Bob Burns(III)
- Actor
- Special Effects
- Additional Crew
World renown archivist and historian of props, costumes, and other
screen used paraphernalia from some of the greatest (and not so great)
science fiction, fantasy, and horror motion pictures. Among some of the
things found in his "basement" museum are, the original Time Machine
from the George Pal classic of the same name, the original wolf's head
cane from 1941's The Wolfman, the original King Kong armature, and a
functioning full size head of the Alien Queen from James Cameron's
Aliens.
- Awards
- 5 wins & 1 nomination
Actor
- 2015
- Captain Movies' Shorts
- Major Mars
- 2012
- 2010
- 2009
- 2009
- 2005
- 2005
- 2005
- 2003
- 2001
- 1997
- King B: A Life in the Movies
- Kogar the Gorilla
- 1993
- 1988
- 1982
- 1981
Special Effects
- 2005
- 2003
- 2002
- The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring8.9
- prosthetics technician: Weta Workshop (as Rob Rurns)
- 2001
- 1987
- 1983
- 1980
- 1962–1963
- 1957
Additional Crew
- 2021
- How to Make a Monster Moviemaker -- Herman Cohen at American International PicturesVideo
- provider: images
- 2020
- 2020
- 2013
- 2013
- 2011
- 2009
- 2005
- 2005
- 2004
- 2003
- 2002
- 2002
- 1999
- 1999
- Official site
- Alternative names
- RH Burns
- Born
- Spouse
- Kathy BurnsSeptember 9, 1956 - May 12, 2021 (her death)
- Other worksAn article written by Burns and Tom Weaver appears in the 2001 edition of "The Best American Movie Writing", an annual publication that reprints important essays on film history. It was one of 26 pieces chosen from more than 320 books and magazines, including The New Yorker and The New York Times. Previous volumes have featured articles by Steven Spielberg, Gore Vidal, Roger Ebert and Martin Scorsese.
- Publicity listings
- TriviaLocated with the help of a friend the original Time Machine from the George Pal classic The Time Machine (1960) in a thrift shop in Orange, California. The Time Machine was in pretty bad shape, but was restored with the help of a young Dennis Muren (later an Academy Award-winning SFX pioneer at ILM), D.C. Fontana (one of the original Star Trek (1966) writers) and motion picture art and SFX directors Michael Minor (Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979), Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982)) and Tom Scherman.
- Quotes[on Glenn Strange] Glenn was closer to me than my own dad. He was one of the most loved guys in the business. At his funeral there must have been over 900 people. It overflowed the church. Every old-time western actor or stuntman still around was there. Some were in wheelchairs, walkers, etc. They all came to pay their respects to Pee Wee. Dick Foran, who had just lost his nose to cancer, said to me, "He was one of the best human beings on the face of this good earth" (a few months later Dick was gone). Eddie Dean was Glenn's best friend. He was supposed to sing at the funeral but was so distraught he couldn't do it. Luckily, he had prerecorded it just in case that happened and they played that. And what a wonderful guy [James Arness] is. At the funeral, he really helped me get through it. We were honorary pallbearers and I was doing pretty well until we had to move with the coffin and I completely fell apart. He put his arm around my shoulder and said how much we would all miss Glenn. The way he said it and the look in his eyes was so comforting to me. I'll be forever grateful to him for that. Glenn so loved Jim. He kept Glenn working when he had his cancer until he just couldn't work any longer. I think that's really a measure of a man.
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