George Burns, a player with the New York Giants baseball team, appeared in the Thanhouser-Princess film, The Final Game, which depicted highlights from the last game of the 1913 World Series, played in New York City on October 11, 1913.
George Burns
A Thanhouser Company player, credited on one Thanhouser film. No print of it is known to survive.
Biography
From Bowers’ encyclopedia entry. Read the full biography below ↓
Filmography
Thanhouser films
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The full biography
From Volume III: Biographies of Q. David Bowers’ Thanhouser Films: An Encyclopedia and History, reproduced with permission and unchanged. 124 words.
George Joseph Burns was born on November 24, 1889 in Utica, New York. He spent 15 years as a player in major league baseball, including a long stint 1911-1921 with the New York Giants. He participated in three World Series contests, 1913, 1917, and 1921. Standing 5’7” tall, he weighed 160 pounds. In the final game of the 1913 World Series, filmed by Thanhouser, he played left field and was at bat three times. Burns died on August 15, 1966 in Gloversville, New York.
Bowers’ own filmography list is left out here: the filmography above lists the same films. Cite as: Bowers, Q. David. Thanhouser Films: An Encyclopedia and History, “BURNS, George.” thanhouser.org/research/people/george-burns/