Warren Burton
Actor · Died October 2, 2017, aged 72 · Chicago, Illinois, USA
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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Biography from TMDB.
- October 23, 1944
- October 2, 2017 (aged 72)
- Chicago, Illinois, USA
- Actor
- 14 on MovieCove · 26 credits in all
Known for
What are Warren Burton's films like?
Across a limited sample of 4 MovieCove titles with a thematic analysis, their films lean Bonds and Survival.
Themes
What they feel like to watch
A split, not a type: Ironic 1 · Wry 1 · Earnest 2
Light 3 · Serious 1 · Dark 0
A split, not a type: Grounded 3 · Stylized 0 · Heightened 1
Gentle 0 · Charged 3 · Intense 1
Steady 2 · Shifting 2 · Whiplash 0
A split, not a type: Straight-faced 2 · Some laughs 1 · Funny 1
Slow burn 0 · Even-paced 4 · Relentless 0
Casual 3 · Engaged 1 · Full focus 0
Easy watch 4 · Affecting 0 · Heavy 0
Resolved 4 · Open-ended 0 · Ambiguous 0
Roles they play
- Shadowas Michael Powell in Bloodfist VIII: Trained to Kill (1996)
Moods and endings
AI-generated from each title's plot synopsis and cast list, with extra plot summaries, reviews and Parents Guide notes for titles the model may not know, and the model's own knowledge of the ones it recognizes. Only analyzed titles count, so this covers part of the filmography; the feel axes count films only for now.
Where can I watch Warren Burton's films?
As of October 24, 2026, 9 of their 14 MovieCove titles stream on a subscription or free service, most on Tubi (7).
Subscription and free streaming for Warren Burton's titles on MovieCove; rent and buy are not counted. Titles are listed by Midcredits score, highest first, at most 12 per service; a dashed chip is a producer credit or a minor one, such as a thanks. A service opens the browse page, which counts movies only, so its number can differ.
Filmography
26 credits, 14 with a MovieCove page.
Phantasmagoria: A Puzzle of Flesh (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2017)
Tome of the Unknown (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2013)
Green Lantern(2011)
Midcredits score: 16th percentile of all films
Monk(2002)
Midcredits score: 91st percentile of all shows
Strategic Command(1997)
Midcredits score: 8th percentile of all films
2090 (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1996)
Midcredits score: 12th percentile of all films
Humanoids from the Deep(1996)
Midcredits score: 7th percentile of all films
Valley of the Dolls (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1994)
Gettysburg(1993)
Midcredits score: 93rd percentile of all films
Poison Ivy(1992)
Midcredits score: 23rd percentile of all films
Tales from the Crypt(1989)
Midcredits score: 90th percentile of all shows
Freddy's Nightmares (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1988)
Jake and the Fatman (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1987)
Designing Women(1986)
Midcredits score: 60th percentile of all shows
Santa Barbara (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1984)
Lily for President? (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1982)
Knots Landing(1979)
Midcredits score: 49th percentile of all shows
The Facts of Life(1979)
Midcredits score: 45th percentile of all shows
Rabbit Test (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1978)
Jokes My Folks Never Told Me (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1978)
Midcredits score: 37th percentile of all films
Chatterbox!(1977)
Midcredits score: 22nd percentile of all films
Midcredits score: 82nd percentile of all films
All My Children (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1970)
Another World (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1964)
Career shape
Star power in the 87th percentile of 239,109 people with a billed film role, over a full career of 26 titles from 1964 to 2017; peak year 2013.
Film career
Peak 2013 · their film career is on the way up. Film roles by billing, audience size and rating; 25+ votes. A show carries a single first-air date, so shows are not on the curve.
- 1970Screen debut· All My Children
- 1973First film· The Girl Most Likely To...
- 2013First top-billed film· Tome of the Unknown
Counts from TMDB across their full career, self appearances out; a title counts in every role they held on it. The ring is the typical Midcredits score (the median percentile) of the role's titles that are on MovieCove, shown from 5 scored. Billing is TMDB cast order for roles with 25+ votes, billed in the top 30.
How do Warren Burton's films land?
Their typical MovieCove film has a Midcredits score in the 22nd percentile, the median of all 9; across a limited sample of 4 films with reception data, the typical film sits in the 16th percentile for acclaim.
- 75th and up4
- 50th to 74th1
- 25th to 49th3
- Below 25th6
Shape of the crowd
7 of their 14 titles are Mixed.
- Universally Loved3
- Universally Panned1
- Crowd Pleaser3
- Mixed7
Reviewers score the acting 45/100 in their films, across 4 reviewed titles; fans 71, detractors 28. The element that speaks to their work as an actor.
Percentiles are each film's standing among all films on MovieCove; the typical film is the median, so one outlier cannot drag it. Percentiles and reviewer scores count the films IMDb credits them on, for now; the Midcredits score bands, the shape of the crowd and the two cards count their MovieCove titles, shows included (a show ranked among shows), appearances as themselves left out. A descriptor is the shape of a title's IMDb rating distribution against the catalog; "most divisive" needs a spread wider than half of all titles, and a card names only a principal credit: a craft role, and on a show a crew role or a run of episodes, never a courtesy credit or a one-off guest spot.
Who does Warren Burton work with?
People who share at least 2 of Warren Burton's MovieCove titles, grouped by what they did on them; Rick Jacobson shares the most, 2.
Directors
- Rick JacobsonShared titles: Strategic Command (1997), Bloodfist VIII: Trained to Kill (1996)See all 2 shared titles with Rick Jacobson
Editors
- John GilbertShared titles: Bloodfist VIII: Trained to Kill (1996), Humanoids from the Deep (1996)See all 2 shared titles with John Gilbert
Producers
- Roger CormanShared titles: Bloodfist VIII: Trained to Kill (1996), Humanoids from the Deep (1996)See all 2 shared titles with Roger Corman
