1925-11-10 Pontrhydyfen, Wales, UK
Richard Burton CBE (born Richard Walter Jenkins Jr.; 10 November 1925 – 5 August 1984) was a Welsh actor. Noted for his mellifluous baritone voice, Burton established himself as a formidable Shakespearean actor in the 1950s, and he gave a memorable performance of Hamlet in 1964. He was called "the natural successor to Olivier" by critic Kenneth Tynan. A heavy drinker, Burton's perceived failure to live up to those expectations disappointed some critics and colleagues and added to his image as a great performer who had wasted his talent. Nevertheless, he is widely regarded as one of the most acclaimed actors of his generation. Burton was nominated for an Academy Award seven times, but never won an Oscar. He was a recipient of BAFTAs, Golden Globes, and Tony Awards for Best Actor. In the mid-1960s, Burton ascended into the ranks of the top box office stars. By the late 1960s, Burton was one of the highest-paid actors in the world, receiving fees of $1 million or more plus a share of the gross receipts. Burton remained closely associated in the public consciousness with his second wife, actress Elizabeth Taylor. The couple's turbulent relationship, in which they were married twice and divorced twice, was rarely out of the news. Description above from the Wikipedia article Richard Burton, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Julie Andrews - La mélodie de la vie | Self (Archive Footage) | 2019-12-25 |
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Paris Hilton Inc.: The Selling of Celebrity | Self (archive footage) | 2009-11-29 |
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Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of The War of the Worlds: Live on Stage! | George Herbert, The Journalist (archive sound) | 2006-11-06 |
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Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There | Self (archive material) | 2003-01-01 |
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Cleopatra: The Film That Changed Hollywood | Self (archive footage) | 2001-04-03 |
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Hollywood Screen Tests: Take 1 | Self | 1999-01-01 |
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Under Milk Wood | Narrator (Voice) | 1992-04-19 |
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Legends in Love | Self (archive footage) | 1989-01-01 |
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John Huston: The Man, the Movies, the Maverick | Self (archive footage) | 1989-01-01 |
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Richard Burton: In from the Cold | Self (Archive Footage) | 1988-09-20 |
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Happy Birthday, Bob: 50 Stars Salute Your 50 Years with NBC | Self (archive footage) | 1988-05-16 |
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To Be Hamlet | Richard Burton | 1985-01-19 |
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Nineteen Eighty-Four | O'Brien | 1984-11-09 |
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Alice in Wonderland | White Knight | 1983-10-03 |
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To the Ends of the Earth | Narrator | 1983-01-01 |
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All-Star Party for Frank Sinatra | Self | 1983-12-11 |
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I, Leonardo: A Journey of the Mind | Narrator | 1983-04-26 |
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Lovespell | King Mark of Cornwall | 1981-12-31 |
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Circle of Two | Ashley St. Clair | 1981-05-07 |
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Steiner - Das Eiserne Kreuz Teil II | Sergeant Steiner | 1979-03-01 |
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Stars' War - The Flight of the Wild Geese | Himself | 1978-01-01 |
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The Wild Geese | Col. Allen Faulkner | 1978-06-28 |
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The Medusa Touch | John Morlar | 1978-04-13 |
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Absolution | Father Goddard | 1978-06-05 |
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Exorcist II: The Heretic | Father Philip Lamont | 1977-06-17 |
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Equus | Martin Dysart | 1977-10-16 |
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CBS Salutes Lucy: The First 25 Years | Self | 1976-11-28 |
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Volcano: An Inquiry into the Life and Death of Malcolm Lowry | Malcolm Lowry (voice) | 1976-01-01 |
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Il viaggio | Cesare Braggi | 1974-03-11 |
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Brief Encounter | Alec Harvey | 1974-11-12 |
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The Klansman | Breck Stancill | 1974-10-25 |
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The Gathering Storm | Winston Churchill | 1974-11-29 |
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Rappresaglia | SS-Obersturmbannführer Herbert Kappler | 1973-10-04 |
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Sutjeska | Josip Broz Tito | 1973-07-03 |
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The Assassination of Trotsky | Leon Trotsky | 1972-04-20 |
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Hammersmith Is Out | Hammersmith | 1972-05-12 |
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Bluebeard | Baron von Sepper | 1972-09-01 |
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Under Milk Wood | First Man | 1972-01-27 |
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Raid on Rommel | Capt. Alex Foster | 1971-02-12 |
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Mooch Goes to Hollywood | Narrator (voice) (uncredited) | 1971-12-31 |
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Villain | Vic Dakin | 1971-05-26 |
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Anne of the Thousand Days | King Henry VIII | 1969-12-18 |
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The Violent Universe | Narrator - Verse Spoken | 1969-04-11 |
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Staircase | Harry Leeds | 1969-08-20 |
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Boom! | Chris Flanders | 1968-05-26 |
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Where Eagles Dare | Maj. Smith | 1968-12-04 |
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Candy | MacPhisto | 1968-12-17 |
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On Location: Where Eagles Dare | 1968-11-01 | |
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The Comedians in Africa | Self (uncredited) | 1967-08-31 |
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The Taming of the Shrew | Petruchio | 1967-03-08 |
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The Comedians | Brown | 1967-10-31 |
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Doctor Faustus | Doctor Faustus | 1967-10-10 |
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Acting in the 60's: Richard Burton | Interviewee | 1967-04-01 |
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Per Firenze | Himself - Narrator | 1966-11-23 |
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Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? | George | 1966-06-22 |
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A Statue for 'The Sandpiper' | Self | 1965-04-30 |
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What's New Pussycat? | Man In Strip Club | 1965-06-22 |
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The Spy Who Came in from the Cold | Alec Leamas | 1965-12-16 |
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The Sandpiper | Edward Hewitt | 1965-06-23 |
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The Big Sur | Self / Narrator | 1965-05-01 |
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Hamlet from the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre | Hamlet | 1964-09-23 |
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Zulu | Narration spoken | 1964-01-22 |
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The Night of the Iguana | Rev. Dr. T. Lawrence Shannon | 1964-08-06 |
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On the Trail of the Iguana | Self | 1964-04-30 |
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Becket | Becket / Thomas Becket | 1964-03-11 |
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The V.I.P.s | Paul Andros | 1963-09-01 |
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Cleopatra | Marcus Antonius | 1963-06-12 |
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The Longest Day | Flying Officer David Campbell | 1962-09-25 |
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The Broadway of Lerner and Loewe | Himself | 1962-02-11 |
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A Tribute to Dylan Thomas | 1961-01-01 | |
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The Bramble Bush | Dr. Guy Montford | 1960-02-24 |
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Ice Palace | Zeb Kennedy | 1960-01-02 |
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A Subject of Scandal and Concern | 1960-11-06 | |
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The Tempest | Caliban | 1960-02-13 |
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The Fifth Column | 1960-01-29 | |
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Borrowed Pasture | Narrator | 1960-01-01 |
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Look Back in Anger | Jimmy Porter | 1959-09-15 |
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March to Aldermaston | Narrator (voice) | 1959-02-01 |
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Wuthering Heights | Heathcliff | 1958-05-09 |
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Bitter Victory | Capt. Leith | 1957-08-28 |
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Sea Wife | Biscuit | 1957-10-16 |
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Alexander the Great | Alexander | 1956-03-28 |
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The Rains of Ranchipur | Dr. Major Rama Safti | 1955-12-14 |
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Prince of Players | Edwin Booth | 1955-01-11 |
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Thursday's Children | Narrator (voice) | 1954-05-01 |
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The Desert Rats | Captain "Tammy" MacRoberts | 1953-05-20 |
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The Robe | Marcellus Gallio | 1953-09-16 |
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My Cousin Rachel | Philip Ashley | 1952-12-25 |
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Green Grow the Rushes | Robert 'Bob' Hammond | 1951-11-06 |
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Waterfront | Ben Satterthwaite | 1950-07-26 |
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The Woman with No Name | Nick Chamerd | 1950-10-31 |
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The Last Days of Dolwyn | Gareth | 1949-04-13 |
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Now Barabbas | Paddy | 1949-05-24 |
