Michael Burns (actor)

Michael Burns
Burns (right) and Randy Boone from the television show It's A Man's World (1962)
Born
Michael Thornton Burns

(1947-12-30) December 30, 1947
Alma materCollege of William and Mary
University of California, Los Angeles
Yale University
OccupationsAuthor
Child actor (retired)
History professor (retired)
Political partyDemocrat
Spouse
(m. 1986; died 2025)
Children1

Michael Thornton Burns (born December 30, 1947) is an American professor emeritus of history at Mount Holyoke College, and a published author and former television and film teen actor, most known for the television series Wagon Train.