George
 
1967-1969 Dragnet 1967 (TV series)
Benjie 'Blue Boy' Carver / Harold F. Rustin
The Joy Riders (1969) … Harold F. Rustin
The LSD Story (1967) … Benjie 'Blue Boy' Carver
 
1969 Gentle Ben (TV series)
Rick
The Warden's Apprentice (1969) … Rick
 
1968 The Outcasts (TV series)
Randy
The Bounty Children (1968) … Randy
 
1968 Journey to Shiloh
Eubie Bell
 
1966-1968 The Big Valley (TV series)
Danny Wiggins / Lon
Run of the Savage (1968) … Danny Wiggins
A Day of Terror (1966) … Lon
 
1968 Cowboy in Africa (TV series)
Dan Crose
First to Capture (1968) … Dan Crose
 
1967 Daniel Boone (TV series)
Cal Trevor
The Spanish Horse (1967) … Cal Trevor
 
1967 Tarzan (TV series)
Helmut Stever
The Last of the Supermen (1967) … Helmut Stever
 
1967 Stranger on the Run (TV movie)
Matt Johnson
 
1967 Dundee and the Culhane (TV series)
Nugget Hughes
The 1000 Feet Deep Brief (1967) … Nugget Hughes
 
1967 40 Guns to Apache Pass
Doug
 
1966-1967 Bonanza (TV series)
Donny Benson / Jamie
Napoleon's Children (1967) … Donny Benson
The Trouble with Jamie (1966) … Jamie
 
1967 The Road West (TV series)
Harry Jr.
Eleven Miles to Eden (1967) … Harry Jr.
 
1966 Off We Go (TV movie)
Col. Rod Ryan
 
1966 Vacation Playhouse (TV series)
Colonel Rod Ryan
Off We Go! (1966) … Colonel Rod Ryan
 
1966 The Legend of Jesse James (TV series)
Billy Dawson
A Field of Wild Flowers (1966) … Billy Dawson
 
1961-1966 Lassie (TV series)
Hiker / Joey Young
The Vigil (1966) … Hiker
Joey (1961) … Joey Young
 
1966 The Farmer's Daughter (TV series)
George Smith
The Fall and Rise of Steven Morley (1966) … George Smith
 
1965 A Man Called Shenandoah (TV series)
Frankie Yorby
Incident at Dry Creek (1965) … Frankie Yorby
 
1965 McHale's Navy (TV series)
Orvie
Make Room for Orvie (1965) … Orvie
 
1960-1965 Wagon Train (TV series)
Barnaby West / Barnaby / Billy Justis / …
The Silver Lady (1965) … Morgan Earp
The Katy Piper Story (1965) … Barnaby
 
1964 Kraft Suspense Theatre (TV series)
Frankie Kling
Charlie, He Couldn't Kill a Fly (1964) … Frankie Kling
 
1963 The Raiders
Jimmy McElroy
 
1963 Kraft Mystery Theater (TV series)
Little Bob Longstreet
Shadow of a Man (1963) … Little Bob Longstreet
 
1962 It's a Man's World (TV series)
Howie Macauley
I Count My Life in Coffee Cups (1962) … Howie Macauley
The Man on the Second Floor (1962) … Howie Macauley
The Bravest Man in Cordella (1962) … Howie Macauley
Howie's Adventure (1962) … Howie Macauley
The Beavers and the Otters (1962) … Howie Macauley
 
1962 Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation
Danny Hobbs
 
1961 Alcoa Premiere (TV series)
Chip Baring
Family Outing (1961) … Chip Baring
 
1961 Twilight Zone (TV series)
Paul Stockton
The Shelter (1961) … Paul Stockton
 
1961 The Tall Man (TV series)
Danny
Ransom of a Town (1961) … Danny
 
1959-1961 Alfred Hitchcock Presents (TV series)
Billy Lansing / Joe / Sidney
The Pearl Necklace (1961) … Billy Lansing
The Doubtful Doctor (1960) … Sidney
Special Delivery (1959) … Joe
 
1960-1961 G.E. True Theater (TV series)
John Thomas Parkes / Wilbur Schmidt
Louie and the Horseless Buggy (1961) … Wilbur Schmidt
 
1961 The Loretta Young Show (TV series)
Stephen Perkins
Quiet Desperation (1961) … Stephen Perkins
 
1960 The Wizard of Baghdad
Prince Husan as a Child (uncredited)
 
1960 Tales of Wells Fargo (TV series)
Billy Matson
Frightened Witness (1960) … Billy Matson
 
1960 Shotgun Slade (TV series)
The Missing Dog (1960)
 
1960 Wrangler (TV series)
Clary Browning
The Affair with Browning's Woman (1960) … Clary Browning
 
1960 The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis (TV series)
Chrissie Tyler
A Taste for Lobster (1960) … Chrissie Tyler
 

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In 1961, he co-starred in re-working of a 1960 pilot for a comedy TV series. This version, called "Harry's Business" had Elena Verdugo playing a Midwestern country girl who had difficulty adjusting to life in San Francisco.
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Trivia:

Son of NBC pioneer turned director Frank Burns. See more »

Star Sign:

Capricorn