Edmund Burns

Burns was a twin and one of 13 children in a Catholic family in Philadelphia. He acted in plays when he was in high school. After he lost a job with the Post Toasties company, he decided to try acting as a profession. A successful screen test led to his first work in films. Cecil B. DeMille changed his first name from Edward to Edmund.^[2]

Burns was best known for his films of the silent 1920s, particularly The Princess from Hoboken (1927),^[3] Made for Love (1926), and After the Fog (1929),^[4] although he continued acting in films until 1936. Burn's first film appearance was an uncredited role as an extra in The Birth of a Nation (1915). Other films include The Country Kid (1923), The Farmer from Texas (1925), Ransom (1928), The Adorable Outcast (1928), Hard to Get (1929), The Shadow of the Eagle (1932), Hollywood Boulevard (1936), and his final film, Charles Barton's Murder with Pictures (1936) for Paramount Pictures.

Burns was married to Ruth Curry, whom he met at Camp Baldy resort. She was a widow with three children and the resort's owner.^[2] Burns left acting and became co-manager there.^[5]