 His arched eyebrow and cigar-smoke punctuation became familiar trademarks for over three-quarters of a century.He and his wife, Gracie Allen, appeared on radio, television, and film as the comedy duo Burns and Allen.At age 79, Burns had a sudden career revival as an amiable, beloved and unusually active comedy elder statesman in the 1975 film "The Sunshine Boys", for which he won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.