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Lonnie Burr was one of the original Mouseketeers on The Mickey Mouse Club. With a contract with the Disney Company, Lonnie was on all three seasons of the show. After the show, he went on to have several successful careers, being a performer, author, poet, and choreographer. This is his incredibly fascinating showbiz story.

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Lonnie Burr was born on May 31, 1944, in Dayton, Kentucky, and would one day become one of the original Mouseketeers, starting on the show in the first season. When he was three years old, his family moved to Highland Park, California. Lonnie attended the Hollywood Professional School from first through twelfth grades, even while he was working as a child actor. In fact, the school was a private school for kids who were working in show business.

Lonnie’s parents were Howard Ambrose Babin and Dorothy Doloris Burr and were a nightclub act and vaudeville dance team who toured the country from 1934 to 1941. Their act was called “Dot and Dash.” Through his parents, Lonnie is of Danish, French, German, and S

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Lonnie Burr

Nationality

American

Alternate names

The Velvet Smog

Occupation

Actor, dancer/choreographer, singer, director, author, Mouseketeer

Spouse

Diane Coleridge Dickey (1970-present)

Lonnie Burris an American actor, dancer/choreographer, singer, director, and author, who was one of the Mouseketeerson the original Mickey Mouse Clubtelevision show from 1955to 1959. He also appeared as Sid in Lots of Luckand O'Rourke in Newsies.

Early life[]

Burr is of Danish, French, Scots-Irish and German descent. His parents were Howard Babin and Dorothy Burr, a vaudeville dance team that performed in film and on stage as "Dot and Dash". He was born in Dayton, Kentucky.

Early performances[]

At age four, Burr started dance lessons and was soon making live appearances on local TV shows as well as acting on radio and turned professional at five. By six he began working on national television and radio, acting in commercials and landed his first film appearance in A Yank in Korea (1950). He had his first recurring television role as the next door neighbor Oliver Q

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My Life as a Mouse
                                                                    by Lonnie Burr                                    

© 1980, 2015 by Lonnie Burr
 
       I wrote the following  front page article in 1980 shortly after the 25th Anniversary TV Special for "The Mickey Mouse Club" on which I was the second writer and one of the Mouseketeer hosts and our live performances at Disneyland which I wrote, co-choreographed and co-directed.
      

It was published in a

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