Bob Burns
Department: Acting
Biography
Bob Burns (born May 12, 1935) is an actor, consultant, producer, archivist and historian of props, costumes, and other screen used paraphernalia from some of the greatest (and not so great) science fiction, fantasy, and horror motion pictures. He is best known for his work with and collection of movie props, particularly from horror and science-fiction movies. He has also had numerous smaller acting roles in movies, including Tracy the Gorilla from the 1975 television show The Ghost Busters.
Known For
07 Spaceys
2007
The Brundle Museum of Natural History
2005
Auteur on the Campus: Jack Arnold at Universal!
2012
The Shark Is Still Working
2009
I Was a Teenage Movie Maker: Don Glut's Amateur Movies
2006
The Cliff Monster
1960
The Universe According to Universal
2002
Amazing! Exploring the Far Reaches of Forbidden Planet
2006
Spine Tingler! The William Castle Story
2007
The Sky Is Falling: Making 'The War of the Worlds'
2005
How to Build a Time Machine
2016
The Vampire Hunters Club
2001
Dr. Horror's Erotic House of Idiots
2004
Halloween... The Happy Haunting of America!
1997
The Naked Monster
2005
Witch's Dungeon: 40 Years of Chills
2006
Captain America vs. The Mutant
1964
Attack of the 50 Foot Monster Mania
1999
Men in Suits
2012
Return to Bronson Canyon
2006
Whatever Happened to Ro-Man?
2006
Superbman: The Other Movie
1981
Abbott and Costello Meet the Monsters!
2000
Back to the Black Lagoon: A Creature Chronicle
2000
It Conquered Hollywood! The Story of American International Pictures
2001
Ghost Town Riders
1938
Masters of Magic: The World of Chandu
2008
Horror’s Missing Link: Rediscovering Dr. Renault’s Secret
2008
The 9th Wonder of the World: The Making of 'Gorgo'
2013
He Who Made Monsters: The Life and Art of Jack Pierce
2008
Hollywood Goes Ape!
1994
Invasion of the Saucer-Men
1957
The Adventures of the Spirit
1963
The Monster
1953
Hollywood in the Atomic Age: Monsters! Martians! Mad Scientists!
2021
Charlie Gemora: Uncredited
2016
Drive
1997
The Lemon Grove Kids Meet the Monsters
1968
Rat Pfink a Boo Boo
1966
Invasion Earth: The Aliens Are Here
1988
Time Machine: The Journey Back
1993
Terror in the Jungle
1968
The Lovely Bones
2009
House of Wax: Unlike Anything You've Seen Before!
2013
Dark and Stormy Night
2009
Creature Feature: 50 Years of the Gill-Man
2004
Corman's World
2011
The Alien Legacy
1999
RKO Production 601: The Making of “Kong, the Eighth Wonder of the World”
2008
The Sci-Fi Boys
2006
The Further Adventures of Major Mars
1976
The Ghost Busters
1975
The Lucy Show
1962