What happened to Edward Burns?

We talked about him a lot in the 90s, first The McMullen Brothers and Little Lies Between Brothers, two independent productions with great success in which he worked in front of and behind the camera, then especially for his role as Richard Reuben in Saving Private. Ryan. But after Steven Spielberg’s film, American Edward Burns has an overall more modest career than one might expect. Here I will tell you what happened to him.

After working with Tom Hanks and Matt Damon in Saving Private Ryan (a film in which Bryan Cranston makes a brief appearance!), Edward Burns is riding a wave of success. Always with the same great ambition to combine the hats of director and actor.

In this way, Burns directs Encounters in Manhattan, on which the shadow of Woody Allen appears, as well as Ash Wednesday, with Elijah Wood. And as an actor, he plays in a movie Thriller 15 Minutes alongside Robert De Niro, alongside Angelina Jolie in 7 Days and Lives, in Confidence and in the comedies The Holiday and 27 Dresses.

A perennial supporting actor in American cinema, Edward Burns’ last major role for The Seventh Art came in 2012. Thriller Alex Cross, and for the small screen a year later with the TV series Mob City. Then he becomes much more cautious.

If Edward Burns continues his productions at a steady pace, from A Small Wedding Among Friends to Nice Guy Johnny to Only You and Blue Suburban Sky, the success of these personal films is frankly modest. The now 55-year-old American, who created the Bridge and the Tunnel series in 2021, ultimately may not have achieved the success he might have envisioned under Private Ryan, but he seems to have thrived in independent cinema.

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