Burns began appearing on American television in 1953 including appearing in the original 1954 television broadcast of Twelve Angry Men.
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He came back to Switzerland to play at the “Centre dramatique romand” in the French version of Twelve Angry Men, a play by Reginald Rose.
On September 8, 2007, Mikhalkov’s film 12, a modern adaptation of Sidney Lumet's court drama Twelve Angry Men, received a special Golden Lion for the “consistent brilliance” of its work and was praised by many critics at the Venice Film Festival.