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- Biography: Ed Burns is an Edgar Award winning television writer. He usually works with his writing partner David Simon. They have collaborated on The Corner and The Wire. Burns is a former Baltimore police detective and a public school teacher and often draws upon this experience for his writing.
Filmography
- Generation Kill (2008)
- The Wire: The Chronicles (2007)
- The Wire (2002)
- The Corner (2000)
News
One Missed Call" - You get a cellphone voice message that comes from you the moment before you die. If for some reason you've ran out of pre-paid minutes or lost your voicemail PIN, you'll have to wait longer... ... Full Article
Ed Burns on 27 Dresses: Guys, Don't Go Alone!
eonline.com –
2008-01-15
The great line doesn't come from the movie 27 Dresses or from the starlet Katherine Heigl . It's courtesy of carpet worker Ed Burns , talking to us this weekend, who is actually better at marketing rom-com than Heigl. ... Full Article
Movie Review: One Missed Call
associatedcontent.com –
2008-01-13
You cannot escape fate, and poor Ed Burns seemingly cannot escape acting in bad movies. One Missed Call is quite the misstep to start 2008 on, continuing the recent horror paradigm of lame duck Japanese remakes and un-frighteningly bad PG-13... ... Full Article
"One Missed Call" - You get a cellphone voice message that comes from you the moment before you die. If for some reason you've ran out of pre-paid minutes or lost your voicemail PIN, you'll have to wait longer... ... Full Article
Film Reviews
laweekly.com –
2006-07-13
In the decade since he won Sundance and scored a modest commercial hit with The Brothers McMullen , writer, director, actor and former Entertainment Tonight PA Ed Burns has churned out a series of thinly disguised retreads of his promising... ... Full Article