Michael Burns is a former child actor who went on to a distinguished
career as a historian, writer, and college professor. He is now retired
and raising thoroughbred horses in Kentucky. He was familiar to
television audiences of the early 1960s as the teenage character,
"Barnaby West", on the popular
Wagon Train (1957) series. After
other TV and film credits in his late teens and early 20s, Burns left
acting to pursue his interest in history, graduating from the
University of California. He earned a Ph. D. from Yale University in
1977 and wrote an acclaimed history book, "Dreyfus", about the Dreyfus
Affair. Between 1980-2002, Burns was a professor of history at Mount
Holyoke College in Massachusetts.
Worlds Beyond(1986)as William Purvis
Police Woman(1974)as Danny Powers
The Tony Randall Show(1976)as Michael
The Bionic Woman(1976)as Carl Franklin
American Bandstand(1952)as Self - Interview
