Burton Law
actor, writer
- Birth name:
- Burton C. Law
- Born:
- 1877-10-22, Ouray, Colorado, USA
- Died:
- 1963-11-02, Los Angeles, California, USA
- Professions:
- actor, writer
Biography
A miner’s son drawn to footlights instead of ore carts, Burton Law first saw daylight on 22 October 1877 in the cloud-ringed San Juan town of Ouray, Colorado. By the early ’20s he had traded mountain snow for klieg lights, carving a niche in silent serials: he rode the bucking frontier in Winners of the West (1921), stalked the pony-express era in In the Days of Buffalo Bill (1922), and raced to defuse sci-fi peril in The Radio-Active Bomb (1923). Off-camera he shaped dialogue and plot as readily as he delivered it, earning credit as both performer and scribe. Forty-two years after his last reel flickered, the curtain fell for good in Los Angeles on 2 November 1963.
Filmography
In the vault (7)
The Gentleman from America
The Oregon Trail
They Like 'Em Rough
Under Two Flags
Winners of the West
Eyes of the Heart
The Ghost of the Canyon
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