
Warren Burton
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Warren Burton (October 23, 1944 – October 2, 2017) was an American actor. During the late 1970s and throughout the 1990s, he was seen on several daytime soap operas usually in villainous roles. Burton was born and raised in Chicago, Illinois and attended Roosevelt High School and the Art Institute of Chicago. He began his acting career in Chicago theatre before moving to New York to pursue a career there. He appeared in a number of Broadway and Off-Broadway theatre productions such as Gypsy and Hair. He played the role of Eddie Dorrance #3 on All My Children from 1978 to 1979 and won a Daytime Emmy for Outstanding Supporting Actor at the 1980 awards broadcast. Other daytime roles included Jason Dunlap on Another World (1980-82); Warren Andrews on Guiding Light (1983-87); Phillip Hamilton on Santa Barbara (1988-89) and Dr. Hepler on The Bold And the Beautiful (1995). He appeared in the made-for-TV movie The Girl Most Likely to... in 1973. Burton portrayed Confederate general Henry Heth in the 1993 film Gettysburg. Since the late 1990s, Burton was a voice actor for numerous video games, including the Jak and Daxter series, Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time, Psychonauts, Battlezone II: Combat Commander, and Nox, among several others.
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Films
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TV Shows
Known For
25 Credits
Monk
as Roger
2002

Knots Landing
as Dr. Glenning
1979

All My Children
as Eddie Dorrance
1970

The Facts of Life
1979

Tales from the Crypt
as Roland
1989

Jake and the Fatman
1987

Designing Women
1986

Freddy's Nightmares
as Dennis
1988

Another World
1964

Santa Barbara
as Phillip Hamilton
1984

Gettysburg
as Maj. Gen. Henry Heth
1993

Chatterbox!
as TV Reporter
1977