David Burns (June 22, 1902 – March 12, 1971) was an American Broadway theatre and motion picture actor and singer.

[3] He made his Broadway debut in 1923 in Polly Preferred and went to London with the show in 1924.

[7][8] Burns introduced the hit song "It Takes a Woman" from Hello, Dolly (1964) as the original "Horace Vandergelder".

[9][10] Burns won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Drama for his role of Mr. Solomon in the 1971 TV special (Hallmark Hall of Fame) of The Price by Arthur Miller.

[11] Burns died on stage on March 12, 1971, of a heart attack in Philadelphia during the out-of-town tryout of Kander and Ebb's musical 70, Girls, 70.