Leo Burmester was an American actor who often played police officers, such as in the TV series True Blue and rural types on TV and in films, but on stage performed as Osric in "Hamlet" (Kevin Kline in title role) for the New York Shakespeare Festival, as well as in such Broadway hits as "Big River", and as the heartless innkeeper, Thenardier, in the original Broadway cast of "Les Misérables". Burmester worked for director John Sayles several times, … Wikipedia
Leo has appeared in thirty-seven films, thirty-two television appearances and nine Broadway plays. He just completed a part on M. O. N. Y. directed by Spike Lee for NBC, and the revival of The Fantasticks off Broadway. He was nominated for Best Actor in R www.imdb.com/name/nm0122238/
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