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Actor Paul Burke, who is best known for his role in the 1960s Twelve O'Clock High television show, died today in Palm Springs at age 83. Burke also appeared in Dynasty, the prime-time soap, as a...

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If you want to know more about Paul Burke read the autobiography "Carol Comes Home" by his "Daddy's Gone A-Hunting" co-star Carol White. She didn't paint too flattering a picture of him.

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With all due respect to the late Ms. White, I can't think of anyone who was painted in a flattering light in any of her interviews or books. She seems to have had a bad relationship with everyone.

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who couldn't read a bad line and make druck, like VALLEY OF THE DOLLS, believable. He was always solid and consistent in his work, a tribute to his craft and the man. He was one of those actors who,...

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I remember feeling sorry for Burke when I saw ONCE YOU KISS A STRANGER, that laughably bad remake of STRANGERS ON A TRAIN. Fortunately, he was able to survive that fiasco and thrive for many more years.

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Bill Warren wrote: At the time, news reports claimed that Lansing was indeed fired from 12 O'CLOCK HIGH because he looked too old. He was not happy about the discharge. I guess it's a matter of "who...

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telegonus wrote: I've also read that the producers were planning to bring Burke on board anyway and that Lansing didn't want to share the limelight. There are so many stories out there about these...

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According to certain sources I've read, 20th Century-Fox was deluged with angry letters when Lansing left 12 O'Clock High, that it was the highest volume of mail they'd ever received, or had received...

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His career reminds me a little of Richard Basehart's. Both were "quality acts", showed that they had the good early in their careers, had some success on the small screen, failed to develop either as...

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Burke made a number of appearances on "12 O'Clock High" as Joe Gallagher before he was hired to take over for Lansing

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telegonus wrote: After that, it was downhill for Lansing as a TV actor. He never got a major series again, His career reminds me a little of Richard Basehart's. Both were "quality acts", showed that...

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I was very happy to see Robert Lansing working with Edward Woodward in THE EQUALIZER.

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Basehart did far better in films than Lansing, I agree, and his TV show, Voyage To the Bottom Of the Sea, was a bigger hit than anything Lansing starred in on the tube. I was thinking more of their...

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Lansing was The Man on 12 O'CLOCK HIGH as far as I was concerned. But having discovered NAKED CITY in recent years it's quickly become one of my favorite series, often reaching heights of brilliance,...

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ryanbrennan wrote: I was very happy to see Robert Lansing working with Edward Woodward in THE EQUALIZER. That was the Michael Sloan connection. Producer Sloan also used Lansing on Kung Fu: The Legend...

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The first and main memory which came to me when I heard that Paul Burke had died was of The Naked City, followed by THE DISEMBODIED. Reading these posts revivified some dormant memories, such as the...

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There is a quote out there attributed to 12OCH producer Quin Martin, which states that Lansing was "difficult to work with." When 12OCH went into syndicated re-runs, which was right after the end of...

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lenpey wrote:There is a quote out there attributed to 12OCH producer Quin Martin, which states that Lansing was "difficult to work with." When 12OCH went into syndicated re-runs, which was right after...

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Funny how this thread on Paul Burke got revived. I was watching "Superman Week" today and Paul Burke was in it.

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Ya know, come to think of it...Might have been Paul Burke chasing me down Delancey Street in a Naked City nightmare I had recently...

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