Ken Burns
Actor | Director | Executive Producer | Writer | Screenplay
Celebrated American documentarian who gradually amassed a considerable reputation and a devoted audience with a series of reassuringly traditional meditations on Americana. Burns' works are treasure troves of archival materials; he skillfully utilizes period music and footage, photographs, periodicals and ordinary people's correspondence, the latter often movingly read by seasoned professional actors in a deliberate attempt to get away from a "Great Man" approach to history. Like most non-fictio...
Place of Birth: Brooklyn, New York, USA
Date of Birth: Jul 29, 1953
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