LeVar Burton
Personal Info
Know For
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1957-02-16 (68 years old)
Place of Birth
Landstuhl, Rhineland Palatinate, Germany
Also known As
Levar Burton
Levardis Robert Martyn Burton Jr.
LeVar Burton
Biography
Levardis Robert Martyn Burton Jr. 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 ...
Acting
1994
as Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge
2002
as Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge
1996
as Lieutenant Commander Geordi La Forge
1998
as Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge
1980
as Tommy Price
2009
as Black Lightning (voice)
1985
as Vinnie Davis
1982
as Self
2022
as Narrator (voice)
2010
as Kendrick
1977
as Cap Jackson
2023
as Commodore Geordi La Forge
1997
as Self
2024
as Self
1986
as Pvt. Michael Osgood
2009
as Mike Timbrook
1992
as Lt. Cmdr. Geordi LaForge (archive footage)
2008
as Nathanial
1992
as Lt. Cmdr. Geordi La Forge (archive footage)
1988
as Kunta Kinte
1977
as Self
2012
as Dr. Dan Halpern
1999
as Martin at Age 26 (voice) (as Levar Burton)
1984
as Professor Preston
1977
as Billy Peoples
1978
as Ron LeFlore
1979
as Donald Lang
1991
as Geordi LaForge (archive footage)
1981
as Rodney
1983
as Ray Walden
1996
as Winstrom
1994
as Dr. Franklin Carter
1993
as Geordi La Forge
2005
1976
as Dave
1984
as Davis
1993
as Fire Chief J. Allan Mather
1996
2014
as Self
2001
as Martin Luther King, Jr.
1981
as Charles 'Tank' Smith
1987
as Ben Sumner
1978
as Andrew Sinclair
1990
as Self
1991
2006
as Self
1985
as Glenn Scott
2018
as LeVar Burton
1978
as Self
2003
as Night Watchman Elf (uncredited)
1986
as Robert Johnson
2020
as LeVar Burton
1991
as Lt. Cmdr. Geordi La Forge (archive footage)
2013
as Lt. Cmdr. Geordi La Forge (archive footage)
1993
as Lt. Cmdr. Geordi La Forge (archive footage)
1979
as Self
1994
as Lieutenant Commander Geordi La Forge
1993
as Geordi La Forge
1993
as Geordi La Forge
Production
2003
as Director
1999
as Director
1998
as Director
2023
as Executive Producer
2008
as Director
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