LeVar Burton

LeVar Burton

Birthday: 1957-02-16

Place of birth: Landstuhl, Rhineland Palatinate, Germany

Also known as: Levar Burton, Levardis Robert Martyn Burton Jr.

imdb_id: nm0000996

Biography:

Levardis Robert Martyn Burton Jr. is an American actor, director, and television host. He played Geordi La Forge in Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987–1994), Kunta Kinte in the ABC miniseries Roots (1977), and was the host of the PBS Kids educational television series Reading Rainbow for 23 years (1983–2006). Burton received 12 Daytime Emmy Awards and a Peabody Award as host and executive producer of Reading Rainbow. His other roles include Cap Jackson in Looking for Mr. Goodbar (1977), Donald Lang in Dummy (1979), Tommy Price in The Hunter (1980), which earned him an NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actor in a Motion Picture, and Martin Luther King Jr. in Ali (2001). Burton received the Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album at the 42nd Annual Grammy Awards for his narration of the book The Autobiography of Martin Luther King Jr. In 1990, he was honored for his accomplishments in television with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. From 2017 until 2024, Burton created and hosted the podcast LeVar Burton Reads, often described as "Reading Rainbow for adults". In October 2024, Burton appeared as the host of the Trivial Pursuit television game show broadcast on The CW network and streaming online.

Played in movies:

Transformers: Rescue Bots - Rescue Family

Score: 10.0

And the Children Shall Lead

Score: 10.0

Dummy

Score: 8.5

Butterfly in the Sky

Score: 8.2

Brentwood

Score: 8.0

The Jesse Owens Story

Score: 7.9

Star Trek: Picard - The IMAX Live Series Finale Event

Score: 7.7

Central Park

Score: 7.4

Star Trek: First Contact

Score: 7.3

Star Trek: The Next Generation - The Best of Both Worlds

Score: 7.1

Superman/Batman: Public Enemies

Score: 7.1

Reunification - 25 Years After Star Trek: The Next Generation

Score: 7.0

School of the Future

Score: 7.0

Secrets of Sacred Architecture

Score: 7.0

Our Friend, Martin

Score: 6.9

Journey's End - The Saga of Star Trek: The Next Generation

Score: 6.9

Roots: The Gift

Score: 6.8

Ali

Score: 6.8

Star Trek: Generations

Score: 6.5

Star Trek: Insurrection

Score: 6.4

Trekkies

Score: 6.4

Looking for Mr. Goodbar

Score: 6.3

The Muppets Go Hollywood

Score: 6.3

Star Trek: Nemesis

Score: 6.3

Steve McQueen: The Essence of Cool

Score: 6.0

The Midnight Hour

Score: 6.0

The Hunter

Score: 5.9

Star Trek: 30 Years and Beyond

Score: 5.8

Blizzard

Score: 5.8

Star Trek: 25th Anniversary Special

Score: 5.7

One in a Million: The Ron LeFlore Story

Score: 5.5

The Jensen Project

Score: 5.5

Stardate Revisited - The Origin of Star Trek: The Next Generation

Score: 5.5

Lennon or McCartney

Score: 5.2

Liberty

Score: 5.0

Parallel Lives

Score: 5.0

Taken in Broad Daylight

Score: 5.0

Firestorm: 72 Hours in Oakland

Score: 4.5

40 Years of Star Trek

Score: 4.3

Rise of the Zombies

Score: 4.3

The Supernaturals

Score: 3.9

Yesterday's Target

Score: 3.5

Definition Please

Score: 3.2

Reach for Me

Score: 3.0

The Star Trek Saga: From One Generation to the Next

Score: 2.6

The Acorn People

Score: 2.0

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - Behind the Scenes

Score: 1.0

Star Trek: Federation Science

Score: 1.0

To the Journey: Looking Back at Star Trek: Voyager

Score: 0.0

Mickey's 50

Score: 0.0

A Special Friendship

Score: 0.0

Battered

Score: 0.0

Grambling's White Tiger

Score: 0.0

Star Trek: The Next Generation - electronic press kit

Score: 0.0

Booker

Score: 0.0

A Star Is Drawn: Rob Simone's Look Inside Comic-Con

Score: 0.0

Almos' a Man

Score: 0.0

Emergency Room

Score: 0.0

Billy: Portrait of a Street Kid

Score: 0.0

US Against the World

Score: 0.0

I Love Liberty

Score: 0.0

Played in tv shows:

The Shuttlepod Show

Score: 10.0

Batman: The Animated Series

Score: 8.6

Adventure Time

Score: 8.5

Futurama

Score: 8.4

Star Trek: The Next Generation

Score: 8.4

Deadly Games

Score: 8.3

Reading Rainbow

Score: 8.3

The Legend of Vox Machina

Score: 8.2

Christy

Score: 8.1

Gargoyles

Score: 8.1

Community

Score: 8.0

OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes

Score: 8.0

The Big Bang Theory

Score: 7.9

The Eric Andre Show

Score: 7.9

100 Years of Warner Bros.

Score: 7.8

Star Trek: Voyager

Score: 7.8

Carol & the End of the World

Score: 7.6

Murder, She Wrote

Score: 7.5

Leverage: Redemption

Score: 7.5

Explained

Score: 7.5

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

Score: 7.5

Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!

Score: 7.4

Transformers: Rescue Bots

Score: 7.4

Roots

Score: 7.4

Family Guy

Score: 7.4

Family Guy

Score: 7.4

Star Trek: Picard

Score: 7.3

Guyana Tragedy: The Story of Jim Jones

Score: 7.2

The Problem with Jon Stewart

Score: 7.2

Perception

Score: 7.2

Becker

Score: 7.1

MADtv

Score: 7.0

Jeopardy!

Score: 6.9

Roots

Score: 6.9

Hell's Kitchen

Score: 6.8

Finding Your Roots

Score: 6.8

Captain Planet and the Planeteers

Score: 6.8

The Kelly Clarkson Show

Score: 6.5

Boomtown

Score: 6.5

Trapper John, M.D.

Score: 6.5

The Daily Show

Score: 6.4

The Love Boat

Score: 6.3

Weird City

Score: 6.1

Trivial Pursuit

Score: 6.0

Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child

Score: 6.0

The Captain and Tennille

Score: 5.5

Tamron Hall

Score: 5.1

Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen

Score: 5.1

PBS News Weekend

Score: 4.8

Houston Knights

Score: 4.3

The View

Score: 4.3

Tom Swift

Score: 4.1

The Ready Room

Score: 4.0

Shatner's Raw Nerve

Score: 4.0

Beyond the Spotlight

Score: 0.0

Scripps National Spelling Bee

Score: 0.0