Cast & creator
Leo Burmester
Best known for Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Law & Order, Law & Order
Leo Burmester (February 1, 1944 - June 28, 2007) was an American actor. Burmester worked for director John Sayles several times, including in Passion Fish (1992) and Lone Star (1996), and also for directors such as John Schlesinger and Sidney Lumet, and as the Apostle Nathaniel in Martin Scorsese's The Last Temptation of Christ (1988).
42
film credits
19
television credits
61
1980–2013 · acting roles
6.7
average across scored titles
Signature credits
Known for
Across film & television
Filmography (61)
Showing 61 of 61 credits
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Bud Gabler
1999
Law & Order
Lester Hastings
1990Law & Order
Defense Attorney Le Clair
1990
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
Lorne Cutler
2001
Chicago Hope
Dalton Robertson
1994
Baywatch
Max Jackson
1989
The Equalizer
Jim Harding
1985
Walker, Texas Ranger
Woodrow Jonathan Wilton
1993
The Devil's Advocate
Florida Prosecutor
1997
The Abyss
Catton ‘Catfish’ De Vries
1989
Gangs of New York
Telegraph Operator #1 (voice)
2002
A Perfect World
Tom Adler
1993
Nurse
Wally
1981
True Blue
Officer Red Tollin
1989
Alex Haley's Queen
Henderson
1993
The Last Temptation of Christ
Nathaniel, Apostle
1988
George Washington II: The Forging of a Nation
Eban Krutch
1986
Broadcast News
Jane's Dad
1987
Chiefs
Emmett Spence
1983
Flo
1980
Innocent Blood
Flinton
1992
Trinity
1998
Cruising
Water Sport
1980
City by the Sea
Lieutenant Katt
2002
Rage of Angels
Jim
1983
Switchback
Clyde 'Shorty' Callahan
1997
Lone Star
Cody
1996
Shake, Rattle and Roll: An American Love Story
Corby Judd
1991
...First Do No Harm
Bob Purdue
1997
Big Business
Bum
1988
Article 99
Shooter Polaski
1992
Passion Fish
Reeves
1992
Mistrial
Commissioner Russell Crane
1996
Monday Night Mayhem
Carl Lindemann
2002You're the One
1998
Limbo
Harmon King
1999
The House of God
Dr. Gath
1984
William Shakespeare's Hamlet
Osric
1990
Getting to Know You
Lamar Pike, Sr.
1999
Arresting Behavior
Officer Bill Ruskin
1992
Red Betsy
Emmet Rounds
2003
Daniel
FBI #1
1983
Under Pressure: Making 'The Abyss'
Self
1993
The Great Elephant Escape
Ethridge
1995
The History of 'Cruising'
Self (archive footage)
2007
The Neon Bible
Bobbie Lee Taylor
1995
Broadway's Lost Treasures II
Monsieur Thénardier (segment "Les Misérables")
2004
Old Man
Plump Convict
1997
Eye of the Storm
Dallas
1998
Sweet Liberty
Hank
1986
Truman
Frank Vassar
1995
The Secret of Mulan
1998
Rattlesnake in a Cooler
The Doctor / Prisoner
1982
Precious Blood
1982
Speed of Life
Dad
1999
Aftermath
Sheriff
2013
Odd Jobs
Wylie D. Daiken
1986
River Red
Judge Perkins
1998
America Brown
Bo Williams
2005
Exorcising 'Cruising'
Self (archive footage)
2007Dumbarton Bridge
Jack
1999