Biography
At the age of 79, Burns experienced a sudden career revival as an amiable, beloved and unusually active comedy elder statesman in the 1975 film The Sunshine Boys, for which he won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. Burns was only a Tony Award shy of being one of the few EGOT award recipients in the American entertainment industry: an Emmy, a Grammy, and an Oscar. Burns, became a centenarian in 1996, continuing to work until just weeks before his death of cardiac arrest at his home in Beverly Hills, just six weeks following his one hundredth birthday.