Revealed with the war film “Saving Private Ryan” by Steven Spielberg, he then did not really confirm the hopes placed in him. We tell you what became of the American actor Edward Burns.
We talked a lot about him in the 90s, first with The McMullen Brothers and Little Lies Between Brothers, two independent productions with great success in which he officiated in front of and behind the camera, then especially for his role as Richard Reiben in Saving Private Ryan. But since Steven Spielberg’s film, the American Edward Burns has had a rather modest career compared to what one might expect. We tell you here what happened to him.
After working alongside Tom Hanks and Matt Damon in Saving Private Ryan (a film in which a certain Bryan Cranston appears briefly!), Edward Burns is riding the wave of success. Always with the same great ambition to combine the hats of director and actor.
Burns thus directs Encounters in Manhattan, a film over which the shadow of Woody Allen looms, as well as Ash Wednesday, with Elijah Wood in the lead. And as an actor he stars in the thriller 15 Minutes alongside Robert De Niro, opposite Angelina Jolie in 7 Days and a Life, stars in Confidence and participates in the comedies The Holiday and 27 Dresses.
Eternal supporting role of American cinema, Edward Burns obtained his last important role for the seventh art in 2012 in the thriller Alex Cross, and for the small screen a year later with the series Mob City. He then becomes much more discreet.
If Edward Burns continues his productions at a steady pace, from Little Wedding Between Friends to Nice Guy Johnny via Just You and Beneath the Blue Suburban Skies, the success of these personal films is frankly modest. Now aged 55, the American, who created the Bridge and Tunnel series in 2021, ultimately perhaps did not have the success that one could have imagined at the time of Private Ryan but seems having flourished in independent cinema.
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