American-born English actor and musician

Burn Gorman

Burn Hugh Gorman is an English actor. He is known for his television roles as Owen Harper in the BBC series Torchwood (2006–2008), Karl Tanner in the HBO series Game of Thrones (2013–14), Major Edmund Hewlett in the AMC series Turn: Washington's Spies (2014–2017), 'The Marshal' in the Prime Video series The Man in the High Castle (2015), and Adolphus Murtry in Prime Video series The Expanse (2019). His film roles include Phillip Stryver in Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight Rises (2012), Hermann Gottlieb in Guillermo del Toro’s Pacific Rim (2013) and its sequel Pacific Rim: Uprising (2018), Commander Hoff in The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, and Father Damien in Tim Burton's Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (2024).

Born

1974

September 1

Died

Living

Era

1970s

Country

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1974 Born

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What else happened on this day, through history

-396 The Temple of Juno Regina (Aventine) is dedicated in Rome by Marcus Furius Camillus.
1145 The main altar of Lund Cathedral, at the time the seat of the archiepiscopal see of all the Nordic countries, is consecrated.
1173 The widow Stamira sacrifices herself in order to raise the siege of Ancona by the forces of Emperor Frederick Barbarossa.
1355 King Tvrtko I of Bosnia writes In castro nostro Vizoka vocatum from the Old town of Visoki.

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The world in 1974

When Burn arrived

april 1 The Local Government Act 1972 of England and Wales comes into effect.
april 22 Pan Am Flight 812 crashes on approach to Ngurah Rai International Airport in Denpasar, Bali, Indonesia, killing all 107 people on board.
april 25 Carnation Revolution: A leftist military coup in Portugal overthrows the authoritarian-conservative Estado Novo regime.
april 27 One hundred nine people are killed in a plane crash near Pulkovo Airport.

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Same-day contemporaries

Also born on September 1

Bernie Wagenblast 1956– transportation journalist, founder of Transportation Communications Newsletter Cecil Parkinson 1931–2016 English politician (born 1931) E. Herbert Norman 1909–1957 Canadian historian and diplomat (born 1909) Eleanor Hibbert 1906– English author (died 1993) Henri Bourassa 1868–1952 Canadian publisher and politician (born 1868) Hilda Rix Nicholas 1884–1961 Australian artist (born 1884) Innokenty Annensky 1855– Russian poet and critic (died 1909) Richard Farnsworth 1920–2000 American actor and stuntman (born 1920) Walter Reuther 1907–1970 American union leader (born 1907)

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Same-year contemporaries

Also born in 1974

Andrew Johns 1974– Australian rugby league player, coach, and sportscaster Cameron McConville 1974– Australian racing driver and sportscaster Christian Paradis 1974– Canadian lawyer and politician, 9th Canadian Minister of Industry Crowbar 1974– American wrestler Dale Earnhardt Jr. 1974– American race car driver and actor Derek Jeter 1974– American baseball player Derrick Mason 1974– American football player Emilia Fox 1974– English actress Frank Catalanotto 1974– American baseball player

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