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Ric Burns (Eric Burns, born 1955) [1] is an American documentary filmmaker and writer. He has written, directed and produced historical documentaries since the 1990s, beginning with his collaboration on the celebrated PBS series The Civil War (1990), which he produced with his older brother Ken Burns and wrote with Geoffrey Ward .
He lives in New York City with his wife Bonnie Lafave and two sons. Steeplechase Films.
Sep 28, 2012 · Burns, best known for his 1999 series “New York: A Documentary Film,” hews mainly to the Columbia University neighborhood where he has lived since 1976 — these days with his wife and...
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Apr 9, 2021 · Ric Burns: That’s exactly right. By the end of 2014, he went with his partner Billy Hayes for a kind of Christmas-New Year’s vacation feeling a little out of sorts and went to the doctor and...
Oct 1, 2021 · Ric Burns films Oliver Sacks, the neurologist who gained wider fame with books such as Awakenings and The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, talking fluently and hilariously some months before...
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Burns was educated at Columbia University and Cambridge University. He lives in New York City with his wife and two sons.
Mar 12, 2020 · Ric Burns: In early January 2015, I got a call from Oliver’s wonderful editor and chief collaborator, Kate Edgar, through a mutual friend. I had never met Oliver, though of course knew his work, and didn’t know Kate, either.
