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Article: PAUL BURKE
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- September 30, 2009
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Actor celebrated for his gritty portrayal of Detective Adam Flint
in television's 'The Naked City'
Paul Burke will best be remembered for the three years he spent
as the star of the highly regarded television series, The Naked
City, which was filmed on the streets and in the buildings of
Manhattan. Inspired by the 1948 film of the same name, it was
innovative in its use of location shooting all over the metropolis,
from the Staten Island Ferry to Times Square, which gave it a semi-
documentary feel, and though Burke was not the most animated of
actors, he was handsome and had a tight-lipped doggedness that
suited his portrayal of the tough police detective who manages to
maintain his ...