| Burt Gummer | |
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| Gender: | Male |
| Known Relatives: | Heather Gummer (ex wife) |
| Portrayed By: | Michael Gross |
| First Appearance: | Tremors |
Bertram (Burt) Gummer is a fictional character, played by actor Michael Gross, from the Tremors film series and the short lived SciFi Channel TV program of the same name. Appearing in Tremors, Tremors 2: Aftershocks, Tremors 3: Back to Perfection, and several episodes of the TV series, Burt Gummer is a firearms enthusiast, and a paranoid survivalist. He and his (as of Tremors 2) former wife, Heather Gummer (played by Reba McEntire), were the first persons in the film series to directly kill a Graboid thanks to the large supply of weapons kept in their basement. He has an "overkill" approach to trouble and takes himself deadly seriously, much to the annoyance or amusement of others. According to Tyler Reed, he is the "Martha Stuart of whatever it is" he does. He has an exceptionally hard time making friends and trusting people, due to his self-preservation mind set, but is willing to help others should the need arise; though his ways of helping may seem unorthodox due to inexperience sometimes. At times he will try to give more "rational" explanations to bizarre goings-on in Perfection, only be met with stares of disbelief as his idea are just as or even more unbelievable. Although he is only the central character in Tremors 3 and the TV series, his eccentric personality has made him a favorite among Tremors fans and the de-facto star of the franchise, along with the vicious Graboid evolutions (and, later, Mixmaster monsters) that opposes him. His ancestor, Hiram Gummer (also played by Gross), appears in Tremors 4: The Legend Begins. It is later revealed in Tremors 5 that, back during the 70s before he met Heather, Burt Gummer had a very brief, but intimate fling with a local woman (Jasmine), whom he unknowingly had a child with. It is revealed in Tremors 5 that his son is none other than Travis B. Welker (Bertram for middle name), a, in Travis' own words, "Charming sociopath whack-job".