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Wendell Burton is a Actor American born on 21 july 1947 at San Antonio (USA)
Wendell Burton (born July 21, 1947) is an American television executive and former motion picture actor and television actor, best known for his co-starring role with Liza Minnelli in the 1969 movie The Sterile Cuckoo.
Burton was born in San Antonio, Texas, the son of an Air Force sergeant who died when he was five. He became involved in college theatricals while a student at Sonoma State College (later known as Sonoma State University). His acting career began when he won the title role in the San Francisco production of You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown.
Burton was plucked from obscurity to star opposite Minnelli as Jerry Payne, the young college student with whom she falls in love in The Sterile Cuckoo.
He later played an inmate who was raped in Fortune and Men's Eyes, and appeared in TV specials during the 1970s. He portrayed Osgood, a mild-mannered man who fights Burt Reynolds in a 1986 film, Heat.
In the late 1980s, he embraced Christianity, and associated with the Vineyard Christian Fellowship under Pastor Kenn Gullicksen in Los Angeles, and then in the 1990s he became a sales executive for The Family Channel, and later helped launch an independent TV station in Houston.
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Burton was born in San Antonio, Texas, the son of an Air Force sergeant who died when he was five. He became involved in college theatricals while a student at Sonoma State College (later known as Sonoma State University). His acting career began when he won the title role in the San Francisco production of You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown.
Burton was plucked from obscurity to star opposite Minnelli as Jerry Payne, the young college student with whom she falls in love in The Sterile Cuckoo.
He later played an inmate who was raped in Fortune and Men's Eyes, and appeared in TV specials during the 1970s. He portrayed Osgood, a mild-mannered man who fights Burt Reynolds in a 1986 film, Heat.
In the late 1980s, he embraced Christianity, and associated with the Vineyard Christian Fellowship under Pastor Kenn Gullicksen in Los Angeles, and then in the 1990s he became a sales executive for The Family Channel, and later helped launch an independent TV station in Houston.
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Heat (1986)
, 1h41Directed by Jerry Jameson, Dick Richards
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Crime
Actors Burt Reynolds, Karen Young, Peter MacNicol, Howard Hesseman, Neill Barry, Joseph Mascolo
Roles Osgood
Rating56%
A woman in a Las Vegas bar is annoyed by a flirtatious drunk (Burt Reynolds). Her date, a milquetoast named Osgood (Wendell Burton), wants to do something about it. The woman, D.D. (Deborah Rush), begs him not to, but when the drunk turns mean, Osgood challenges him to step outside. To D.D.'s astonishment, Osgood wins the fight and even gets the tough-looking drunk to apologize. Next morning, it turns out that the drunk is Nick Escalante, known to his friends as Mex, who has been hired to make Osgood look tough in his lady's eyes.
Fortune and Men's Eyes (1971)
, 1h42Directed by Harvey Hart
Origin Canada
Genres Drama
Themes Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, Films based on plays, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Wendell Burton, Michael Greer
Roles Smitty
Rating65%
The Gypsy Moths (1969)
, 1h47Directed by John Frankenheimer
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Adventure, Romance
Themes Transport films, Aviation films
Actors Burt Lancaster, Deborah Kerr, Gene Hackman, Scott Wilson, Bonnie Bedelia, Sheree North
Roles Man in Strip Club Ordering a Drink (uncredited)
Rating62%
A skydiving team called the Gypsy Moths visits a small town in Kansas to put on a show. Their leader, Mike Rettig (Burt Lancaster]), is accompanied by his partners, Joe Browdy (Hackman) and Malcolm Webson (Scott Wilson).
The Sterile Cuckoo (1969)
, 1h47Directed by Alan J. Pakula
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romance
Actors Liza Minnelli, Wendell Burton, Tim McIntire
Roles Jerry Payne
Rating65%
Mary Ann "Pookie" Adams (Minnelli) is an oddball, quirky teenager who meets the quiet, reserved Jerry Payne (Burton) while waiting for a bus heading to their colleges, which are near each other, where they have enrolled as freshmen. Jerry immediately sees that Pookie is different, even strange. She lies to a nun on the bus so the nun will switch seats with her.