13 Facts About Allan Burns

Allan Pennington Burns was an American screenwriter and television producer.

Allan Burns was best known for co-creating and writing for the television sitcoms The Munsters and The Mary Tyler Moore Show.

Allan Burns's father died when he was nine years old.

Allan Burns attended Punahou School and illustrated a cartoon that featured several times a week in the Honolulu Star-Bulletin.

Allan Burns studied architecture at the University of Oregon starting in 1953, after being awarded a partial scholarship.

Allan Burns dropped out two years later and moved to Los Angeles, where he secured a job as a page for NBC.

The last project between Hayward and Allan Burns was the sitcom Get Smart.

Brooks and Allan Burns created the 1974 situation comedy Paul Sand in Friends and Lovers.

Allan Burns worked as a writer and producer on the shows FM, The Duck Factory, Eisenhower and Lutz, and Cutters.

Allan Burns worked in film, co-writing the film A Little Romance, for which he was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay.

Allan Burns wrote the screenplays Butch and Sundance: The Early Days, Just the Way You Are and wrote and directed Just Between Friends.

Allan Burns married Joan Bailey in 1964; the couple had two children: Eric and Matthew.

Allan Burns died at his home in Los Angeles on January 30,2021, aged 85, from Parkinson's disease and Lewy body dementia.