Robert John Burke

Robert John Burke

1960-09-12 New York City, New York, USA 58 Credits

Biography

Robert John Burke (born September 12, 1960) is an American actor known for his roles in the early films of Hal Hartley, as well as his roles in RoboCop 3 (1993), Tombstone (1993), and Thinner (1996). During the 2000s, Burke became well known for his portrayal of Mickey Gavin on Rescue Me (2004–11), Bart Bass in Gossip Girl (2007–12), Ed Tucker in Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (2002–20), and a number of other film and television roles including Intrusion (2021). Description above from the Wi...

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Judy

Judy

2026

Acting

The most powerful man in the world embarks on a frantic mission to prove he is humanity's saviour before the disaster he’s unleashed destroys everythi...

Boston Strangler

Boston Strangler

2023

as Eddie Holland

6.7
Acting

Reporters Loretta McLaughlin and Jean Cole bravely pursue the story of the Boston Strangler at great personal risk, putting their own lives on the lin...

Black Panther: Wakanda Forever

Black Panther: Wakanda Forever

2022

as Smitty

7.1
Acting

Queen Ramonda, Shuri, M’Baku, Okoye and the Dora Milaje fight to protect their nation from intervening world powers in the wake of King T’Challa’s dea...

The Retaliators

The Retaliators

2022

as Captain Briggs

5.9
Acting

An upstanding pastor uncovers a dark and twisted underworld as he searches for answers surrounding his daughter's brutal murder.

Triggered

Triggered

2022

as David

Acting

A US Senator faces her greatest challenge when a home invasion takes a shocking turn.

Intrusion

Intrusion

2021

as Detective Steven Morse

6.0
Acting

When a husband and wife move to a small town, a home invasion leaves the wife traumatized and suspicious that those around her might not be who they s...

Being

Being

2020

as Sheriff Campbell

4.3
Acting

A festive gathering in a secluded small-town farmhouse in the mountains is brought to a halt when a bright burst of light explodes from the barn. Stra...

Boarding School

Boarding School

2018

as Mr. Holcomb

6.4
Acting

When troubled 12-year-old Jacob Felsen is sent away to boarding school, he enters every kid’s worst nightmare: a creepy old mansion, deserted except f...

BlacKkKlansman

BlacKkKlansman

2018

as Chief Bridges

7.5
Acting

Colorado Springs, late 1970s. Ron Stallworth, an African American police officer, and Flip Zimmerman, his Jewish colleague, run an undercover operatio...

We Only Know So Much

We Only Know So Much

2018

as Hal

5.1
Acting

A married woman has an affair with a suicidal lover while caring for her husband's sick relatives.

Future '38

Future '38

2017

as General Sportwood

7.0
Acting

An American Agent from 1938 travels through time to hamstring Hitler! Transported to the year 2018, he hoodwinks hoodlums, infuriates the Fuhrer, and...

Where There's Smoke

Where There's Smoke

2017

as Captain Frascone

Acting

After a tragic accident, a firefighter must convince the city commissioner he's able to return to the line of duty.

Bait

Bait

2015

as Uncle Mack

Acting

TJ's day takes an unexpected turn when he visits his Uncle Mack at his hotel in Montauk...

True Story

True Story

2015

as Greg Ganley

6.3
Acting

A drama centered on the relationship between journalist Michael Finkel and Christian Longo, an FBI Most Wanted List murderer who for years lived outsi...

Ned Rifle

Ned Rifle

2015

as Chet

5.9
Acting

Henry’s and Fay's son Ned sets out to find and kill his father for destroying his mother's life. But his aims are frustrated by the troublesome Susan,...

2 Guns

2 Guns

2013

as Jessup

6.5
Acting

A DEA agent and an undercover Naval Intelligence officer who have been tasked with investigating one another find they have been set up by the mob -- ...

Safe

Safe

2012

as Captain Wolf

6.5
Acting

After a former elite agent rescues a 12-year-old Chinese girl who's been abducted, they find themselves in the middle of a standoff between Triads, th...

Limitless

Limitless

2011

as Pierce

7.2
Acting

The life of an unsuccessful writer is transformed by a top-secret 'smart drug' that allows him to use 100% of his brain and become a perfect version o...

Years Later: The Unbelievable Truth and Its Consequences

2010

as Himself

Acting

A series of impromptu interviews with Hal Hartley, Adrienne Shelly, and some of Hartley's other most frequent collaborators on his style, career, and ...

Brooklyn's Finest

Brooklyn's Finest

2010

as State Trooper #1

6.3
Acting

Enforcing the law within the notoriously rough Brownsville section of the city and especially within the Van Dyke housing projects is the NYPD's sixty...

Miracle at St. Anna

Miracle at St. Anna

2008

as General Ned Almond

6.1
Acting

Miracle at St. Anna chronicles the story of four American soldiers who are members of the all-black 92nd "Buffalo Soldier" Division stationed in Tusca...

The Ex

The Ex

2006

as Colonel

5.2
Acting

When his lawyer wife, Sofia, becomes pregnant, chronic underachiever Tom Reilly must take a job at his father-in-law's advertising firm. Tom has to ad...

Jack's Law

Jack's Law

2006

as Det. Ron Banks

2.0
Acting

Jack Santos is a retired undercover vice cop whose world is suddenly torn apart by the murder of his wife and daughter. After serving a prison term fo...

The Oh in Ohio

The Oh in Ohio

2006

as Binky Taylor

5.3
Acting

Frustrated with their relationship, Priscilla and Jack decide to take a break. While Jack moves into a new place of his own and starts dating a studen...

Munich

Munich

2005

as Belligerent American

7.1
Acting

During the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich, eleven Israeli athletes are taken hostage and murdered by a Palestinian terrorist group known as Black Septem...

Good Night, and Good Luck.

Good Night, and Good Luck.

2005

as Charlie Mack

7.1
Acting

The story of journalist Edward R. Murrow's stand against Senator Joseph McCarthy's anti-communist witch-hunts in the early 1950s.

Hide and Seek

Hide and Seek

2005

as Steven

6.3
Acting

David Callaway tries to piece together his life in the wake of his wife's suicide and has been left to raise his nine-year-old daughter, Emily on his ...

Connie and Carla

Connie and Carla

2004

as Rudy

5.8
Acting

After accidentally witnessing a mafia hit in the Windy City, gal pals Connie and Carla skip town for L.A., where they go way undercover as singers wor...

Speak

Speak

2004

as Mr. Neck

7.0
Acting

Freshman high-school student Melinda has refused to speak ever since she called the cops on a popular summer party. With her old friends snubbing her ...

Piggie

Piggie

2003

as Jim

2.0
Acting

An unbalanced young girl in upstate New York dairy country falls for a petty criminal from NYC and tries to manipulate him into being her boyfriend.

Confessions of a Dangerous Mind

Confessions of a Dangerous Mind

2002

as Instructor Jenks

6.7
Acting

Television made him famous, but his biggest hits happened off screen. Television producer by day, CIA assassin by night, Chuck Barris was recruited by...

No Such Thing

No Such Thing

2002

as The Monster

5.9
Acting

A young journalist journeys to Iceland to find her missing fiancé only to encounter a mythical creature who longs to die.

State Property

State Property

2002

as Bob

6.3
Acting

A Philadelphia gang member becomes a drug kingpin and starts a feud with vicious rivals in his quest for the American Dream.

First Love, Last Rites

First Love, Last Rites

1998

as Henry

4.4
Acting

Passion and infatuation ignite as two lovers flounder through their "first time" in this alarmingly sexy film set in the Louisiana bayou. Joey and Sis...

Somewhere in the City

Somewhere in the City

1998

as Frankie

1.0
Acting

The film portrays life of New York City's Lower East Side inhabitants. Introvert therapist Betty is befriended with Chinese immigrant Lu Lu, leftist r...

Midnight Flight

Midnight Flight

1998

as Paul Bacon

3.8
Acting

An American woman is stranded in a German airport when she witnesses someone sabotaging a plane.

A Bright Shining Lie

A Bright Shining Lie

1998

as Frank Drummond

5.5
Acting

Something in his past keeps career Army man John Paul Vann from advancing past colonel. He views being sent to Vietnam as part of the US military advi...

Cop Land

Cop Land

1997

as Officer B

6.8
Acting

Freddy Heflin is the sheriff of a place everyone calls “Cop Land” — a small and seemingly peaceful town populated by the big city police officers he’s...

Mayday - Flug in den Tod

Mayday - Flug in den Tod

1997

as Tom Hutton

5.5
Acting
Thinner

Thinner

1996

as Billy Halleck

5.9
Acting

An obese lawyer finds himself growing "Thinner" when an old Romani man places a hex on him. Now the lawyer must call upon his friends in organized cri...

Killer: A Journal of Murder

Killer: A Journal of Murder

1996

as R.G. Greiser

5.9
Acting

Carl Panzram is sent to Leavenworth Prison for burglary. While there, he is brutally beaten by a guard. Neophyte guard Henry Lesser feels sympathy for...

Fled

Fled

1996

as Pat Schiller

5.6
Acting

During a routine prison work detail, convict Piper is chained to Dodge, a cyberhacker, when gunfire breaks out. Apparently, the attack is related to s...

If Lucy Fell

If Lucy Fell

1996

as Handsome Man

5.2
Acting

Joe and Lucy are roommates and best friends. Lucy, whose love life is embarrassingly dull, convinces Joe, who is infatuated with a neighbor he's never...

Flirt

Flirt

1995

as Men's Room Man #2

6.2
Acting

The same situation is played out in different cities (New York, Berlin and Tokyo). A lover has to choose whether to commit to a partner who is returni...

Crazy for a Kiss

Crazy for a Kiss

1995

as Steve

Acting

On a hot sunny day in Kansas, 1973, Mike Kinross's parents tell him he's going on holiday to his Uncle Dan's house. But instead they drop him off at t...

Heaven & Earth

Heaven & Earth

1993

as Paul

6.7
Acting

In a small Vietnamese village torn apart by war, a young woman faces unimaginable horrors before deciding to escape to the city. There, she encounters...

Tombstone

Tombstone

1993

as Frank McLaury

7.6
Acting

Legendary marshal Wyatt Earp, now a weary gunfighter, joins his brothers Morgan and Virgil to pursue their collective fortune in the thriving mining t...

Flirt

Flirt

1993

as Men's Room Man

Acting

In New York, Bill struggles to decide whether he has a future with Emily, while attempting to restrain Walter, the angry husband of a woman he thinks ...

A Far Off Place

A Far Off Place

1993

as Paul Parker

6.1
Acting

Thrown together under incredible circumstances, two strangers must discover courage and strength when they begin a journey across the treacherous Afri...

RoboCop 3

RoboCop 3

1993

as Robocop

4.9
Acting

The mega corporation Omni Consumer Products is still bent on creating their pet project, Delta City, to replace the rotting city of Detroit. Unfortuna...

Simple Men

Simple Men

1992

as Bill McCabe

6.8
Acting

Two diametrically opposite brothers set off on a journey to reunite with their estranged father but when their motorcycle breaks down while passing th...

Dust Devil

Dust Devil

1992

as Dust Devil

6.3
Acting

A woman on the run from her abusive husband encounters a mysterious hitch-hiker.

Rambling Rose

Rambling Rose

1991

as Dave Wilkie

6.2
Acting

Rose is taken in by the Hillyer family to serve as a 1930s housemaid so that she can avoid falling into a life of prostitution. Her appearence and per...

The Unbelievable Truth

The Unbelievable Truth

1990

as Josh

6.9
Acting

After serving time for murder, Josh Hutton returns to his home town where he meets Audry Hugo. No one can remember exactly what Josh did...

Nightmare Weekend

Nightmare Weekend

1986

as Dave

3.5
Acting

A female scientist performs experiments on three college girls that turn them into drooling, murderous mutants.

The Chosen

The Chosen

1981

as Levi Saunders

7.2
Acting

In a 1940s New York, two Jewish teenage boys are determined to remain friends despite the deep differences between their two families.

Gangster Wars

Gangster Wars

1981

as Officer Reardon

7.5
Acting

The film tells the story of three teenagers, based on real life gangsters Charles "Lucky" Luciano (Michael Nouri), Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel (Joe Penny)...

Looking for Mr. Goodbar

Looking for Mr. Goodbar

1977

as Patrick

6.3
Acting

A short, unhappy affair with a married man leads a dedicated schoolteacher into the alcohol-and-drug fueled underworld of singles’ bars, where she beg...