Joe Michael Burke

Joe Michael Burke was born in Illinois, received a scholarship to the Rochester Institute of Technology, New York, where he became a NCAA National Qualifier in Wrestling. Burke was discovered in Arizona by a producer from FOX television and put in a TV pilot. He then moved to Los Angeles and while running his own product development company. On moving to LA, Joe quickly appeared in TV Commercials for Coors and Taco Bell, then Guest Starring roles on Beverly Hills 90210, Saved by the Bell, Seventh Heaven, CSI, JAG, and soon earned a lead in a TV Series and starring roles in films such as The Hunt and The Last Patrol with Dolph Lundgren. In 2006 Burke left Los Angeles for an executive role at Disney, to raise his family, and start Freehold Productions, writing and producing true story and inspiring films.