# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ed-burns
# Generated: 2026-08-13T06:00:21.397Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ed-burns"
name: "Ed Burns"
slug: "ed-burns"
description: "Edward P. Burns is an American screenwriter and television producer. He has worked closely with writing partner David Simon. For HBO, they have collaborated on The Corner, The Wire, Generation Kill, The Plot Against America, and We Own This City. Burns is a former Baltimore police detective for the homicide and narcotics divisions, and a public school teacher. He often draws upon these experiences for his writing."
tagline: "American writer"
image: "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/zPeZMEqkFmDzKyb3FBdJgUvYl6o.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1946-01-29"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           50.53
  momentum:             0
  historical:           8.280738666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     55.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0122654/"
    handle:    "nm0122654"
sources:
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Burns"
    title: "Ed Burns"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "إد بورنس (كاتب)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D8%AF_%D8%A8%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%86%D8%B3"
    title: "اد بورنس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_P._Burns"
    title: "Edward P. Burns"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Burns"
    title: "Ed Burns"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Burns"
    title: "Ed Burns"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D8%AF_%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%86%D8%B2"
    title: "اد بارنز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Burns"
    title: "Ed Burns"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3047160"
    title: "Wikidata"
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  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1224586"
    title: "Ed Burns"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump