George Burns's biography

George Burns is 100 years old street artist born on on Monday 20th of January 1896. He is often nicknamed as NattieSmiling Frankie DavisWilly DelightBuddy LinksCaptain Betts. According to year of birth 1896 he belongs to Lost Generation. Birthday on 20th of January means he is Capricorn. These people are stable in nature. As the sign lord is “Saturn”, the person will be judgemental in his approach.

He is native english speaker. He is citizen of United States of America. His primary profession is to be street artist. You can know him also as writer, television actor, film actor. He is recently known as actor. He received Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor The Sunshine Boys in 1975

George Burns's family

George Burns's ex spouse

Gracie Allen

George Burns and Gracie Allen have been together since 1926 for 38 years. She is known as actor. His ex spouse was born on Friday 26th of July 1895 in San Francisco. His ex spouse died on Thursday 27th of August 1964 in Hollywood. Gracie Allen was 68 years old, when this happened.

He has 1 son.

George Burns's son: Ronnie Burns

George Burns's son's name is Ronnie Burns. He is known as actor. His son was born on Tuesday 9th of July 1935 in Evanston. His son died on Wednesday 14th of November 2007 in Pacific Palisades. Ronnie Burns was 111 years old, when this happened.

George Burns's career

His main focus is to be street artist.

How did George Burns die

He died on on Saturday 9th of March 1996 when he was 100 years old. George Burnss death was caused by natural causes.

Awards and competitions

George Burns's Awards

He was awarded three stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for Live Theatre at 6672 Hollywood Blvd., for Motion Pictures at 1639 Vine St. and for Television at 6510 Hollywood Blvd.
Replaced his best friend Jack Benny in The Sunshine Boys (1975) after his death, going on to win the Academy Award for his efforts.

George Burns's Nominations

He was nominated for Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor

What George Burns has done for a first time

Although Gracie Allen was in love with another man when they first met, he carried a ring in his pocket until she finally agreed to marry him.

George Burns's quotes

Smartness runs in my family. When I went to school I was so smart my teacher was in my class for five years.
Fall in love with what you do for a living. I don't care what it is. It works.
Retire? I'm going to stay in show business until I'm the only one left.
[on appearance] Take care not to wear stripes that are out of sync with your wrinkles.
I did go to school--my kind of school. When I was a kid I went out . . . and you meet people. You talk to them. Anybody says something that makes sense, it stays with you, rubs off on you. That kind of school.
Well, anybody can be a straight man if he hears well. You just have to wait for laughs. A straight man just repeats the questions and the comedian gets the laughs and you just wait for them and don't let them die completely at the tail end of the laugh.
[on his age] I get a standing ovation just standing.
Nice to be here? At my age it's nice to be anywhere.
In what other business can a guy my age drink martinis, smoke cigars and sing? I think all people who retire ought to go into show business. I've been retired all my life.
[on gravity] Everything that goes up must come down. But there comes a time when not everything that's down can come up.
I would go out with women my age, but there are no women my age.
Bridge is a game that separates the men from the boys. It also separates husbands and wives.
A young mind in a healthy body is a wonderful thing. Especially for an old man with an open night.
If you stay in the business long enough and get to be old enough, you get to be new again.
I use the cigar for timing purposes. If I tell a joke, I smoke as long as they laugh and when they stop laughing I take the cigar out of my mouth and start my next joke.
I don't believe in dying . . . it's been done.
There are many ways to die in bed, but the best way is not alone.
I can't afford to die; I'd lose too much money.
[on winning the Oscar at age 80] It couldn't have happened to an older guy.
[at 87 years old] I was brought up to respect my elders and now I don't have to respect ANYBODY.
[on adultery] If you were married to Marilyn Monroe, you'd cheat with some ugly girl.
Happiness is: A good martini, a good meal, a good cigar and a good woman . . . or a bad woman, depending on how much happiness you can stand.
[interviewed in his old age about sex scenes] What actresses do today when they appear on the screen is what they did once upon a time for getting to appear on the screen.
I'd rather be a failure at something I love than a success at something I hate.
At my age, the only thing hot waiting for me in my dressing room is a bowl of soup.
[discussing his role in Going in Style (1979)] I had to learn how to act old.
[asked how he got the title role in Oh, God! (1977)] I was the closest to Him in age.
The most important thing to succeed in show business is sincerity. And if you can fake that, you've got it made.
If you live to the age of 100, you have it made, because very few people die past the age of 100.
[during Dean Martin's roast for Frank Sinatra] We singers aren't worried about getting laughs . . . see, nobody's laughing, and I'm not worried.
Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.
[on Carol Channing] She never just enters a room. Even when she comes out of the bathroom, her husband applauds.
[on Al Jolson] It was easy enough to make Jolson happy at home. You just had to cheer him for breakfast, applaud wildly for lunch and give him a standing ovation for dinner.
[sitting in an empty movie theater] The first movie I ever saw was the first movie I was ever in. I was sitting alone in the theater then like I am now.
[asked what he thought of Mary Pickford] I never slept with her.
[as he was about to sing "Take Me Out To The Ball Game" during the 1983 All-Star Game at Comiskey Park in Chicago] I not only sang this song at the first All-Star Game, I also sang it at the first ballgame.
ng his wife, [Gracie Allen] "I never wanted to play [William Shakespeare (I)]", a statement she had proved by becoming my partner. Instead we played Cleveland.
It's one of the old show business axioms. No matter how successful you've been, there's always a younger and sexier seal coming along.
[on his wedding] The justice of the peace spoke so fast I didn't know if [Gracie Allen] and I had gotten married or had bought land in Florida.
[on meeting Gracie Allen] I remember looking down at her, looking right into her green eye and her blue eye, and thinking what a pretty little girl she is. I was hoping she'd work with me.
[on vaudeville] When we played the back end of a horse we always knew that if we worked hard and did a good job we could become the front end.
Yale men do not like to be told anything by people who didn't go to Yale. The closest I came to Yale was once I had one of their padlocks.
At home we ate fish every Friday, as Catholics were then supposed to do. Being Jewish, I compromised. I wore a hat when I ate fish, out of respect for my own religion and the fish's family.
I'd announce that I was going to sing, and all our guests would make a ring around the piano. But somehow I managed to fight my way through the ring and sing anyway.
[on his act with Gracie Allen] The only rule we followed was that we would only use jokes that were funny. If people wanted jokes that weren't funny they could listen to our competitors.
You know you're getting old when you stoop to tie your shoelaces and wonder what else you could do while you're down there.
If you asked me to get up and stand up for an hour I couldn't do it, but in front of an audience I can stand for two hours. That vitality comes over the floodlights.
Retirement at 65 is ridiculous. When I was 65 I still had pimples.
People think that all I do is stand up and tell a few jokes. The jokes are easy. It's the standing up that's hard.
[on Al Jolson] It was easy enough to make Jolson happy at home. You just had to cheer him for breakfast, applaud wildly for lunch, and give him a standing ovation for dinner.

George Burns's body shape

Lets describe how George Burns looks. We will focus on his body shape. Body build is average.

George Burns