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Kevin Burns

Producer, director and writer · Died September 27, 2020, aged 65 · Schenectady, New York, USA

Born on June 18, 1955 and raised in Schenectady, New York, Kevin Burns developed his love for television and films at an early age. He also displayed a unique and impressive talent for mimicry and drawing cartoons and caricature. It was this love for drawing that helped attract the attention of his childhood idol, Fred Gwynne (of "Munsters" TV fame). After viewing samples of Burns' early work, Gwynne began a correspondence that helped fuel the young boy's enthusiasm and confidence. In 1972, Burns received a National Scholastic award for art and by his Senior year in high school, was already working as a free lance commercial artist. His client list included IBM, General Electric and Warren Publications. - IMDb Mini Biography

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Born
June 18, 1955
Died
September 27, 2020 (aged 65)
From
Schenectady, New York, USA
Works as
Producer, director and writer
Titles
46 on MovieCove · 88 credits in all
Links
IMDb (opens in a new tab)TMDB (opens in a new tab)Wikidata (opens in a new tab)

Known for

TMDB popularity, last 155 days to Oct 26Down 27% in 30 days

What are Kevin Burns' films like?

Across their 35 MovieCove titles with a thematic analysis, their films lean Ideas and Society.

Genres

Documentary20 titlesTypical Midcredits score: 83rd percentile, at or above their average across these genres
: browse their Documentary movies
Crime2 titlesTypical Midcredits score: 57th percentile
: browse their Crime movies

Their MovieCove films by primary genre. The badge is the typical Midcredits score of the genre's films, the median percentile; an up arrow marks a genre at or above their average across these genres.

Themes

share of theme weight
Ideas
35%
Society
26%
Self
17%
Power
8%
Survival
6%
Bonds
6%
Morality
3%
Art10 titles, browse their movies with this themeTruth8 titles, browse their movies with this themeLegacy10 titles, browse their movies with this themeFame8 titles, browse their movies with this themeAmbition5 titles, browse their movies with this themeMemory4 titles, browse their movies with this themeFamily bonds4 titles, browse their movies with this themeObsession3 titles, browse their movies with this theme

What they feel like to watch

their average across 25 films
ToneFeelDemandtheir average · filled zone: the category
Light: How heavy the subject matter and outlook get. Browse their light movies.
Tone · Weight
lightdark

Light 18 · Serious 5 · Dark 2

Grounded: How far its world departs from everyday reality. Browse their grounded movies.
Tone · Style
naturalisticheightened

Grounded 20 · Stylized 4 · Heightened 1

Gentle: How hard the emotional peaks hit while you watch. Browse their gentle movies.
Feel · Intensity
gentleintense

Gentle 17 · Charged 7 · Intense 1

Steady: How much it swings between very different feelings. Browse their steady movies.
Feel · Swings
steadyswings

Steady 20 · Shifting 5 · Whiplash 0

Straight-faced: How much of the runtime is played for laughs. Browse their straight-faced movies.
Feel · Humor
noneconstant

Straight-faced 19 · Some laughs 5 · Funny 1

Slow burn: How fast it moves from scene to scene. Browse their slow burn movies.
Demand · Pace
slowrelentless

Slow burn 14 · Even-paced 10 · Relentless 1

Casual: How much focus it asks of you — look away and lose the thread? Browse their casual movies.
Demand · Attention
casualfull focus

Casual 14 · Engaged 10 · Full focus 1

Resolved: How much is left for you to interpret. Browse their resolved movies.
Demand · Resolution
resolvedambiguous

Resolved 24 · Open-ended 0 · Ambiguous 1

Moods and endings

endings are an aggregate; no title is named

Dominant moods · mentions across their titles

Contemplative
26
Warm
17
Tense
12
Joyful
5
Melancholic
6
Other
12

How their films linger

Thought-provoking23 titles, browse their movies with this aftertasteFeel-good9 titles, browse their movies with this aftertasteHopeful11 titles, browse their movies with this aftertasteRousing8 titles, browse their movies with this aftertasteFun5 titles, browse their movies with this aftertasteWistful4 titles, browse their movies with this aftertaste

How their films end · 1 with a twist

  • Happy14
  • Bittersweet6
  • Ambiguous11
  • Cyclical3

AI-generated from each title's plot synopsis and cast list, with extra plot summaries, reviews and Parents Guide notes for titles the model may not know, and the model's own knowledge of the ones it recognizes. Only analyzed titles count, so this covers part of the filmography; the feel axes count films only for now.

Where can I watch Kevin Burns' films?

As of October 24, 2026, 24 of their 46 MovieCove titles stream on a subscription or free service.

Also on these channels

Subscription and free streaming for Kevin Burns' titles on MovieCove; rent and buy are not counted. Titles are listed by Midcredits score, highest first, at most 12 per service; a dashed chip is a producer credit or a minor one, such as a thanks. A service opens the browse page, which counts movies only, so its number can differ.

Filmography

88 credits, 46 with a MovieCove page.

  • Ancient Aliens: Origins(2024)

    Show Producer · Writer

    Midcredits score: 17th percentile of all shows

  • The UnXplained Special Presentation(2023)

    Show 25 episodes · Executive Producer

    Midcredits score: 63rd percentile of all shows (provisional, few ratings)

  • Ancient Aliens: Special Presentation(2022)

    Show Director · Producer · Writer

    Midcredits score: 55th percentile of all shows (provisional, few ratings)

  • Bigfoot: Fear in the Woods (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2020)

    Executive Producer

  • Beyond Oak Island(2020)

    Show 8 episodes · Creator · Executive Producer · Writer

    Midcredits score: 19th percentile of all shows

  • The Secret of Skinwalker Ranch(2020)

    Show Creator

    Midcredits score: 42nd percentile of all shows

  • The UnXplained(2019)

    Show 16 episodes · Executive Producer · Writer

    Midcredits score: 60th percentile of all shows

  • In Search of Monsters(2019)

    Show Producer · Writer

    Midcredits score: 46th percentile of all shows

  • Lost in Space(2018)

    Show 20 episodes · Executive Producer

    Midcredits score: 69th percentile of all shows

  • The Curse of Civil War Gold(2018)

    Show Producer

    Midcredits score: 19th percentile of all shows

  • The Tesla Files(2018)

    Show Producer · Writer

    Midcredits score: 44th percentile of all shows

  • Blood and Glory: The Civil War in Color (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2015)

    Director · Executive Producer · Writer

  • Blood and Glory: The Civil War in Color(2015)

    Show 4 episodes · Director · Executive Producer · Writer

    Midcredits score: 72nd percentile of all shows

  • The Curse of Oak Island(2014)

    Show 258 episodes · Director · Creator · Executive Producer

    Midcredits score: 48th percentile of all shows

  • In Search of Aliens(2014)

    Show Producer · Writer

    Midcredits score: 45th percentile of all shows

  • Bible Secrets Revealed(2013)

    Show Producer · Writer

    Midcredits score: 48th percentile of all shows

  • The Godfather Legacy (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2012)

    Director · Executive Producer · Writer

  • Sharpay's Fabulous Adventure(2011)

    Sound Re-Recording Mixer

    Midcredits score: 27th percentile of all films

  • Holly's World(2009)

    Show 19 episodes · Creator · Producer

    Midcredits score: 5th percentile of all shows

  • Ancient Aliens(2009)

    Show 295 episodes · Creator · Executive Producer · Producer · Writer

    Midcredits score: 51st percentile of all shows

  • The President's Book of Secrets(2010)

    Producer

    Midcredits score: 36th percentile of all films

  • Starz Inside: The Face Is Familiar(2009)

    Director · Producer · Writer

    Midcredits score: 56th percentile of all films

  • Kendra (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2009)

    Show 46 episodes · Creator · Producer

  • The Telling (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2009)

    Executive Producer

  • Angels & Demons: Decoded(2009)

    Producer

    Midcredits score: 49th percentile of all films

  • Starz Inside: Ladies or Gentlemen (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2008)

    Director

  • Valkyrie: The Plot to Kill Hitler(2008)

    Director · Producer · Writer

    Midcredits score: 82nd percentile of all films

  • Batman Unmasked(2008)

    Executive Producer

    Midcredits score: 88th percentile of all films

  • Indiana Jones and the Ultimate Quest (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2008)

    Director

  • Food Paradise(2007)

    Show 48 episodes · Producer

    Midcredits score: 80th percentile of all shows

  • Star Wars Tech (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2007)

    Writer

  • Star Wars: The Legacy Revealed(2007)

    Director · Executive Producer · Writer

    Midcredits score: 91st percentile of all films

  • Spider-Man Tech(2007)

    Executive Producer

    Midcredits score: 83rd percentile of all films (provisional, few ratings)

  • High Maintenance 90210 (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2007)

    Show 6 episodes · Producer

  • Star Warriors (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2007)

    Director

  • The Science of Superman(2006)

    Executive Producer

    Midcredits score: 63rd percentile of all films

  • Look, Up in the Sky! The Amazing Story of Superman(2006)

    Director · Producer

    Midcredits score: 93rd percentile of all films

  • Poseidon(2006)

    Executive Producer

    Midcredits score: 30th percentile of all films

  • The Girls Next Door(2005)

    Show Creator

    Midcredits score: 16th percentile of all shows

  • Hollywood's Creepiest Creatures(2004)

    Director · Producer

    Midcredits score: 91st percentile of all films (provisional, few ratings)

  • Empire of Dreams(2004)

    Director · Executive Producer

    Midcredits score: 99th percentile of all films

  • The Robinsons: Lost in Space(2004)

    Producer

    Midcredits score: 30th percentile of all films

  • Hugh Hefner: American Playboy Revisited(1998)

    Director · Producer

    Midcredits score: 75th percentile of all films (provisional, few ratings)

  • 20th Century Fox: The Blockbuster Years(2000)

    Director · Executive Producer · Writer

    Midcredits score: 62nd percentile of all films

  • David Bowie - Sound and Vision (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2003)

    Executive Producer

  • Playboy: Sex at 24 Frames Per Second (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2003)

    Director · Writer

  • Playboy's 50th Anniversary Celebration (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2003)

    Executive Producer

  • 'Halloween': A Cut Above the Rest(2003)

    Producer

    Midcredits score: 87th percentile of all films

  • The 'Alien' Saga(2002)

    Executive Producer

    Midcredits score: 86th percentile of all films

  • Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid: Outlaws Out of Time (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2002)

    Director

  • Hollywood Rocks the Movies: The 1970s(2002)

    Producer

    Midcredits score: 60th percentile of all films (provisional, few ratings)

  • Playboy: Inside the Playboy Mansion (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2002)

    Director · Writer

  • The Omen Legacy (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2001)

    Executive Producer

  • Backstory: 'Gentleman's Agreement' (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2001)

    Executive Producer · Writer

  • Marilyn Monroe: The Final Days (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2001)

    Executive Producer

  • Cleopatra: The Film That Changed Hollywood(2001)

    Director · Executive Producer · Writer

    Midcredits score: 93rd percentile of all films

  • History vs. Hollywood (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2001)

    Show 6 episodes · Executive Producer · Producer

  • Backstory: 'How Green Was My Valley' (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2000)

    Executive Producer

  • Backstory: 'All About Eve' (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2000)

    Executive Producer

  • Richard Widmark: Strength of Characters (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2000)

    Producer

  • Boom! Hollywood's Greatest Disaster Movies (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2000)

    Executive Producer

  • Hidden Hollywood II: More Treasures from the 20th Century Fox Vaults (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1999)

    Writer

  • Attack of the 50 Foot Monster Mania (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1999)

    Executive Producer

  • Hollywood's Hot Wheels (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1999)

    Executive Producer

  • Doris Day: It's Magic (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1998)

    Executive Producer

  • Beyond Titanic(1998)

    Executive Producer

    Midcredits score: 79th percentile of all films

  • Behind the Planet of the Apes(1998)

    Director · Executive Producer · Writer

    Midcredits score: 88th percentile of all films

  • Cinema Combat: Hollywood Goes to War (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1998)

    Executive Producer

  • Lost in Space Forever(1998)

    Director · Executive Producer · Writer

    Midcredits score: 80th percentile of all films

  • Hidden Hollywood: Treasures from the 20th Century Fox Film Vaults(1997)

    Producer · Writer

    Midcredits score: 90th percentile of all films (provisional, few ratings)

  • Hollywood: Aliens & Monsters (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1997)

    Director

  • Audrey Hepburn: The Fairest Lady (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1997)

    Executive Producer

  • Henry Fonda: Hollywood's Quiet Hero (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1997)

    Executive Producer

  • 20th Century-Fox: The First 50 Years(1997)

    Director · Executive Producer · Writer

    Midcredits score: 79th percentile of all films

  • Monster Mania (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1997)

    Director · Executive Producer · Writer

  • Shirley Temple: The Biggest Little Star (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1996)

    Director

  • A Hollywood Christmas (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1996)

    Director

  • Peter Lorre: The Master of Menace (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1996)

    Director

  • Rodgers & Hammerstein: The Sound of Movies (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1996)

    Director · Writer

  • Lon Chaney: Son of a Thousand Faces (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1995)

    Director · Executive Producer

  • The Fantasy Worlds of Irwin Allen (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1995)

    Director · Writer

  • Darryl F. Zanuck: 20th Century Filmmaker (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1995)

    Director · Executive Producer

  • Alien Nation: Body and Soul(1995)

    Producer

    Midcredits score: 54th percentile of all films

  • Marilyn Monroe: The Mortal Goddess (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1994)

    Director

  • Alien Nation: Dark Horizon(1994)

    Producer

    Midcredits score: 60th percentile of all films

  • Biography(1987)

    Show 2 episodes · Executive Producer

    Midcredits score: 72nd percentile of all shows

  • I Remember Barbra (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1981)

    Director

  • The Girls Next Door: The Bunny House (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)

    Show Creator

Career shape

A full career of 74 titles, 73 of them dated from 1981 to 2023.

Biggest box office

Poseidon (2006)

$182M worldwide

Highest rated

Empire of Dreams (2004)

Midcredits 99th

Most popular right now

Poseidon (2006)

By role

only this rolewith another role
Directing33 of 74: 14 only directing, 19 with another role · typical Midcredits score81stWriting22 of 74: 3 only writing, 19 with another role · typical Midcredits score80thProducing48 of 74: 28 only producing, 20 with another role · typical Midcredits score72ndOther crew9 of 74: 4 only other crew, 5 with another role · typical Midcredits score27th

74 titles, 25 with more than one role — producing and directing overlap on 14 of them.

By decade

1980s2 · crew1990s22 · crew2000s36 · crew2010s9 · crew2020s4 · crew

Counts from TMDB across their full career, self appearances out; a title counts in every role they held on it. The ring is the typical Midcredits score (the median percentile) of the role's titles that are on MovieCove, shown from 5 scored.

How do Kevin Burns' films land?

Their typical MovieCove film has a Midcredits score in the 79th percentile, the median of all 27; across their 25 films with reception data, the typical film sits in the 79th percentile for acclaim.

Acclaim · how much people like their films

79thpercentile
Typical film, the median of 25

Approval · how many liked their films

77thpercentile
Typical film, the median of 25

Reach · how many have seen their films

31stpercentile
Typical film, the median of 25

Midcredits score across 46 titles, by percentile

  • 75th and up17
  • 50th to 74th13
  • 25th to 49th11
  • Below 25th5

Shape of the crowd

16 of their 46 titles are Mixed.

  • Universally Loved4
  • Divisive6
  • Cult Classic7
  • Crowd Pleaser12
  • Broadly Agreed1
  • Mixed16

Most divisive · director, producer

Hugh Hefner: American Playboy Revisited (1998)

99th percentile spread · 40% rated it 4 or lower

Most loved · director, producer

Empire of Dreams (2004)

Midcredits 99th · 92% liked

Reviewers score the atmosphere 62/100 and the pacing 58/100 in their films, across 12 reviewed titles. The element that speaks to their work as a director.

Percentiles are each film's standing among all films on MovieCove; the typical film is the median, so one outlier cannot drag it. Percentiles and reviewer scores count the films IMDb credits them on, for now; the Midcredits score bands, the shape of the crowd and the two cards count their MovieCove titles, shows included (a show ranked among shows), appearances as themselves left out. A descriptor is the shape of a title's IMDb rating distribution against the catalog; "most divisive" needs a spread wider than half of all titles, and a card names only a principal credit: a craft role, and on a show a crew role or a run of episodes, never a courtesy credit or a one-off guest spot.

Who does Kevin Burns work with?

People who share at least 2 of Kevin Burns' MovieCove titles, grouped by what they did on them; Scott Hartford shares the most, 19.

Directors

Writers

Actors

Editors

  • Damon Brewster11 titles    See all 11 shared titles with Damon Brewster
  • Lara Andre7 titles    See all 7 shared titles with Lara Andre
  • Molly Shock6 titles    See all 6 shared titles with Molly Shock
  • Shane Ross5 titles    See all 5 shared titles with Shane Ross

Producers

  • Scott Hartford19 titles    See newest 12 of 19 shared titles with Scott Hartford
  • Kim Sheerin17 titles    See newest 12 of 17 shared titles with Kim Sheerin
  • Erika Schroeder10 titles    See all 10 shared titles with Erika Schroeder
  • Michelle Gorski6 titles    See all 6 shared titles with Michelle Gorski

Mixed roles