Biography

Karl Bury won his role (marking his motion picture debut) in The Majestic at the suggestion of director Frank Darabont's President of Production, Anna Garduño, who saw his talent on display at a local acting class and felt he would be perfect for the role of a scarred WWII veteran who luckily returns to his hometown of Lawson after surviving the war. Bury's own hometown is Fremont, Ohio, where he grew up aspiring to become a farmer. He studied business at Ohio State University, and accidentally (or fatefully) was drawn to acting on a midterm break in Chicago. During his trip, he was cast as an extra in the John Hughes comedy, She's Having A Baby. After some time on the set, director Hughes noticed Bury and offered him a scene in the film opposite stars Kevin Bacon and Alec Baldwin.

Bury, who had to prepare for an economics midterm, declined Hughes' generous offer, opting instead for academics over acting. As fate would have it, he returned to class, flunked the test and immediately changed his major to theatre.

Upon graduation from Ohio State, Bury moved west to Seattle where he attended the University of Washington and obtained a Masters of Fine Arts. He took his degree south to Los Angeles to pursue his craft and immediately met famed acting coach Larry Moss (whose tutoring of actor Michael Clarke Duncan contributed to his Academy Award nominated performance in Darabont's The Green Mile). He continued studying with Moss while working in a variety of jobs, and soon found himself winning television roles and commercials to pay the bills.

Most recently, Karl directed Last Out: Elegy of a Green Beret at Steppenwolf/2023 National tour. As an actor, theatre highlights: Broadway in Match, written by Stephen Belber. Regionally in Paradise Lost at A.R.T. directed by Daniel Fish, two different productions of Awake and Sing! an eight-month at L.A.'s Odyssey Theater and the Pittsburgh Public Theatre. He is also a long-standing member of the award-winning Circle X Theater Company in Los Angeles.

Karl is a highly sought after acting coach.
- IMDb mini biography by: Lea Yardum

Made his feature film debut in Frank Darabont's The Majestic (2001) as a one-armed WW 2 veteran and upon completion was ironically cast in the Pittsburgh Public Theatre's critically-acclaimed production of 'Awake And Sing' as a one-legged WW 1 veteran, despite the fact that he has all limbs intact.