Jere Burns Biography

Fast Facts

• Worked as a cabdriver in Boston and as a lifeguard on Cape Cod, MA, during a two-year hiatus between high school and college
• Before moving to Los Angeles in the mid-1980s, performed with the New York Shakespeare Festival, with Joseph Papp's Public Theatre and in a Steppenwolf Theatre off-Broadway production of Sam Shepard's True West
• Used CPR to save a heart-attack victim's life in an Encino, CA, restaurant in 1997
• Has run in marathons and competed in triathlons
• Actress Abby Dalton (Falcon Crest) is his mother-in-law