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Burton Gilliam is a Actor American born on 9 august 1938 at Dallas (USA)
Burton Gilliam (born August 9, 1938) is an American actor.
Prior to acting, Gilliam was a member of the Coast Guard's boxing team. Upon completing his Coast Guard enlistment, Gilliam followed in his father's footsteps and joined the Dallas Fire Department.
While working as a fireman, Gilliam appeared in the role of "Floyd", the desk clerk in the film Paper Moon. He has also appeared in popular motion pictures such as Blazing Saddles and Back to the Future Part III.
Gilliam has had roles in several other motion pictures such as Honeymoon in Vegas, Thunderbolt and Lightfoot, Farewell, My Lovely, Fletch, Gator, Telefon, and The Jericho Mile. His television appearances include Alice, Charlie’s Angels, The A-Team,The Dukes Of Hazzard, The Fall Guy, and he appeared as a regular on Evening Shade.
Personal life
Gilliam was born in Dallas, Texas. He lives with his wife, Susan, in Allen, Texas, just north of Dallas. He has two children and four grandchildren who also live in the local area. His granddaughter, Hollie Vise, is a world champion gymnast.
Gilliam graduated from Woodrow Wilson High School (Dallas, Texas) in 1956 and was inducted into the school's hall of fame in 2004.
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CareerPrior to acting, Gilliam was a member of the Coast Guard's boxing team. Upon completing his Coast Guard enlistment, Gilliam followed in his father's footsteps and joined the Dallas Fire Department.
While working as a fireman, Gilliam appeared in the role of "Floyd", the desk clerk in the film Paper Moon. He has also appeared in popular motion pictures such as Blazing Saddles and Back to the Future Part III.
Gilliam has had roles in several other motion pictures such as Honeymoon in Vegas, Thunderbolt and Lightfoot, Farewell, My Lovely, Fletch, Gator, Telefon, and The Jericho Mile. His television appearances include Alice, Charlie’s Angels, The A-Team,The Dukes Of Hazzard, The Fall Guy, and he appeared as a regular on Evening Shade.
Personal life
Gilliam was born in Dallas, Texas. He lives with his wife, Susan, in Allen, Texas, just north of Dallas. He has two children and four grandchildren who also live in the local area. His granddaughter, Hollie Vise, is a world champion gymnast.
Gilliam graduated from Woodrow Wilson High School (Dallas, Texas) in 1956 and was inducted into the school's hall of fame in 2004.
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Cake: A Wedding Story (2007)
Directed by Will Wallace
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Actors G. W. Bailey, David Denman, Thomas Calabro, William Zabka, Adam Green, Mary Ellen Trainor
Roles Judge
Rating62%
When two star-crossed lovers, set on eloping, are forced into having a big wedding, the bride develops a plan of her own. Unfortunately, the groom is not privy to the plan. Meanwhile, family and friends start to take sides at a reception for a wedding that never took place.
Drop Dead Sexy (2005)
, 1h23Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Crime
Actors Jason Lee, Crispin Glover, Lin Shaye, Xander Berkeley, Audrey Marie Anderson, Pruitt Taylor Vince
Roles Big Tex
Rating48%
When their money scam goes into the ground, two would-be thieves (Jason Lee and Crispin Glover) turn to kidnapping in an attempt to blackmail their target.
Mi Amigo (2002)
, 1h29Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Western
Actors Josh Holloway, Tom Everett, Burton Gilliam, Channon Roe
Roles Pal Grisham
Rating44%
Their friendship strained by love of the same woman, cowboy buddies Bobby Ray Burns and Pal Grisham return to hometown Cherub, Texas, to renew old ties and settle an old debt. In the thirty years since the pair split up, Bobby Ray's guitar picking and singing have won him gold records, while Pal's good looks have earned him silver-screen stardom—and the hand of the woman who divided them, Kitty O'Donnell. Known once around old Cherub as 'The Three Musketeers,' Bobby Ray, Pal, and Kitty come home to confront the past in this warm-hearted, cowboy valentine to friendship, love, and fidelity.
Soccer Dog: The Movie (1999)
, 1h30Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes L'adolescence, Films about animals, Films about education, Films about children, Sports films, Association football films, Films about dogs, L'enfance marginalisée, Children's films, Mise en scène d'un mammifère, Films about school violence
Actors James Marshall, Olivia D'Abo, Jeremy Foley, Burton Gilliam, Carrie Genzel, Sam McMurray
Rating31%
The movie begins with a now grown-up Alden (James Marshall) telling the story of his childhood in an orphanage, and how his parents set him on the steps of the Pelton Orphan home. He says that 'soccer was the only thing that made his life easier'. When he was too old to stay in the orphanage, he went out and married his wife Elena (Olivia d'Abo). Alden misses his days of soccer, so he reasons that the only way to enjoy it was to have a son to play it with. Alden and Elena go to the Pelton Orphanage, where Alden has to face the mean headmaster. He and Elena adopt Clay (Jeremy Foley). They bring Clay home and Clay isn't really into the spirit of things. Meanwhile, the setting shows little boy playing with his dog, Kimble (who actually turns out to be Lincoln) in the park, then throws the ball over the fence of a construction site. The evil dogcatcher, Damon Fleming (Billy Drago) catches 'Kimble' and takes him to the pound. The next day, Alden learns that Clay doesn't know how to play soccer. Clay goes to practice is confused by his coach, Coach Shaw, who doesn't really know anything about soccer. He tells the team he wants 100% from each of them from each quarter, and Sonny, whose father is a rich fat guy with two bodyguard, points out that in soccer there are no quarters, just two halves. Coach Shaw get irritated and tells Sonny that there is no A in team, then spells it T-E...go take a lap. (Coach Shaw has a nasty habit of telling his players to go take a lap when he says something wrong and he knows they are right.) Behind the scenes, when the dogcatcher goes to take a head count of the dogs, he finds Kimble isn't there and finds he has escaped through a sewage hole in the floor under his mat. Kimble is seen running away and removing the orange tag on his right leg. After that, the coach is explaining that soccer is a game of 'hand eye coordination'. Clay raises his hand to ask a question, but is deterred by Vince, (Kyle Gibson) who tells him not to bother and that 'daddy has a feeling baby was dropped on his head when he was a baby'. Meanwhile, the dogcatcher sets out to find Kimble and, while eating a blade of grass, finds the orange tag Kimble tore off. On the other hand, Clay is walking back home from practice when Vince catches up with him. they talk a little, but Clay doesn't really understand Vince because he calls people 'baby' and calls himself 'daddy'. That's when Clay spots Kimble digging in a flower bed and calls to him, and Kimble comes. later that night, at dinner, Elena wants Clay to take violin lessons, and she and Alden sort of argue. Clay excuses himself to go feed Kimble, who he has named Lincoln and hid in his bathroom. Alden thinks that Clay is not feeling welcome, so he comes into Clay's bedroom to find he was hiding a dog. In the middle of the soccer season, Sonny's dad thinks that Vince is getting too 'hot' and that if he keeps showing off, Sonny was to give him a food poisoning pill. Sonny drops it in Vince's drink and Vince can't play. Clay's dog, Lincoln, runs out on the field and the Coach appoints him to play. The referee tells this really old lady to check the book of soccer rules, which is a 7 inch tall book. The rules state that Lincoln can play for the team. Lincoln scores a goal minutes afterwards. At the end of the season, the team wins the championship. Lincoln's original owners take their dog back, but Clay gets a puppy at the end that looks exactly like Lincoln, the dogcatcher disappears, and Alden becomes the coach of the Stampede.
The Love Bug (1997)
, 1h28Directed by Peyton Reed
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Fantasy, Adventure
Themes Sports films, Transport films, Films about automobiles, Auto racing films, Road movies, Children's films
Actors Bruce Campbell, John Hannah, Alexandra Wentworth, Jeff Garlin, Kevin J. O'Connor, Dana Gould
Roles Mecanic Race Announcer
Rating52%
La Coccinelle ne remporte plus aucune course. Abandonnée par son nouveau propriétaire, Simon Moore III, elle est sauvée par Hank Cooper, un pilote malchanceux devenu mécanicien. Pour aider ce dernier à retrouver la plus haute marche du podium et l'amour d'Alex, son ancienne fiancée, Choupette reprend la compétition. Elle va devoir affronter Horace, la nouvelle voiture de Simon...
Born to Be Wild (1995)
, 1h40Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Films about animals, Films about apes, Children's films, Mise en scène d'un mammifère
Actors Wil Horneff, Helen Shaver, John C. McGinley, Peter Boyle, Gregory Itzin, Alan Ruck
Rating51%
Rick Heller is a juvenile delinquent who continues to get himself into trouble. To keep him out of mischief, his mother, Margaret, puts him to work cleaning the cage of a female gorilla named Katie, Margaret is teaching to communicate through the use of sign language. When the owner of the gorilla, Gus Charnley, takes her away to become a flea market freak, Rick decides to rescue Katie and take her on an adventurous journey to get her out of the country.
The Getaway (1994)
, 1h55Directed by Roger Donaldson
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Crime, Romance
Themes Films about sexuality, Transport films, Films about automobiles, Road movies, Heist films, Chase films, Gangster films, Escroquerie
Actors Alec Baldwin, Kim Basinger, Michael Madsen, James Woods, Jennifer Tilly, Richard Farnsworth
Roles Gollie
Rating57%
Carter "Doc" McCoy (Baldwin) and his wife Carol (Basinger) are taking target practice with pistols when Rudy (Madsen) arrives to propose they break a Mexican drug lord's nephew out of jail for a $300,000 payment. The job is successful, but it turns out the drug lord wanted his nephew free only in order to kill him.
Quake (1992)
, 1h25Origin USA
Genres Thriller
Actors Erika Anderson, Steve Railsback, Burton Gilliam, Dick Miller, Mike Pniewski, Kevin Page
Roles Willie
Rating45%
Set around the events of the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake, a young couple, Jenny (Erika Anderson) and David (Eb Lottimer), experience the horror of being terrorized by a psychotic neighbor, Kyle (Steve Railsback), in a city where panic and fear is the order of the day.
Honeymoon in Vegas (1992)
, 1h32Directed by Andrew Bergman
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Comedy, Action, Romance
Themes Seafaring films, Films about music and musicians, Transport films, Musical films
Actors Nicolas Cage, James Caan, Sarah Jessica Parker, Peter Boyle, Pat Morita, Anne Bancroft
Roles Roy
Rating58%
Jack Singer (Cage) has sworn to his mother while she was on her deathbed that he would never get married. Years later, he goes back on his promise and proposes to his girlfriend, Betsy (Parker), and quickly arranges a Las Vegas marriage. They check into the Bally's Hotel.
The Terror Within II (1991)
, 1h30Directed by Andrew Stevens
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Action, Horror
Themes Pregnancy films, Films about sexuality
Actors Andrew Stevens, Stella Stevens, R. Lee Ermey, Chick Vennera, Burton Gilliam, Barbara Alyn Woods
Roles Dewitt
Rating42%
The last human colony struggles to survive underground, beneath a land of nightmarish mutants who seek to destroy them. But when the mutant breaks inside humanity's final stronghold, the battle for survival pits the human colonists against their deadly invaders miles below the Earth's surface.
Back to the Future Part III (1990)
, 1h58Directed by Robert Zemeckis
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Comedy, Action, Adventure, Western
Themes Transport films, Time travel films, Films about automobiles, Rail transport films, Comedy science fiction films, Alternate history films
Actors Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Mary Steenburgen, Thomas F. Wilson, Lea Thompson, Elisabeth Shue
Roles Colt Gun Salesman
Rating74%
On November 12, 1955, Marty McFly discovers that his friend, Dr. Emmett "Doc" Brown, had become trapped in 1885. Marty, with the 1955 Doc, uses the information in Doc's 1885 letter to locate and repair the DeLorean. He spots a tombstone with Doc's name, dated six days after the letter. Learning that Doc was killed by Biff Tannen's great-grandfather, Buford "Mad Dog" Tannen, Marty travels back to 1885 to save Doc.
The Underachievers (1988)
Directed by Jackie Kong
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Edward Albert, Susan Tyrrell, Michael Pataki, Barbara Carrera, Vic Tayback, Mark Blankfield
Roles Red
Rating43%
A narcotics officer goes undercover as a student at an adult night school to locate a drug ring.
Uphill All the Way (1986)
, 1h26Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Roy Clark, Mel Tillis, Roy Clark, Burl Ives, Glen Campbell, Trish Van Devere
Roles Corporal
Rating41%
Fletch (1985)
, 1h38Directed by Michael Ritchie
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Comedy, Crime
Themes Films about writers, Films about journalists
Actors Chevy Chase, Joe Don Baker, Richard Libertini, Geena Davis, Dana Wheeler-Nicholson, Tim Matheson
Roles Bud
Rating68%
Los Angeles Times reporter Irwin "Fletch" Fletcher (Chase) is writing an article exposing the drug traffic on the beaches of Los Angeles. Posing as an addict during his investigation, he is approached by Boyd Aviation executive vice president Alan Stanwyk (Matheson) who mistakenly assumes Fletch is a junkie. Stanwyk claims to have bone cancer, with only months left to live, and wishes to avoid the pain and suffering. Stanwyk offers $50,000 for Fletch to come to his mansion in a few days time, kill him, and then escape to Rio de Janeiro, staging the murder to appear as the result of a burglary.
Foxfire Light (1982)
Directed by Allen Baron
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Leslie Nielsen, Tippi Hedren, Faye Grant, Barry Van Dyke, Lara Parker, Burton Gilliam
Rating46%
Une fille gâtée et riche se retrouve confrontée à un propriétaire de ranch qui refuse de se laisser intimider par elle.