LeVar Burton [2390]
Gender: Male
Popularity: 1.2742
Birthplace: Landstuhl, Rhineland Palatinate, Germany
Birthday: 1957-02-16
Age: 68 years
Movies: 61
Links: Homepage, IMDB
Biography: Levardis Robert Martyn Burton Jr. (born February 16, 1957) is an American actor, director, and television host. He played Geordi La Forge in Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987–1994), Kunta Kinte in the ABC miniseries Roots (1977), and was the host of the PBS Kids educational television series Reading Rainbow for 23 years (1983–2006). Burton received 12 Daytime Emmy Awards and a Peabody Award as host and executive producer of Reading Rainbow. His other roles include Cap Jackson in Looking for Mr. Goodbar (1977), Donald Lang in Dummy (1979), Tommy Price in The Hunter (1980), which earned him an NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actor in a Motion Picture, and Martin Luther King Jr. in Ali (2001). Burton received the Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album at the 42nd Annual Grammy Awards for his narration of the book The Autobiography of Martin Luther King Jr. In 1990, he was honored for his accomplishments in television with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. From 2017 until 2024, Burton created and hosted the podcast LeVar Burton Reads, often described as "Reading Rainbow for adults". In October 2024, Burton appeared as the host of the Trivial Pursuit television game show broadcast on The CW network and streaming online. Description above from the Wikipedia article about LeVar Burton, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

To the Journey:
2024-11-07
Butterfly in the
2024-03-17
Secrets of Sacre
2022-04-02
Definition Pleas
2020-08-10
Brentwood
2018-08-02
School of the Fu
2016-09-14
Lennon or McCart
2014-12-12
A Star Is Drawn:
2014-11-01
Reunification -
2012-11-04
Rise of the Zomb
2012-10-27
Stardate Revisit
2012-07-23
The Jensen Proje
2010-07-16
Superman/Batman:
2009-09-29
Taken in Broad D
2009-11-10
Reach for Me
2008-10-01
40 Years of Star
2006-01-01
Steve McQueen: T
2005-06-01
Blizzard
2003-05-15
Star Trek: Nemes
2002-12-13
Ali
2001-12-10
Our Friend, Mart
1999-01-12
Star Trek: Insur
1998-12-11
Trekkies
1997-10-18
Star Trek: First
1996-11-22
Star Trek: 30 Ye
1996-10-06
Yesterday's Targ
1996-04-22
Star Trek: Gener
1994-11-18
Parallel Lives
1994-08-04
Star Trek: The N
1994-05-23
Journey's End -
1994-05-15
Star Trek: The N
1993-06-21
Star Trek: The N
1993-02-20
Firestorm: 72 Ho
1993-02-07
Star Trek: Deep
1993-01-04
Star Trek: Feder
1992-01-25
Star Trek: 25th
1991-09-28
Central Park
1990-04-01
Roots: The Gift
1988-12-11
The Star Trek Sa
1988-10-03
A Special Friend
1987-03-31
Star Trek: The N
1987-01-01
Liberty
1986-06-23
The Supernatural
1986-05-09
The Midnight Hou
1985-11-01
And the Children
1985-01-01
Booker
1984-10-01
The Jesse Owens
1984-07-09
Emergency Room
1983-07-18
I Love Liberty
1982-03-21
Grambling's Whit
1981-10-04
The Acorn People
1981-03-02
The Hunter
1980-08-01
Dummy
1979-05-27
The Muppets Go H
1979-05-16
Mickey's 50
1978-11-19
Battered
1978-09-26
One in a Million
1978-09-26
Looking for Mr.
1977-10-19
Billy: Portrait
1977-09-12
US Against the W
1977-09-07
Almos' a Man
1976-04-05