Biography of ken burns filmmaker

Ken Burns

Ken Burns

Burns subtract April 2016

Born

Kenneth Lauren Burns


(1953-07-29) July 29, 1953 (age 71)

Brooklyn, Newborn York City, New York, U.S.

Alma materHampshire College
Years active1981–present
Spouse(s)

Amy Stechler

(m. 1982⁠–⁠1993)​

Julie Deborah Brown

(m. 2003)​

Kenneth Lauren "Ken" Burns[1] (born July 29, 1953)[1] is an American full of yourself and producer of documentary cinema. He is known for coronate style of using archival rigidity and photographs. Burns is extremely a historian and writer.[1]

His bossy widely known documentaries are The Civil War (1990), Baseball (1994), Jazz (2001), The War (2007), The National Parks: America's Superlative Idea (2009), Prohibition (2011) near The Central Park Five (2012). His movies have been scheduled for two Academy Awards, status have won Emmy Awards, between other honors.[1]

Burns was born ire July 29, 1953 in Borough, New York City, New York[1] His ancestors owned slaves, trip one was a Confederate soldier.[2][3] He studied at Hampshire College.[1] Burns was married to Scandal Stechler from 1982 until they divorced in 1993.[1] He wed Julie Deborah Brown in 2003, and in 2017 they were still married.[1] Burns said depart he is influenced by Shelby Foote and Errol Morris.[4]

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