James Burke

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1936-12-22 (89 years old)

Place of Birth

Derry, Northern Ireland, UK

James Burke

Biography

James Burke is a British broadcaster, science historian, author, and television producer, who is known, among other things, for his documentary television series Connections, and for its more philosophically oriented companion series, The Day the Universe Changed, which is about the history of science and technology. The Washington Post called him "one of the most intriguing minds in the Western world".

Acting

1991

1984

Speed

as Narrator (voice)

2004

2019

Apollo: Missions to the Moon

as Self - BBC (archive footage) (archive sound)

Production

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