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Darren E. Burrows (born September 12, 1966) is an American actor. He is best known for playing Ed Chigliak in the television series Northern Exposure. He also appeared in Cry-Baby, Amistad, Sunset Strip, Forty Shades of Blue, in a season six episode of The X-Files and in Season 9 (Episode 11) of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation .
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was born in Alaska to a Caucasian mother and a Native American father. He was abandoned as an orphan shortly after his birth and was raised by an Tlingit tribe. As the series opens he is 18 years old, lives in a boarding house, and works for Maurice Minnifield as a gofer (Ed has been supported by Maurice since age 12). Ed is perhaps Joel's closest ...
He is not one to show much emotion. When he is uncomfortable, he simply becomes nervous and runs away. One exception is when he walked out on Maurice. He is amiable, but somewhat slow at understanding what people want of him. He can be tactless, and often forgets social conventions, such as knocking before entering. However, he is intelligent, and ...
Ed tries to find his parents. The tribe elders say his father's last name is Smith. One Who Waits tries to help him but doesn't succeed. However, later in the series, One Who Waits comes back and takes Ed to his real father, a construction worker named Pete Jarvis. Pete has additional children, but Ed did not meet them be cause Northern Exposure wa...
Aside from doing odd jobs for Maurice, Ed starts working in Ruth-Anne's general store in season 3. As the series progresses, He helps Marilyn take over the Doctor's office, He does construction work, becomes a shaman-in-training, works at KBHR, tries being a private investigator, and works in the movie theater.
Ed tries his hand at a number of different hobbies over the course of the series. Aside from filmmaking, he also detects bears, detects other people's visions, learns to make wooden flutes, raised an abandoned baby crane named Princess, and has 'an extensive mosquito collection'.
Ed loves movies and has an encyclopedic knowledge of them. He takes to 16mm film-making (with a Paillard Bolex H16 16mm Cine Camera)early in the series, and likes to film anything. Ed has made at least three movies: 1. A documentary about Cicely, Alaska which Ed nearly abandons altogether until Dr. Joel Fleischman, and a dream involving Woody Allen...
Ed often quotes from his encyclopedic knowledge of films whenever someone in Cicely confides a problem they're facing to him. Over the course of the series, he comes to see this skill as part of his training and when thanked for his insights will explain, "I'm studying to become a shaman."This is a list (episodes needed) of various films and televi...
Ed has had romantic relationships with Lightfeather Duncan and Heather Haynes. His Uncle Anku sets him up in an arranged marriagewith a girl named Debbie but it doesn't work out.
Jun 9, 2020 · Prior to Northern Exposure, he’d been in a few TV shows and movies, including John Waters’ Cry-Baby. But he’s best known as Ed Chigliak, a half-Native American orphan and aspiring filmmaker.
Darren E. Burrows is an American actor and producer, best known for his role as Ed Chigliak on the TV series Northern Exposure. He was born in 1966 in Kansas and has four children with his wife Melinda Delgado.
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Northern Exposure is an American comedy-drama television series about the eccentric residents of a fictional small town in Alaska, that ran on CBS from July 12, 1990, to July 26, 1995, with a total of 110 episodes.
Duets: Directed by Win Phelps. With Rob Morrow, Barry Corbin, Janine Turner, John Cullum. Ed's spirit guide returns claiming to have found the identity of Ed's father. Maggie and Mike grow closer. An itinerant, blind piano tuner shows up at the Brick.
Jul 26, 1995 · When Ed learned in a 1991 episode that Ruth-Anne was turning 75, his birthday gift to her was a grave site. In one of the show’s most inspirational moments, she danced on it.
