Kate Randolph Burns obit

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Kate Randolph Burns was an actress, known for Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction (1997), Murder, She Wrote (1984) and Homefront (1991). She died in 2019 in the USA.

Burns toured as Emily Dickinson in a one woman show for many years.. She first rented a theater in the NOHO district, where she won the Valley Theatre League’s Artistic Director Achievement Award for best lead actress and received rave reviews.

“Actor Kate Randolph Burns gives us a rich, multi-layered Dickinson, thoroughly capturing her thorny charm and wicked humor as well as her pain and fear,” wrote Neal Weaver of LA Weekly.

She began performing for schools after teachers would bring their classes to see her shows. At the request of English teacher Rita Hall, Burns performed at Cleveland High School in Reseda.

Colleen Path, a mass communications major at Glendale College, invited Burns to perform on campus after seeing her perform a few years ago.

“I was so moved and impressed [by the play],” said Path. “I really wanted it to get to a broader audience.”

For Burns, “The Belle of Amherst” is a way to honor Dickinson and her work.

“Not just to keep it alive but to awaken it,” she said.

 

 

Actress

Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction (1997)

Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction

7.9

TV Series

Mrs. Crane (segment "1st Time Offender")

1999

1 episode

 

Jessica Biel, Beverley Mitchell, Barry Watson, David Gallagher, Catherine Hicks, Mackenzie Rosman, and Happy in 7th Heaven (1996)

7th Heaven

5.3

TV Series

Mrs. Foster

1998

1 episode

 

Women of the House (1995)

Women of the House

6.3

TV Series

Woman Journalist

1995

1 episode

 

On Our Own (1994)

On Our Own

6.1

TV Series

Saleslady

1994

1 episode

 

Bloodlines: Murder in the Family (1993)

Bloodlines: Murder in the Family

5.6

TV Movie

Reporter #3

1993

 

L.A. Law (1986)

L.A. Law

7.1

TV Series

Clerk

1989–1992

7 episodes

 

Homefront (1991)

Homefront

8.9

TV Series

Nurse

1991

1 episode

 

Angela Lansbury in Murder, She Wrote (1984)

Murder, She Wrote

7.2

TV Series

Madge

1990

1 episode

 

Michael Landon in Highway to Heaven (1984)

Highway to Heaven

6.9

TV Series

Miss Swann

1987

1 episode

 

Donna Mills, Joan Van Ark, Michele Lee, Constance McCashin, John Pleshette, and Ted Shackelford in Knots Landing (1979)

Knots Landing

7.0

TV Series

Woman

1987

1 episode

 

Denzel Washington, Ed Begley Jr., David Morse, Howie Mandel, Cynthia Sikes Yorkin, Ellen Bry, William Daniels, and Ed Flanders in St. Elsewhere (1982)

St. Elsewhere

8.0

TV Series

Sandra Eff

1984

1 episode