Bob Burns

Known for ActingBorn 1935-05-12Died 2025-12-12

Bob Burns was an actor, consultant, producer, archivist and historian of props, costumes, and other screen used paraphernalia from some of the greatest (and not so great) science fiction, fantasy, and horror motion pictures. He is best known for his work with and collection of movie props, particularly from horror and science-fiction movies. He has also had numerous smaller acting roles in movies, including Tracy the Gorilla from the 1975 television show The Ghost Busters.Read more

Movies & web series

The Adventures of the Spirit

The Brundle Museum of Natural History

Halloween... The Happy Haunting of America!

The Further Adventures of Major Mars

Creature Feature: 50 Years of the Gill-Man

He Who Made Monsters: The Life and Art of Jack Pierce

Witch's Dungeon: 40 Years of Chills

Men in Suits

RKO Production 601: The Making of “Kong, the Eighth Wonder of the World”

The Sky Is Falling: Making 'The War of the Worlds'

The Vampire Hunters Club

Scream For Your Lives: William Castle and 'The Tingler'

Spine Tingler! The William Castle Story

Attack of the 50 Foot Monster Mania

Back to the Black Lagoon: A Creature Chronicle

Hollywood Goes Ape!

It Conquered Hollywood! The Story of American International Pictures

The Shark Is Still Working

Abbott and Costello Meet the Monsters!

Corman's World

The Lovely Bones

The 9th Wonder of the World: The Making of 'Gorgo'

Auteur on the Campus: Jack Arnold at Universal!

The Sci-Fi Boys

How to Build a Time Machine

Time Machine: The Journey Back

The Alien Legacy

The Ghost Busters

The Lucy Show

Drive

Dark and Stormy Night

The Universe According to Universal

Hollywood in the Atomic Age: Monsters! Martians! Mad Scientists!

Not of This Earth

07 Spaceys

Rat Pfink a Boo Boo

Terror in the Jungle

Amazing! Exploring the Far Reaches of Forbidden Planet

The Monster

The Lemon Grove Kids Meet the Monsters

Invasion of the Saucer Men

The Naked Monster

Dr. Horror's Erotic House of Idiots

Invasion Earth: The Aliens Are Here

Captain America vs. The Mutant

Charlie Gemora: Uncredited

House of Wax: Unlike Anything You've Seen Before!

Masters of Magic: The World of Chandu