Ronnie Burns (actor)

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Ronnie Burns (actor)

Ronald Jon "Ronnie" Burns (July 9 1935 – November 14 2007) worked briefly as a television actor, but is most remembered as the son of comedians George Burns

George Burns

George Burns was an United States comedy, actor, and comedy writer.His career spanned vaudeville, film, radio, and television, with and without his wife, Gracie Allen....
and Gracie Allen

Gracie Allen

Grace Ethel Cecile Rosalie Allen , better known as Gracie Allen, was an United States comedienne who became internationally famous as the zany partner and comic foil of husband George Burns....
.

Burns was born in Evanston, Illinois

Evanston, Illinois

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Ronald Jon "Ronnie" Burns (July 9 1935 – November 14 2007) worked briefly as a television actor, but is most remembered as the son of comedians George Burns

George Burns

George Burns was an United States comedy, actor, and comedy writer.His career spanned vaudeville, film, radio, and television, with and without his wife, Gracie Allen....
and Gracie Allen

Gracie Allen

Evanston, Illinois

Evanston, Illinois is a suburban municipality in Cook County, Illinois, Illinois directly north of the Chicago, Illinois, east of Skokie, Illinois, and south of Wilmette, Illinois, with an estimated population of 74,360 as of 2003....
, and adopted at the age of three months. His older sister, Sandra Jean, had been adopted shortly before. At seventeen, Ronnie joined the cast of his parents' The Burns & Allen Show which ran from 1950-1958. Later he appeared on The George Burns Show, which did not feature Gracie Allen, who had retired. This show failed despite the presence of George, Ronnie and Sandra Burns as well as Bea Benaderet

Bea Benaderet

Bea Benaderet was an United States actress, born in New York City and raised in San Francisco, California. Sometimes credited as Bea Benadaret, she is best remembered for starring in the hit 1960s television series Petticoat Junction and The Beverly Hillbillies as Jed Clampett's cousin Pearl Bodine , and as the original voice o...
and Harry von Zell

Harry von Zell

Harry von Zell , born in Indianapolis, made his mark as an announcer of radio programs and an actor in films and television shows.His family moved to California, where von Zell studied music and drama at UCLA and worked at a variety of jobs....
, who had appeared on the Burns & Allen Show.

Burns starred in the 1960-1961 NBC comedy series Happy
Happy (1960 TV series)

Happy is an National Broadcasting Company situation comedy about a talking baby, starring Ronnie Burns , the adopted son of George Burns and Gracie Allen, which aired from June 8 to September 28, 1960, and again from January 13 to September 8, 1961....
in which he and Yvonne Lime played Chris and Sally Day, the parents of a talking baby called "Happy". Burns plays the manager of the Palm Desert Hotel in Palm Springs

Palm Springs, California

Palm Springs is a desert city in Riverside County, California, California, approximately 111 miles east of Los Angeles, California and 136 miles northeast of San Diego, California....
, California

California

California is a U.S. state on the West Coast of the United States of the United States, along the Pacific Ocean. It is bordered by Oregon to the north, Nevada to the east, Arizona to the southeast, and to the south the Mexico state of Baja California....
. Lloyd Corrigan

Lloyd Corrigan

Lloyd Corrigan was an United States film actor, producer, screenwriter and director who began working in films in the 1920s. The son of actress Lillian Elliott, Corrigan directed films , such as Daughter of the Dragon starring Anna May Wong , before dedicating himself more to acting in 1938....
, Doris Packer

Doris Packer

Doris Packer, real name Doris Edwards, was an United States actress best known for her role as Mrs. Rayburn, Theodore Cleaver's principal in Leave It to Beaver....
, and Burt Metcalfe

Burt Metcalfe

Burt Metcalfe is an United States television and film film producer, director, and writer....
had supporting roles in the series.

Burns' most memorable appearance was uncredited, as "Wallace" on the Young at Heart episode of The Honeymooners
The Honeymooners

The Honeymooners debuted as a half-hour series on October 1 1955. Although initially a Nielsen Ratings success?it was the #2 show in the United States?it faced stiff competition from the popular Perry Como....
, which featured Ralph Kramden (Jackie Gleason

Jackie Gleason

Herbert Walton Gleason, Jr. , whose birth name was John Herbert "Jackie" Gleason, was an American comedian, actor and musician.He was known for his brash visual and verbal comedy styling, especially as delivered by his character Ralph Kramden on the sitcom The Honeymooners....
) trying to roller skate, with disastrous results. Ronnie Burns' career did not go much further. His sister, Sandra Burns, now Mrs. Sandra Luckman, made only bit appearances on her parents' shows, and soon retired from showbiz permanently to marry and rear a family.

Burns died of cancer

Cancer

Cancer is a class of diseases in which a group of cell display uncontrolled growth , invasion , and sometimes metastasis . These three malignant properties of cancers differentiate them from benign tumors, which are self-limited, do not invade or metastasize....
at the age of seventy-two at his Pacific Palisades home. In addition to his sister, he was survived by his wife, Janice, three sons, and six grandchildren.

Ronnie Burns (actor)

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