Career
Burdis started acting at eleven years old when he trained at the Anna Scher Theatre in Islington., which he also co-created and wrote. He also starred with Philosophy Daniels in Four Idle Hands.
In 1978 Burdis auditioned for a presenting job on the British Broadcasting Corporation children"s programme Blue Peter as a replacement for John Noakes.
Richard Marson"s book celebrating the show"s fiftieth anniversary records this fact and film of the audition was shown at a British Academy of Film and Television Arts celebration in October 2008. Burdis played the part of cowardly inmate Eckersley in the controversial movie Scum in 1979.
He had played the same role two years earlier in a British Broadcasting Corporation television version of the story, although this was not transmitted for many years due to its graphic nature, hence the cinematic re-make. Burdis appeared in the Minder episodes "Not a Bad Lad, Dad" and "Hypnotising Rita", and played Joe in the musical drama The Music Machine (1979).
He later had a small role alongside Daniel Day-Lewis in the film Gandhi (1982).
Burdis then played a supporting role as Richard, a gay neighbour in Channel 4"s short-lived sitcom Dream Stuffing in 1984. After this, he played ambitious photographer Nick Tyler in the British Broadcasting Corporation comedy Three Up, Two Down. The series rated over 17million viewers and went on for 4 series.
He went forward to produce the feature films The Passion of Darkly Noon starring Brendan Fraser - Ashley Judd and The Reflecting Skin starring Viggo Mortensen - Lindsay Duncan
Burdis has subsequently concentrated more on writing, producing and directing.
He was the producer of The Krays (1990), and also co-wrote-produced and directed the movies Final Cut (1998) and Love, Honour and Obey (2000). He also created, co-wrote, produced, directed and starred in the television police fly on the wall docu-comedy Operation Good Guys for three series. he appeared in the British Broadcasting Corporation Two comedy drama series Manchild for two series, along with Nigel Havers, Anthony Head and Don Warrington.
In 2014 Ray wrote and directed the film "Angel" to be released in the spring of 2015 by Carnaby Films. Ray is currently in pre-production of "Booze" to be shot in the summer of 2015.
