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LeVar Burton | |
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Born | Levardis Robert Martyn Burton, Jr. February 16, 1957 Landstuhl, West Germany |
Characters played | War Machine |
Levardis Robert Martyn Burton, Jr. (born February 16, 1957), credited as LeVar Burton, is an American actor who played War Machine on The Super Hero Squad Show.
Biography[]
He is well known for playing Kunta Kinte in the 1977 award-winning miniseries Roots, Geordi La Forge in the Star Trek franchise, and as the host of the PBS children's program Reading Rainbow.
Other notable roles include Almos' a Man, Rebop, Billy: Portrait of a Street Kid, Looking for Mr. Goodbar, The Hunter, Trapper John, M.D., Fantasy Island, The Love Boat, The Jesse Owens Story, And the Children Shall Lead, Murder, She Wrote, Batman: The Animated Series, Gargoyles, Christy, Captain Planet and the Planeteers, Martin Luther King, Jr. in Ali, Blizzard, Family Guy, Superman/Batman: Public Enemies, Adventure Time, Community, The Big Bang Theory, Perception, Miles from Tomorrowland, Transformers: Rescue Bots, OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes.