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Leo Burmester
Highest Rated: 100% Passion Fish (1992)
Lowest Rated: 31% Switchback (1997)
Birthday: Feb 1, 1944
Birthplace: Louisville, Kentucky, USA
Burly character player, on stage and in films from the late 1970s, Leo Burmester oft plays cops and rural types on TV and in films, but on stage has performed as Osric in "Hamlet" (Kevin Kline in title role) for the New York Shakespeare Festival, as well as in such Broadway hits as "Big River," and as the heartless innkeeper, Thenardier, in the original cast of "Les Miserables." Burmester has worked for director John Sayles several times, including "Passion Fish" (1992) and "Lone Star" (1996), and is also for directors such as John Schlesinger, Sidney Lumet, and as the Apostle Nathaniel in Martin Scorsese's "The Last Temptation of Christ" (1988). Burmester was born and raised in Louisville, Kentucky, and began college studies at Western Kentucky University as a biology major before switching to drama. After receiving an MFA from the University of Denver, he taught college for a year before taking the plunge as a working actor.
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Filmography
Movies
| Credit | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No Score Yet | 50% | Aftermath | Sheriff (Character) | $3.0K | 2013 |
| 80% | 53% | America Brown | Bo Williams (Character) | - | 2004 |
| No Score Yet | 12% | Carry Me Home | Grizzle (Character) | - | 2003 |
| 75% | No Score Yet | Red Betsy | Emmet Rounds (Character) | - | 2003 |
| 67% | 73% | Monday Night Mayhem | Carl Lindemann (Character) | - | 2002 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Saturn | Dad (Character) | - | 1999 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Dumbarton Bridge | Jack (Character) | - | 1999 |
| 72% | 70% | Limbo | Harmon King (Character) | $2.0M | 1999 |
| 90% | No Score Yet | Getting to Know You | Lamar Pike Sr. (Character) | - | 1999 |
| No Score Yet | 33% | The Secret of Mulan | Unknown (Voice) | - | 1998 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Farmhouse | Dallas Miller (Character) | - | 1998 |
| No Score Yet | 12% | River Red | Judge Perkins (Character) | $2.2K | 1998 |
| 31% | 45% | Switchback | Clyde 'Shorty' Callahan (Character) | $6.5M | 1997 |
| No Score Yet | 65% | ...First Do No Harm | Bob Purdue (Character) | - | 1997 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Old Man | Plump Convict (Character) | - | 1997 |
| No Score Yet | 5% | Mistrial | Russell Crane (Character) | - | 1996 |
| 55% | 46% | The Neon Bible | Bobbie Lee Taylor (Character) | $5.0K | 1995 |
| No Score Yet | 18% | The Great Elephant Escape | Ethridge (Character) | - | 1995 |
| 89% | 74% | Truman | Frank Vassar (Character) | - | 1995 |
| No Score Yet | 17% | Fly by Night | Rickey Tick (Character) | - | 1993 |
| 78% | 84% | A Perfect World | Tom Adler (Character) | $29.7M | 1993 |
| 43% | 54% | Article 99 | Shooter Polaski (Character) | $6.2M | 1992 |
| 100% | 82% | Passion Fish | Reeves (Character) | $2.4M | 1992 |
| 89% | 83% | The Abyss | Catfish DeVries (Character) | $54.3M | 1989 |
| No Score Yet | 26% | Odd Jobs | Wylie D. Daiken (Character) | - | 1986 |
| No Score Yet | 80% | George Washington: The Forging of a Nation | Eban Krutch (Character) | - | 1986 |
TV
| Credit | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 78% | 81% | Law & Order: Special Victims Unit | Bud Gabler (Guest Star) | 2006 |
| No Score Yet | 83% | Law & Order | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1994 1996 2002 |
| No Score Yet | 71% | Law & Order: Criminal Intent | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2002 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Shake, Rattle & Roll | Unknown (Character) | 1999 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Walker, Texas Ranger | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1993 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | True Blue | Officer Red Tollin (Character) | 1989-1990 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Equalizer | Jim Harding (Guest Star) | 1988-1989 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Flo | Randy Stumphill (Character) | 1980-1981 |