John Burton is a British stage and television actor.
He has a personal website where you can view television clips, read diary updates and contact him directly, it is available to view now at www.johnburton.tv
John has appeared in numerous productions throughout the UK, including West Side Story, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, Outside Edge, They Don’t Grow on Trees, Confusions, Bells Are Ringing, Cabaret, Me and My Girl, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, a national tour of Peter Nichols’ award-winning play Blue Murder, and a national tour of Four Nights in Knaresborough.
John’s television credits include: DC Cody in Coronation Street, James Ogley in Emmerdale, PC Steve Watson in Noah’s Ark, Sgt Bob Ellis in Undercover Customs, Sgt Major Atlee in Dalziel and Pascoe, Dave Edwards in Where the Heart Is, Rob Bonner in Cold Feet, DS Reynolds in Hollyoaks, Paramedic Steve in Clocking Off, Peter Phillips in Always and Everyone, Keith Palmer in Merseybeat, PC Joe Sambrook in The Bill, Steve Brooks in Crossroads, Alan Gordon in Brookside, Ansell in Eastenders, Tony in All About Me, Dean Forster in Casualty, Daniel Carey in "Flood", and Captain Steve Simmonds in "Hostage", two episodes from the BBC series Crisis Command, which was presented by Gavin Hewitt, Simon Marshall in the TV movie All in the Game, Bill Durrant in the new series of Afterlife (2006) and most recently as Martin Foreman in the last ever episode of Dream Team (2007) for Sky One.
He has also appeared in various commercials and corporate videos including Hallmark Cards, New York Life Assurance, British Telecom, Ariel Liquitabs, Redrow Homes, Saniflo Water Systems, The Pro Chef Quatro for JML, Health and Safety videos for Tarmac, promotional material for the Brazilian company Covance and the French Canadian company Saint Gobain.
John can also be seen playing Doug Harman on the Halifax Building Society Homebuyers Guide, providing the voice for the superhero Rodrigo in Hero for Hire on Playstation 2, and the voice of Bobby the Scriptwriter in the Brookside CD Rom game
John A. Burton is a co-founder of the nonprofit environmental organization World Land Trust, and has been its CEO since it was founded as World Wide Land Conservation Trust in 1989. He has previously held offices like the Chief Executive Officer of the Fauna and Flora International, and Chairman of the TRAFFIC unit of World Conservation Union (then International Union for the Conservation of Nature) in 1975. He was also the founding chairman of the Bat Conservation Trust.
John Burton is also an environmental consultant, a columnist with New Scientist, assistant editor of BBC Wildlife and a prolific natural history author with numerous books for adults and children.
John Burton is a Labour Party councillor in County Durham, England. He is a member of Sedgefield Borough Council, representing the ward of Fishburn and Old Trimdon. . However, he is most notable for being the constituency agent of former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, who represented the Sedgefield constituency from 1983 until standing down as Prime Minister in 2007.
John Stratford Burton (born November 27, 1927) is a former Canadian politician, who represented the electoral district of Regina East in the Canadian House of Commons from 1968 to 1972. He was a member of the Cooperative Commonwealth Federation and its successor, the New Democratic Party.
Burton was also the CCF's candidate in Melville in the 1957 and 1958 elections, and the NDP's candidate in Melville in 1962, in Regina City in 1965, in Regina East in 1972 and 1976, and in Wascana in 1997, but was not successful in those elections.
