Burton Gilliam

Burton Gilliam

Birthday: 1938-08-09

Place of Birth: Dallas, Texas, USA

Biography: Burton Gilliam (born August 9, 1938) is an American actor. He is best known for memorable roles in several popular 1970s movies, such as Blazing Saddles and Paper Moon, as well as comedic cameos in Back to the Future, Part III and Honeymoon in Vegas.

Movies

Lawman Without a Gun
Lawman Without a Gun

During the 1960s' civil rights movement, a black civil rights worker returns to his small Southern t...

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Blazing Saddles
Blazing Saddles

A town—where everyone seems to be named Johnson—stands in the way of the railroad. In order to grab ...

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Thunderbolt and Lightfoot
Thunderbolt and Lightfoot

With the help of an irreverent young sidekick, a bank robber gets his old gang back together to orga...

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The Love Bug
The Love Bug

The inimitable VW Beetle is losing all his races and destined for the scrap heap until mechanic Hank...

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Big Bob Johnson and His Fantastic Speed Circus
Big Bob Johnson and His Fantastic Speed Circus

A stunt car racing team gets involved in a madcap cross-country auto race that is supposed to determ...

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The Georgia Peaches
The Georgia Peaches

A Southern gal who runs her family's auto repair shop, her aspiring country singer sister, and their...

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Killing Down
Killing Down

An army vet searching for the truth comes face to face with the man he thinks tortured him seven yea...

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Another Man, Another Chance
Another Man, Another Chance

Young Jeanne falls in love with photographer Francis, who soon takes her with him when he emigrates ...

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Remember When
Remember When

An uncle's (Jack Warden) memories give strength to a New England family with four sons fighting in W...

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The Girl, the Gold Watch & Everything
The Girl, the Gold Watch & Everything

After inheriting a magical gold watch from his multimillionaire uncle's estate, Robert Hays and his ...

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At Long Last Love
At Long Last Love

Four socialites unexpectedly clash: heiress Brooke Carter runs into gambler Johnny Spanish at the ra...

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Drive-In Movie Memories
Drive-In Movie Memories

A nostalgic, informative history of drive-in movie theaters, featuring extensive archival photograph...

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Cake: A Wedding Story
Cake: A Wedding Story

When two star-crossed lovers, set on eloping, are forced into having a big wedding, the bride develo...

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Telefon
Telefon

Nicolai Dalchimski, a mad KGB agent steals a notebook full of names of "sleeping" undercover KGB age...

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The $5.20 an Hour Dream
The $5.20 an Hour Dream

A debt-ridden divorced mother and factory worker strives to get a higher-paying job on the tradition...

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Farewell, My Lovely
Farewell, My Lovely

Private eye Philip Marlowe is hired by ex-con Moose Malloy to find his girlfriend, a former lounge d...

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Where the Ladies Go
Where the Ladies Go

A small-town bar, open only from 9AM to 3PM and owned by Buck (Earl Holliman), is the setting where ...

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Gator
Gator

After his release from prison, notorious ex-con and moonshine distiller Gator McKlusky moves in with...

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Back to the Future Part III
Back to the Future Part III

The final installment finds Marty digging the trusty DeLorean out of a mineshaft and looking for Doc...

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The Getaway
The Getaway

An ex-con and his devoted wife must flee from danger when a heist doesn't go as planned....

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Paper Moon
Paper Moon

During the Great Depression, a con man finds himself saddled with a young girl who may or may not be...

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Drop Dead Sexy
Drop Dead Sexy

When their money scam runs aground, a group of would-be thieves turn to kidnapping in an attempt to ...

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Remembering Gene Wilder
Remembering Gene Wilder

This loving tribute to Gene Wilder celebrates his life and legacy as the comic genius behind an extr...

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Mi Amigo
Mi Amigo

Thirty years after separating when their friendship is harmed by a mutual love of the same woman, tw...

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The Lucky Man
The Lucky Man

Traveling Route 66, a charismatic preacher, Reverend Johnny Jones, and his seductively beautiful Lat...

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The Underachievers
The Underachievers

Danny Warren is a former minor-league shortstop that becomes a narc to uncover drug dealing in this ...

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Quake
Quake

Set around the tragic events of an earthquake, a young couple experience the horror of being terrori...

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The Girl, the Gold Watch & Dynamite
The Girl, the Gold Watch & Dynamite

In this sequel to "The Girl, the Gold Watch & Everything," down-on-his-luck Kirby Winter inherits a ...

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Victim of Desire
Victim of Desire

An SEC agent investigating $70M in missing funds and a murdered businessman gets involved with the m...

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The Beasts Are on the Streets
The Beasts Are on the Streets

Panic grips a small community after a tanker truck crashes through a fence at a wild animal park, fr...

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The Terror Within II
The Terror Within II

In a world gone mad, the last human colony struggles to survive underground, beneath a land of night...

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Uphill All the Way
Uphill All the Way

Two unemployed good ol' boys are mistaken for a pair of notorious bank robbers....

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Honeymoon in Vegas
Honeymoon in Vegas

On her deathbed, a mother makes her son promise never to get married, which scars him with psycholog...

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The Jericho Mile
The Jericho Mile

A runner, serving a life sentence at Folsom Prison, works at becoming the world's fastest miler and ...

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Hearts of the West
Hearts of the West

Lewis Tater writes Wild West dime novels and dreams of actually becoming a cowboy. When he goes west...

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The Ransom of Red Chief
The Ransom of Red Chief

Two con artists kidnap a young boy for ransom. The boy, who calls himself Red Chief, becomes a prob...

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Retribution Road
Retribution Road

A bank robbery gone wrong leads to a horrific crime and the capture of the most relentless outlaw in...

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Back in the Saddle
Back in the Saddle

The cast of "Blazing Saddles" discusses salient points of the movie and its place in modern culture....

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Shtickmen
Shtickmen

While he struggles to make rent by teaching defensive-driving courses and comedy classes, a small-ti...

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The Journeyman
The Journeyman

In the Wild West at the turn of the century, two young brothers watch as their Grandpa is gunned dow...

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The Night That Panicked America
The Night That Panicked America

A dramatization of the Oct. 30, 1938 mass panic that Orson Welles' radio play, "The War of the World...

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Fire from Below
Fire from Below

Digging at a nearby cave, a careless industrialist unearths a vein of pure base Lithium and inadvert...

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Fletch
Fletch

When investigative reporter Irwin "Fletch" Fletcher goes undercover to write a piece on the drug tra...

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Soccer Dog: The Movie
Soccer Dog: The Movie

A heart-warming comedy about the friendship between the new kid in town and a soccer-playing dog on ...

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Breaking the Press
Breaking the Press

A contemporary retelling of the parable of the prodigal son set in the world of Texas high school ba...

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