Paul C Burr
Overview
- Ethnicity
- White / European Descent
- Age Range
- 66 - 76
- Height
- 5' 10" (1m 78cm)
- Weight
- 17st. 12lb. (113kg)
- Hair Colour
- Grey
- Eye Colour
- Green
Audio
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audio fileInsights from 2012 a twist in the tale
Credits
Year | Job Title Project Type |
Project Name Director / Company |
Location |
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2008 |
Co-host with Steve Claridge as a football pundit.
Film |
Setanta Sports - The Football Show |
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1969 |
PhD in Statistics
Film |
Brunel University |
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2016 |
Over forty productions as a model, lead role, supporting artist, lead singer...
Film |
Major films, music videos, photo shoots, live gigs |
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2010 |
Lead singer in rock, country, folk and ska bands.
Film |
Various venues in Brighton area |
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1997 |
Business & Personal Performance Coach
Film |
Beowulf Consulting |
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2015 |
Come Home For Football - Sky Sports TV Commercial; Childrens' party @ Eastbourne Downs Golf Club; Lease-lining for The Body Shop in Regent Street, London; Santa's Grotto at Sevenoaks Christmas Market; Santa on Eurotunnel train, greeting passengers
Film |
Santa Claus - various roles |
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2012 |
Spiritual Radio California, Houston Business, Marlow FM, LBC, Radio 5 Live
Film |
Guest on various radio talk shows |
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2009 |
In studio, one-day course, practice with autocue, presentation, interviewing and time shuffling.
Film |
GMA: TV Presentation Skills |
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1976 |
Corporate Sales
Film |
IBM |
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2017 |
Central character - a veteran magician, in Edwardian clothes - https://youtu.be/QGR9A8wz7G8
Film |
Rock video, Magic by St PHNX |
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2015 |
Lead part: mimicking a race at a Pelican Crossing
Film |
Short spoof silent movie to raise awareness for Care For The Elderly |
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2010 |
Author
Film |
paulcburr.com |
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2012 |
Keynote Speaker
Film |
Lewes Wellbeing Festivals 2012, 2013, 2015 |
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2017 |
One of three lead roles: freeform dancing and posing
Film |
Reggae Music video for Wrongtom/Ragga Boys |
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2015 |
Taliesin the Wizard - greeting families, telling self-penned childrens' stories in front of a log fire, performing magic tricks, entertaining parents, organising props for photo shoots.
Film |
Wizard at 3-day Halloween Family Festival, Parham House, West Sussex |
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2017 |
Lead role as a veteran marathon runner.
Commercials & Industrials |
Commercial for BITUCHEM Tarmac Roads |
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2015 |
Extra - played a walk on drunk
Film |
American Comedy Series for NBC/Sky |
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2015 |
Model and Film Extra
Film |
Various agencies |
Education
Year | Qualification | Where |
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About me
I'm 67 and possess an eclectic image - wizard, cowboy, aging rock star, magician, a homeless drunk, musketeer, Orthodox Bishop or Santa Claus. I've appeared in over sixty performances/productions over the three years. I'm told I'm a good looking feller - see my pix.My FB pages have over 22,000 followers. Undertook an intensive 2-week acting school at ACT Brighton, Aug 2015 and a PEM acting workshop in Oct 2016.
I'm a public speaker at both corporate and 'well-being' conferences, and a visiting lecturer at the University of London.
I've thirteen books published. I write about love, relationships, ancient wisdom, mindfulness and a series of Quick Guides to Business.
PhD in Statistics and a Master Practitioner in NLP, Hypnotherapy and Past life Regression. I've basic skills in the use of the Highland Broadsword and Primitive Longbow. I spent thirty years in corporate sales management. I have very good business presentation skills - suited, booted with hair pinned back.
Skills
Languages Spoken | English |
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Accents/Dialects | English - London |
Musical Style | Rock |
Vocal Types | Tenor |
Additional Skills | Acting, Modeling |
Highlights
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Several shoots - see acting experience
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Acting, Singing, Extra, Photo Model: Since February 2016 I've played in over fifty productions:
1) Improv role, speaking part: an aging rock star, part of a drug rehab circle, for the British Red Cross.
2) A homeless drunk: the opening to an ad for the play, East, by Steven Berkoff
3) A front line, violent, elderly demonstrator in The Rebel, TV mini-series, starring Simon Callow and Bill Patterson.
4) Woodlander leading a small crowd, to rise against the Elders - with Stephen Fry in the Sky comedy, Yonderland, S3, Ep2..
5) Mirrored Pictures: a man, who having lived in the denizens of his ego and outward blame all his life, makes his way to the light. Illumined and then angered by his own wretched lifetime folly, little does he realise (real-eyes) that self-blame will only take him back to from whence he came. See profile for video.
6) Easter Bunny at Parham House Family festival - mime, dancing and much hugging
7) Rock video: a retired astronaut excavates a tin box that contains relics of his childhood aspirations to fly in space. Tearful and emotional expressions required - video out soon.
8) A video game character in Episode 1, Go Bit 8, a comedic game show on Dave TV with Dara O'Briain and ex-England goalkeeper, David James.
9) Silent part: A hooded figure in a short movie, Between You and Me. I also provided the voice in for a camera/interviewer in the same production. Release date: June 2016.
10) Movie: Justice League - Supporting artist in a short clip seated alongside Aquaman (Jason Momoa).
11) The Last Dragonslayer, fantasy movie, playing a homeless wizard in the background to Ricky Tomlinson and Pauline Collins.
12) Movie: Kingsman 2, The Golden Circle - A VIP guest at a rock festival in a forthcoming American spy action/thriller, for a top Hollywood studio.
13) A featured Russian Orthodox Bishop in a satirical film starring Michael Palin and Paul Whitehouse.
14) A macabre hooded medieval character in a fantasy feature film for a top Hollywood studio.
15) Music video: One of two disciples of Jesus in the devotional music video, Idowu Eyin - Jesus Oga Nla, directed by Uvi Orogun https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWqZGbFlJkg
16) A dancing prison inmate dressed in pink for a forthcoming major children's movie, starring Jim Broadbent, Hugh Grant and Julie Walters 17) A ghostly cowboy, made up like a silent movie star, in a forthcoming rock video by The Other States. See https://youtu.be/HtcXQCoaxpE 18) Role-playing Father Christmas for corporate and retail clients at 19 events in Nov-Dec 2016.
19) Corporate Advert: lead role as a veteran marathon runner for BITUCHEM Tarmac Roads.
20) Over 10 gigs as lead singer: Dylan, Kinks, Beatles, Bowie and other artists who have inspired me greatly
21) Music Video: one of three characters, freeform posing and dancing for a new single by reggae dub/producer Wrongtom with the Ragga Twins.
22) Music Video: Playing an aging magician in Edwardian garb, the main character, for the single "Magic" by St Phoenix. https://youtu.be/QGR9A8wz7G8
23) National poster campaign for Carling Lager: photo model, playing an eccentric football fan.
24) Lead role. speaking part, as a wise sage in a local student film.
25) Secondary role, speaking part, as a burly assistant for a local short horror film.
26) Secondary role, speaking part, as a drunken victim of Dracula in a country churchyard.
27) Secondary role, corpse, in a local short film.
28) Playing a noble, featured supporting artist, in a medieval Disney fantasy, starring Angelina Jolie.
29) Secondary role, speaking part, playing a burly nightclub bouncer in a local short film.
30) Lead singer in a startup rock bank covering Beatles, REM, Bob Dylan, Rolling Stones songs.
31) Photo Model with statically charged hair, shoot for a corporate gas company.
32) Speaking-support role as a nightclub security agent, fending off two thugs to protect a young man, from the film (in production process) Two Years of Decadence
33) Speaking-support role as an artist critiquing a new art movement in a gallery - from a film production in process, working title "In Brighton". -
* Lead singer for a startup band, "Starfish" currently rehearsing.
* Just Dylan live at Goff's Park Summer Fayre. A free community event for all. 12-17:00hrs, Sunday 17 July 2016.
* Just Dylan, live at Knepp Castle Polo Club, 2 July 2016
* Just Dylan, 24 classic songs live, 3.30pm, 26 June 2016, at The Neptune Inn, 10 Victoria Terrace, Kingsway, Hove, East Sussex, BN3 2WB
* Feb 16: Lead singer in the band, Just Dylan, playing the Brighton area. Have bookings to end of June.
* Lead singer in two bands, Strippedown Floyd, and The Naked and the Dead - both duos with guest artists, including Martin Duffy from Primal Scream.
I'm told I sound more like Dylan than anyone else in the area. I've done about 40 paid gigs singing covers of Beatles, Stones, Floyd, Cream, Hawkwind, Dylan, Zappa, Bowie, Marley, The Specials and the Grateful Dead.
* Giggettes at the Chequers pub, in Brighton, on their Open Mic night and my singing went down amazingly well. I sang Like a Rolling Stone, by Dylan, and Wish You Were Here, by Pink Floyd - had em dancing in the aisles!
I've developed a confident and easy going, interactive, stage presence -
See acting experience