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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Complete Filmography

Judy
2026
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
2023
as Eddie Holland
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
2022
as Smitty
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
2022
as Captain Briggs
An upstanding pastor uncovers a dark and twisted underworld as he searches for answers surrounding his daughter's brutal murder.

Triggered
2022
as David
A US Senator faces her greatest challenge when a home invasion takes a shocking turn.

Intrusion
2021
as Detective Steven Morse
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
2020
as Sheriff Campbell
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
2018
as Mr. Holcomb
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
2018
as Chief Bridges
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
2018
as Hal
A married woman has an affair with a suicidal lover while caring for her husband's sick relatives.

Future '38
2017
as General Sportwood
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
2017
as Captain Frascone
After a tragic accident, a firefighter must convince the city commissioner he's able to return to the line of duty.

Bait
2015
as Uncle Mack
TJ's day takes an unexpected turn when he visits his Uncle Mack at his hotel in Montauk...

True Story
2015
as Greg Ganley
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
2015
as Chet
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
2013
as Jessup
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
2012
as Captain Wolf
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
2011
as Pierce
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
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
2010
as State Trooper #1
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
2008
as General Ned Almond
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
2006
as Colonel
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
2006
as Det. Ron Banks
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
2006
as Binky Taylor
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
2005
as Belligerent American
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.
2005
as Charlie Mack
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
2005
as Steven
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
2004
as Rudy
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
2004
as Mr. Neck
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
2003
as Jim
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
2002
as Instructor Jenks
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
2002
as The Monster
A young journalist journeys to Iceland to find her missing fiancé only to encounter a mythical creature who longs to die.

State Property
2002
as Bob
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
1998
as Henry
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
1998
as Frankie
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
1998
as Paul Bacon
An American woman is stranded in a German airport when she witnesses someone sabotaging a plane.

A Bright Shining Lie
1998
as Frank Drummond
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
1997
as Officer B
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
1997
as Tom Hutton

Thinner
1996
as Billy Halleck
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
1996
as R.G. Greiser
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
1996
as Pat Schiller
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
1996
as Handsome Man
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
1995
as Men's Room Man #2
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
1995
as Steve
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
1993
as Paul
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
1993
as Frank McLaury
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
1993
as Men's Room Man
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
1993
as Paul Parker
Thrown together under incredible circumstances, two strangers must discover courage and strength when they begin a journey across the treacherous Afri...

RoboCop 3
1993
as Robocop
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
1992
as Bill McCabe
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
1992
as Dust Devil
A woman on the run from her abusive husband encounters a mysterious hitch-hiker.

Rambling Rose
1991
as Dave Wilkie
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
1990
as Josh
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
1986
as Dave
A female scientist performs experiments on three college girls that turn them into drooling, murderous mutants.

The Chosen
1981
as Levi Saunders
In a 1940s New York, two Jewish teenage boys are determined to remain friends despite the deep differences between their two families.

Gangster Wars
1981
as Officer Reardon
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
1977
as Patrick
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...