Personal Info
Birth date
1944-02-01 (81 Years)
Day of death
2007-06-28
Gender
Male
Known for
Acting
Place of birth
Louisville, Kentucky, USA
Also known as
-Leo Burmester
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Leo Burmester (February 1, 1944 - June 28, 2007) was an American actor. Burmester worked for director John Sayles several times, including in Passion Fish (1992) and Lone Star (1996), and also for directors such as John Schlesinger and Sidney Lumet, and as the Apostle Nathaniel in Martin Scorsese's The Last Temptation of Christ (1988). Description above from the Wikipedia article Leo Burmester, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography
Law & Order
7.4
Overview:
In cases ripped from the headlines, police investigate serious and often deadly crimes, weighing the evidence and questioning the suspects until someone is taken into custody. The district attorney's office then builds a case to convict the perpetrator by proving the person guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. Working together, these expert teams navigate all sides of the complex criminal justice system to make New York a safer place.Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
7.936
Overview:
In the criminal justice system, sexually-based offenses are considered especially heinous. In New York City, the dedicated detectives who investigate these vicious felonies are members of an elite squad known as the Special Victims Unit. These are their stories.Law & Order: Criminal Intent
7.572
Overview:
The third installment of the “Law & Order” franchise takes viewers deep into the minds of its criminals while following the intense psychological approaches the Major Case Squad uses to solve its crimes.The Equalizer
7.169
Overview:
Robert McCall is a former agent of a secret government agency who is now running his own private crime fighting operation where he fashions himself as "The Equalizer." It is a service for victims of the system who have exhausted all possible means of seeking justice and have nowhere to go. McCall promises to even out the odds for them.Chicago Hope
7.243
Overview:
Chicago Hope is an American medical drama television series, created by David E. Kelley. It ran on CBS from September 18, 1994, to May 4, 2000. The series is set in a fictional private charity hospital in Chicago, Illinois. The show is set to return in the fall of 2013 on TVGN in reruns.Baywatch
5.952
Overview:
Join the Baywatch lifeguards on their thrilling adventures filled with beautiful beaches and those iconic red swimsuits.Walker, Texas Ranger
7
Overview:
Modern-day Texas Ranger, Cordell Walker's independent crime-solving methods have their roots in the rugged traditions of the Old West. Walker's closest friend is former Ranger, C.D. Parker, who retired after a knee injury, and now owns "C.D.'s," a Country/Western saloon/restaurant. Rookie Ranger, James "Jimmy" Trivette is an ex-football player who bases his crime-solving methods on reason and uses computers and cellular phones. Alex Cahill is the Assistant DA who shares a mutual attraction with Walker, but often disagrees with his unorthodox approach to law enforcement.Nurse
5
Overview:
Nurse is an American medical drama that aired on CBS from April 2, 1981 to May 1982. Series star Michael Learned won an Emmy in 1982 for her role on the show.True Blue
6.2
Overview:
True Blue is a short-running NBC Television series set in New York City which aired on Friday evenings in 1989 and 1990. The hour-long drama follows the exploits of a squad of uniformed officers assigned to the specialized trucks of the NYPD's Emergency Services Unit.Chiefs
7.9
Overview:
Three different police chiefs in three different eras become involved in a growing mystery -- who is the mass murderer behind the killing of transient youths in and around the fictional southern town of Delano over a forty year period?Rage of Angels
5.5
Overview:
A young assistant district attorney is used by a ruthless attorney to get his client off. She is fired and almost disbarred, but fights back to become a top attorney, torn between two lovers.Flo
5
Overview:
Flo is an American sitcom which aired on CBS from 1980 to 1981. The series is a spin-off for Polly Holliday who portrayed the sassy and street-smart waitress Florence Jean "Flo" Castleberry on the sitcom Alice. Flo was cancelled at the end of its second season.The Devil's Advocate
7.467
Overview:
Aspiring Florida defense lawyer Kevin Lomax accepts a job at a New York law firm. With the stakes getting higher every case, Kevin quickly learns that his boss has something far more evil planned.Alex Haley's Queen
7.2
Overview:
Queen is the story about Easter, the illegitimate daughter of James Jackson, III and her lifelong affair with plantation owner Tim Daly, which would result in the birth of Queen. Queen's story revolves around her early years as a slave who yearns to know who her father is, and her condition as a fair skin mixed race woman who spends her life trying to figure out where exactly she fits in.You're the One
NYR
Overview:
You're the One is an American sitcom that aired from April 19 until May 3, 1998.Arresting Behavior
6
Overview:
Arresting Behavior is a half-hour American television police comedy that aired on ABC from August 18 to September 2, 1992.The Abyss
7.355
Overview:
A civilian oil rig crew is recruited to conduct a search and rescue effort when a nuclear submarine mysteriously sinks. One diver soon finds himself on a spectacular odyssey 25,000 feet below the ocean's surface where he confronts a mysterious force that has the power to change the world or destroy it.Trinity
8
Overview:
Set in Hell's Kitchen, Manhattan, a detective from a working-class Irish Catholic family looks after his family members.Gangs of New York
7.316
Overview:
In early 1860s New York, Irish immigrant Amsterdam Vallon is released from prison and returns to the Five Points, seeking revenge against his father's killer, William Cutting, a powerful anti-immigrant gang leader. He knows that revenge can only be attained by infiltrating Cutting's inner circle. Vallon's journey becomes a fight for personal survival and to find a place for the Irish people.Shake, Rattle and Roll: An American Love Story
NYR
Overview:
A group of high school friends starts a rock band during the 1950's.A Perfect World
7.481
Overview:
A kidnapped boy strikes up a friendship with his captor: an escaped convict on the run from the law, headed by an honorable U.S. Marshal.The Last Temptation of Christ
7.222
Overview:
Jesus, a humble Judean carpenter beginning to see that he is the son of God, is drawn into revolutionary action against the Roman occupiers by Judas -- despite his protestations that love, not violence, is the path to salvation. The burden of being the savior of mankind torments Jesus throughout his life, leading him to doubt.Article 99
6.102
Overview:
Dr. Richard Sturgess leads a team of compassionate doctors at a veteran's hospital. Along with Drs. Morgan, Handleman and Van Dorn, he fights to deliver adequate care to needy veterans in the face of funding cuts and a corrupt administration. To succeed, the staff may have to bend the rules and circumvent the villainous "Article 99," a bureaucratic loophole that prevents veterans from receiving the benefits they deserve.George Washington II: The Forging of a Nation
6.333
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Beset by economic unrest, threatened from within by Indian nations and from without by overseas powers, the young country reeled in turmoil. But the gallant general who had commanded the Continental army in battle also agreed to guide the fledgling country - and his sure hand steadied the course.Cruising
6.6
Overview:
When New York is caught in the grip of a sadistic serial killer who preys on patrons of the city's underground bars, young rookie Steve Burns infiltrates the S&M subculture to try and lure him out of the shadows.City by the Sea
5.8
Overview:
Vincent LaMarca is a dedicated and well-respected New York City police detective who has gone to great lengths to distance himself from his past, but then makes the terrible discovery that his own son has fallen into a life of crime.Lone Star
7.004
Overview:
When the skeleton of his murdered predecessor is found, Sheriff Sam Deeds unearths many other long-buried secrets in his Texas border town.Broadcast News
6.745
Overview:
Basket-case network news producer Jane Craig falls for new reporter Tom Grunnick, a pretty boy who represents the trend towards entertainment news she despises. Aaron Altman, a talented but plain correspondent, carries an unrequited torch for Jane. Sparks fly between the three as the network prepares for big changes, and both the news and Jane must decide between style and substance.Big Business
6.344
Overview:
In the 1940s in the small town of Jupiter Hollow, two sets of identical twins are born in the same hospital on the same night. One set to a poor local family and the other to a rich family just passing through. The dizzy nurse on duty accidentally mixes the twins unbeknown to the parents. Our story flashes forward to the 1980s where the mismatched sets of twins are about to cross paths.Acting
2007Exorcising 'Cruising' as Self (archive footage)
2007The History of 'Cruising' as Self (archive footage)
2007The History of 'Cruising' as Unknown
2005America Brown as Bo Williams
2004Broadway's Lost Treasures II as Monsieur Thénardier (segment "Les Misérables")
2003Red Betsy as Emmet Rounds
2002Gangs of New York as Telegraph Operator #1 (voice)
2002City by the Sea as Lieutenant Katt
2002Monday Night Mayhem as Carl Lindemann
2001Law & Order: Criminal Intent (1 Episode) as Lorne Cutler
1999Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1 Episode) as Bud Gabler
1999Limbo as Harmon King
1999Speed of Life as Dad
1999Getting to Know You as Lamar Pike, Sr.
1999Dumbarton Bridge as Jack
1998River Red as Judge Perkins
1998Trinity (4 Episodes) as Unknown
1998You're the One (7 Episodes) as Unknown
1998The Secret of Mulan as Unknown
1998Eye of the Storm as Dallas
1997Switchback as Clyde 'Shorty' Callahan
1997The Devil's Advocate as Florida Prosecutor
1997...First Do No Harm as Bob Purdue
1997Old Man as Plump Convict
1996Mistrial as Commissioner Russell Crane
1996Lone Star as Cody
1995Truman as Frank Vassar
1995The Neon Bible as Bobbie Lee Taylor
1995The Great Elephant Escape as Ethridge
1994Chicago Hope as Unknown
1993A Perfect World as Tom Adler
1993Under Pressure: Making 'The Abyss' as Self
1993Walker, Texas Ranger (1 Episode) as Woodrow Jonathan Wilton
1993Alex Haley's Queen (3 Episodes) as Henderson
1992Passion Fish as Reeves
1992Innocent Blood as Dave Flinton
1992Arresting Behavior (5 Episodes) as Unknown
1992Article 99 as Shooter Polaski
1991Shake, Rattle and Roll: An American Love Story (1 Episode) as Corby Judd
1990William Shakespeare's Hamlet as Osric
1990Law & Order (2, 1 Episode) as Lester Hastings, Defense Attorney Le Clair
1989True Blue (13 Episodes) as Officer Red Tollin
1989The Abyss as Catton ‘Catfish’ De Vries
1989Baywatch (1 Episode) as Unknown
1988Big Business as Bum
1988The Last Temptation of Christ as Nathaniel, Apostle
1987Broadcast News as Jane's Dad
1986George Washington II: The Forging of a Nation (2 Episodes) as Eban Krutch
1986Sweet Liberty as Hank
1986Odd Jobs as Wylie D. Daiken
1985The Equalizer (2 Episodes) as Jim Harding
1984The House of God as Dr. Gath
1983Chiefs (3 Episodes) as Emmett Spence
1983Daniel as FBI #1
1983Rage of Angels (2 Episodes) as Jim
1982Precious Blood as Unknown
1982Rattlesnake in a Cooler as The doctor / prisoner
1981Nurse (1 Episode) as Wally
1980Flo (29 Episodes) as Unknown
1980Cruising as Water Sport