Robert John Burke (born September 12, 1960) is an American actor known for his roles in the early films of Hal Hartley, as well as his roles in RoboCop 3 (1993), Tombstone (1993), and Thinner (1996). During the 2000s, Burke became well known for his portrayal of Mickey Gavin on Rescue Me (2004–11), Bart Bass in Gossip Girl (2007–12), Ed Tucker in Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (2002–20), and a number of other film and television roles including Intrusion (2021). Description above from the Wikipedia article Robert John Burke, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Filmography

• 2026Digger — General Fitzgerald
• 2025Where to Land — Leonard
• 2023Boston Strangler — Eddie Holland
• The Last of Us — Seth
• 2022Black Panther: Wakanda Forever — Smitty
• 2022The Retaliators — Captain Briggs
• 2022Triggered — David
• 2021Intrusion — Detective Steven Morse
• 2020Being — Sheriff Campbell
• Project Blue Book — William Fairchild
• 2018BlacKkKlansman — Chief Bridges
• 2018Boarding School — Mr. Holcomb
• 2018We Only Know So Much — Hal
• 2017Future '38 — General Sportwood
• 2017Where There's Smoke — Captain Frascone
• Allegiance — Special Agent Brock
• 2015Bait — Uncle Mack
• 2015Ned Rifle — Chet
• 2015True Story — Greg Ganley
• Last Week Tonight with John Oliver — IAB Lieutenant Ed Tucker
• 20132 Guns — Jessup
• Banshee — Salvatore Ferillo
• Golden Boy — Andrew Lightstone
• 2012Safe — Captain Wolf
• 2011Limitless — Pierce
• Person of Interest — Patrick Simmons
• Blue Bloods — Jyle Hogan
• 2010Brooklyn's Finest — State Trooper #1
• Nurse Jackie — Dick Richards
• White Collar — Patrick O'Leary
• 2008Miracle at St. Anna — General Ned Almond
• Army Wives — General Clarke
• Gossip Girl — Bart Bass
• 2006Jack's Law — Det. Ron Banks
• Kidnapped — Bellows
• Six Degrees — David
• 2006The Ex — Colonel
• 2006The Oh in Ohio — Binky Taylor
• 2005Good Night, and Good Luck. — Charlie Mack
• 2005Hide and Seek — Steven
• 2005Munich — Belligerent American
• 2004Connie and Carla — Rudy
• Rescue Me — Mickey Gavin
• 2004Speak — Mr. Neck
• 2003Piggie — Jim
• CSI: Miami — Jim Resdon
• 2002Confessions of a Dangerous Mind — Instructor Jenks
• 2002No Such Thing — The Monster
• 2002State Property — Bob
• Witchblade
• Law & Order: Special Victims Unit — Ed Tucker
• The Sopranos — Officer Zmuida
• 1998A Bright Shining Lie — Frank Drummond
• 1998First Love, Last Rites — Henry
• From the Earth to the Moon — Bill Anders
• 1998Midnight Flight — Paul Bacon
• Sex and the City — Walker Lewis
• 1998Somewhere in the City — Frankie
• 1997Cop Land — Officer B
• 1997Mayday - Flug in den Tod — Tom Hutton
• Oz — Special Agent Pierce Taylor
• 1996Fled — Pat Schiller
• 1996Flirt — Men's Room Man #2
• 1996If Lucy Fell — Handsome Man
• 1996Killer: A Journal of Murder — R.G. Greiser
• 1996Thinner — Billy Halleck
• 1995Crazy for a Kiss — Steve
• 1993A Far Off Place — Paul Parker
• 1993Flirt — Men's Room Man
• 1993Heaven & Earth — Paul
• Homicide: Life on the Street — Jeff Andrews
• 1993RoboCop 3 — Robocop
• 1993Tombstone — Frank McLaury
• 1992Dust Devil — Dust Devil
• 1992Simple Men — Bill McCabe
• 1991Rambling Rose — Dave Wilkie
• Law & Order — Milton Danbury, Arthur "Buzz" Palley, Ron Innes
• 1990The Unbelievable Truth — Josh
• 1986Nightmare Weekend — Dave
• The Equalizer — O'Toole
• American Playhouse — Bill McCabe
• 1981Gangster Wars — Officer Reardon
• 1981The Chosen — Levi Saunders
• 1977Looking for Mr. Goodbar — Patrick
• Subversion

Appearances as themselves (1)

• 2010Years Later: The Unbelievable Truth and Its Consequences — Himself