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Robert John Burke
Highest Rated: 100% The Unbelievable Truth (1990)
Lowest Rated: 9% RoboCop 3 (1993)
Birthday: Sep 12, 1960
Birthplace: Washington Heights, New York, USA
American actor Robert John Burke has led an interesting and unpredictable career, ranging from indie art-house film star to temporary Hollywood leading man to reliable supporting player in both TV and movie productions. He didn't make much of an impression until his lead role in Hal Hartley's quirky low-budget romantic comedy "The Unbelievable Truth" (1989). Collaborating with the director again for the well-received road-trip movie "Simple Men" (1992), Burke soon found Hollywood calling; he made the leap to big-budget fare as the heroic title cyborg in "RoboCop 3" (1993). During much of the 1990s, he juggled supporting film roles with the occasional lead, later settling into recurring parts on major television dramas, including "Oz" (HBO, 1997-2003), "Rescue Me" (FX, 2004-2011) and "Gossip Girl" (CW, 2007-2012), with his sharp-jawed good looks still turning up semi-regularly in movies.
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Movies
| Credit | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 68% | 70% | Boston Strangler | Eddie Holland (Character) | - | 2023 |
| 19% | 62% | Intrusion | Detective Stephen Morse (Character) | - | 2021 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Being | Sheriff Campbell (Character) | - | 2019 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | We Only Know So Much | Hal (Character) | - | 2018 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Where There's Smoke | Captain Frascone (Character) | - | 2017 |
| 75% | 78% | Future '38 | General Sportwood (Character) | - | 2016 |
| 78% | 55% | Ned Rifle | Chet (Character) | - | 2015 |
| 45% | 38% | True Story | Greg Ganley (Character) | $4.7M | 2015 |
| 64% | 66% | 2 Guns | Jessup (Character) | $75.6M | 2013 |
| 60% | 59% | Safe | Capt. Wolf (Character) | $17.1M | 2012 |
| 68% | 74% | Limitless | Pierce (Character) | $79.2M | 2011 |
| 33% | 51% | Miracle at St. Anna | Gen. Ned Almond (Character) | $7.9M | 2008 |
| 23% | 35% | The Oh in Ohio | Binky Bartlett (Character) | - | 2006 |
| No Score Yet | 66% | The Water Is Wide | Colonel Conroy (Character) | - | 2006 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Jack's Law | Det. Ron Banks (Character) | - | 2006 |
| 93% | 83% | Good Night, and Good Luck. | Charlie Mack (Character) | $31.5M | 2005 |
| 12% | 50% | Hide and Seek | Steven (Character) | $51.1M | 2005 |
| 80% | 78% | Speak | Mr. Neck (Character) | - | 2004 |
| 44% | 70% | Connie and Carla | Rudy (Character) | $8.1M | 2004 |
| 60% | No Score Yet | Piggie | Unknown (Character) | - | 2003 |
| 31% | 59% | No Such Thing | The Monster (Character) | $60.0K | 2001 |
| No Score Yet | 52% | A Bright Shining Lie | Frank Drummond (Character) | - | 1998 |
| No Score Yet | 43% | Somewhere in the City | Frankie (Character) | $7.0K | 1997 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Mayday | Tom Hutton (Character) | - | 1997 |
| 40% | 43% | First Love, Last Rites | Henry (Character) | $40.5K | 1997 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Midnight Flight | Paul Bacon (Character) | - | 1997 |
| No Score Yet | 47% | Killer: A Journal of Murder | R.G. Greiser (Character) | $65.7K | 1996 |
| 19% | 31% | Stephen King's Thinner | Billy Halleck (Character) | $15.3M | 1996 |
| 18% | 23% | Fled | Pat Schiller (Character) | $17.2M | 1996 |
| 18% | 52% | If Lucy Fell | Unknown (Character) | $2.2M | 1996 |
| 9% | 15% | RoboCop 3 | RoboCop (Character) | $8.9M | 1993 |
| 43% | 71% | Heaven and Earth | G.I. Paul (Character) | - | 1993 |
| 73% | 94% | Tombstone | Frank McLaury (Character) | $55.9M | 1993 |
| 42% | 69% | A Far Off Place | Paul Parker (Character) | $12.9M | 1993 |
| 29% | 60% | Dust Devil | Dust Devil (Character) | - | 1992 |
| 92% | 89% | Simple Men | Bill McCabe (Character) | $141.6K | 1992 |
| 100% | 54% | Rambling Rose | Dave Wilkie (Character) | $6.3M | 1991 |
| 100% | 87% | The Unbelievable Truth | Josh Hutton (Character) | $22.5K | 1990 |
TV
| Credit | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 78% | 81% | Law & Order: Special Victims Unit | Captain Ed Tucker (Guest Star) | 2002 2004 2007-2009 2011 2013-2017 2020 |
| No Score Yet | 82% | Last Week Tonight With John Oliver | Ed Tucker (Guest Star) | 2014 2017 |
| 47% | 88% | Allegiance | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2015 |
| 90% | 91% | Banshee | Salvatore Ferillo (Guest Star) | 2015 |
| 81% | 88% | Nurse Jackie | Dick Edwards (Guest Star) | 2014 |
| 92% | 78% | Person of Interest | Officer Patrick Simmons (Guest Star) | 2012-2013 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Army Wives | General Clarke (Guest Star) | 2012-2013 |
| 58% | 77% | Golden Boy | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2013 |
| 84% | 79% | Gossip Girl | Bart Bass (Guest Star) | 2007-2008 2012 |
| 88% | 90% | Rescue Me |
Mick Gavin (Character), Mickey Gavin (Guest Star) |
2004-2007 2009-2011 |
| No Score Yet | 80% | Blue Bloods | Jyle Hogan (Guest Star) | 2010 |
| 42% | No Score Yet | Six Degrees | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2006 |
| No Score Yet | 83% | Law & Order | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1995 2001 2004 |
| 92% | 96% | The Sopranos | Officer Zmuida (Guest Star) | 2004 |
| No Score Yet | 65% | CSI: Miami | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2003 |
| 93% | 96% | Oz | Special Agent Pierce Taylor (Guest Star) | 2000-2003 |
| 70% | 78% | Sex and the City | Walker Lewis (Guest Star) | 2002 |
| 59% | No Score Yet | Falcone | Jules Weller (Character) | 2000 |
| No Score Yet | 83% | From the Earth to the Moon | Bill Anders (Character) | 1998 |