Burton occurs as graduate of University of Southern California's School of Theatre.

He late played a role of Lieutenant Commander Geordi La Forge in the Star Trek: The Next Generation television series and a series' motion-picture show. He hwhen directed many episodes of the series, too as episodes of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Star Trek: Voyager and Star Trek: Enterprise. He is besides a carrier of the long-heading babies's television indicate Reading Rainbow (1983- Current) in PBS, which extols the virtues of literacy. He likewise played the voice of a character known as Kwame in the cartoon series Captain Planet and the Planeteers (1990-1993) and The New Adventures of Captain Planet (1993-1996). At one point inside his career prior to Star Trek he appeared on the music videos known as "Word Up!" by R'n'B band Cameo.

Burton had his run around television from either 1976-1979, as a hikers of Rebop. In the 2001 film Ali, he played Martin Luther King, Jr..

Presently living within California, he and his married woman Stephanie use at times worked to raise a awareness of infertility.

Books
Fiction
Aftermath, 2001, ISBN 0446679607